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Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 14:13:52 PM EST
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Originally posted on Citizen Orange.
I hope everyone enjoys Halloween, today. As a child in Guatemala there were only a few places that I could celebrate Halloween. We'd usually have to go to the Gringo, or "Americanized", walled in colonias to go trick or treating. If not you'd run the risk of ringing the doorbell of a religious family that believed celebrating Halloween was the equivalent of devil worship. How do you say trick or treat in Spanish? This is what we used in Guatemala:
Tricko! Tricko! Halloween!
Dame dulces para mi!
(Give me candy for me!)
For the first time, I'm heading out to Salem, Massachusetts, for Halloween, tonight. I imagine that it's going to be a completely different experience than the one I'm used to in Guatemala.
Tangentially, I typed in "immigration" and "halloween" into Google, and what I came up with is a not so happy reminder of Halloween. It brought up the Julie Myers controversy.
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Thu Aug 21, 2008 at 23:22:21 PM EST
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We learned from Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas in his devastating essay (posted by Duke in its entirety), that there were horrible travesties of both the law and justice itself in how the Postville, Iowa raid was executed.
As Dr. Camayd-Freixas said, speaking of his conversation with one of the immigration judges who had no choice but to rule as a rubber-stamp for the ICE:
As a citizen, I want our judges to administer justice, not a federal agency.
Yet that is exactly what happened. A federal agency administered "justice" and the defense attorneys and judges were helpless to change anything. As a result, an entire town was ripped apart, economic devastation ensued, and as we now see (h/t woc phd by way of symsess' great roundups), the human rights abuses continue:
Women were deeply impacted by the raids. First, female workers at Postville were part of the round up. The lost access to their children, including babies that were still nursing, without warning nor concern. For others, many of the primary or main source of income in their household was permanently removed. In many cases, the raids also labeled these women as undocumented, ensuring that they could not work. Others, afraid of being deported in a raid, did not return to their jobs. The result is that most of the women are also unemployed and unable to be employed.
For women who did not immediately hear about the raids, there was also the fear and confusion about the location of their sons and husbands. Some women went for days without knowing what had happened. As fear turned into confirmation that men were being held for deportation, women's anxieties and stressers went up.
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Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 14:13:09 PM EST
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Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Julie L. Myers, has been dipping into the evidence locker at ICE since she apparently thinks she has authority, not only beyond that of her boss at the Department of Homeland Security but also over the legislative branch. Since ICE seems to have no shortage of hubris, the petty bureaucrat Myers, is deluded with the notion that she can discipline a member of Congress.
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 07:05:13 AM EST
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Catholic National Migration Conference in Washington, D.C. As has been my experience with previous conferences for immigration legal service providers, there is always more information on offer than time to absorb it. It is at once an exhausting and rejuvenating experience—meeting new colleagues from other parts of the country, reconnecting with old ones, fine-tuning your practice, commiserating with others whose clients are also facing impossible situations. There were many fine speakers at the conference, including Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat and genocide survivor Immaculee Ilibagiza. But the stark contrast between two of the speakers in particular was impossible for me to ignore.
At the Tuesday morning plenary session, we heard from Julie Myers, head of Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE), the enforcement wing of DHS. I’ve expressed concerns about her leadership of the agency in this space before. Setting those issues aside for now, her presentation was notable for the near-complete misalignment between the issues she talked about and the issues of primary concern to those of us listening. As a speaker, you have to know your audience, and she didn’t seem to. She talked about her recent experience sitting in on a citizenship swearing in ceremony, and the happiness she felt at being able to witness this moment of such importance for those who reach that point. Left unanswered was the question that must have immediately presented itself to most of the audience, as it did to me: Why, then, does ICE make it so difficult for migrants to attain citizenship?
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