Northwest Detention center. What you should know.


A powerful story of resistance to migrant detention in the US Northwest and how police Intimidate, violating individuals Constitutional rights and violating police Standards.

Voices on Human Rights Violations at the Northwest Detention Center.














Detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., are subjected to excessive strip searches, physical abuse, insufficient quantities of food, overcrowding and a lack of due process, according to a new report on conditions at the facility

The center is where undocumented people in Oregon who are facing deportation typically are held. It also is where unauthorized immigrants who commit criminal offenses are sent to await deportation after completing their prison sentence.

The facility serves Oregon, Washington and Alaska.

The report, "Voices from Detention: A Report on Human Rights Violations at the Northwest Detention Center," takes an in-depth look at how detainees are treated at the center.

It was conducted by the Seattle University School of Law's International Human Rights Clinic in collaboration with OneAmerica, an immigrant rights group in Seattle.

Gwynne Skinner, a professor at Willamette University College of Law and a visiting professor at the Seattle law school, oversaw the study.

Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security division that oversees Tacoma's detention facility, called the report a "fabrication."

Lorie Dankers, a spokeswoman for ICE, said the center meets, and in many instances exceeds, national compliance standards.

"We provide a secure and humane environment for our detainees," Dankers said. "It is a comfortable and safe environment."

The report was prepared from interviews that law students conducted with detainees. It features anecdotes by detainees about mistreatment and abuse they claim to have personally witnessed.

One incident involves a mentally ill Cambodian man who allegedly was punched by U.S. marshals during a flight to Alabama. The detainees said the man also struggled to breathe during the entire trip after the marshals placed a hood over his head.

The eyewitnesses additionally said that during the same seven-hour trip last summer, authorities refused to allow them to use the bathroom, forcing them to sit in their own feces.

"Probably the starkest finding was not a single episode, but the fact that there really are no binding and, therefore, no legally enforceable standards that govern detention, which is now the fastest-growing form of incarceration in this country," said Pramila Jayapal, executive director of OneAmerica.

Jayapal said conditions at the Tacoma center violate international human-rights laws, as well as the U.S. Constitution.

The group hopes the study will lead to federal legislation that would create legally binding standards regarding detention and explore alternatives to detention centers, Jayapal said.

Jim Ludwick, the president of Tank Oregonians for Immigration Reform, which lobbies against illegal immigration, questioned the motives behind the report.

"I think these people are just trying to turn up something negative about enforcing immigration laws, instead of talking about the fact that the people shouldn't have been here to begin with," Ludwick said. "Many people who are in detention centers are people who illegally entered into the United States and are fighting deportation. They obviously don't think the conditions are that bad or else they'd agree to deportation and go home."

The report comes two weeks after the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security recommended better access to medical care, stronger oversight and general improvements in detention standards following the deaths of legal and illegal immigrants at centers across the nation.

The deaths have sparked widespread attention and have drawn criticism from the United Nations. They also have spawned two bills in Congress that seek to improve detention standards.

"I think it's important that Congress continue to look into conditions at detention centers," said Erik Sorensen, a spokesman for CAUSA, an immigrant-advocacy group in Woodburn. "Obviously, the system is flawed and it's unfortunate that people are being treated inhumanely."

Dankers said ICE recently signed a contract with an outside firm that will conduct annual evaluations at the center.

However, she said it would be difficult to verify the incidences described in the report because the report contained "such vague references to events and individuals, whose names were changed."

Minuteman Member Harrasing and chashing Home Depot customers and finally get what he deserves.

Undocumented Workers do no paid taxes.!!!!!! That Sounds familiar to you.






Tax evasion is in progress BUT not from Undocumented workers. Citizen evaded the payment of more than $3 million in taxes and defrauded more than ten lenders, including several federally insured financial institutions and Stewart Title, of more than $6.6 million. The Punishment fit his crime.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FORMER WORCESTER ATTORNEY SENTENCED ON FRAUD, TAX VIOLATIONS CHARGES.

BOSTON, MA - A Worcester man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court on wire fraud and evasion of payment of taxes charges.

United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan, Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division and Tyrone G. Barney, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation - Boston Field Office, announced today that ALAN MASON, age 61, of 26 Pine Hill Road, Princeton, MA, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Dennis Saylor IV, to 9 years of imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $6,628,119 in restitution. MASON was immediately remanded into custody.

