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Maryland Minutemen accused of ‘intimidation’
After waging a high-profile fight in Northern Virginia against a center where employers can go to hire temporary workers, the anti-illegal immigration group has expanded into Maryland. In recent weeks, its members have patrolled centers funded by the Montgomery County government in Wheaton and Takoma Park that assist day laborers. They also have monitored a Gaithersburg parking lot as well as others in Montgomery and Prince George’s County where men gather almost every morning, said Stephen Schreiman, director of the group’s new chapter.
Anti-immigration lecturers decry racist claims
An illegal immigration forum with national speakers brought protest and support Saturday night. The local group, U.S. Citizens for Immigration Law Enforcement, which has argued for illegal immigrants to be deported, sponsored the event…
Costa Mesa gives immigrants cold shoulder
In a Republican county known as a cradle of border enforcement zeal, Costa Mesa has long been celebrated — and maligned — as a city that offered immigrants a generous embrace.
Immigrant laborers exploited in New Orleans
…During the mid-1800s Irish Catholics met severe discrimination. Then there was the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, and during World War II, Japanese internment. Since 9/11 Muslims have been victimized for security reasons. And for the economy, there are Hispanics. So we are left despising the very people on whom we depend, and immigrants are left with the worst of all worlds–economically marginalized and socially demonized. Vulnerable to unscrupulous employers, opportunistic politicians and racist hatemongers, they work simply to exist in a place where their very existence has become an affront.
Orange County police round-up Hispanic workers
Local police arrest day laborers outside a home depot in Orange, spawning a debate about local enforcement of federal immigration law
Border violence on the rise
First came an armed standoff between Texas lawmen and drug smugglers disguised as Mexican soldiers. Next, federal officials seized a stockpile of heavy-duty weaponry — assault rifles, hand grenades, and improvised explosive devices — along the Rio Grande. Then a Mexican police reporter was critically wounded after intruders fired more than 60 rounds into the newspaper’s offices.
Pomona councilman slams proposed crackdown
Councilman Marco Robles this week asked the City Council to consider a resolution opposing a federal bill that calls for greater enforcement and penalties for immigration violations.
Arizona governor extends state of emergency
Gov. Janet Napolitano has extended a state of emergency order at the Mexican border allowing local government more time to spend $1.5 million in state emergency funds on law enforcement and other immigration matters.
Suit blames border agents in drowning
It began as a routine nocturnal encounter between the U.S. Border Patrol and a group of Mexicans illegally crossing the Rio Grande.
Latin American leaders lobby against border wall
Eleven Latin American nations, alarmed at what they perceive as growing anti-immigration sentiment in the United States, have started to lobby Washington for better treatment of their migrants.