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Sacramento: Immigrant Rights Rally Set For 10 a.m. On Labor Day
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 08:43:22 -0700
Contact: Cynthia Munoz 916-949-4217 Edgar Camacho 707-373-0026 or 916-996-9170
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Immigrant rights backers head to D.C.
Del. activists to join thousands more as Congress returns to work
By MADHUSMITA BORA, Special to The News Journal
Sunday, September 3, 2006
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New Rounds of Marches For Immigrant Rights Movements!
Labor Day Weekend 2006: Lists of Nationwide Immigrant Rights Marches
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Hired Hands: Breaching the border
Thousands start the perilous trek with offers in hand from U.S. employers.
By Susan Ferriss -- Bee Staff Writer
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Erica Heartquist Reports
'No More Deaths' worker says she'd do it again
Sep 3, 2006 05:41 AM PDT
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TAKING SIDES ON THE BORDER Humane Borders:
It's about saving lives
Border issue: Humanitarian groups say their work in the Arizona desert saves countless lives and taxpayer dollars
Date published: 9/3/2006
By MELISSA NIX
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September 3, 2006
Exploitation of Miss. immigrants must stop
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Sep 2, 2006 1:46 pm US/Pacific
Immigrant-Rights Supporters March Through Downtown
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4-Day Illinois March for Immigrant Rights Begins
The pilgrimage is one of many across the nation geared toward pressuring Congress to move forward with an immigration overhaul.
By Sara Olkon, Chicago Tribune
September 2, 2006
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Sep. 02, 2006
Immigration rights backers marching on
By Jessie Mangaliman = Mercury News
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Charges Dismissed Against Tucson Humanitarians
September 1st, 2006
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Sacramento: Immigrant Rights Rally Set For 10 a.m. On Labor Day
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 08:43:22 -0700
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Contact: Cynthia Munoz 916-949-4217 Edgar Camacho 707-373-0026 or 916-996-9170
Major immigrant rights marches scheduled at Capitol, and nationwide on Labor Day; Thousands expected to rally
SACRAMENTO Immigrant rights groups the same ones who helped draw 20,000 participants to a May 1 Immigrant Rights Day March & Rally here have disclosed plans for a major rally and march in Sacramento, coordinated with similar immigrant rights marches nationwide, on Labor Day.
The Campaign Against Unjust Immigration Laws (CAUIL) said today they haveplanned a rally MONDAY starting at 10 a.m. at Southside Park in Sacramento. Caravans from as far away as Chico and the Central Valley are expected
A march to the Federal Building on Capitol Mall will begin at
approximately 11 a.m. They plan to drop thousands of flowers to commemorate immigrants killed while crossing the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
This Sacramento event is one of many Labor Day Immigrant Rights marches that will take place nation-wide in cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
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Immigrant rights backers head to D.C.
Del. activists to join thousands more as Congress returns to work
By MADHUSMITA BORA, Special to The News Journal
Sunday, September 3, 2006
They awakened America in spring, galvanizing millions in spontaneous street rallies, chanting, clapping and raising their voice for immigration reforms.
Now, after months of relative quiet, immigrants and immigrants’ rights advocates are back, and on Thursday, hundreds of Delawareans are expected to join a rally at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to greet a returning Congress.
Their demands: legalization of the country’s estimated 12 million illegal immigrants and a moratorium on deportation.
“We want the immigration issues to come back to the table,” said Pastor Rene Knight, of the Iglesia Metodista Unida Betel in Georgetown.
Before Congress adjourned for the summer, the debate reached a deadlock because of conflicting proposals from the House and the Senate. The Senate’s plan offers a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S at least five years, while the House version explores making it a felony to be inside the country illegally.
The rally, organized by the National Capital Immigration Coalition – an immigration reform advocacy group – expects more than a million marchers from all over the East Coast.
In Delaware, organizers such as Knight braved this weekend’s incessant rain to spread the word about the protest – distributing fliers at restaurants, homes and bodegas and appearing on radio shows.
“We have three buses available right now,” Knight said. “By Tuesday, we should have a better idea about how many people are going.”
At noon Thursday, Knight’s group will huddle in front of Grace United Methodist Church in Georgetown before heading to Washington, D.C., for the 4 p.m. event.
In Wilmington, Voices Without Borders Inc. is leading the organization efforts. The group could not be reached for comment Saturday.
Immigration experts don’t anticipate Congress will act on reform legislation during an election year, but activists say they aren’t ready to accept defeat.
“We have to push,” Knight said. “I feel it’s an important issue, especially in an election year.”
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New Rounds of Marches For Immigrant Rights Movements!
Labor Day Weekend 2006: Lists of Nationwide Immigrant Rights Marches
National Immigrant Solidarity Network
http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org
[Immigration News Briefs] On Sept. 2, about 5,000 immigrant-rights
supporters marched through downtown Los Angeles to City Hall as
part of a series of events planned through Labor Day weekend.
The march was organized by the March 25th Coalition [ http://www.March25Coalition.org ]
In Chicago, at least 400 supporters of immigrant rights kicked off a
four-day march from the city's Chinatown at noon on Sept. 1.
The marchers will end their 45-mile journey, dubbed the Immigrant
Workers Justice Walk, on Sept. 4 at the office of US House Speaker
Dennis Hastert in Batavia, a suburb west of the city. The march demands include legalization for undocumented immigrants and a moratorium on raids and deportations.
