WHO IS REALLY BEHIND ALL THE ANTI-LatinoIMMIGRANT MOVEMENT???

From C.I

Friends - Please take the time to read this entire document, and explore its related links. It is the single most important information you need, to understand and counter-attack what's behind the anti-Latino/anti-Immigrant movement:

It is extremely important that all the organizations and everybody in this country that are fighting against the hate-speech, anti-minorities, and the anti-immigrant/anti-Latino monster, to finally target the head of the snake.
We are never going to accomplish fairness until we get to the head of the snake. The xenophobic snake has always being there, it has managed to infiltrate every important branch of our society, including politics, education, the English Media and shamefully even the SPANISH MEDIA / Univision!
The xenophobic evil snake has manipulatively "conducted" "studies and research" that portrays minorities, specifically Latinos and Blacks as inferior sub-classes. In the last few years, the evil monster has concentrated on attacking, scapegoating and demonizing Hispanics and Latino-Immigrants.
The evil racist monster is John Tanton/FAIR, he has created a web of anti-immigrant organizations, but its HEAD IS The Federation for American Immigration Reform, whom cleverly goes by the initials of "FAIR". Its founder is John Tanton, MD http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/about/board_of_directors/


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As reported by the great pro-civil, pro-human, pro-immigrant rights and highly respected organization SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files

John Tanton

Ideology:

Anti-Immigrant

"John Tanton is the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement. He created a network of organizations – the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA – that have profoundly shaped the immigration debate in the United States."

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John Tanton is the "son of Hitler" with a long life dream of anti-Latino/anti-Mexican ethnic cleansing. He is the master-mind of an extensive web of well-funded and cleverly named organizations. John Tanton/FAIR have cleverly and strategically recruited some Blacks, Hispanics, Union members and Environmentalists. He has financially funded such groups as "Choose Black America", "You Don't Speak For Me (Hispanics)", and has managed to become a Board member of respected environmental groups such as the Sierra Club.
To view a graphic of his evil web:
http://www.newcomm.org/pdf/CNC-Tanton_Network_2009.pdf

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FAIR, by cleverly using non-threatening names for its organizations, has managed to create a "moderate non/partisan" image. But in reality they are everything the opposite. In fact they are extremists, nativists, fundamentalists, and white-supremacists. - FAIR has cleverly managed to infiltrate politics, education, and media in order to shape anti-immigrant opinions and legislation:
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/about/

"The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a national, nonprofit, public-interest, membership organization of concerned citizens who share a common belief that our nation's immigration policies must be reformed to serve the national interest. FAIR seeks to improve border security, to stop illegal immigration, and to promote immigration levels consistent with the national interest—more traditional rates of about 300,000 a year. With more than 250,000 members and supporters nationwide, FAIR is a non-partisan group whose membership runs the gamut from liberal to conservative.Our grassroots networks help concerned citizens use their voices to speak up for effective, sensible immigration policies that work for America's best interests. FAIR’s publications and research are used by academics and government officials in preparing new legislation.National and international media regularly turn to us to understand the latest immigration developments and to shed light on this complex subject.FAIR has been called to testify on immigration bills before Congress more than any organization in America"

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Friends, Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities: Our corporate Media is a joke, every single English network only covers the surface and headlines of the news. Nobody bothers any more to do in-depth investigative reporting.

Shockingly even Univision/Spanish has not bother to investigate its guests and out of ignorance often invites members of FAIR, including John Tranton!!! to voice its "moderate" opinion of the opposition in debates and news of immigration and education.

Out of all the English corporate Media networks and outlets ONLY MSNBC-Investigative Journalist Rachel Maddow has done her job and research and recently on her TV show, exposed FAIR for what they really are and its connections with the racist Arizona law SB-1070.

Presentely NHMC and us HLADC are in the process of trying to contact Univision with the attempt to try to educate them and to urge them to do their research well before they invite such extremists as John Tanton and/or members of FAIR.

It is a huge mistake and extremely dangerous to allow/invite Tanton/FAIR to every single Spanish/English-Media event related to immigration/education/legislation. By mingling with our minorities community and groups, Tanton/FAIR will do its best to also infect and divide our communities - as it has already successfully done by infecting and dividing many members of the White-American community.

ACTION: For everybody's benefit and for the sake of our Country's future, safety, civility and harmony we URGE YOU ALL TO be proactive, take action and contact the Network/Networks (English & Spanish), condemn their judgment of inviting extremists and demand for fairness and civility in our Media when it relates to such sensitive issues as race, immigration, education, legislation, etc.

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BELOW YOU WILL FIND SPECIFIC RESEARCH on who is behind Arizona's SB-1070 (yes John Tranton)

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IMAGINE 2050 - http://imagine2050.newcomm.org -

Russell Pearce: The Public Face of S.B. 1070

Posted By Stephen Piggott On May 26, 2010

Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready and Russell Pearce

Russell Pearce is the smiling face of S.B. 1070. The Arizona State Senator has reveled in the limelight since the racist bill was signed last month. He earns his living bashing immigrants and is a hero for the anti-immigrant movement in Arizona. Pearce’s history, however, is far from cheerful; it involves Nazis, domestic violence and xenophobia.

