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Detention Watch Network Releases NEW Map at T Don Hutto Blog.

The Detention Watch Network has released a new and improved interactive map of immigration detention. The map includes detention centers, community organizations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Offices, and Immigration Courts. A fantastic resource for public education!

Also read American Immigration Lawyers Association on Alternatives to Detention.

Daily Headlines: July 4, 2008 at The Latin Americanist. Also watch the muppets perform "Stars and Stripes Forever" in Today's Video: Happy Fourth of July, "wierdos".

Detainee Deaths lead IG to conclude that ICE needs to account for its treatment of immigrants and On the use of the term “illegal alien” at Eristic Ragemail.

Ever since George Orwell pointed out the pernicious nature of words being used as code, we have recognized that in political debate words are often freighted with much that is concealed. In the current climate, nativists insist, actually demand, that undocumented immigrants be referred to as “illegal aliens.” If you can classify a whole group of people with a pejorative –alien --and then group them as “illegal,” you have carried out a neat trick: you have stripped a whole group of people of their humanity.

Read The in-between Generation in a Nation of Immigrants at DMI Blog on generation 1.5 and their contributions which make the DREAM Act a necessity for the good of America.

At Just News read Advocates rally after raid, arrests.

More than 75 immigrant advocates gathered at Hopkins Plaza, in front of the Baltimore Offices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, hoisting signs with slogans such as, "Don't divide our families," and "Painting Houses is not a Crime."

Congratulations to Man Eegee and Latino Politico! Happy 3rd Blogiversary to Latino Político at Latino Politico. This is a great post which speaks of the energy in yesterday's SanctuarySphere. Man Eegee notes that we must strengthen one another and remember that we share a responsibility to all of our brothers and sisters of this world. This is why we're here in this realm of thought, because we believe in the good of each other. Thanks to Man Eegee for 3 years of dedication and thanks to everyone else for their dedication as well.

Immigrant Ballot Power at Standing FIRM on our newest voters. Also check out the great series of articles at The New Bedford Times in Series Spotlight: The New Immigrants. In Op-Ed: Real Change Happens Off-Line we learn one person's belief that while the internet brings us together it is not in a "real" way. I do believe we have to be active in person as well as on-line, but they can certainly work well together. What do you think?

Supreme Court Won't Hear Kansas In-State Tuition Case at A Dream Deferred. While Kris Kobach tried to take his case to the Supreme Court that undocumented students should not receive in-state tuition they refused to listen. And Leaving the United States for Higher Education tells of one undocumented student who sought an education elsewhere because it was denied here.

Here's an article in the New York Post Kobach wrote as an adverstisement for E-Verify. It's quite disturbing.

First let me say congratulations to XP. Check out XP the Radical and Soon to be Uncle.

Harris County Grand Jury: Kill An Immigrant, Go Scot Free at Para Justicia y Libertad. Also check out the Texas Progressive Alliance Blog Round-Up: 06/30/2008.

Federal judge "compels" Department of Homeland Security to honor original agreement with Texas university at Latina Lista.

As the nation gets ready to celebrate the 4th of July this week, Texans along the U.S.-Mexico border are defending their property rights in the face of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) scooping up land to construct the mandated border wall.

Check out the post UMX: Stronger Than Aryan Pride where we read of Nezua's interaction with white pride while shooting water falls at The Unapologetic Mexican.

Today's youth-and all humans-are currently untapped reservoirs of power and heart. Someone like Obama comes along and speaks to that and you see what this nation could be if there were some truth and heart here, some lessons worth ingesting, some pride worth having.

The above quote from Nezua's article reminds me of a quote from Smart Borders from a while back:

Every 6-week marking period, students are required to internalize this spirit of volunteerism and community service. Because I feel most people are just waiting for an excuse to do good, it is easy for me to ask this of my students. And most of them have responded with impressive results.

There is definitely an energy waiting to be released by a powerful cause or call to action and it's important that we ensure that it's positive. It's quite apparent that the anti-migrant groups have tapped into this energy through using fear.

At Para Justicia y Libertad check out some disturbing 'jokes' emailed within the Texas Sheriff's department in Sheriff’s Department’s Gator Cruelty and Literal Illegal Baiting.

