In a two-week operation that ended April 4, ICE agents from the Miami Fugitive Operations Team arrested 332 people for violating immigration laws. Michael Rozos, ICE Florida Field Office Director for the Office of Detention and Removal, announced the results… Read moreICE arrests 332 in South Florida
From the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC), April 9: On the Fifth Anniversary of the Occupation The 9th of April marks the fifth anniversary of the occupation. It is the anniversary of the genocide in which more than 1 million lives… Read moreIraq Freedom Congress statement on fifth anniversary of occupation
Workers from the public and private sectors throughout Burkina Faso launched a two-day strike April 8 to protest high food costs and demand salary increases. Ouagadougou, the capital, was almost completely shut down. In Bobo-Dioulasso, the second largest city in… Read moreGeneral strike in Burkina Faso
There have been two explosions near the local headquarters the Canadian Nexen oil company in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a. The grenade blasts took place on April 6 and 9, and caused no casualties. Nexen began oil exploration in Sana’a… Read moreYemen: bombs target oil interests
Comorian rebel leader Mohamed Bacar was taken into custody on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion April 4 at the request of Comoros, which is demanding his extradition. French officials are also considering Bacar’s request for asylum. Bacar fled… Read moreFrance jails Comoros rebel leader following AU intervention
Some 5,000 protesters shut down the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes on April 3 in a dramatic demonstration against President Rene Preval’s government for failing to slow the rising cost of food and other staple products; they also protested… Read moreHaiti: protesters demand food
On April 2 some 400 people demonstrated in Ouanaminthe, a city in eastern Haiti that shares the border with the Dominican city of Dajabon, to press demands for justice from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the… Read moreHaiti: protesters blame UN for death
On the evening of April 3 Mexican federal police agents arrested two activists in the northern state of Chihuahua for their roles in militant protests blocking federal highways: Cipriana Jurado Herrera, a leader in the movement demanding justice for the… Read moreMexico: border activists arrested
In an April 1 statement, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the federal government plans to speed up completion of 470 miles of border fence in the southwestern US by the end of 2008 by using two waivers to bypass… Read moreLaws to be waived for border fence
On April 2, several dozen demonstrators gathered in front of Penn Station in Manhattan to protest the collaboration of the Amtrak train company with border and immigration agents who arrest passengers traveling between US cities. With chants of “transportation, not… Read moreActivists protest immigration arrests on Amtrak, Greyhound
On April 1, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 44 workers at the warehouses of three distribution companies—Samsung, Frontier and Imperial CSS—in an industrial park in Torrance, Calif., just south of Los Angeles. ICE spokesperson Virginia Kice said all… Read moreICE raids warehouses in LA area
On March 3, jailed Palestinian professor Sami Al-Arian was informed that he would be called to testify before a grand jury in Virginia which is investigating allegations that Muslim charities aided terrorism organizations. Al-Arian responded by starting a hunger strike… Read moreAl-Arian still jailed, on hunger strike