Pearce is a member ^[2] of State Legislators for Legal Immigration, a coalition of anti-immigrant state-elected officials. As a partner of the John Tanton Network ^[3], a web of controversial anti-immigrant organizations

Orchestrated by John Tanton, State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) serves as the local legislative arm of the network. Pearce has many more connections to the Tanton Network. He was the chief sponsor of the racist S.B. 1070 bill in Arizona. The bill was drafted by Kris Kobach of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) the legal arm of the Tanton Network. Pearce recently spoke ^[4] at a membership meeting of the Texans for Immigration Reform, a group listed on FAIR’s website as a state contact. ^[5]

Pearce has been accused of violence and apparently enjoys the company of other violent people, including neo-Nazis. According to his 1980 dissolution of marriage petition ^[6], Pearce allegedly, “is possessed with a violent temper, and has from time to time hit and shoved his wife, the last time being on February 3rd, when he grabbed the wife by the throat and threw her down.” Pearce’s wife didn’t end up divorcing him however, and they are still married to this day ^[7].

This ^[8] is a picture of Pearce in 2007 with a man named J.T. Ready. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, J.T. Ready is an outright neo-Nazi who wrote the following on a white nationalist message board in December 2007,

“The truth is that negroids screw monkeys and rape babies in afreaka [sic]. Then stupid white man who licks kosher jew rear lets negroids in. … Stop Negroid immigration and integration now!!! Nature will take care of the rest.”

Pearce’s connections to neo-Nazis don’t stop with J.T. Ready. In 2006, he forwarded an email to his supporters from a neo-Nazi group ^[9]. The email contained an article that, “criticized the media for promoting multiculturalism and racial equality, and for presenting the Holocaust as fact.”

Shockingly, the connections to neo-Nazis don’t even stop there! On June 5th Pearce will be speaking ^[10] at an anti-immigrant rally in Phoenix. The rally is being organized ^[11] by a man named Daniel Smeriglio who has participated in anti-immigrant rallies ^[12] in his home state of Pennsylvania with former neo-Nazi Steve Smith. Smith belonged to the same neo-Nazi group ^[13], the National Alliance, which Russell Pearce passed on to his supporters via email in 2006.

Looking at his history, it’s no surprise that Pearce happily takes credit for a racist law. The question remains, what other evil plans does he have in store for Arizona?

Article printed from IMAGINE 2050: http://imagine2050.newcomm.org

URL to article: http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2010/05/26/russell-pearce-the-public-face-of-s-b-1070/

URLs in this post:

[1] Image: http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/6244/readyandrussell.jpg

[2] member: http://statelegislatorsforlegalimmigration.com/arizona.aspx

[3] John Tanton Network: http://www.newcomm.org/pdf/CNC-Tanton_Network_2009.pdf

[4] recently spoke: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7015509.html

[5] state contact.: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/action/local_group/

[6] his 1980 dissolution of marriage petition: http://vvoice.vo.llnwd.net/e14/2366466.0.pdf

[7] they are still married to this day: http://mesa18.com/candidates/russell_pearce.htm

[8] This: http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/jt.jpg

[9] forwarded an email to his supporters from a neo-Nazi group: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/04/28/hate-group-lawyer-drafted-arizona-anti-immigrant-law/

[10] will be speaking: http://phoenixrally.com/

[11] being organized: http://imagine2050.newcomm.org../2010/05/19/clear-split-between-alipac-and-tanton-network-over-upcoming-anti-immigrant-rally/

[12] has participated in anti-immigrant rallies: http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=413:daniel-smeriglio&catid=19:s&Itemid=3

[13] Smith belonged to the same neo-Nazi group: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/keystone-state-skinheads

Juan Varela's family says white neighbor gunned him down over SB 1070, demand hate-crime charges

FROM: CROOKSANDLIARS
By David Neiwert Saturday May 15, 2010 10:00am

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John called out the case in Phoenix involving the murder of a Latino man by his white neighbor the other day: Turns out the murder indeed involved Arizona's new immigration law:

The AZFamily.com story has more details: The alleged killer was yelling racial slurs seconds before he fired the shots that killed 44-year-old Juan Varela. Varela was a third-generation American, yet his family claims he was called a “wetback” who was going to be sent back to Mexico by the man who murdered him. They claim it was a hate crime and the police are not doing their job. That is a charge the department denies. A family spokesperson says, “We ask for justice, that’s what the family wants is justice.”

Tension surrounding the passage of Arizona's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration contributed to the slaying of an Hispanic man, allegedly shot by a white neighbor, a representative of the dead man's family said Friday.

Police and the family said the arrested man, 50-year-old Gary Thomas Kelley, allegedly directed racial slurs at 44-year-old Juan Daniel Varela before the May 6 shooting near their homes.
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A probable cause statement filed May 6 said Kelley confronted Varela outside Varela's home and repeated racial slurs at Varela. Varela then apparently attempted to kick Kelley who then allegedly pulled out a revolver and shot Varela, police said.

A police statement said the two men had gotten into altercations several times in recent years. The family wants Kelley charged with premeditated first-degree murder, not second-degree murder, with a hate crime allegation, Galindo said.

"This family wants justice. They're asking that violence stop and that Gov. Brewer and other elected officials take responsibility for this hostile atmosphere they have created" by the immigration law and other legislation, Galindo said.

But Phoenix Police Department spokesman, Officer Luis Samudio, said Friday the shooting was not a hate crime, an allegation that under Arizona law could subject a person convicted of a crime to a stiffer sentence.

Robert Shutts, homicide bureau chief for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, said the case remained under investigation and that the murder charge could be upgraded to first-degree and a hate-crime allegation added if evidence warrants.

Shutts wouldn't comment on whether the new immigration law was a factor in the case. But he said authorities weren't trying smooth over the case or minimize it, as the Varela family has alleged.

"That's not even close to the truth," he said. "We are treating this case with ... utmost seriousness." Kelley on Friday remained jailed in lieu of $750,000 bond, facing one count each of second-degree murder and aggravated assault.