MASON was an attorney whose law practice was centered on providing legal services in connection with real estate closings, and who conducted business in Worcester under the name Alan Mason Legal Services, Inc. MASON was also involved in the purchase and sale of real estate. From at least June 2001 through June 2006, MASON engaged in a fraudulent scheme in which he took funds he received from banks for the purpose of paying off prior liens on properties for closings he was handling, and converted those funds for his own personal and business purposes.

In furtherance of that fraudulent scheme, MASON prepared documents, including checks and HUD-1 forms, which made it appear that he had in fact paid off the prior liens. Instead, MASON made monthly mortgage payments to the prior lienholders in order to prevent the loans from going into default and thus alerting the buyers, sellers and new lenders that the prior lien had not been paid off. As an agent of the title insurance company Stewart Title, MASON issued title insurance policies to real estate buyers and lenders which indemnified them against title defects, even though he knew that the titles were defective because he had not paid off prior lienholders and had not obtained discharges of those liens. MASON’S scheme defrauded more than ten lenders, including several federally insured financial institutions and Stewart Title, of more than $6.6 million.

MASON also evaded the payment of more than $3 million in taxes by, among other things, setting up and controlling multiple real estate trusts and bank accounts using the names of employees and relatives but which did not identify MASON’S interest in writing to prevent the tax authorities from attaching those assets. MASON bought and sold real estate through those trusts and used the substantial profits for personal expenses such as home improvements, an antique clock collection, mortgage payments and investments in new properties.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Boston Field Division and the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation - Boston Field Office. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark J. Balthazard of Sullivan’s Economic Crimes Unit.

Arresting Legal and U.S. Citizens are rising at a high levels.




Two U.S. citizens and one legal permanent resident were among those arrested last month in Mount Pleasant, Texas, during a federal immigration crackdown targeting identity fraud at poultry giant Pilgrim's Pride.

One 19-year-old citizen was taken from her home while still in her pajamas, and an 18-year-old citizen was shackled at his ankles, handcuffed at his wrists and tied at his waist, said the arrested workers and a relative. All three speak mostly Spanish

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, contends that such arrests are rare and that when it does happen, citizens are immediately released.

But across the U.S., reports of arrests and detentions of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents are increasing.

Lawyers and immigrant-defense groups said such incidents will continue to rise as the federal government deepens its crackdown against illegal immigrants – one of the broadest such actions in 50 years.

Raids have intensified in the last two years – a get-tough approach in the absence of comprehensive immigration legislation.

Federal lawsuits

Two federal lawsuits representing 122 workers have been filed challenging mass detentions of U.S. citizens, during immigration raids. All were either citizens or people in the U.S. with legal status.

Juan Manuel Carrillo, 18, who worked at the Mount Pleasant Pilgrim's plant for $9.75 an hour, was one of 46 arrested in a pre-dawn dragnet that included 300 ICE agents and other personnel.

He said he told officials that he was a U.S. citizen.

"I said I was born in San Diego, and they said they didn't believe me," Mr. Carrillo recounted, in Spanish. "I said I was telling the truth. They said I was working with another's Social Security number."

Mr. Carrillo said that when his 17-year-old brother, Marco Antonio, brought him his U.S. passport, immigration agents insisted the pair were lying and asked him where he bought the passport.

Mr. Carrillo was taken to Mexico as a toddler by his Mexican-born parents and lived there for 15 years, before returning to the U.S. about a year ago. He speaks little English.

Xochitl Delgado, 19 and also a worker at Pilgrim's Pride, was arrested in her home in the early morning of April 16 and taken into custody still in her pajamas, said her older sister, Griselda Delgado.

She said her sister, born in the U.S., is still too traumatized to speak about the arrest.

"Every time she remembers she cries," Griselda Delgado said. "Before they take a person away, they should do a deeper investigation about who has documents."

Mr. Carrillo said he remembers Ms. Delgado sitting in a cell in her pajamas and sandals. ICE officials said Xochitl Delgado was wearing "an ample sweat suit."

U.S. prosecutor

Alan Jackson, a Tyler-based assistant U.S. attorney, said all criminal charges have been dismissed against the three workers, arrested on suspicion of using a Social Security number not issued to them.

