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Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 13:14:58 PM EST
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Would a truly reputable national newspaper use the N-word to describe African-Americans? I doubt it. The USA Today article “Groups try to delay deportations of illegal students” gets it wrong once again by calling immigrant students in the United States “illegal.” BEWARE: USA Today reporter, Emily Bazar thinks it is alright to label young immigrants without papers as “illegal immigrants” because NumbersUSA and NCLR had a webcast where this was decided. Here is the email to prove this.
But wait, I get the “illegal immigrant” because that slur is familiar. However, WHAT is an “illegal student?” Emily Bazar (ebazar@usatoday.com), specifically, has also forced undocumented students to reveal their true identity to make a point in her article. For this particular article, Ms. Bazar spoke to our Communications Director and when he told her that she could not use his last name, Bazar retaliated by saying that USA Today had “national standards” and policies to be adhered to. That is amusing, given how even New York Times has been hesitant about revealing the identity of undocumented students. I wonder if these standards come straight from the hate-organization Numbers USA, funded by the known racist John Tanton or FAIR, who is quoted in the article saying the same things that have been debunked here. Take action here to tell USA Today to stop competing with the archaic immigration system and drop the use of the word ‘illegal’
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Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 09:55:09 AM EDT
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Crossposted from VivirLatino
Quick. Choose. The house is burning and you have to choose. Your mother or your child? Who do you save?
The current framing of the immigration reform movement and the immigrants it claims to represents takes place against a backdrop of human lives. And in our house, the United States of America, is aflame. The framing of the current immigration reform movement however, the good vs. bad immigrant narrative that we have written about and discussed extensively, forces advocates and the media into a corner. Choose. The idea is that we can't have it all when it comes to immigration reform. That we need to make compromises, find workable solutions to borrow an often heard phrase from the Reform Immigration for America Summit. That means choosing between your mother or your child.
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Thu May 21, 2009 at 12:07:33 PM EDT
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Cross posted from VivirLatino
While anti-immigrant actions and speech are facing a serious pushback, the face of immigration continues to be read as male. Immigrant women are rarely mentioned or discussed, except in the context of being breeders, bearers of anchor babies, victims, dangerous, deceptive. Immigrant women aren't painted in the full colors of their lives as mothers, activists, artists.
Last week New America Media (NAM) released the results of a poll of 1,102 immigrant women. And while the information isn't surprising, as they reflect what immigrant women have been saying for years about their lives, there are those who get hung up on numbers as truth. So what do the numbers say?
82% of Latin American women found discrimination against immigrants
to be a major problem for their family, compared to 17% for women from
African or Arab countries, and only 13% for those from China. Still, 90% of
the Latin American women said they want to become US citizens.
40% of immigrant women from Latin America and significant
percentages from other regions do not have health insurance. A clear
majority of women immigrants without health insurance are unaware of public
health programs that could help their children receive medical assistance.
Another important finding is that immigrant women were concerned about immigration raids and their possible impact on the family.
Pero is the image of immigrant women presented in the poll really three dimensional or does it play up old stereotypes?
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Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 15:47:45 PM EDT
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 THE FEBRUARY ICE RAIDS IN BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON surprised many, coming as they did after President Obama was elected. The remnant of Bush-Chertoff style tactics were a brand new shock again, as a mass of federal agents surrounded a car engine repair shop and scooped many workers into buses waiting in the back.
Shortly after, Janet Napolitano confessed that the raid had taken even her by surprise, that she was not consulted, and that she would order a review. Speaker Pelosi was soon quoted speaking out against the devastating effects our "enforcement" tactics have been having on communities.
Did the focus have an effect on how this raid played out in the aftermath?
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Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 11:14:04 AM EDT
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The Federation for American Immigration Reform ("FAIR") continues to be treated by the mainstream media as if it were a legitimate and reliable source of information. Eristic Ragemail has previously posted articles where the media will quote FAIR without elaborating on its extremist elements and more importantly on its web of lies, distortion and outright fabrications. If one has the stomach to peruse FAIR's website, one will see a panoply of claims, all of which lack hard empirical proof or are outright fabrications of the nativist imagination.
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