Download “Eyes on the Prize”

Download the new theme song for the immigrant rights movement performed by the Reform Immigration for America Band. Click on the green button with the white arrow below to download the song, or copy and paste this link into your address bar http://immigrantsandiego.org/wp-content/themes/techified/download/EyesOnThePrize.mp3.zip

Reform Immigration for America calls for a March on Washington: March 21st, 2010

Reposted from the Reform Immigration for America Website: On March 21st, we will march on Washington, DC to demand immigration reform. Our vision of reform includes immigrants and native-born U.S. citizens working shoulder to shoulder to achieve better wages, working conditions, and labor protections. People from all across America will lend their voice in the fight for reform. We will come together as one voice on the National Mall for a strong America – for families, for workers, for bus...

Immigrant Detained in Raid Sues Arizona Sheriff Arpaio’s Office for Mistreatment

By Valeria Fernandez, Feet in 2 Worlds Posted on February 21, 2010, Printed on February 22, 2010 PHOENIX, Arizona – Celia Alejandra Alvarez, a former undocumented worker detained in a workplace raid, is accusing the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office of negligence and mistreatment in a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit joins a long list of legal actions against Sheriff Joe Arpaio –currently under a criminal grand jury investigation for abuse of power– and comes less than a week after he defiantly a...

LA Times: Proposed cuts would end California assistance for most new legal immigrants

Gov. Schwarzenegger's budget proposes saving $304 million by eliminating several programs that provide a safety net for elderly, disabled and low-income immigrants who don't yet qualify for federal welfare. By Alexandra Zavis and Anna Gorman, latimes.com 6:30 PM PST, February 16, 2010 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest proposals to close California's budget shortfall would end public assistance for most new legal immigrants, eliminating emergency cash, food and medical aid for those wh...

UT Editorial: Checkpoint abuses / Cities increasingly using them as money-makers

By Union-Tribune Editorial Board, Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 12:02 a.m. Never underestimate just how creative municipal governments can be when it comes to finding new ways to generate revenue. And, as you might imagine, they tend to get even more enterprising during a time of severe budget cuts. Given all that, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that many local governments in California are using a new tool to help fill their coffers: the impoundments of vehicles at random police chec...

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...