Dozen immigrant rights actions will be happen across the country for the next several days.
September 2006 Nationwide Labor Day Weekend Immigrant Actions
URL: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Campaigns/Sep06.html
Chicago, IL: September 1 - 4, Immigrant Workers Justice Walk from Chicago to Batavia, IL. Tel: (877)762-7242
URL: http://www.movimiento10demarzo.org
Sunday, September 3
Pittsburgh PA: 3:00 PM East Carson and 22nd Street, Southside. E-Mail: PFOIinfo@gmail.com
Monday, September 4
Los Angeles, CA - 2 (Wilmington): 8:00 AM (Assembly) 10:00 AM (March). Tel: (714)541-0250 URL: http://www.MAPA.org
Oakland, CA: 9:00 AM, E. 14th St./International Blvd. + 98th Ave Tel: (510)502-9072 URL: http://www.BAMN.com
Phoenix, AZ: 9:00 AM State Capital. Tel: (602) 279-8016 Ext. 21
San Francisco, CA: 10:00 AM at Embarcadero. Tel: (415)487-9203, (510)839-7598
San Jose, CA: 4:00 PM, Story Rd. / King Rd. (Parking Lot Mi Pueblo). Tel: (408) 203-1696
St. Paul, MN: 10:30 AM 139 Concord St. (corner of Cesar & State St.) Tel: (651)389-9174 URL: http://www.mnimmigrantrights.org
Newark, NJ: 11:00 AM at Lincoln Park. Tel: (973)643-1924
San Diego, CA: 10:30 AM, Labor Day Mass St. Joseph Cathedral, 1535 Third Avenue. Tel: (858) 490-8323 or (858) 560-0151 ext. 253
Fresno, CA: 4:00 PM, Fulton Mall de Fresno. URL: http://peaceandfreedom-sjv.org
Thursday, September 7
Trenton, NJ: 11:00 AM, in front of the State House Annex 125 East State St. Tel: 877-452-5333 or 609-516-4119
September 7 Washington, DC
Camp Democracy Immigrant Rights Day, 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM Washington Monument, between the Mall and Constitution Avenue, and between 14 and 15 Streets. URL: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/CampDemocracy/index.html
4:00 PM Immigrant Rally Begins at the Mall 3rd & Constitution. URL: http://ncic-metro.org
Friday, September 8
Chicopee, Mass.: 10:00 AM, Knights of Columbus, 1599 Memorial Drive. Tel: (413) 739-7233
Saturday, September 9
Los Angeles, CA -3: 4:00 PM Rally at LA Historic State Park (Cornfields), 1202 N. Spring St. Tel: (213) 385-7800 (ext. 127)
Yesterday We Marched
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September 7 Camp Democracy: Immigrants' Rights Day
Washington D.C.
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Location: Washington Monument, Between Mall and Constitution Avenue, Between 14 and 15 Streets, Washington D.C.
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Hired Hands: Breaching the border
Thousands start the perilous trek with offers in hand from U.S. employers.
By Susan Ferriss -- Bee Staff Writer
Email: sferriss@sacbee.com
Published 12:01 am PDT Sunday, September 3, 2006
SÁSABE, Mexico -- Somewhere north of this Mexican cattle outpost, U.S. National Guard troops man 24-hour observation posts and better-equipped U.S. Border Patrol agents roam the desert, searching for illegal immigrants.
Yet even as the Bush administration points to a drop in apprehensions at the border as proof that the new security measures are working, thousands of Mexicans and Central Americans still gather daily in border towns like this, willing to risk anything for a slot in the U.S. labor market.
"There's a lot of migra now, mucha migra, but I must keep trying," said Felipe Pérez, 30, using the name migrants collectively call the border forces.
Pérez wiped away rivulets of sweat as he shouldered his backpack for a second attempt in 48 hours to climb over the wire cattle fence dividing this section of Mexico's Sonora state from Arizona. Once over, he planned to walk toward Phoenix, through the kind of 100-plus-degree heat that killed 267 migrants in Arizona alone last year.
But Pérez's determination is no blind desperation -- like most others making the trek, he not only knows he'll find work in the United States, he knows exactly what he will be doing, for whom and where.
In a mix of Spanish and English, he ticked off his past jobs: picking tomatoes in Florida and building homes in the Rockies. Now, after a visit home to Mexico, he was eager to get back to a construction job awaiting him in Colorado Springs.
No amount of enforcement, it seems, can counterbalance the fundamental motivations for crossing the border illegally.
Hurricanes wreaked havoc in Mexico's far south and Central America last year, prompting migration from places where it had been rare. Small Mexican farmers increasingly find they can't compete with bigger domestic producers or U.S. imports. Most industrial and service jobs still pay a pittance south of the border, migrants complain, and factory jobs assembling clothes for U.S. chain stores pay poorly, too.
By contrast, there is no shortage of promises of jobs from family and friends in the United States. Sometimes U.S. employers even assure veteran undocumented workers that they will hold a job open for them while they visit an ailing parent or a pining spouse back home. GGGG
Heeding the call -- job waiting
Eliezar Reyes was pondering a second attempt at crossing through Sásabe precisely because of a call from Florida to his home in Veracruz state, Mexico.