The AZFamily.com story has more details:

The alleged killer was yelling racial slurs seconds before he fired the shots that killed 44-year-old Juan Varela.

Varela was a third-generation American, yet his family claims he was called a “wetback” who was going to be sent back to Mexico by the man who murdered him. They claim it was a hate crime and the police are not doing their job. That is a charge the department denies.

A family spokesperson says, “We ask for justice, that’s what the family wants is justice.”

As someone reasonably knowledgeable about hate crimes, I can say that this case throws up all kinds of red flags. It is true that the mere use of ethnic slurs in the commission of a crime is not enough by itself to warrant hate-crime charges, but it is a potential piece of evidence in such a case. More significant is the fact that he had a prior history of agitation in the neighborhood, and it sounds as though that was racial too.

There certainly is plenty to investigate here. The Phoenix police should not be dismissing the potential for this to be a bias crime. And frankly, second-degree murder sounds pretty light, too: This guy went over to his neighbor's property with a gun and began shouting racial slurs at him. Those sound like powerful elements of premeditation to me.

There's some comfort in knowing, at least, that the case is not being handled by Joe Arpaio's detectives. But this case bears close watching.

A Real Solution: Replace SB 1070 with Comprehensive Immigration Reform

From: PoliticalAffairs.net

By Joel Wendland

Mobilized to overturn Arizona's anti-immigrant law (SB 1070), an amazing coalition of labor, civil rights organizations, students, recording artists, healthcare professionals, faith-based groups, professional athletes, Arizona elected officials, city governments around the country, and police groups want swift federal action. Critics charge the law is a draconian legalization of racial profiling to target people who appear to be Latinos. Police organizations have slammed the authors of the law as "fear mongering" and as pushing for ineffective local enforcement of federal laws that will overwhelm police agencies. A combination of education on the law's racist effects and its negative impact on public safety can build pressure on federal authorities to replace SB 1070 (and other laws like it) with comprehensive immigration reform.

Public opinion is complex

While a number of public opinion polls show some six in 10 Americans support SB 1070, additional analysis of the data reveals that only a small portion of that support comes out of right-wing or racist hostility towards immigrants. Xenophobia and racism are palpably dangerous in the current climate, and right-wing leaders of the Republican Party and Tea Party use these influences to promote and cover for their discredited policies. Key portions of their program and ideology are built with the planks of racism.

At the present moment these influences may not and need not be the dominant ideas and forces at work on this issue, however. It is important to avoid the mainstream media's error of attributing support for the law solely to xenophobic or racist sentiments. If the mud of hate can be cleared, we may discover an important chance for the country to move in a new direction on immigration.

Most sentiments about the law seem to center on a desire for urgent federal action on immigration reform. A poll conducted by Lake Research Partners and Public Opinion Strategies in May found that while supporters of the Arizona law are most likely Republicans and supporters of the Tea Party, a significant number do not fit these categories and say they support the law only out of frustration with the lack of federal action on comprehensive reform.

In fact, more than three in four Americans from both major parties and in all geographic regions of the country support comprehensive immigration reform. People view the Arizona law as an unfortunate reaction to decades of federal foot-dragging on reform. Instead of the punitive or enforcement-only responses to immigration on the state or local level favored by the Republican Party, Americans, including a significant majority of Latinos, want comprehensive federal action with four basic parts:

1) Increased security at the border
2) Crack down on employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers
3) Require unauthorized workers to register, undergo background checks and learn English
4) Unauthorized immigrants should get in line for citizenship

Simply put, Americans agree with the immigration reform agenda the Obama administration has repeatedly called for.

David Mermin, a pollster with Lake Research Partners, explained apart from extremist anti-immigrant sentiments, "the sense that the system is out of control and that there isn't a legal orderly process by which people are immigrating" drives most attitudes about immigration reform.

"The vast majority of Americans think we should still be welcoming immigrants," he said, "but they want that done in a legal way."

"Folks don't want some sort of draconian enforcement effort where you try to round up millions of people," Mermin added, "they want people to register, to get in line, to pay taxes, to learn English, to become American."

"People aren't angry at immigrants," said Frank Sharry, executive director of the pro-immigration reform group America's Voice, in a recent conference call with reporters. He noted that the polling data proves that instead "they are frustrated that the government hasn't solved the problem." He warned that Congress should not use the fallout from SB 1070 as an excuse to avoid dealing with comprehensive immigration reform.

The evidence suggests that most Americans sharply break with Republican Party and extremist views on immigration. They do not support right-wing hostility towards inclusiveness or provision of legal status and eventual citizenship for new immigrants.

False claims

Shifting the terms of debate away from draconian and racist proposals toward inclusive solutions will marginalize extremist voices. Right now, without momentum towards comprehensive reform, far-right hysteria seems to dominate public discourse. As part of their scare tactics, these voices promote at least three major falsehoods about immigrants: they cause an economic drain, they steal jobs, and they increase crime rates.

According to recent analysis published by the Immigration Policy Center, the economic contributions of undocumented immigrants far outweigh perceived costs of illegal immigration. In the state of Arizona alone, unauthorized immigrants add some $26.4 billion each year to the state's economy, including at least $1.5 billion in added state revenues. Significant parts of this added economic activity results in purchases from local businesses that create jobs. A number of other states share similar experiences.

Economists also point out claims that immigrants "steal" jobs from citizens haven't been substantiated. In fact, current enforcement-only measures add to the federal deficit and will reduce the GDP by $2.6 trillion over the next 10 years, a new study from the Center for American Progress Action Fund found. Under the broken immigration system, wages across the board are depressed. Comprehensive reform that allows immigrants to gain legal status without fear of punishment would see improvements in their wages and increase their consumption, helping to expand economic activity. In the middle of an economic crisis, an anti-immigrant policy that depresses wages and reduces economic activity seems at best stupid, at worst destructive.