"After the arrest, we determined that dismissal was appropriate," he said.

Asked if investigators believed that the three were using false Social Security numbers, even though they had authentic ones, Mr. Jackson said: "What it means is that we felt the evidence that they were using someone else's Social Security number wasn't strong enough."

Mr. Jackson said that his office moved quickly to dismiss charges against Ms. Delgado.
"We were racing against the clock to do it and get the district clerk to stay late enough to process it," he said.

The indictment against Xochitl Delgado was dismissed "in the interests of justice" at 5:03 p.m. April 17, about 35 hours after her arrest, according to the pleading in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Texarkana Division.

Mr. Jackson declined to comment on whether those arrested might themselves be victims of identity theft.

But ICE spokesman Virginia Kice noted that, in general, the burden of proof rests with the federal government for establishing what it calls "alienage" – or whether a person was born outside the U.S.

There is no comprehensive government database that establishes who holds U.S. citizenship, she added.

Jesus García, a 27-year-old legal permanent resident, was also picked up by authorities and his arrest was photographed by a newspaper owner who followed ICE agents to several locations.

Mr. García insisted that he'd broken no immigration laws. Eventually, he was released and reunited with his U.S. citizen wife and five daughters.

"I was not to blame for any of the charges," said Mr. García, who no longer works at the Pilgrim's plant.

Federal immigration agents and the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, John L. Ratcliffe, said at a Dallas news conference in April that the national arrests were part of "an ongoing criminal investigation" into criminal activity involving alleged identity theft.

Of the more than 300 workers arrested at five Pilgrim's plants across the country, about a third were criminally charged, immigration officials said.

A spokesman for Pilgrim's Pride Corp. – based in Pittsburg, Texas, with $7.59 billion in revenue last year – said the company cooperated with officials and has not been charged.

Matt Yarbrough, a lawyer who has prosecuted immigration-related crimes as a former assistant U.S. attorney, said the operation at Pilgrim's Pride raises questions about excess use of law enforcement power.

"There is reasonable and then there is overly aggressive," said Mr. Yarbrough, who prosecuted an immigration raid against the Pappas restaurant chain in the 1990s.
"Those factors to a court are going to seem overreaching and ultimately the government could be liable for falsely imprisoning someone."

Peter Schey, president and executive director for the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law in Los Angeles, said he believes that U.S. citizens are increasingly facing federal immigration agents who are incredulous about their U.S. citizenship.

"If more U.S. citizens exercise their rights to seek damages in these illegal detentions," that could cause the Department of Homeland Security to re-evaluate the way they search for those in the U.S. illegally, Mr. Schey said.


February 2008: 114 workers, U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, are temporarily detained during a raid at Micro Solutions Enterprises in Van Nuys, Calif. In April, each filed federal claims for $5,000 in damages. In that raid, ICE agents blocked exits and prevented employees from leaving until more than 100 workers were arrested on immigration-related offenses, and eight more on criminal charges.

August 2007: Alicia Rodriguez, a Mansfield tax preparer, is held for 16 hours before she is able to convince authorities she is a U.S. citizen. She was picked up on a warrant for a traffic violation. Authorities mistook her for an illegal immigrant deported three years earlier, who insisted she was a U.S. citizen. "They were pretty belligerent in not believing me," said the 29-year-old Ms. Rodriguez. Ms. Rodriguez said she now carries a copy of her U.S. birth certificate with her.


June 2007: Jose Cesar Guzman, a Santa Fe, N.M., chef from El Salvador with legal status, is held for five weeks because of a mix-up in his legal files. He was mistaken for another man with a similar name, Jose Carmelo Guzman, said his attorney, Olsi Vrapi of the Noble law firm in Santa Fe.

May 2007: Pedro Guzman, a U.S.-born man who some say had mental health problems, was removed to Tijuana by federal immigration agents. In August, he was reunited with his family. His attorney, Mark D. Rosenbaum, the legal director of the ACLU in Los Angeles, has sued the federal government on constitutional grounds. "They had records that reflected he was a U.S. citizen and they asserted he was a U.S. citizen," Mr. Rosenbaum said. ICE spokesman Virginia Kice said the litigation constrains her comments on the case. But she said the man "made repeated assertions that he was born in Mexico."

