Babies of Vulnerable Immigrant Women Taken Away

By Jill Garvey A recent lawsuit involving state agencies and a baby wrongly taken from an immigrant mother exposes the injustices that occur when power, privilege and immigration collide. The lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on Aug. 12, 2010 alleges that Mississippi authorities took a newborn baby from a Mexican immigrant mother and placed the child with a white couple. The SPLC also has appealed an earlier gag order that prohibited the mother and her lawyers from ...

VoiceofSanDiego.org: The Deportation of Josefina Perez

For three months, Josefina Perez and her family have been making it by a thread. On March 2, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived at the Linda Vista apartment where she lived with her family and arrested and deported Manuel Guzman -- her partner of 20 years, the father of her three children, and her family's main breadwinner. A deportation order had been issued against Guzman, who had been trying to renew his work permit and other immigration documents, Perez said. ICE arrive...

Media Advisory: CAIR-San Diego & SDIRC Decry Rep. Hunter’s Anti-Immigrant Remarks

CAIR-SAN DIEGO & SDIRC DECRY REP. HUNTER’S ANTI-IMMIGRANT REMARKS Congressman backs deporting U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants (SAN DIEGO, CA 4/30/10) - The San Diego Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego) and the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (SDIRC) expressed concerns today over the recent comments made by Congressman Duncan D. Hunter at a Tea Party gathering last Saturday in Ramona, where he supported the idea of deporting U.S...

NY Times: A Fatal Ending for a Family Forced Apart by Immigration Law

By NINA BERNSTEIN WEST BABYLON, N.Y. — Elizabeth Drummond was a single mother from a hardscrabble family whose roots go back to the Mayflower and an American Indian tribe. The man she married, Segundo Encalada, was a relative newcomer to the United States, sent illegally by his parents from Ecuador when he was 17. He soon became “Daddy Segundo” to her little boy, coached her through the Caesarean births of two daughters, and worked construction and landscaping jobs here on Long Island to s...