"In January, the boss called me. I mean, he told someone who speaks Spanish to call me and tell me there was work waiting for me," said Reyes, 24.
Three years ago, Reyes started mowing golf courses in St. Augustine, Fla., then moved into construction, earning $100 a day. He took a break last November to visit his wife in Mexico.
His construction boss was able to reach him there, Reyes said, because he had earned enough in the United States to have a telephone installed back home.
For those lacking a close connection to a U.S. boss, the smugglers known as coyotes make the link to employment.
In Tijuana, at a government-run shelter for underage deportees, 16-year-old Juan José Pérez told his story. From field work starting at age 12 in Mexico's Jalisco state, he had gone on to work construction in San Diego.
"I was given the name of a gringo coyote, a Mr. Wilson," he said. The man came to Pérez's Tijuana hotel to tell him whom to meet for his trek over mountains east of Tijuana. The smuggler also helped Pérez get a job renovating houses.
"Wherever you go there's corruption," Pérez said, eating cereal on his bunk bed at the shelter. "The gringos at work said, 'If the migra comes, you just run.' "
He'd be in the United States still, Pérez added, had he not been caught driving a car without a license. GGGG
Hooked on migrant labor
Even before President Bush ordered National Guard troops to the border in May, the United States had invested billions over the past decade attempting to block illegal immigrants from crossing in urban areas, such as Tijuana and El Paso.
That pushed migrants into Arizona's desert and other isolated terrain, resulting in a 500 percent increase in deaths between 1994 and 2004, according to the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. More than 3,000 fatalities have been recorded since the mid-1990s, and hundreds of bodies and bones remain unidentified, according to the CRLA Foundation and Mexico's Foreign Ministry.
Human rights activists have long objected to a border policy they consider not only cruel but contradictory, given that U.S. employers still hire undocumented immigrants.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and major labor unions also have become migrant allies. They're urging the House of Representatives to look beyond border enforcement and support a Senate bill to increase immigrant and temporary work visas. Currently, low-skilled immigrant work visas are capped at 5,000 a year.
At the border, however, the political dispute often is expressed in simpler, personal terms.
"It looks like they don't like us but they want us for the work," said Oscar Galindo, 18, who had been deported earlier that day to Nogales, Mexico, a city separated from Nogales, Ariz., by a 10-foot metal fence.
Galindo had hoped to trade a waiter job paying $5 a day, plus tips, in Tlaxcala, Mexico, for work in Queens, N.Y., restaurants with his uncle.
Traveling with Galindo was Federico Ramírez, 24, who hoped to reach a place he called "Co-neck-tee-coot."
"New Haven," he added, where his parents have been living since he was 16.
"My mother went, my father went, my sister went and now I'm going," Ramírez said, trying to sound determined.
The two watched an American activist clean the injured feet of Armando Chávez, 26, whose family in New York had agreed to pay $2,000 in smuggling fees, on delivery.
Chávez grimaced as the volunteer from the Tucson-based No More Deaths poured a saltwater solution onto his split toes. He accepted a pair of new socks before limping toward a man whispering advice about how to get over the line.
No More Deaths has drawn both criticism and praise for providing water and food to migrants in the desert. Another group, Humane Borders, has erected water stations marked by blue flags.
"This is an issue that seems to cut to the hypocrisy of the United States today," said No More Deaths volunteer Charles Vernon, 30, a Colorado school bus driver, sitting in the shade of a tarp, handing out water.
"These are jobs we need people to do," Vernon said. "But we're going to make it as hard as possible for people to get into the United States to do them."
Many workers, many stories
Virginia National Guard volunteer Sgt. Clyde Hester sat on a hill just across the border from Vernon, scanning the horizon through binoculars.
"I can see the point of view of these people; however, I've got a job to do," said the Iraq veteran from Lee County, Va.
Hester wore a flak jacket and had an automatic weapon at his side, but his orders were to observe and report suspicious movement to the Border Patrol.
"We've got lots of unemployed people where I'm from," Hester said. "Of course, you have to find someone willing to work. We got people on welfare for generations."
About 40 percent of the 6,000 National Guard troops on border duty were sent to Arizona because of its popularity as a crossing point. Packed vans unload scores of people daily in Sásabe alone, dropping them near a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Led by a smuggler, a group of young men approached the Virgin, crossing themselves, then marched toward the fence with the purposefulness of Army recruits on a training mission. Dressed in black and camouflage, they carried heavy backpacks and gallons of water.
"Fresno," one said, when asked where they were headed. "Virginia," murmured another. "Washington," several said.
Nearby, a couple from Cancún piled out of a van with a crying 3-year-old. The boy's mother, Sandra Luz Ordóñez, 23, looked terrified, and with good reason: Another 3-year-old had perished in the desert earlier in the summer.
Ordóñez's husband, Amilcar Rodríguez, said he was tired of receiving what he considered poor wages -- less than $100 a week -- as an electrician in the high-cost Cancún resort. Sandra cleaned motels for $6 a day plus tips.
Their destination: North Carolina.
Joselino Velásquez, 36, who had accompanied them in the van, was trying to get to Tennessee, where relatives work in factories making chairs, batteries and car parts. Last year's hurricanes, he said, left him with nowhere to work in Chiapas state, on the Guatemalan border.
