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Was CNN Host Lou Dobbs Really Shot at? | PEEK

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Isabel Macdonald - Oct. 30 (News Report) - Another New Jersey police spokesperson, Julian Castellanos, noted that "it's a wide open area and there are hunters in the area." Castellanos explained that the bullet had hit the house in vicinity of the attic; it "hit the vinyl siding and fell to the ground" without penetrating the vinyl, he said.

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Senators Slog While Unemployed Suffer

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Mary Kane - Oct. 26 (News Report) - A protracted and very partisan Senate skirmish has left hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans without unemployment benefits — an impasse that Democrats leaders are hoping to break this week. They have their work cut out.

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Latinos to CNN: Are You With Us or Against Us?

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Manuel Avendano - Oct. 22 (News) - Dozens of angry demonstrators gathered in Manhattan on Wednesday to demand that the cable news network CNN fire its prime-time anchor Lou Dobbs for his denigration of Hispanic immigrants.

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Doctors With Borders Licensed for U.S. Practice |

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Frank Nelson - Sep. 11 (Special Report) - After spending seven years studying to become a doctor in her native Mexico, Nidia Payan found herself having to sell tamales to make ends meet when she first arrived in Los Angeles. Later, just to be considered for a part-time job as a medical assistant, she had to start as a volunteer.

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Iraqi Refugees Find US Life Not What They Expected

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Alexandra Zavis - Aug. 24 (News) - Her husband had disappeared in the war. Her request to settle in Jordan had been denied. Now an advisor from the International Organization for Migration was telling her no U.S. firm would recognize her law degree or her nearly two decades of experience.

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Youssef Megahed Speaks Out from Prison

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 14 (News Report) - Florida student Youssef Megahed was arrested by federal immigration agents in April just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. He now faces deportation on the same charges. But this time, he won’t be tried by a jury of his peers, but by an immigration judge.

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Media Call for Immigration Reform | OneWorld.net (U.S.)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

OneWorld - By Jeffrey Allen, OneWorld US - Jul. 02 (News Report) - One week after U.S. President Barack Obama re-opened the national conversation on immigration, much of the country's ethnic media have banded together to press Congress to make reform a reality this year.

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The 'Real' Uninsured

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Jess Henig - Jun. 24 (Special Report) - Some critics say fewer people lack access to health coverage than official statistics make it appear. We break down the numbers.

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Ten Reasons Undocumented Should File Income Taxes

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Elena Shore - Jun. 22 (News Report) - Many undocumented immigrants see paying taxes as a catch-22 -- they need to file income tax returns if they are ever going to qualify for legalization, but they believe filing taxes may expose them to deportation.

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Unions Embrace Street Corner Solidarity

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Peter Costantini - Jun. 08 (Special Report) - For Pablo Alvarado, the genesis occurred back in 1999 when janitors in Los Angeles were on strike. Some of the cleaning companies came to the corners and workers' centres where day labourers gathered and tried to hire workers to cross the janitors' picket lines, he recounted to IPS. "The workers said 'Thanks, but no thanks, we won't do that.' And instead 260 day labourers joined 2,000 janitors who marched across the landscape of Los Angeles," he said.

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Immigrant Housecleaners in Freefall

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Leslie Casimir - Apr. 16 (News Report) - Layoffs of housecleaners have skyrocketed in recent months. As professionals continue to lose their jobs and tighten their household budgets, maids are the first ones to be let go, said Altagracia Garcia, an organizer with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

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Florida Student Arrested by Immigration Three Days After Acquittal on Bomb Charges

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Samir Megahed, Ahmed Bedier - Apr. 07 (News Report) - Immigration officials have arrested a twenty-three-year-old Florida student just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. Youssef Megahed was arrested in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store Monday, where he had gone shopping with his father. He had just begun a fast to celebrate his acquittal. Megahed’s attorneys say he now faces deportation proceedings, apparently on the same charges for which he was found not guilty.

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A tech labor shortage myth? Exploring the H-1B visa debate

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

seattlepi.com - Apr. 03 (Investigative Report) - Labor leaders and some experts contend that the high-tech labor shortage is a myth. "The industry claim to need H-1Bs to remedy a labor shortage is false. Their claim that the H-1Bs are 'the best and the brightest,' needed to keep American firms innovative, is also false in the vast majority of cases. Instead, the employers' goal is use H-1Bs as a source of cheap labor,"

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Microsoft asks for fewer visas, still supports lifting cap

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

seattlepi.com - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - Most of Microsoft's U.S. work force is American. About 10 percent of the work force is an H-1B visa holder, he said. Smith mentioned repeatedly that the number of visas the company is seeking is for a "small number of extraordinary talented individuals."