December 2006: Eight workers with U.S. citizenship or legal permanent resident status are detained as part of an immigration raid of Swift & Co. plants across six states, including one in Cactus, Texas. Of the 1,297 workers arrested, 274 were criminally charged with violations related to identity theft or other offenses. The United Food and Commercial Workers union sued ICE, claiming the raid violated the workers' Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. ICE is asking that the suit be dismissed.

Hate crime. I am tired of them. They should go back where they came from. Cosby said.



Standing before the judge with his head held high, a white man accused of hate crimes for intentionally driving his car into a black woman seemed unconcerned Tuesday afternoon.

"I have no legal obligation under Act (Corp.)," Thomas Darryl Cosby told County Judge Peter McGlashan at his first appearance in court. The statement came in response to a public defender's request that the 56-year-old Port Orange resident undergo a mental health evaluation.

However, McGlashan granted the request for the evaluation. In addition he ordered Cosby held on $60,000 bail on charges of aggravated battery and simple battery.

The counts stem from an incident at 7:50 p.m. Monday in the 700 block of South Atlantic Avenue. Police said, "for no apparent reason," Cosby drove over a curb and hit Nekedia Cato while she was riding her bike on the sidewalk.

The 25-year-old Daytona Beach resident suffered a badly broken left leg and unknown internal injuries. She was listed in good condition at Halifax Health Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon.

After hitting Cato, police said Cosby's sedan careened into a tree and then hit the front porch of a nearby home, rolled over several times and came to a stop. Cosby, who suffered only minor injuries, climbed from the vehicle and started screaming at bystanders, urging them to "help me kill these (racial slur for black people)," several witnesses told officers.

At one point, he struck another person before being detained by witnesses until police arrived.

When asked what happened to his car, Cosby told investigating officers, "I turned my car to take him out," even though the victim was not a man.
Crosby also complained to police about blacks making fun of him and having sex with his wife and girlfriend.

"I am tired of it," the arrest report states, quoting Cosby. "They should go back to where they came from."

Cosby's racially charged statements prompted the enhanced charges, Daytona Beach police spokesman Jimmie Flynt said.

"We felt that met the criteria for a hate crime," he said.

According to court records, Cosby has a history of mental illness. In 2000, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity on a 1998 complaint of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. Before that determination, he was involuntarily committed to a state mental hospital for three months.

This is what I called a Radical Behavior and Intolerance against the Immigrant.!!!!!!!!!!








France denies citizenship to veiled Muslim woman.

The case started quietly, when a Muslim woman who sheaths herself in a head-to-toe veil was denied French citizenship because she had not assimilated enough into this society. France's highest body upheld the decision, and politicians across the spectrum agreed it was the right move.


A few dissenting voices, though, are now questioning whether the decision pushed France's secularist values too far.

"Where does it begin or end? What we are calling radical behavior?" asked Mohammed Bechari, president of the National Federation of French Muslims. "Will we see a man refused citizenship because of the length of his beard ... or a man who is dressed as a rabbi, or a priest?"

On June 27, France's highest administrative body, the Council of State, ruled that the woman, identified only as Faiza X, had "adopted a radical practice of her religion incompatible with the essential values of the French community, notably with the principle of equality of the sexes, and therefore she does not fulfill the conditions of assimilation" listed in the country's Civil Code as a requirement for gaining French citizenship.

The council said the decision to refuse her citizenship did not aim to "attack (her) freedom of religion."

But critics accuse the French justice system of breeding fear and intolerance of Islam under the guise of upholding secularism. The country is home to western Europe's largest Muslim population, estimated to be at least 5 million of the nation's 63 million people - and growing.

French officialdom has struggled to instill secular traditions in Muslim immigrant communities, passing a law in 2004 barring the Islamic headscarf and other highly visible religious symbols from public schools. Proponents of that law welcomed the decision denying citizenship to Faiza X, who wears a niqab, or full-body veil, to her meetings with immigration officials.

"The burqa, it's a prison, a straitjacket," France's minister for urban affairs, Fadela Amara, herself born to Algerian parents, was quoted as saying.