Exaggeration and promotion of public fears about the link between crime and immigration has also driven much support for local enforcement of immigration laws – the main goal of SB 1070. These fears, however, have no basis in reality. A number of studies of federal crime statistics in the past few years have repeatedly shown that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than the native-born population. According to a study from the University of North Carolina this year, for example, a dramatic reduction in crime in North Carolina over the past 14 years coincided with that state's largest growth in numbers of unauthorized immigrants in its history. Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank echoed this point and called the promotion of anxiety about crime "fear mongering." "[Salt Lake City's] Latino population and even the undocumented Latino population," he pointed out, "are not committing crimes at a higher rate."

Most police chiefs agree the demand for local enforcement of immigration laws would force the police to divert attention from the "criminal element" to a "civil enforcement role." Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck explained bluntly, "Crime is not on the rise in Arizona or anywhere else."

Response and resistance

The labor movement immediately and unequivocally rejected the Arizona anti-immigrant law and has urged its members and supporters to join protests against the law. Describing the law as a violation of civil rights and the legalization of racial profiling, the AFL-CIO and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR) earlier this month jointly called on the Obama administration to terminate federal relationships with Arizona's law enforcement agencies for immigration enforcement through the so-called 287(g) program. Right now, the Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agency operates what is called the 287(g) ACCESS program, which authorizes local police departments to enforce immigration laws. (The odd name for this program comes from section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act passed by Congressional Republicans in 1995 as part of welfare "reform.")

The AFL-CIO/LCCR letter pointedly stated:

Unless DHS terminates all 287(g) program agreements in Arizona, the federal government will be complicit in the racial profiling that lies at the heart of the Arizona law. Such a result would place the DHS at odds with this administration's stated views on SB 1070, and at odds with basic American values of tolerance and non-discrimination.

It is important to note 287(g) programs carry a number of other hidden problems. The North Carolina study found that they bring additional financial burdens to state and local communities from more "litigation fees, reduction in local business revenue, lower sales tax revenue, and higher costs of services and goods." On top of these new expenses, the program seems ineffective in curbing violent crime as traffic violations and DWI were the main charges filed under the program. In fact, only about 13 percent of all charges filed were felonies. The report concluded, "[t]he focus on detaining and deporting immigrants for driving related incidences and misdemeanors suggest that the program is not prioritizing high risk criminal aliens, as outlined in its stated goals." Simply put, local enforcement of federal immigration is expensive and ineffective. SB 1070 is only the latest incarnation of this failed direction on immigration enforcement.

Labor and civil rights groups have emphasized the harmful impact the law will have on working families. Both the United Food and Commercial Workers union and the Service Employees International Union have joined several civil rights organizations, including the ACLU, the National Immigration Law center, the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, and the NAACP, in a lawsuit seeking to strike down SB 1070.

"Arizona's legislation is unworkable, it is unconstitutional and it undermines our nation's rich immigrant history and heritage. It is a recipe for racial profiling and a marked retreat from the values and ideals that make America strong," UFCW President Joe Hansen told one reporter. "We are filing this suit to protect the rights of our members and all workers in Arizona – and to uphold the values and ideals that make our nation strong."

The Women's Emergency Human Rights Delegation, a coalition of labor organizations for women workers that includes National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the National Domestic Worker Alliance, and Jobs with Justice, met in Phoenix in early May to denounce SB 1070. The coalition found that the law will have a special impact on women workers. SB 1070 "constitutes a violation of every principle we hold dear to safeguard women as mothers, workers and leaders," the group stated. The law will "rip families apart," expose women to humiliation by enforcement agents, permanent scar children whose families encounter police due to the laws provisions, and will instill "terror" in the families and communities impacted by the law. "We are humans. We are not animals. We are not criminals," the coalition's statement concluded.

The Major League Baseball Players' Association, the union for professional baseball players, slammed the law for its potential impact on its members who come from other countries. In a statement, it suggested immigrants are a much a part of our common American life and culture as citizens:

These international players are very much a part of our national pastime and are important members of our Association. Their contributions to our sport have been invaluable, and their exploits have been witnessed, enjoyed and applauded by millions of Americans. All of them, as well as the clubs for whom they play, have gone to great lengths to ensure full compliance with federal immigration law.

The Phoenix Suns basketball team joined protests of the law by wearing "Los Suns" on their team jerseys during a recent playoff game.

A new coalition of recording artists have joined the boycott against Arizona's anti-immigrant law. The "Sound Strike" includes hip hop artist such as Cypress Hill, Kanye West, and Streetsweeper Social Club and rock acts like Sonic Youth, Tenacious D, and Billy Bragg and Serj Tankian of System of a Down. In a statement, the group described opposition to the law as a civil rights struggle. "We are asking artists the world over to stand with us, and not allow our collective economic power to be used to aid and abet civil and human rights violations that will be caused by Arizona's odious law," the artists said.

Faith-based organizations have also expressed opposition to SB 1070-type laws and are calling for comprehensive reform. In a press statement, Ian Danley, a youth pastor with the Evangelical organization Neighborhood Ministries in Phoenix, said, "The local community here feels under attack. People talk about leaving but most have nowhere to go. They've lived here for so long and everything they have is here in Arizona. People in faith communities here in Arizona are calling for real political leadership that goes past border showmanship and calls for real change."

