On Oct. 30, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissed all charges against Palestinian immigrants Khader Musa Hamide and Michel Ibrahim Shehadeh, the last two members of the “Los Angeles Eight” (LA 8) who were still fighting deportation, and approved… Read moreFinal charges dropped against LA 8
On Oct. 10, federal judge Charles R. Breyer of US District Court in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction barring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from launching a planned crackdown on workers whose social security numbers don’t match the… Read moreSan Francisco federal judge halts crackdown on immigrant workers
In a two-week sweep that ended Oct. 2, ICE officers arrested 1,327 immigrants in five southern California counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura. A total of 530 people were arrested in their communities on immigration violations; ICE… Read moreOver 1,300 arrested in California ICE sweeps
On Oct. 2, officials in Nassau County on New York’s Long Island called for a federal investigation into an “anti-gang” sweep carried out by ICE Sept. 24-30 during which 186 immigrants were arrested in Nassau and neighboring Suffolk county. Nassau… Read moreLong Island ICE raids challenged
You know, every time we start to develop a soft spot for a politician, he wastes no time in disabusing us of our comfortable illusions. The most recent case in point is New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. After taking flack… Read moreSpitzer capitulates on license plan
On Sept. 26, some 2,000 people rallied at City Hall in Irving, Texas, a suburb west of Dallas, to demand that Irving officials stop handing over people held at the city’s jail to immigration authorities. Demonstrators waved US flags and… Read moreTexas: 2,000 rally against deportation
Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies arrested nine day laborers on Sept. 27 near the Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church in the town of Cave Creek, Arizona, north of Phoenix. For more than six years the church has been a… Read moreArizona’s Sheriff Arpaio rounds up immigrant workers
ICE agents raided homes on Sept. 24 in the Nassau County towns of Westbury, Glen Cove, Hicksville and Port Washington on New York’s Long Island, with support from two sergeants and six officers of the Nassau County police. On Sept…. Read moreLong Island ICE raids protested
On Sept. 21, New York governor Eliot Spitzer announced new rules under which the state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will issue driver’s licenses without regard to federal immigration status. The new rules reverse a policy change adopted four years… Read moreNYS expands immigrant access to driver’s licenses
Although the group says it disavows violence, more than one criminal case related to the San Diego Minutemen is now pending in the California courts. In one case now coming to trial, John Monti of Bellflower, a Los Angeles suburb,… Read moreAnti-immigrant violence in San Diego
On Sept. 15, some 100 people rallied outside the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, a privately-run immigration prison, to protest the treatment of immigration detainees. The rally culminated a week-long 105-mile march through six counties, organized by the Prison… Read moreAnti-ICE protest at Georgia prison; nationwide raids continue
On Sept. 12, some 150 activists (according to the Chicago Tribune) marched through the House of Representatives’ Rayburn Office Building, chanting for an end to deportation raids. The protesters had arrived in buses from Chicago, New York, Rhode Island and… Read moreImmigrants protest ICE raids
