A trial started in federal court in Tucson against vigilante rancher Roger Barnett and Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever for conspiracy to violate the rights of undocumented immigrants.
Isamu (Art) Shibayama, a rights advocate for Latin Americans of Japanese descent who were detained in prison camps in the United States during World War II, died July 31 at his home in San Jose, Calif. Born in Lima, Peru, in 1930, Shibayama was 13 when his family was detained and forcibly shipped to the United States. They were among some 2,000 Japanese-Peruvians who were rounded up and turned over to the US military for detention after the Pearl Harbor attack. Upon their arrival in New Orleans, the family was transported to the "internment camp" for Japanese-Americans at Crystal City, Texas. The family would remain in detention until 1946. Shibayama eventually won US citizenship, but was denied restitution for his wartime detention on the basis that he had not at the time been a US citizen or legal resident. He was still seeking justice from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at the time of his death. (Photo via the New York Times)
Eco-activist and mom Marie Mason got 21 years for an arson attack on a biotech lab—in which nobody was injured. Four men who carried out violent racist attacks the night of Obama's election got ten to 12.
Immigrants’ advocates are demanding a federal investigation of civil rights abuses by Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and say his practices indicate the White House needs to reconsider Bush-era immigration policies.
For a second time in as many months, immigration detainees staged an uprising at the privately-operated Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, TX, over complaints of poor medical treatment.
In the inevitable Lincoln-Obama analogy, it is largely forgotten that Lincoln was only pushed to emancipation by the Civil War. Will Obama similarly be radicalized in office by historical circumstance?
Elvira Arellano, a deported Mexican woman who took sanctuary in a Chicago church to highlight immigrants’ rights, is asking President Barack Obama to call a halt to immigration raids.
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Immigrant communities in South Florida held protests following abusive pre-Christmas raids on “fugitives” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Meanwhile, ICE carried out more raids in Texas.
Corrections Corporation of America officials placed Arizona’s Eloy Detention Center on lockdown following an uprising by immigration detainees over the New Year holiday.
Oakland, Calif., exploded into violent protests Jan. 7 over the police slaying of 22-year-old African American father of one Oscar Grant. Following a memorial service for Grant at Palma Ceia Baptist Church, it was announced that officer Johannes Mehserle had… Read moreRiots rock Oakland after police slay youth
In a victory for constitutional rights, two Transportation Security Authority (TSA) officials and JetBlue Airways have paid Raed Jarrar $240,000 to settle charges that they illegally discriminated against the US resident based on his ethnicity and the Arabic writing on… Read moreHomeland Secuity to pay in airport discrimination case
