http://amvoice.bluestatedigital.com/index.php en jmahendra@americasvoiceonline.org Copyright 2008 2008-12-26T08:09:58-05:00 http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/26/sheriffs.show/ http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/26/sheriffs.show/#When:08:09:58Z But Arpaio's critics aren't amused. They say they fear the show will give the controversial sheriff positive publicity, ignoring what they call a darker side to his 16-year tenure as top lawman in the county that includes Phoenix. "It's going to celebrate a sheriff that's frankly scaring this community, a sheriff that has seen violent crime increase significantly in his county, a sheriff that is racially profiling the Latino community, and I doubt that the show is going to reflect that," said Paco Fabian, spokesman for [...] America's Voice. (CNN) America's Voice 2008-12-26T08:09:58-05:00 CNN http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/opinion/26fri1.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/opinion/26fri1.html#When:08:06:29Z It’s way too early to tell whether the United States under President-elect Barack Obama will restore realism, sanity and lawfulness to its immigration system. But it’s never too early to hope, and the stars seem to be lining up, at least among his cabinet nominees. The confluence of immigrants and labor is exactly what this country — particularly, and disastrously, the Bush administration — has not been able to figure out. (New York Times) America's Voice, Immigration '08, News 2008-12-26T08:06:29-05:00 New York Times http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6168677.html http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6168677.html#When:14:52:55Z The raids proved very expensive. ICE spent $5.2 million on a kosher-meat-packing-plant raid in Postville, Iowa, or about $14,000 per immigrant. Added to this cost was ICE's unprecedented decision to prosecute the immigrants criminally rather than in immigration court. It meant millions of extra dollars spent on keeping the defendants in jail. Had the immigrants been tried in immigration courts, they would have been deported at little expense. All told, ICE spent $1.6 billion last year on detention. (Houston Chronicle) America's Voice 2008-12-16T14:52:55-05:00 Houston Chronicle http://www.startribune.com/local/36245309.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUF http://www.startribune.com/local/36245309.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUF#When:14:33:47Z The conference also hopes the day's events will raise awareness that "the immigration policy is outdated and the system is broken," said Bishop Bernard Harrington of the Diocese of Winona. He cited cases of immigrants in the Worthington raid being whisked away without even being able to say goodbye to their children. "We need to be aware of the hardships and injustices happening right here in our own community," he said. (Minneapolis Star Tribune) America's Voice 2008-12-16T14:33:47-05:00 Minneapolis Star Tribune http://www.minnpost.com/politicalagenda/2008/12/15/5279/states_catholic_bishops_declare_immigration_sunday_and_urge_warm_welcome http://www.minnpost.com/politicalagenda/2008/12/15/5279/states_catholic_bishops_declare_immigration_sunday_and_urge_warm_welcome#When:22:38:44Z The group notes: "Anti-immigrant sentiment continues to divide communities throughout Minnesota and recent immigration raids have had a devastating impact on immigrant families and our rural communities. In the context of a new administration and new Congress, the Minnesota Catholic Bishops will release a joint statement calling for comprehensive immigration reform and strategies to reduce global poverty. (Minn Post) America's Voice, Tour of the Faithful 2008-12-15T22:38:44-05:00 Minn Post http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122938688402208869.html?mod=googlenews_wsj http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122938688402208869.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#When:21:42:06Z Republican nominee John McCain lamented over that very turn of events this weekend. In an appearance on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," he told his own party: "Very frankly, one of the issues that we're going to address very seriously is Hispanic participation in the Republican Party....We Republicans are going to have to recruit and elect Hispanic candidates to offices, and do a lot of other things, because that's a growing part of our population." (Wall Street Journal) America's Voice, Immigration '08 2008-12-15T21:42:06-05:00 Wall Street Journal http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/opinion/15mon2.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/opinion/15mon2.html#When:21:26:39Z The Bush administration is doing a last-minute overhaul of the visa program for temporary farmworkers to make it easier to hire foreigners over Americans, to lower workers’ wages and to erode their rights. You would think that after failing for eight years to fix immigration, the administration would pack it in rather than make one last listless stab at a solution. But this plan isn’t even that — it’s just midnight meanness, right in time for the holidays. (The New York Times) America's Voice 2008-12-15T21:26:39-05:00 The New York Times http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/14/the-answer-on-immigration-66606138/ http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/14/the-answer-on-immigration-66606138/#When:21:24:27Z Both presidential candidates got it. They promised action on immigration reform in their first year. Moreover, when the Obama campaign quietly put together transition teams on seven priority policy areas to begin work months before Election Day, immigration reform made the cut. Why is illegal immigration now a top-tier policy concern? Is it anger at the illegal immigrants? No. (Washington Times) America's Voice, Immigration '08 2008-12-14T21:24:27-05:00 Washington Times http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103337.html?hpid=sec-nation http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103337.html?hpid=sec-nation#When:15:34:15Z Immigration and civil liberties groups condemned a new U.S. government policy to collect DNA samples from all noncitizens detained by authorities and all people arrested for federal crimes. ...Charles H. Kuck, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said the U.S. rule "casts civilly detained immigrants as criminals, requiring them to submit to DNA testing even in cases where there is no suggestion of any criminal violation." (Washington Post) America's Voice 2008-12-12T15:34:15-05:00 Washington Post http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_11191048 http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_11191048#When:15:32:56Z As groups around the world celebrated International Human Rights Day on Wednesday, one El Paso organization used the day to push local lawmakers to come up with comprehensive immigration reform. About 60 people from the Border Network for Human Rights marched from Yandell Drive to Montana Avenue. The protesters then separated into three groups to deliver letters to U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, Mayor John Cook and c ounty Commissioner Veronica Escobar. (El Paso Times) America's Voice 2008-12-11T15:32:56-05:00 El Paso Times