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Indentured Servants, Circa 2009

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Barbara Koeppel - Mar. 18 (Investigative Report) - n the 1980s, the U.S. launched two new plans — an H2A guest program for farm workers and H2B scheme for all other low-wage industries, such as poultry and seafood processing, construction, forestry, timber, restaurants and hotels. Since then, employers have secured millions of guest workers: In 2008, the U.S. issued 124,000 temporary visas. The real number is far greater, because returning workers’ visas aren’t counted in the figure.

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Bush DOJ Rule Revokes Immigrants’ Right to Counsel

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Independent - By Daphne Eviatar - Feb. 25 (News Report) - This last-minute decision has gotten little media attention, but it has dismayed immigration lawyers, who say clients frequently come to them with legitimate asylum or other claims that should allow them to remain in the United States, but that their previous lawyers either didn’t know the law, missed a critical deadline or just didn’t bother to communicate with their client. For the last 20 years, immigrants have had the right to re-open a case if they could show that they were denied a fair hearing due to their lawyer’s mistakes.

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McDreaming in Thailand

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Patrick Winn - Feb. 25 (News Analysis) - How much would you pay to flip burgers and bag fries in the US? Each summer, well-heeled Bangkok college students seeking “foreign work experience” pay agencies thousands for fast food jobs in suburban America.

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Immigration: No More Secret Prisons

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Julie Greene - Feb. 24 (Special Report) - amilies sometimes cannot find loved ones who are seized during raids for days or weeks, and often those detainees are flown hundreds of miles away. ICE's network of facilities lacks accountability, consistent regulation, and oversight -- and it is rapidly expanding. Ten years ago approximately 100,000 people spent time in detention each year; today that number has tripled to more than 300,000. ICE's detention of immigrants is a civil, administrative matter, and thus differs in important ways from the detention of individuals at Guantanamo -- yet the same issues of human rights and dignity are at stake in either case.

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Immigration Fight Simmered During Stimulus Negotiations

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Independent - By Daphne Eviatar - Feb. 12 (News Report) - Among the many provisions of the $800–plus billion stimulus bill that were hotly debated and horse-traded behind closed doors, one that remained largely under the radar through the negotiations would have forced employers receiving stimulus money to use a controversial federal computer system to verify that all of its employees are legal U.S. workers. Although preliminary indications are that the requirement did not make it into the final version, the battle over E-Verify is far from over.

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Studies Cite Depression Factors Among Filipino Americans

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New America Media - By Pasckie Pascua - Nov. 14 (News Report) - A survey of more than 6,000 South Los Angeles high school students conducted by Loyola Marymount last spring revealed that many are “frightened by violence in school, deeply dissatisfied with their choices of college preparatory classes, and exhibit symptoms of clinical depression.”

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Can Mass. keep promises in economic crisis?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Under-Covered - By Candice Novak - Nov. 13 (News Report) - With the economic crisis wrecking the state economy and causing budget cuts, the question in some minds was not what more the state could do for them, but what benefits could the state afford to continue.

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Illegal Mexican Immigrants or Water Refugees?

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Jo-Shing Yang - Nov. 11 (News Report) - The 500-acre $172.2-million reservoir, to be completed in August 2010, will store surplus Colorado River water for use by coastal Southern California, southern Nevada, and central Arizona; previously this water had been flowing to Mexico and used by its cities and thousands of Mexican farmers.

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Part Two: Child Labor Going Largely Unchecked

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Ames Alexander, Franco Ordonez - Nov. 10 (News Report) - One afternoon last fall, the 17-year-old Guatemala native ran a machine to grind damaged pallets into mulch. When a co-worker at the Greensboro plant returned from another task, he didn't see Nery - until he looked inside the shredder.

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Why We Shut ICE Down For A Day

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New America Media - Nov. 04 (News Report) - Last week hundreds of youth, families and organizers from over 10 different cities in the Bay Area gathered at the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in San Francisco to demand an end to ICE raids, to demand that all detention centers be shut down and to demand real sanctuary cities. For that day the community prevented ICE from breaking into our homes, and terrorizing our people. Crowds of young and old, black, white, Asian and Raza gathered around the police blockade chanting, speaking and singing in the rain.

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AP, Bloomberg ignored McCain's reversal on immigration reform

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Oct. 22 (News Analysis) - The AP reported that Sen. John McCain "won admiration from Hispanics -- for co-sponsoring an immigration bill that included a path to citizenship" while a Bloomberg article reported that McCain "bucked his party by pushing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants." However, neither article noted that McCain reversed himself on border security and said he would no longer support the bill he co-sponsored with Sen. Edward Kennedy if it came up for a vote in the Senate.

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