"The plantations just slid away, destroying all the coffee and bananas," Velásquez said.
This day, it's too hot to cross
Two hours to the south, in another smuggling hub called Altar, a group sat in a main plaza awaiting smugglers' instructions.
Among them was Carlos Zozoya, 25, a Guatemalan who had learned English doing landscaping in Florida, Georgia and Michigan for more than five years. He had left the United States to visit his mother and now wanted to head back.
When he was just 3, Zozoya's family fled civil war in Guatemala and he grew up in a U.N. refugee camp in Mexico. Though the family eventually gained Mexican residency, that didn't assure economic stability. Many moved farther north, to the United States.
Referring to the summer heat as well as the National Guard, Zozoya said, "It is too hot now. We will try again to get across in October or November."
Some others who had recently been deported said they, too, were considering giving up -- at least for now. As Julio Adrian, 24, a Mexico City electrician and his sister, Norma, a secretary, took refuge from the heat under the No More Deaths tent in Nogales, they debated the risks of repeated attempts.
"It's Americans who kicked us out, and Americans who received us and helped us here," Julio said. "Now we have to decide whether to return to our ordinary lives, or keep going to cross over to the American dream."
Deportee Elvira Sotelo, 45, said she had lived in California and Salt Lake City for a total of 22 years before returning to Guerrero, Mexico, a few months ago to see an ailing sister.
In Utah, she said, she never went without work, at McDonald's, Wendy's and "Carlos, Jr's." As she sat in the dark outside a Nogales migrant shelter, she stared at a claim ticket Border Patrol agents had given her when they took her backpack. She never got her belongings back, she said, including some Mexican pesos, gold earrings and a jacket.
Although she planned to try to cross again the next day, Sotelo was nearly penniless and was contemplating work at a clothing-assembly factory in Nogales.
City officials there are encouraging the migrants to consider factory jobs in town, so they'll have some income and be less likely to steal.
"I think I'll try it," Sotelo said, trying to sound interested in the $80-a-week-pay. "They say it's a factory for Wal-Mart."
SEEKING LABOR
A look at U.S. immigration policy through the ages:
1790: United States requires two years of residency to become a citizen.
1808: Congress bans importation of slaves.
1816: Effort to repatriate free slaves to Liberia in Africa begins.
1845: Influx of Irish immigrants after the Potato Famine.
1849: California's Gold Rush prompts influx from all over, including China.
1854: Know-Nothing candidates sweep Congress, urge limits on Roman Catholic immigrants and a 21-year wait before immigrants can vote.
1860: U.S. labor needs, turmoil in Poland lead to admission of Poles, who will number about 2 million by 1914.
1868: Japanese laborers contracted to work in Hawaiian sugar cane industry.
1877: After Chinese help build the U.S. railroads, Congress issues a report citing criminal influence and moral impact of the Chinese.
1880: U.S. labor needs and crop failures in Italy usher in admission of 4 million Italians.
1882: Chinese Exclusion Act signed; businesses in the West increase recruitment of Mexicans.
1892: Labor demands contribute to opening of Ellis Island, the admission point for 12 million Europeans in the early 20th century.
1910: Mexican Revolution prompts thousands to flee north, with a million seeking security and work over the next 20 years.
1919: Thousands of immigrant labor activists are deported after raids led by U.S. attorney J. Edgar Hoover and the U.S. Bureau of Immigration, then part of the U.S. Department of Labor.
1922: Supreme Court rules Japanese immigrants are not eligible for citizenship.
1924: National Origins Act imposes immigrant quotas based on heritage, severely limiting Eastern and Southern Europeans, shutting out Japanese.
1929: Great Depression begins. Massive forced deportation of Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans follows.
1942: Mexican bracero guest workers imported for farm and railroad work at onset of World War II.
1943: Chinese Exclusion Act repealed.
1952: Immigration and Nationality Act allows all races to naturalize. It sets no restriction on immigrants from the Western Hemisphere, but it imposes quotas on others and gives preference to skilled workers.
1954: Ellis Island closes.
1965: Immigration Act ends national origin quotas, establishes yearly per-country quota of 20,000, mostly based on family ties. Bracero program ends after more than 4.5 million temporary permits are issued.
1986: Immigration Reform and Control Act requires employers to view, but not authenticate, identification proving legal eligibility for work. Grants amnesty to 3 million based on long-term work or residency history.
1992: Addition of barriers and beefed-up Border Patrol begin in San Diego and El Paso, Texas. Crossings shift to Arizona, where migrant deaths escalate.
1996: Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act eliminates most judicial paths for the undocumented to legalize via family or employer sponsors. Creates small pilot program to check employee IDs by computer.
1997: Central American Relief Act allows certain undocumented Central Americans, Cubans and former Soviet Bloc natives to legalize. Half of the planned 10,000 annual low-skilled immigrant work visas are reserved for these applicants.
2000: One-party rule ends in Mexico; President Vicente Fox and President Bush discuss more work visas for Mexicans.
2001: Sept. 11 terrorist attacks lead to Patriot Act, which tightens scrutiny for visas.
December 2005: House passes bill to make illegal immigration a felony and to increase border security and document checks.