Rev. Sam Rodriguez of the conservative National Hispanic Christian Leadership Coalition added, "We have reached a point of crisis in Arizona and across the nation as other states seek to fill the void left by Congress' inaction. Until we see leadership from Republicans in the Senate and the President, the chaos of piecemeal laws and families torn apart will only get worse."

Police chiefs slam SB 1070

Late last month 10 police chiefs from major U.S. cities across the country, including Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., expressed strong disapproval of Arizona's anti-immigrant law in a meeting with US Attorney General Eric Holder. Representing the Police Executive Research Forum, the police chiefs explained they told Attorney General Holder that Arizona's immigration law will drive a "wedge between police and the communities they serve."

Tucson Chief of Police Roberto Villaseñor, an outspoken critic of the law, said, "We have all expressed concern that this will cause a divide between our communities and our agencies." Recent declines in crime, he explained, have resulted from hard-won close relations between the community and the police. Police are more successful in protecting communities from crime when they have good communication and meaningful ties to the people they protect.

When those relations are disrupted, as SB 1070 will cause, policing becomes far more difficult. "What we feel will happen with this legislation is it will put a level of mistrust and will break down the relationships we have worked so hard to establish over the last several years," he said.

"We're concerned that it will increase crime as opposed to reduce crime," the 30-year Tucson police veteran added.

If people believe that they or a loved one may be deported if they report a crime to the police, they may not come forward to report crimes. Because of this, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck explained, a law like SB 1070 would be "dangerous." "It inhibits people from coming forward as victims. It inhibits people not only coming forward as a witness but also testifying and going through the extensive process that is required in the legal system," he said. If people are afraid to come forward, crimes will go unsolved and "we're doomed to failure."

Because of this the law will have a special impact on women, said National Organization for Women President Terry O'Neill in a recent press statement. It could pressure women who are victims of criminal violence from seeking help, from medical care to police protection. "By deterring immigrant women from seeking help, SB 1070 would increase the risk of violence to them and their children, often with tragic consequences. Additionally, when husbands and fathers are deported, many families lose their primary means of support and are left destitute, with no access to social services or public assistance," O'Neill said.

Such a punitive approach to immigration policy will not have the desired impact on controlling the flow of people across the border, the police chiefs pointed out. Arizona Association Chiefs of Police President John Harris pointed out the law won't change the immigration issue. "(SB 1070) when it goes into effect, it still will have not the impact that we want to have on the border."

Echoing this statement, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey noted that forcing police to divert resources to immigration enforcement will not improve border control as claimed by supporters of SB 1070. "It will not stop the flow of illegal immigrants across our borders," he predicted. "It will only strain relationships."

"The immigration system is broken right now, and it it needs to be fixed. But it needs to be fixed at a federal level not a local law enforcement level," Villaseñor remarked.

After passage of the bill, Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., urged a boycott of the state. At least a dozen U.S. cities, from Los Angeles to Boston, followed suit, announcing boycotts on travel and business dealings with Arizona. Four major organizations who had planned to hold their annual conventions in Arizona moved their meeting elsewhere, costing the state an estimated $90 million dollars.

Needed: federal action

It is clear that the passage of SB 1070 by Arizona Republicans served as a distraction. Though they have dominated that state's politics for several years, their fiscal policies failed to prevent and probably will worsen the state's serious economic crisis. Without meaningful solutions for balancing their budget, paying for public services and reducing unemployment, they turned to a traditional right-wing stand-by: bashing immigrants. They successfully created this uproar to give a false impression that their policies are popular, to shift their increasingly discontented political base's (the Tea Party) attention from jobs to immigrants, and to mobilize sympathy by presenting themselves as victims of outside pressure.

Attacks on immigrants have never provided meaningful solutions to economic crisis. Take, for example, the Hoover administration's mass deportations of Latinos after the onset of the Great Depression. In 1931, federal authorities used military personnel to forcibly deport some 500,000 immigrants from Mexico. After this, the unemployment rate worsened. Only until serious government intervention began to put people back to work under the New Deal did American workers find relief.

Today, right-wing media personalities lash out at Democratic proposals for reform as "amnesty" and are demanding more enforcement-only responses to immigration. Republican lawmakers want to throw more money at the broken immigration system, which already consumes $20 billion annually for the Border Patrol and ICE combined, rather than find a comprehensive solution that keeps families together, reduces exploitation, enables police to protect communities, and improves views of the U.S. held by the rest of the world. Congressional Republicans want to spend more taxpayer dollars on a border wall and thousands of more troops, both of which have proven wasteful and ineffective in solving the problem. From a nation of immigrants, they want America to become a fortress of exclusion.

President Obama tried to preempt Republican demands on this point late last month by announcing plans to move 1,200 National Guard troops to the border. But without legislative action on the other three parts of reform Americans say they want, he pointed out in a May news conference, militarization will fail to provide a meaningful solution. President Obama expressed opposition to SB 1070 on civil rights lines, adding, it encourages "a patchwork of 50 different immigration laws around the country in an area that is inherently the job of the federal government."

"We have to have a comprehensive approach to immigration reform," the president said. "We're not going to solve the problem just solely as a consequence of sending National Guard troops down there. We're going to solve this problem because we have created an orderly, fair, humane immigration framework in which people are able to immigrate to this country in a legal fashion; employers are held accountable for hiring legally present workers."

Early media reports say Attorney General Eric Holder's office is writing legal briefs in preparation for challenging SB 1070 in federal court. But congressional Democrats seem less than anxious to answer the President's call for comprehensive reform. They have done little more than outline some basic proposals for reform similar to the four basic areas listed above.