At A Dream Deferred watch Protestors Blast ICE raids in East Houston.

At Immigration Talk With A Mexican American read Postville Update: Agriprocessors Free to Stir Up More Trouble in Postville!

Postville was left "absolutely shattered" after last month´s heavily armed worker raids. The workers received swift, cattle barn justice. The employers, however, were left free to continue their abuses, despite hiring a GOP crony-pal "compliance" officer.

Anti-Immigrant Hate Groups Place Ads in The New York Times at Hatewatch. FAIR is at it again working though a front group called "America's Leadership Team for Long Range Population-Immigration-Resource Planning." Their ads cater to American's dislike of traffic congestion.

Report From the Houston East End Raid Protest at Para Justicia y Libertad.

5 More Bodies This Week on deaths in the desert at Latino Politico.

Where is Congress’s Priority when it comes to Immigration? at A Dream Deferred.  It's with supermodels, of course!

Millionare abuses two Indonesian housekeepers at Damn Mexicans.  A tragic tail of those searching for a better life only finding terror.

Immigrants and Crime at No Borders and Binaries.  Studies are cited showing that immigrants are not more likely to commit crimes as many anti-migrant groups would like us to believe.

The Supreme Court on Alaska & Texas at Smart Borders.  Recent decisions will have negative implications on the future.

ICE responds to anti-family detention op-ed at T Don Hutto Blog.  Please check out this post and use the form to show you're opposition to detention centers.

Many citizens have taken their education for granted and others throw it away. The DREAM Act provides undocumented students, so eager to learn, with a powerful opportunity to seek higher education in college. I believe we all understand education is fundamental toward ensuring a better future.  To deny this opportunity is senseless. Support the DREAM Act! 

The Debate Over In-state Tuition for Undocumented Students - FAQs - Part 2 at A Dream Deferred.  Get facts through various court cases on this issue.

A First Look at Revoking Education Opportunities for NC Extralegals at Smart Borders.

Having taught English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students for the past two years on the Tex-Mex border town of Brownsville, the national trend toward limiting the futures and opportunities of immigrant students hurts me deeply.

51 Since October 1st at Latino Politico on the number of migrants who have died looking for a better life.

Will the Real John McCain Please Stand Up at Para Justicia y Libertad.

In an effort to win back lost Hispanic votes, Republican presidential hopeful, Senator John McCain held a closed door meeting with more than 100 Hispanic leaders in Chicago. However, things did not turn out as he hoped.

Watch Members Embarrassing the Minuteman group at Pro Inmigrant. This video tell us of the wife of a Minuteman who claimed she was shot and raped by Hispanics when the truth was she just shot herself. Also read Lou Dobbs Nightmare. Since When is Searching For A Better Life A Crime? While the U.S./Mexico border is constantly given attention there's a huge wide open border to the north. And we learn of more raids in New Instructions to ICE: Get FEMA. Find Every Mexican Available. Feds Make Immigration Raids In Rutherford County.

Oh Stop Saying Republicans Are Racist at Vivir Latino. Also read Bloggers of the World Unite Against AP. Apparently the AP is going after bloggers who link to their news stories.

The Minutemen see the removal of the National Guard from the border as "open season" for undocumented migrants. Therefore they're calling for more rogue bands of gun wielding extremists to join in the "pride" of protecting the border. Strangely I don't feel any safer.

Breaking News! Minutemen Vigilantes Declare "Operation Open Season!" and Promptly 3 Mexicans are Shot on the Mexican Side of the Border! at Immigration Talk With A Mexican American.

Does marriage determine level of assimilation? at DMI Blog.

Lots has been said about assimilation and whether or not today’s immigrants are assimilating. A recent report published by the Manhattan Institute offers an inadequate approach to analyze the assimilation of the U.S. immigrant population. To discuss this further, I recently wrote an op-ed that was published by El Diario last Thursday.

Abandoned two-year-old is the poster child for immigration debate at Latina Lista.

With so much trauma and stress happening to these undocumented families, children witness it and internalize it. There's not much for them to be happy about in their young childhoods. If the case of Martin is true, some will no doubt pat themselves on the back for an immigration enforcement policy that seems to be working.