The terms burqa and niqab are often used interchangeably in France, though the former refers to a full-body covering worn largely in Afghanistan with only a mesh screen over the eyes. An official state document said the woman wore a full-body niqab, which left her eyes uncovered.

"It is not a religious sign but the visible sign of a totalitarian political project preaching inequality between the sexes, and which carries within it the total absence of democracy," Amara was quoted as saying in the daily Le Parisien.

Amara told the paper she hoped extremists would get a strong message from the Council of State's ruling, which upheld immigration officials' refusal to grant citizenship to Faiza X.

The council's ruling did not refer to Faiza's niqab, which she said she adopted after arriving in France from her native Morocco, according to a report from a government commissioner to the Council.

The woman told immigration officials that she did not know anything about secularism or her right to vote, according to the commissioner's report. All the immigration officials handling her case were women. They asked her to remove her veil to identify herself, which she did only when no men were in the room, the report said.

Later, in a letter to immigration officials, the woman defended her lifestyle by noting that other immigrants granted French citizenship also maintain "ties with their culture of origin."

The woman and her husband told immigration officials that they adhere to Salafism, a strict strain of Islam.

Her statements to immigration officials indicate that "she leads a life almost of a recluse, cut off from French society," leaving the house only to walk with her children or visit relatives, the report said.

"She lives in total submission to the men in her family ... and the idea of contesting this submission doesn't even occur to her," the government report said.

Politicians on talk shows this week spoke out in support of the ruling. But Muslim groups had mixed reactions.

Mohammed Moussaoui, head of the moderate French Council for Muslim Communities, issued a cautious statement that did not come out strongly for or against the ruling. He said only that his group "rejects all forms of extremism and stigmas that would keep the Muslim component of the nation's society from living its spirituality in peace."

But Fouad Alaoui, vice president of the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, said, "It's a turning point in our judiciary that should make us think.

"I don't think that clothing is part of this country's values. Clothing is personal freedom."
Then he added, "On a personal level, I too am disturbed when I see a woman hide her face.

Voices from Raids. We are not criminals. We are just looking for a better life.!!!

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Immigration arrests from worksite raids have increased tenfold in the last five years. As politicians on both sides of the aisle grapple with the issue, families are caught in the middle. ANP went to Annapolis, MD to see how people were coping in the aftermath of the state's largest immigration roundup in years.
Why in the world ICE had been treated undocumented Immigrants like criminals?
They are workers not Criminals and before workers are Human beings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ICE Raids: The Mechanism and effects in Childrens.



When ICE and immigration officials began a series of raids on meatpacking plants and other immigrant-heavy workplaces, they triggered a series of events which affected not just undocumented students, but entire schools.

More Raids in Rhode Island.



ICE continue the Raids thru the Nation and Know dozens were arrested in immigration raids on RI courthouses.

How many amendments to the Constitution are there? Can’t say offhand?








IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world


Then you would not have been among the 20 new citizens from 15 different countries who swore their allegiance to the Constitution at Ellis Island last week. They were expected to know that fact along with many others about U.S. government and history that most native-born Americans would have been hard-pressed to recall.

The goose-bump-provoking scene of men and women from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America tightly clutching their small American flags as they joined the ranks of the millions who came before them through the great hall at Ellis Island happened the day before the presidential candidates addressed a major Hispanic organization, as they courted the votes of the fastest-growing group in the population.

But even as John McCain and Barack Obama recognize Hispanic clout, just showing up at a Latino event can be politically risky these days, particularly for Republicans, given the hostility of the anti-immigration forces. Case in point: Utah’s Chris Cannon — even with the backing of President Bush, his state’s governor and two senators — was recently shellacked in his congressional primary. Cannon’s sin? Support for immigration reform.

“Any Republican who’s running for office and believes the immigration issue is dead should take another look and see what happened to Mr. Cannon,” Rep. Tom Tancredo crowed to the Salt Lake Tribune.

The leader of the opposition to immigration reform, Tancredo would argue that he is not against immigration, only illegal immigration. But the often-angry debate sounds decidedly nativistic.

Take the “English only” proposals — they’re aimed at all newcomers, not just illegal immigrants. A bill in Congress calling for “English only” ballots has nothing to do with illegals — they can’t vote. These are mean-spirited measures designed to punish new Americans, especially the fast-growing Spanish-speaking population.