May 2006: Senate passes bill to increase border security and ID checks, along with the number of work-related visas. Congress deadlocks. President Bush requests 6,000 National Guard volunteers to support the Border Patrol.
Sources: University of California Davis School of Law; Migration Policy Institute; Library of Congress; University of North Carolina; U.S. Justice Department; U.S. Border Patrol; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Ellis Island Museum; American Immigration Lawyers Association.
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Erica Heartquist Reports
'No More Deaths' worker says she'd do it again
Sep 3, 2006 05:41 AM PDT
Now to the controversial story surrounding a pair of volunteers with the group, "No More Deaths."
Last summer, Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss were accused of transporting three illegal immigrants into the United States. Sellz and Strauss claimed that they were helping the migrants get medical care, but Border Patrol officials believe they were helping the immigrants enter the country illegally.
Now, all charges against the two have been dismissed.
A district judge says Sellz and Strauss were following the same guidelines that border volunteers had been using for years without getting arrested.
On Saturday, Sellz broke her silence and talked only to News 4's Erica Heartquist.
News 4 caught up with Shanti Sellz just hours after she heard the news that all charges against her were dropped. She told News 4 that although this past year has been a trying experience, she'd do it all over again if it meant saving a life.
"You know, it's still sinking in," said Sellz with a sigh.
Still sinking in that Sellz and friend Daniel Strauss are no longer facing up to 15 years in prison in the high profile case that up until Friday was going to trial.
Sellz says it's been a rough year, "It's humiliating and it makes you, it puts you in a place to feel bad and no matter how Daniel and I both have very strong convictions and we know that we have never committed a crime and that our actions will never be illegal and can never be illegal."
Attorneys for Sellz and Strauss had asked twice that the charges be dismissed.
"I can summarize the decision very briefly. It is simply that the government having permitting this, and I'm paraphrasing now, having lead them to believe that what they were doing was not illegal and would not violate the law- can not then all of a sudden change its position and prosecute them for doing that which the government said they could do," said Sellz's attorney, Stanley Feldman.
The pair was volunteering with "No More Deaths," providing food, water, and medical aid to illegal entrants walking in the desert.
Sellz says her actions that day were solely humanitarian, "By the point that we found them- they were so physically ill and so dehydrated that the only thing that could be done was to take them to a hospital."
Sellz says while the judge's decision to dismiss the charges at the Federal Courthouse, Friday is certainly a start, she says it doesn't set the precedence she was hoping for.
We tried unsuccessfully to reach the prosecutor in this case.
Jesus Rodriguez with the U.S. Border Patrol had this to say, "Transport people illegally in the country. If we catch them- we're going to still continue doing what our job is and that is- if we have to, we'll arrest them and send them to hopefully get prosecuted."
According to court documents, prosecutors asked the judge not to dismiss the charges against the pair saying that "No More Deaths" representatives had been told prior to their arrest that enforcement action would be taken if a volunteer were to transport illegals.
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http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/092006/09032006/216145
TAKING SIDES ON THE BORDER Humane Borders:
It's about saving lives
Border issue: Humanitarian groups say their work in the Arizona desert saves countless lives and taxpayer dollars
Date published: 9/3/2006
By MELISSA NIX
LTAR VALLEY, Ariz.--Sean Hammond spends a lot of time in the Arizona desert. Nearly every weekend, he drives into the wilderness to refill water tanks that provide relief to illegal border-crossers.
He's one man in the middle of an immigration debate that's come to the forefront of national politics. And he's passionate about his work. Hammond volunteers for Humane Borders, a faith-based group that maintains 83 water stations along the major Arizona-Mexico border-crossing routes. The group has 8,000 volunteers.
Humane Borders' mission--and that of others such as Good Samaritans and No More Deaths--is to save lives, he said.
On a Saturday morning in August, Hammond, 35, climbed into one of the group's mammoth water-tank trucks, parked at the First Christian Church in Tucson. The church serves as the group's headquarters.
He was doing the Coleman Road run this time--a six-hour drive along bumpy dirt roads.
"People have shown so much anger toward Latinos and migrants," said Hammond, who has a history of civil rights work. "What really pushed me over the edge were the Minutemen. They're the KKK members for the 21st century--to hate someone because they want to find a better life I just had to get out and do something about it."
He joined Humane Borders last year. Since its founding in 2001, the group has dispensed more than 70,000 gallons of water in southern Arizona. Water is in high demand among border-crossers. Heatstroke is a big killer.
Between October 1999 and September 2005, 929 migrants died attempting to cross the deserts of southern Arizona, according to Humane Borders records. United States Border Patrol statistics are similar.
In 2005, the nonprofit's budget was $155,771, and included money from Pima County.
"The morgue is expensive," Hammond said, explaining the county support. Hydrated migrants, when caught, can simply be pushed back into Mexico. Dead migrants can cost local counties tens of thousands of dollars to house, identify and transport home.
Each Humane Borders water station has at least one 55-gallon tank and is marked by a blue flag on a 30-foot pole.
Hammond stopped at the first tank on his route and checked it for vandalism.
"People shoot these things up all the time," he said. "I guess people don't have anything better to do with their time other than to deny people water It just sickens me."
He was happy with the state of the tank before him. It was full. People had not taken the flagpole down. It hadn't been shot at.
Back in the truck, Hammond pulled out a Humane Borders map that charted desert deaths. Red dots meant death.
