Stop Immigration Raids

Stop Immigration Raids

In this print edition...

• Anatomy of an Incident: New Bedford Immigration Raid on Workers Rights, by José A. Soler
• Darfur, Oil, and the China Card, by Joe Sims
• Ball and Cheney: How the Vice President is Dragging Down the Administration, by Lawrence Albright
• La lucha de los trabajadores migrantes mejicanos en EEUU, por Luis Lázaro Tijerina

On Tuesday, March 6, 2007 ICE agents in a show of repressive force swooped down on a New Bedford manufacturing plant and arrested 361 undocumented workers.

Darfur has almost become a household word and with good reason. It is the first human made catastrophe of the 21st century; its death count combined with the huge humanitarian crisis staggers the imagination.

The conviction of vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements in connection with the exposure of Valerie Plame’s employment with the Central Intelligence Agency has cast a harsh light on the inner workings of a White House.

Mi envolvimiento personal con trabajadores migrantes mexicanos comenzó en 1954 cuando mi familia se mudó a Tejas. Mi padre Luis García Tijerina, un sarjento del ejército jubilado, fue ofrecido un puesto de contratista laboral para los trabajadores mexicano-americanos migrantes y los braceros.