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...

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 ...

The Border Wall: The Last Stand at Making the US a White Gated Community

by: Mark Karlin, Truthout | News Analysis   This is the first in an occasional Truthout series on viewing the US "immigration" and Mexican border policies through a social justice lens, focusing on the lower Rio Grande Valley. Brownsville, Texas, area. Mark Karlin, editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout, visited the region recently to file these reports.   The physical Mexican-American wall starts as a newly fortified metal barrier extending 300 feet into the warm, balmy waters of...

Border Patrol responds to immigrant abuse claims

WASHINGTON — The US Border Patrol recently ordered an investigation into allegations that its agents were mistreating illegal immigrants entering the United States, said Michael Fisher, the agency's chief.   In the Border Patrol, "We do take all those (allegations) very seriously," Fisher said Wednesday at a House of Representatives hearing.   The allegations were made by non-governmental organizations that operate along the US border with Mexico. "We turned all of those...

Does ‘secure the border’ mean ‘keep America white’?

  Editor's note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com and the 2009 winner of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for online journalism. Follow him on Twitter: @locs_n_laughs. Watch him on Tuesdays on CNN Newsroom, 9 am ET hour. Grand Rapids, Mi...

Univision Exclusive: Disparos en la Frontera (Shots on the Border)

Watch the Univision exclusive report on border brutality and shootings at the border. Journalist Victor Hugo Saavedra’s investigative work “Shots on the Border” (Disparos en la frontera) gathers testimonies from families of victims and rights advocates during a 2010 and 2011 wave of shootings and beatings, that left several civilians dead and increased tensions between civil society and Border Patrol agents. The cases remain under investigation and not a single agent has been disciplined....