"We have the most deaths here," he said, pointing to Tohono O'odham land, where the people won't let Humane Borders place water tanks. It was covered in red. "Basically, there's a band of death. If you can make it across [that land], you'll probably make the rest of your journey."
Hammond noted the impact of the recent influx of the National Guard. Since mid-July, hundreds of National Guardsmen--including many from Virginia--have come to watch the Arizona-Mexico border. More than 6,000 National Guardsmen have volunteered for Operation Jump Start, a mission to support the U.S. Border Patrol in California, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico.
"There's less people dying in this part of the desert," he said, "but now they're moving out to Yuma."
And Yuma is even more treacherous to cross. It's real desert, with hotter temperatures. In 2001, 14 crossers, abandoned by their guides, perished in the heat.
The next stop, the Poplar Grove station, had two tanks.
"Oh, wow. This one's almost empty," said Hammond, looking inside one tank. "There's been a lot of use."
He uncoiled the hose from the water truck and placed it in the tank's mouth. As it pumped, Hammond looked at tracks that trailed off from the tank.
"Someone was here this morning, as these footprints are still fresh," he said. Daily downpours would have washed out any tracks from the day before.
Not far from the tanks, lay a "wash," a lightly dampened embankment formed by the very heavy rains.
He said a lot of migrants use washes as routes. They always go north to south and they're often used as pickup spots.
Backpacks, sandy jeans, cans of Red Bull and bottles of Electrolite--the Mexican version of Gatorade--were strewn in nearby bushes. Plastic water jugs were everywhere.
Humane Borders not only fills up the tanks that attract the crossers, but also cleans up the trash they leave behind, he said.
"We find diapers a lot, which means folks are traveling with infants," he said. Strollers, too. "Pregnant women die out here a lot."
The most unusual item he has found left behind?
"The Diary of Anne Frank."
That really struck him. "You think about that, what someone must be thinking: 'I'm going to take water, food, my backpack, my clothes and Anne Frank's diary.'"
He has not met one migrant on any of his water runs. The crossers and the volunteers are intimately connected, and yet rarely come into contact with one another.
"Yeah, we don't see the people we help," he said, but, "right now, there could be migrants out here. They've heard the truck, so they're hiding, watching us.
"At some point, you'll see their faces, you just won't know you helped them in the desert, because they will be living with us and raising families."
The group's efforts have garnered national press attention from the likes of The Washington Post, London Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, "News Hour with Jim Lehrer" and Fox News.
But Hammond said he'd like the politicians advocating tougher immigration laws to come out on his water runs.
"They have their ties off and their Dockers on, and they go up in helicopters to see how long the border is," he said. "I want them to come out and see the footprints everyday. These are the people who were going to make what I do a felony with a recent House bill. These are the people that hold a Bible in their hands. Which side of Jesus were they raised on? Wasn't Jesus a crusader for the poor? I challenge them to pass Christian-like legislation."
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Sean Hammond peeks into a nearly empty water barrel, which was inaccessible for several weeks due to floods brought on by monsoons.
Blue flags mark water stations in the desert. Humane Borders volunteers keep the stations filled to help prevent the deaths of border crossers.
Sean Hammond, a volunteer with Humane Borders, refills water tanks on a weekend in August near Three Points, in the Altar Valley area, west of Tucson, Ariz. The area is a heavily traveled region for illegal immigrants. Humane Borders records show that nearly 1,000 people died trying to cross the border between October 1999 and September 2005.
To reach MELISSA NIX: 540/374-5418
Email: mnix@freelancestar.com
Editor's Note: Free Lance-Star reporter Melissa Nix and photographer Mike Morones spent more than a week along the Arizona- Mexico border with Virginia National Guardsmen who had volunteered for border duty as part of Operation Jump Start.
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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060903/OPINION02/609030307/1009/OPINION
September 3, 2006
Exploitation of Miss. immigrants must stop
Thank you for your timely series on immigration in Mississippi ("Becoming a piece of the American Puzzle," Aug. 20-23). Immigrants are changing the face of our state, and as noted in your series, are contributing to the ethnic diversity of Mississippi as well as fueling the state's economic engine through the vital labor they provide to important Mississippi industries, especially reconstruction along the Gulf Coast.
The exploitation of immigrant workers in the "recovery zone" you reported on cannot be allowed to continue. To date, the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance has helped 453 immigrant workers recoup over $730,000 in back wages from 36 employers or sub-contractors doing rebuilding and reconstruction work on the Mississippi Coast.
The state and federal government must make greater strides in seeing that workers are justly compensated for their hard work or the reconstruction of the Coast could be in jeopardy.
Construction firms are not the only ones trying to exploit immigrants. Unfortunately, some Mississippi politicians are hoping to make political hay out of immigration.
Your series referenced the state auditor's report which concluded that undocumented immigrants are costing us $25 million a year. However, a careful reading of that report will show the claim has no basis in sound data or rigorous, unbiased analysis.
The effects of international trade agreements, particularly NAFTA, have been devastating to Third World economies.
Sue Weishar
Administrator
Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance
Jackson
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http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_245144319.html
Sep 2, 2006 1:46 pm US/Pacific
Immigrant-Rights Supporters March Through Downtown
(CBS) LOS ANGELES About 5,000 immigrant-rights supporters marched through downtown Los Angeles, commencing a series of events through Labor Day weekend.