Congressional Democrats have a big opportunity to pass legislation that protects families, improves the immigration system, enables people to gain legal status, along with its rights and responsibilities, and reverses the mistaken notion that civil rights abuses and racism offer the best ways to handle immigration. Leadership on this question could eliminate the issue as a wedge and force Republicans to run on their "party of no" slogan. Taking the correct action could also give immigrant working families a chance at fair and equitable treatment in a nation of immigrants.

A closer look at The Secure Communities Program ( H.R.2892 -- SC/CIRCA) -- [PART ONE]

Are the Spirit and Provisions of SC/CIRCA being observed and followed?

By Aurora Grajeda

No doubt, Immigration is the hottest issue in the United States, anti-immigrant sentiment is running at a feverish pace thus allowing for decisions that many consider ill thought out and badly implemented.

The first thing that needs to be said is that this is a very old and recurring story, it's genesis can be traced back roughly 152 years, since then, it keeps erupting every time there are difficult economic times which result in the need to find the 'guilty' ones, time and time again, immigrants have been the preferred choice for scapegoating, rather than taking an honest look at the real causes of both, the economic downturns and the mass migration of people affected by US Corporatist Policies.

While this post is not about the history of anti-immigrant sentiments in the United States, it is important to mention that it is very old indeed and that many groups have been the targets, the nationalities or ethnic characteristics may change, but the words and the actions, do not; Mexicans, Chinese, Italian, Germans, Japanese and who can forget the anti-Irishs ignominies? All of these were/are fueled by a mixture of Racism, Xenophobia, Nativism, etc.

The Anti-Immigrant Rage is as old as the Nation Itself.

The latest examples are the SB1070 Arizona Law and The Secure Communities programs rapid expansion, California is one of the States which signed on to participate, in San Francisco, it is scheduled to be in effect June 1st., yes, tomorrow, and is planned to be implemented in all the US by 2013.

San Francisco's Sheriff, Michael Hennessey, is one of the many Law Enforcement Officials raising the alarm and voicing concerns that this program in reality will make our communities less safe, will interfere with their Law Enforcement duties and will add economic burdens to their already cash-strapped municipalities.

Sheriff Hennessey, voiced his concerns directly to California's Attorney General Jerry Brown with a request to allow San Francisco to opt out of Secure Communities, ICE's latest federal-local law enforcement collaboration.

AG Brown's letter:
"Dear Sheriff Hennessey:

I am writing in response to your letter regarding the Secure Communities program developed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The program is scheduled to be rolled out in San Francisco next month. You requested that the California Department of Justice (DOJ) block ICE from running checks on the fingerprints collected in San Francisco. The Secure Communities program is up and running in 169 counties in 20 states, including 17 counties in California. Because I think this program serves both public safety and the interest of justice, I am declining your request...

... I appreciate your concern. But I believe that working with the federal government in this matter advances important and legitimate law enforcement objectives.

Sincerely,

EDMUND G. BROWN JR.
Attorney General."

Albeit the high regard in which CA AG J. Brown's opinions are held, as California's Top Law Enforncement Officer, his "I think.." and "I believe..." Fall far short of what is to be expected of such High Ranking Law Enforcement Officer as an explanation as to why Sheriff Hennessey's requests is being declined.

CA AG J. Brown, needs to be asked to expand on how the participation of California with the Secure Communities Program came to be the State's decision to participate, who was involved in this decision? Was the Law Enforcement Community consulted on how this would impact their duties? The answer to this question appears to be in line with what the Appropriations Committe expected from ICE to ascertain before implementation of CIRCA, also, an explanation is owned to the people of California to this question: Did the Attorney General entered into, and is following the dictates, of a MOA (Memorandum of Agreement) with individual states prohibits them from providing information about Secure Communities to the media, without first getting the consent of ICE?

There seems to be a veil of secrecy RE this program, so I thought it could be a good idea to inform myself a little more about it, here are a couple of points on what I found out, I hope that better prepared persons also do take a closer look to determine, not only what it is, but if the provisions and the spirit of the bill are being observed and followed, are they?

"Secure Communities: A Comprehensive Plan to Identify and Remove Criminal Aliens (Secure Communities/CIRCA) -- ( H.R.2892 -- SC/CIRCA)

[From the:] House Report 111-157 - DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2010

In the 2008 and 2009 Appropriations Acts, Congress provided $350,000,000 in unrequested funding to initiate the Comprehensive Identification and Removal of Criminal Aliens (CIRCA) program, which ICE has renamed `Secure Communities.' In addition, in the 2009 Appropriations Act, Congress directed that at least $1,000,000,000 of ICE's budget be used to identify aliens convicted of crimes, and to ensure their removal once they have been judged deportable.

Using the funds previously appropriated for Secure Communities, ICE has instituted an effective pilot program that locates criminal aliens through coordination with local jail facilities, while maintaining the clear division between the law enforcement roles of Federal and local officers. In brief, the ICE system known as `Interoperability' allows local law enforcement agencies to check fingerprints of individuals booked on criminal charges against both national criminal and immigration databases. If an individual is identified through this system as illegally present in the United States, ICE can take appropriate steps to ensure the most dangerous of these criminals are deported upon completion of their jail sentences, while those convicted of lesser crimes are identified and deported as resources allow.

While the Committee supports Secure Communities, it also believes ICE must work to make sure the program's implementation does not negatively impact other aspects of the judicial system and allows for appropriate transparency for those prosecuted for immigration violations. In particular, the Committee has heard concerns from some jurisdictions that ICE detains individuals in immigration custody while criminal charges are still pending against them, effectively trumping the administration of criminal justice. To minimize this occurrence, it is imperative for ICE field agents to maintain regular communication with local jails and courts on the actions ICE takes relative to individuals who are identified through the local booking process. Furthermore, in order to track the program's performance and effectiveness, the Committee expects ICE to maintain and regularly update performance data from the locations where the Secure Communities program has been implemented, and to report frequently on the results of the program, both to the public and the Congress.