Though talk-show hosts — led by CNN’s Lou Dobbs — stir up the anti-immigrant venom, the keep-out-the-foreigners feelings are real. Look at a sampling of responses to an article in the Las Vegas Sun quoting state and local officials on the positive effect of immigrants on the economy.

“I told Carpets-N-More that the only installer I would allow into my home had to be a black or white AMERICAN who spoke English,” fumed one reader. “Guess what, they sent me just what I asked for: 1 black and 1 white American, born and bred.”

“This is not America anymore,” lamented another, “no one speaks the language anymore. Everyone is catered to, the Mexicans, Muslims, Russians, Eastern Europeans, Indians, Africans, you name it.”

And it’s not just a few cranks sounding off to a newspaper who feel that way. When the Pew Research Center asked last year whether “the growing number of newcomers from other countries threatens traditional American customs and values,” almost half — 48 percent — of those surveyed said yes.

At a time when the country is experiencing the biggest wave of immigration, in raw numbers, in its history, some of this trepidation is understandable. Though the newcomers bring with them a spirit of entrepreneurship, a willingness to work hard and contribute to their new nation, Americans have never warmly welcomed strangers, people who didn’t look and sound like them.

That’s why a visit to Ellis Island, now operated by the National Park Service as a museum of immigration, is so instructive. It was the landing spot for 12 million new arrivals at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries — the period of the largest influx of immigrants as a percentage of the population. The native-born descendants of the Western European settlers were no happier about that deluge of “huddled masses” from the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe than today’s are about newcomers streaming up from Latin America and in from Asia and Africa.

But now more than 40 percent of our population can trace their ancestry through that small outcropping in New York Harbor. Given those numbers, many of those offspring of the Ellis Island immigrants must be among those who find today’s newcomers threatening.

They should go to a naturalization ceremony, especially if they could go to one at the spot where their forebears got off the boat. They should see these excited new Americans following in the footsteps of their own frightened ancestors who arrived on these shores seeking a better life.

Not only would they be ashamed of their take-up-the-drawbridge mentality, but they would also find someone who could tell them how many amendments there are to the Constitution

July 27, 2008. Let's support Justice against the Inhumane raid in Postville..






Immigration reform advocates and religious leaders from across the Midwest are planning a rally in northeast Iowa nearly two months after a raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville ended in nearly 400 arrests.

The rally, scheduled for July 27, was organized by Jewish and Catholic groups from Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota. It is expected to draw hundreds of people to the town of about 2,200 residents.

Organizers are using the raid at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant on May 12 as an example of what's wrong with the nation's immigration laws. Federal officials have called it the largest single immigration raid in the nation's history.

"Our national immigration policies are tearing apart and hurting hardworking, taxpaying people who are just here trying to support their families," said Tom Walsh, with the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, a Chicago-based group helping organize the rally.

He said more 175 families in Postville, including more than 500 children, "just lost not only their mother or father, but in many cases, the sole breadwinner for their homes."

Authorities said some undocumented workers who were sole caregivers for children were allowed to return home with ankle bracelets that monitor their movement. However, immigrants reform advocates claimed those parents aren't able to find work and must rely on handouts from local churches and other groups.

"This enforcement-only approach creates massive human suffering, separation of families and economic dislocation," Gideon Aronoff, CEO of the New York-based Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, said during a conference call with reporters earlier this month.

Since the raid, allegations have arisen of unsafe conditions, child labor violations and low-paid workers abused by supervisors at Agriprocessors. Before the raid, the company produced about half of the nation's kosher beef and 40 percent of its kosher chicken.

Most of the 389 workers arrested were charged with using false identification or incorrect Social Security numbers. Two plant supervisors were later charged with aiding and abetting the possession and use of fraudulent identification.

An Agriprocessors spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for a comment.

An organization of American Orthodox Jews, Uri L'Tzedek, had called for a boycott of any businesses that sold the company's meat. It backed off the boycott earlier this month after Agriprocessors hired a former federal prosecutor as chief compliance officer.

Agriprocessors, started by Aaron Rubashkin, a Hassidic Jew from New York, has recently been criticized in both mainstream and Jewish publications. The company has said little about the raid or its aftermath, but allegations have arisen that its public relations firm faked comments on an Internet blog that has been critical of Agriprocessors.