The March 25th Coalition, which arranged a massive protest earlier this year through downtown streets, hosted today's march, which began at noon at Broadway and Olympic and ended at City Hall.
The event was dubbed "La Gran Marcha Laboral," For the Immigrant Worker/ For General Amnesty.
Organizers said the march rallied support for Elvira Arellano, a Chicago woman staying at her local church to avoid deportation. She is in the country illegally, though her 7-year-old son is an American citizen.
"We are doing this for the immigrant women that are suffering, being separated from their family," said Gloria Saucedo, director of Hermandad Mexicana in Van Nuys.
Hermandad and the March 25th Coalition, which organized a protest against a proposed bill that would criminalize illegal immigrants last spring, were calling for amnesty and a moratorium on deportations.
Rosa Ayala, 62, of Los Angeles, marched with a blown-up picture of her "green card," her real head poking through the middle of the card where her photo should be.
"I'm marching for my brothers, my immigrant brethren who also want a green card," she said. "I'm supporting this demonstration to protest against the racism that exists in this country, when this country is made up of immigrants. And so we can can get our social security cards and we can pay our taxes legally."
Louis Alvarez, 30, of Los Angeles, marched with his 9-year-old daughter, who was waving American flag. He said he arrived illegal from Mexico when he was 16 and has been working construction ever since.
"Even still, I don't have opportunity to get a driver's license," he said.
No visible signs of anti-illegal immigration protesters were present.
Meanwhile state and local officials were expected to gather at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for a Labor Day breakfast before a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Mahony is expected to make immigration a major part of his address during the mass. He made national headlines after he advised priests of federal rules prohibiting them from aiding illegal immigrants.
Mahony criticized Congress for failing to act on immigration reform, during a speech Friday to a business networking group meeting in Studio City.
"I don't see much on the horizon that is going to result in meaningful legislation by the end of September," he told the Friday Morning Group.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-immig2sep02,1,858058.story?coll=la-news-politics-national
4-Day Illinois March for Immigrant Rights Begins
The pilgrimage is one of many across the nation geared toward pressuring Congress to move forward with an immigration overhaul.
By Sara Olkon, Chicago Tribune
September 2, 2006
CHICAGO — About 400 supporters of broader immigrant rights streamed out of Chinatown Square at noon Friday to kick off a four-day journey that will end at the district office of House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert in Batavia.
The activists carried a message on T-shirts and placards: Immigrants' interests matter.
This is going to be a symbolic pilgrimage calling attention to hard-working, taxpaying people who deserve the opportunity to achieve the American dream," said David Martino, political director of the local Service Employees International Union.
Organizers said they hoped to persuade Hastert, a Republican, to offer a path to citizenship for the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants and to put a moratorium on raids and deportations by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The Illinois march is part of a series of demonstrations nationwide to pressure Congress to move on stalled immigration overhaul. The demonstrations culminate with a Sept. 7 march in Washington that organizers hope will attract 1 million.
The Senate has passed an immigration package that combines tighter border security with a guest worker program and a plan offering many illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, whereas the House has approved an enforcement-only measure.
Catherine Salgado of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights said she expected a few hundred supporters to walk the distance to Hastert's office. She predicted that thousands more would show up at rallies along the route.
Hastert hasn't agreed to meet with the marchers when they arrive at his office Monday. However, members of the Chicago Minuteman Project, a group that opposes illegal immigration, plan to stage a counter-protest there.
Salvador Pedroza, president of the Little Village Chamber of Commerce — which represents businesses in an area on Chicago's West Side that the chamber says is home to the largest Mexican community in the Midwest — said critics such as the Minutemen were misinformed.
"Immigrants give more to this country than they receive," he said Friday.
Dung Van Nguyen, senior program manager for the Vietnamese Assn. of Illinois, said he came to the march kickoff to support the country's newest immigrants. "Now, we have jobs and a stable living," he said. "Now, we must worry about them."
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/15425385.htm
Sep. 02, 2006
Immigration rights backers marching on
By Jessie Mangaliman = Mercury News
Immigrants and their advocates in the Bay Area and across the country will hit the streets once more on Labor Day in their latest effort to push for legislation that would give millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.
Local organizers -- a coalition from labor, immigrant advocacy and church groups -- say they hope to match the turnout at rallies in May, when 125,000 marched for immigrant rights in San Jose. Massive rallies in other U.S. cities at the time prompted organizers to call it ``the new civil rights movement.''
But without the official backing of major labor unions and other national groups, Monday's march is likely to be a smaller affair, organized primarily by local immigrant groups seeking to send a last-ditch message to Congress before it adjourns in the fall. It's not clear if Congress will take up two immigration reform bills next week.
San Jose police said they expect 20,000 to 25,000 people to participate, about the same as the first immigrants' march in April. Police in San Francisco estimate 3,000 to 5,000 will march there.
``We are encouraging union members to attend, but we're not an official sponsor,'' said Salvador Bustamante, regional vice president for Local 1877 of the Service Employees International Union in San Jose, which helped draw thousands of workers in the two marches.