In addition to its Secure Communities initiative, the Committee believes ICE must do more with its existing programs to ensure that it is focusing its efforts on those who represent the greatest threats to society and civil order. Whether it be efforts to locate at-large criminals through the Fugitive Operations program, disrupt transnational criminal gangs through targeted investigations, or more effective use of the Interoperability system at prisons where ICE personnel are already stationed, the agency must make sure it is doing all that it can to find and remove criminals who have been judged deportable. In an analysis of its 2009 budget, ICE reported to the Committee that it will spend $1,411,795,000 on these efforts, well in excess of the $1,000,000,000 Congress directed be allocated to these activities. Recognizing the increased funding provided both for the Secure Communities program and other activities related to apprehending criminal aliens, the Committee directs ICE to use not less than $1,500,000,000 of its 2010 budget to address this issue.

H.R.2892
Title: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010
Sponsor: Rep Price, David E. [NC-4] (introduced 6/16/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Related Bills: H.RES.573, H.RES.829, S.1298
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 111-83 [GPO: Text, PDF]
House Reports: 111-157; Latest Conference Report: 111-298 (in Congressional Record H11195-11257)

Through SC/CIRCA, each of ICE's Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) field offices will be notified of any potential immigration match from these automatic database checks and can take action quickly even if the dangerous criminal alien is no longer in custody.

There are 6 versions of Bill Number H.R.2892 for the 111th Congress

1 . Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (Reported in House)[H.R.2892.RH][PDF]
2 . Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House)[H.R.2892.EH][PDF]
3 . Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (Placed on Calendar in Senate)[H.R.2892.PCS][PDF]
4 . Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (Engrossed Amendment as Agreed to by Senate)[H.R.2892.EAS][PDF]
5 . Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (Public Print)[H.R.2892.PP][PDF]
6 . Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)[H.R.2892.ENR][PDF]

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-- Napoleon Bonaparte
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-- Joseph Goebbels

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ACTION ALERT!!!: LET'S COUNTER-PROTEST the Racist Anti-Immigration Protests Nation-Wide Nov.14th

