Feds Issue Stark Warning Against ‘Hostile’ Alabama Immigration Law

  The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a stark warning against Alabama's controversial immigration law, which feds say has caused "increased hostility, bullying and intimidation," leading to a surge in school absences among Hispanic students, and will have "continuing and lasting" consequences.   The immigration law HB 56 and Section 28 have "diminished access to and quality of education for many of Alabama's Hispanic children, resulted in missed school days, chilled ...

Families Affected by Border Brutality Joined By Vigils Across the U.S.

  Media Advisory For: May 3, 2012   Contact: Ricardo Favela, 760-468-4519 Rafael Noboa y Rivera, 202-455-4673   San Diego, Los Angeles and other U.S. cities – Supporters of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas in 9 U.S. cities are holding events as part of a National Day of Action Against Border Brutality organized by Presente.org and the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC).   In San Diego, the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium will host a vigil an...

Amnesty International: In Hostile Terrain – Human rights violations in immigration enforcement in the US Southwest

  "The architecture of international human rights law is built on the premise that all persons, by virtue of their essential humanity, should enjoy all human rights." -- David Weissbrodt, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Non-Citizens   Amnesty International’s report, In Hostile Terrain: Human rights violations in immigration enforcement in the US Southwest, examines the human rights violations associated with immigration enforcement at the border and in the interior of the ...

Life as an Undocumented Immigrant

How Restrictive Local Immigration Policies Affect Daily Life   By Angela S. García, David G. Keyes   Download this report (pdf)   Download the introduction and summary (pdf)   Read the report in your web browser (Scribd)   What happens to undocumented immigrants after the passage of anti-immigrant state laws such as Arizona’s S.B. 1070 and Alabama’s H.B. 56 or restrictive local ordinances such as those in Prince William County, Virginia, o...

Save Felipe’s Family! Father Deported – Kids Taken Away

  Felipe Montes will be separated from his three U.S. citizen children unless we do something about it, now: http://Presente.org/FelipesChildren   An action launched on Valentine's Day 2012 by Presente.org and the Applied Research Center is rallying public support to save a family scheduled to be torn apart by the Department of Social Services in Allegheny County, NC. On February 21, Felipe, husband to a US Citizen and father to three US Citizen children, will have his par...

After one year, Carlos Lamadrid’s Killers Remain Free: Bring Justice Home!

  March 21st, 2012 marks one year since Carlos Lamadrid was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents, near his family home in Douglas, Arizona.   Carlos enjoyed playing musical instruments; was a star in the local soccer team and was learning to work with solar energy. He was just 19 years old when he was shot several times by Border Patrol agents.   Carlos was a US citizen.   His family and the Douglas community has been devastated by the murder of a ...