Bustamante said he plans to march in San Jose on Monday, with individual SEIU members. At a Friday news conference, day-workers from Mountain View, San Mateo and Redwood City announced they will participate.
An ``Anti-Illegal Immigration Rally'' counterprotest will be held Monday morning on Cypress Avenue, near San Tomas Expressway in San Jose, organized by www.illegalimmigrantprotest.com, which held similar protests in May.
Marches are also planned in Los Angeles, Chicago and Phoenix. Thursday, another march is scheduled in Washington, D.C.
``We are energized and we'd like to keep going because it's really important to work together,'' said Maria Marroquin, director of the Worker Center at Calvary Church in Mountain View, one of the San Jose march's organizers.
For the past week, Jose Sandoval, organizer of the San Jose rally, has been handing out fliers in Spanish and English to shoppers at Mi Pueblo Plaza on King Road. He's also been collecting supporter signatures on a large banner that marchers will carry to San Jose City Hall. Local Spanish radio stations have also promoted the event, he said.
Opponents of congressional legislation that would give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship doubt the effectiveness of the marches.
``We're not anti-immigrant,'' said Roberta Allen, organizer of the counterprotest planned on Labor Day. ``We're anti-illegal immigrant. We've got laws in place. They need to abide by those rules and laws.''
``Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote,'' is a theme that immigrant marchers are invoking, in a clear political signal to legislators considering immigration reform bills. HR 4437, an enforcement-focused bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives in April, would make it a federal felony to live in the United States illegally. SB 2611, a bill approved by the U.S. Senate in May, would beef up border security while giving legal status to illegal immigrants already here. Eventually it would provide a path to citizenship.
With the elections coming in November, opponents and supporters of both bills said it is unlikely that Congress will negotiate a combination of the two bills this session.
Still, immigrants and their advocates said a Labor Day march could send a powerful message.
``We are continuing our mobilization,'' said Terrence Valen, organizational director for the Filipino Community Center in San Francisco. ``We're reminding Congress that there's an immigrant rights movement asking for just and humane immigration laws.''
During the march in San Jose, workers from immigrant groups will register eligible voters as part of a campaign to mobilize the immigrant vote, said Martha Campos, program director for Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network. The San Jose group recently launched a campaign to increase political participation among immigrants.
El Comite de Padres Unidos, an East Bay group, and Voluntarios de la Comunidad in San Jose also will register voters.
``It's important to be present at the march, but it's not just about marching,'' Campos said. ``Mobilizing the vote is an effective way to get the immigrant voice heard.''
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Marchers will gather at 4 p.m. at the parking lot of Mi Pueblo grocery story, at King and Story roads. They will head down Santa Clara Street to City Hall at Santa Clara and Fourth streets. The anti-illegal immigration rally will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Cypress Avenue overpass, off Stevens Creek Boulevard near San Tomas Expressway.
Contact Jessie Mangaliman at jmangaliman@mercurynews.com
or (408) 920-579
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http://nomoredeaths.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=31
Charges Dismissed Against Tucson Humanitarians
September 1st, 2006
Tucson, AZ: In a late afternoon ruling on Friday, September 1st U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins dismissed all charges against Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss, two volunteers with the Tucson-based humanitarian group No More Deaths. Sellz and Strauss were arrested July 9th, 2005 while medically evacuating three sick migrants from the Arizona desert. The men were found several miles north of the U.S. / Mexico boundary, severely dehydrated and unable to hold down water.
Volunteer doctors instructed Sellz and Strauss to bring the men to a Tucson clinic after it was determined that the level of care they needed was more advanced than what could be administered in the field. At the time of their arrest, the two humanitarian volunteers were following a protocol that had been previously agreed to by the U.S. Border Patrol. In his ruling Judge Collins states that Sellz and Strauss had made reasonable efforts to ensure that their actions were not in violation of the law, and that “further prosecution would violate the Defendant’s [sic] due process rights.” The case against Sellz and Strauss drew national attention, dramatically framing the human cost of U.S. border policy and the complexities of an increasingly politicized region.
Thousands of people, including national religious leaders and human rights groups such as Amnesty International, spoke out in support of Shanti and Daniel, under the banner “Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime”.
Many supporters interpret Judge Collins’ decision as a victory for human rights. “This is a wonderful result for humanitarian work in general, and should be seen as a victory for everyone. The judge made it clear that the real winners are the migrants, who both the Border Patrol and No More Deaths are working to rescue.” said attorney Bill Walker, who represents Sellz. Despite the prosecution of Sellz and Strauss, hundreds of volunteers once again traveled to southern Arizona this summer to volunteer with No More Deaths. In addition to patrolling the Arizona desert in search for people in medical distress, No More Deaths has launched dual projects in Agua Prieta and Nogales, Sonora to meet migrants and continue providing humanitarian assistance after they are returned to Mexico by the U.S. Border Patrol. While politicians debate immigration reform, hundreds of migrants continue to die along the U.S. / Mexico border. Already this year, more than 171 migrants have perished in Arizona.
No More Deaths joins the millions of concerned Americans who demand a comprehensive reform of U.S. border and immigration policies – one that respects the rights and dignity of all who would cross the international boundary, and provides just and accessible avenues for work and family reunification.
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Total Amnesty Is Humane Sanity! Build Bridges, Not Walls!
Venceremos Unidos! United We Will Win!
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