Today President Obama met with leaders on the immigration issue and said that he is still committed to immigration reform. He also met with Senators Schumer and Graham who are crafting the Senate version of the immigration reform bill. Here is some footage from today with Josh Hoyt, the executive director of the Illinois Coalition [...]

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Another troubling article came out today regarding immigrant detention. Yesterday, immigration officials said that they discovered the records of 10 previously unreported deaths in ICE custody. More specifically, these unreported deaths involved eight men from Cuba, one from Mexico, and one from Ecuador.
For me, the fact that these deaths were not apparent in a previous Freedom of Information Act [...]

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One issue I have become increasingly concerned about is immigrant detention. Last year I became more aware of the issue having read Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m dying detailing the horrific treatment of her Haitian uncle in an immigrant detention facility in Miami. Then I watched the film, The Visitor, which addressed immigrant detention in NYC. [...]

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The post 9/11 period introduced several changes in the way normal life is conducted in the United States and for that matter the world. Terrorism became a focal point in the daily activities of most Americans in the immediate aftermath. The Bush Administration readily sought to ‘instrumentalize’ or create tools of existing law and institutions [...]

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The bodies of Henry Sanchez, brother of Reps. Linda and Loretta Sanchez, and his girlfriend were found last week in a sunken boat off the Southern California coast. This was most certainly a tragic incident, but please, who goes boating in the middle of the night, especially if you don’t have to? I guess if you are a commercial fisherman [...]

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