Early on April 16, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents carried out coordinated raids on poultry processing plants owned by the Pilgrim’s Pride company in Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas and West Virginia. A total of 311 workers were arrested,… Read moreICE arrests hundreds in poultry plant raids
First Nations activists could target the 2010 Vancouver Olympics for protests similar to the pro-Tibetan demonstrations surrounding the upcoming Games in Beijing, warned Phil Fontaine, chief of Canada’s Assembly of First Nations. Speaking in Ottawa, Fontaine said Native leaders could… Read moreCanada: First Nations protests could target 2010 Olympics
As Ramona Africa reports, this week, the MOVE 9 women were interviewed by the parole board in Philadelphia, while the men are still awaiting their interviews. Following a press conference at the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building, an online petition was… Read moreParole hearings begin for Philadelphia’s MOVE 9
Eight teenage male immigrant detainees filed a federal lawsuit on April 3, claiming they were beaten and subjected to other excessive force at a privately-run 122-bed detention facility in San Antonio, Tex. The plaintiffs from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and… Read moreKids sue Texas immigration detention center over abuse
On April 3, Seton Hall Law School’s Center for Social Justice and Lowenstein Sandler, PC, filed suit in Federal District Court in New Jersey, alleging that federal law enforcement officials violated the rights of people whose homes they entered during… Read moreNJ lawsuit challenges ICE home raids
In a two-day operation ending March 30, ICE Fugitive Operations Team agents arrested 28 immigrants in Liberal, Kansas. Those arrested were 23 men and five women. Twenty of them were from Guatemala, six were from Mexico, and two were from… Read moreICE “fugitive” raids in Midwestern states
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 companiesāSamsung, Frontier and Imperial CSSāin 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
In a decision dated March 11, US District Judge Dean Pregerson in Los Angeles ruled that the family of Salvadoran immigrant Francisco CastaƱeda can continue to pursue a lawsuit against individual government officials for violating CastaƱeda’s constitutional rights and can… Read moreJudge blasts ICE over detainee death
In a March 2 petition addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Attorney General Michael Mukasey, 93 immigration detainees at Middlesex County jail in New Jersey complained about inadequate medical treatment for two fellow detainees, including a man named… Read moreNew Jersey immigration detainees protest medical neglect