There also was an outcry after someone bought ads in Guatemala City newspapers that sought workers, noting an "excellent job opportunity in the United States meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa." Company officials denied they had anything to do with the ads.

The groups planning the immigration reform rally this month in Postville are St. Bridget's Catholic Church in Postville, Jewish Community Action of St. Paul, Minn., and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs of Chicago. They promised testimony from people directly affected by the raid, as well as talk about immigration reform and workers' rights.

"This is a call for justice. This is a call to be faithful to our American and religious values," Sister Mary McCauley with St. Bridget's Catholic Church said in a statement. "This is a call to stand in solidarity with our Hispanic brothers and sisters."
Organizers are worried that the rally could draw too many supporters, and are asking that anyone planning to attend register with their groups.

"It's so clear that the town has been devastated by the raid and they are reeling and they are trying to cope with it and trying to help the families cope with it," said Jane Ramsey, executive director of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs. "We want to come out with a strong support, (but) we don't want to overwhelm the community."

Contact Group:
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
610 S. Michigan Ave.
Suite 500
Chicago, IL 60605

Phone: (312) 663-0960
Fax: (312) 663-5305

Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
Institute Office
8380 Colesville Road, Suite 300
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910

Contact JCA

Jewish Community Action is located at
2375 University Avenue West, Suite 150
St. Paul, MN 55114-1633

Phone 651/632-2184
Fax 651/632-2188

ICE Raids= Misconduct and Violations of Individuals Constitutional rights.



Senator John Kerry testified Monday before a private commission examining how immigration leaders conduct workplace raids.

Family torn apart

I copied this Video from Citizen Orange were Kyledeb exposed another fact of the dysfunctional and obsolete Immigration system. That's really sad and ashamed that people needs to suffer pain, disrupted their lives, their dreams, torn families apart and banned to become part of our Society just for an inhumane and Incomprehensive Immigration system. Their punishment fit their crime?????

What part of Hardship ICE and Immigration officials do not Understand.!!!!!!!!!!



Family struggling to be together again after the father was deported to the Philippines. As I said the Hardship start it when ICE torn the parent away from their kids making a difficult to endure in their future life like suffering; deprivation; oppression, painful effort, Discomfort.
Tearing families apart is an American Value? or Unamerican? Where are those family values? Human Values? Why Immigration court do not Understand what's mean Hardship?

Foster care Would not replace the love of my parents.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What part of Humanism we do not understand.!!!!!!!!!!! See this video how the U.S. Citizens kids has been deported and torn apart from their parents.
Where are those Human Values? Where are those Moral Values? This is the lead of Country we want to be? that's really sad and ashamed. Torn apart kids from parents really touching my heart and bring me some tears. I see kids suffering a chilling effect. Why Dehumanizing Undocumented Immigrants!!!!!!!

Family torn apart just for wrong jugment and it will be reason for removal.


Parents with learning difficulties are having their children taken into care because officials say they are too intellectually slow to cope. Meaning difficulties a jugment and reason for removal but we all have some difficulties at some point.
Who's should be taken their kids away? Who should be judge me what is some normal difficulties or not? Where are those moral values? Where are those Human Values?

Exposing The Morally Corrupt Family Courts.

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A short clip complete with live interview with one father who immigrated to Canada and now says he would never have set foot in this country had he known about the Family System of Injustice here in Canada. Are we following the same path. We always boasts to the World as the most Democratic, Free and fighter for Indivuals Human righst But the mirror has been twisted too often that's sad and ashamed seen kids and parents torn apart without see their pain and human side. What crime those kids committed to taken away from parents? Do their Punishment fit their crime? Where are those moral values?

Ashamed Immigration Policy.


We see more and more parents, and kids torn apart from the Inhumane, Obsolete, and Incomprehensive Immigration Policy.

Where are those Human Values?, Where are those moral values? We as Americans we pronounced thru the Nations and retailated to those who's violating the Constitutional and Human rights for Individuals But This is the kind of Country we want to be? It's sad and ashamed.

Inspirational Quotes



I am hoping that some of those quotes inspiring me to move on with my life in those toughed times. Like the greatest Confucius said: Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but raising everytime we fall.