Refugees-&Amp;-Immigrants

by Todd Miller / nacla A Border Patrol Checkpoint (Flickr) It was a typical scene for many on the Tohono O’odham Nation: a Border Patrol agent pulled behind us in a green-striped vehicle after we had stopped to check directions. We were a group of five people in two cars. We had no idea what they wanted. Documentary filmmaker Adam Markle was going to interview tribal member Joshua Garcia at the San Miguel border gate, only a mile away. It was October 12, Columbus Day, a fitting date to be on the land of the Tohono O’odham. ...

GUILTY OF BEING BROWN By Henry Howard I had a nightmare the other night. I dreamed I went to buy the morning paper, And the headline screamed For all the world to see, “SB1070 Declared Fully Legal!” And I cried, because I knew I was now legally unwelcome here. My mother took the paper and milk from me With trembling hands, And told me in her soft Mexican voice That Papa had been arrested on his way to work. For the crime of driving without a Green Card, He was found Guilty of Being Brown. ...

A group called ‘Immigrant X’ infiltrated and sabotaged an immigration database, falsifying information about hundreds of undocumented immigrants: IMMIGRANT X DATA ENTRY Original post by ImmigrantX on Friday, August 9, 2013, Immigrant In the last month we managed to get a way into the hotlines of the immigration department where the public can inform on an “illegal immigrant”. We have teamed up with the PLU ( Accidental Anarchist) an anarchist group that has helped us finding squats to house undocumented immigrants. We managed to find the main temp agency hiring call centre workers and data entry clerks for the immigration departments call lines. Immigrant Y managed to keep a high level account to the immigration database alive for the last 2 months. This is giving us access to staff personnel records and hence the contract terms of employment and the temp agency involved in call centre recruitment. ...

By FERNANDA SANTOS, The New York Times Published: August 2, 2013 ARIVACA, Ariz. — Monsoon rains tinge the desert with deceptive hints of green at this time of the year, but migrants crossing illegally from Mexico continue to risk death from thirst and exposure in the blazing heat. A fortunate few who become lost might stumble upon lifesaving gallon jugs of drinking water, scattered by a band of volunteers along makeshift footpaths that have been carved through the mountains and washes. ...