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From our tireless friend, HLADC-SF's Cynthia Ibarra:   Dear Hispanic/Latino communities and friends: even though we expected it, this are really bad news. The vicious and racist anti-immigrant groups headed by: ALIPAC (William Gheen President, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, Director, Tea Party Against Amnesty) are well funded, well organized, in full force, and well ahead in their aggressive and racist anti-immigration campaigns with large protests nation-wide: Teabagger's website scheduled for Saturday Nov.14th-09 We must find a way to show counter-protests! These racist events will take place all over the country, even Alaska has joined! - In California alone there are 10 events scheduled! Including San Francisco (Location: Fisherman's Wharf Pier 39 Times: 11 AM - 2 PM), San Diego (Location: 50 Tuna Lane 'Tuna Harbor Park across from the USS Midway' Times: 11am - 1pm,); and to add more insult this racist groups scheduled an event in Sacramento's CESAR CHAVEZ PARK!!! (Location: 10th & J Street 'Downtown Sacramento Cesar Chavez Park' Times: 12 Noon - 3pm) "On their shameful actions against a National Health Plan during Town Hall Meetings, there weren't many demonstrations to counter-protest these extremists' misleading statements and outright lies, the same thing must not happen now, not again, WE MUST BE THERE TO COUNTERACT THEIR HATEFUL LIES" -- Aurora Grajeda (HLADC-SF) "We plan to hold larger scale operations in the Spring of 2010 and these events in 2009 are our warm up operations." - Said the racist: william gheen, ALIPAC These are some of their racist and ignorant rants: "Illegal Immigration is a threat to the citizens, principles and the very existence of the United States of America." "If you value your freedoms, if you value prosperity, if you value the Rule Of Law and the US Constitution, or if you simply believe that Americans should be self-governed, then you should stand with us!" "We stand against Illegal Immigration and against any form of Amnesty or path to citizenship. We stand for border security and the enforcement of our existing immigration laws." "Illegal Immigration can be stopped and reversed, if enough Americans stand up and speak out through events, rallies, calls, letters, faxes, e-mails, organizations, and the ballot box! " - william gheen, ALIPAC http://www.againstamnesty.com/index.php
Tea Party Against Amnesty and Illegal Immigration Nov. 14 (ROUND 1)" President Obama along with Republican and Democrat DC insiders are preparing a mass 'Comprehensive' Amnesty for illegal immigrants in America that will provide a path to citizenship and turn illegal aliens into voters even though a vast majority of Americans oppose this. This will only bring more ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION to America! It is time for Americans of every race, religion, and political party to unite and make it OUR MISSION to stop amnesty, stop and reverse illegal immigration, and place America back in the hands of We The People.
CALIFORNIA
City: Sacramento, CA - Street Location: 11 & N Street 'State Capitol (south steps)' - Times: 12 Noon - 3pm	City: San Francisco, CA - Street Location: Pier 39 'Fisherman's Wharf' - Times: 11am - 2pm	City: Modesto, CA - Street Location: Briggsmore Ave. and McHenry Ave. 'Intersection Protest' - Times: 10 am - 2pm
City: Big Bear Lake, CA - Street Location: Stanfield Cutoff and Big Bear Blvd - Times: 11am - 2pm	City: Los Banos, CA - Street Location: 903 East Pacheco Blvd. 'Sidwalk near Los Banos County Park' - Times: 11AM - 1PM	City: Pasadena, CA - Street Location: 100 N. Garfield Ave. 'City Hall' - Times: 10am - 12 Noon
City: Redding, CA - Street Location: Churn Creek and Cypress Avenue 'Street Corner Protest' Times: 1pm-3pm	City: Snead, Alabama - Street Location: 87127 Hwy 278 'The Jet Pep Store' - Times: 4pm - 6pm	City: Riverside, CA - Street Location: 2601 Fairmount Blvd. 'Fairmount Park' - Times: 12 Noon - 2pm
City: Salinas, CA - Street Location: 420 Central Ave 'Central Park' - Times: 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm	City: San Diego, CA - Street Location: 50 Tuna Lane 'Tuna Harbor Park across from the USS Midway' - Times: 11am - 1pm	City: Santa Maria, CA Street Location: Bradley Rd. & Betteravia Rd. 'Sidewalk In Front of Crossroads Shopping Center' - Times: 11am - 12 noon
COLORADO
City: Denver, CO - Street Location: Colfax & Lincoln West Steps of the Capitol Bldg - Times: 10am - 12 Noon	City: Durango, CO - Street Location: 149 S. Camino Del Rio Santarita Park - Times: 1-3pm
FLORIDA
City: Fort Lauderdale, FL - Street Location: N Federal Hwy & E Oakland Park Blvd - Times: 12 Noon - 3pm	City: Lake City, FL - Street Location: 173 NE Hernando Ave. 'Olustee Park Across from Court House' - Times: 1pm - 3pm	City: Sebring, FL - Street Location: 213 Circle Park Dr "Circle Park" - Times: 1pm - 3pm
City: Titusville, FL - Street Location: Hwy 50 and Hwy 405 Intersection - Times: 10am - 12 Noon
IDAHO
City: Boise, ID - Street Location: eagle rd. and fairview ave 'Intersection Protest' - Times: 10am - 12 Noon	City: Idaho Falls, ID - Street Location: Memorial and Legion Drive. 'At Veteran's Memorial' - Times: 12 Noon - 2pm	City: Post Falls, ID - Street Location: 5100 Riverbend Avenue Greyhound Park & Event Center - Times: 12-3pm
ILLINOIS
City: Chicago, IL - Street Location: Michigan Ave and Randolf Ave., Millenium Park - Times: 1-3pm	City: Decatur, IL - Street Location: Main St. and North St. 'Will march starting at intersection' - Times: 1:30pm - 3:30pm
INDIANA
City: Indianapolis, IN - Street Location: 100 N. Capitol Ave. 'Steps of State Capitol Building' - Times: 12-3pm
IOWA
City: Iowa City, IA - Street Location: Burlington Street Bridge - Times: 12 Noon - 2pm
LOUISIANA
City: Metairie, LA - Street Location: Veterans blvd. and Causeway Blvd. 'Next to Lakeside Mall' - Times: 11am - 2pm
MASSACHUSETTS
City: Wilbraham, MA - Street Location: 2001 Boston Road - Times: 8am-10am
MICHIGAN
City: Detroit, MI - Street Location: 2482 Clifford St. 'Harry's Detroit Bar and Restaurant' - Times: 7pm - 9pm	City: Waterford, MI - Street Location: 5100 Dixie Hwy. 'K-Mart Plaza' - Times: 12 Noon - 3pm
MINNESOTA
City: St. Paul, MN - Street Location: 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 'Minnesota State Capital' - Times: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
NEBRASKA
City: Grand Island, NE Street Location: 203 W. 2nd St 'Federal Building' - Times: 10am - 2pm	City: Omaha, NE - Street Location: 7200 Dodge St. 'Sidewalks Near Target' - Times: 12Noon - 2pm
NEVADA
City: Las Vegas, NV - Street Location: 500 South Grand Central Parkway 'Government Center Sidwalk' - Times: 1pm - 3pm Pacific Time
NEW JERSEY
City: Dumont, NJ - Street Location: Columbia Avenue and Washington St. - Times: 8-10am
NEW YORK
City: New York, NY - Street Location: 260 Broadway 'Manhattan: City Hall Park' - Times: 12 Noon - 2pm	City: Syracuse, NY - Street Location: 100 South Clinton St. 'James Hanley Federal Building' Times: 12 Noon - 2pm
NORTH CAROLINA
City: Raleigh, NC - Street Location: 16 W. Jones St. 'Bicentennial Mall' across from Legislature - Times: 2pm - 4pm
OHIO
City: Columbus, OH - Street Location: 1 Capital Square 'The Ohio State House' - Times: 10am - 1pm	City: Maria Stein, OH - Street Location: 8608 State Rte 119 'Knights of St John Hall' - Times: 2-3:30pm EST	City: Painesville, OH - Street Location: 7 RICHMOND STREET 'City Square Veteran Park in Gazebo' - Times: 12 Noon - 2pm
OKLAHOMA
City: McAlester, OK - Street Location: 301 E. Carl Albert Parkway 'In front of Carl Albert Federal Bldg' - Times: 12 Noon - 3pm
PENNSYLVANIA
City: Hazleton, PA - Street Location: 40 N. Church St. City Hall - Times: 2-5pm	City: Valley Forge, PA - Street Location: Valley Forge Rd & Gulph Rd 'Valley Forge National Park' - Times: 12 Noon - 4pm
SOUTH CAROLINA
City: Columbia, SC - Street Location: 1101 Gervais St. 'Steps of the State Capital' - Times: 1pm - 3pm
TEXAS
City: Austin, TX - Street Location: 1100 Congress Ave. '11th St. and Congress Ave Sidewalk' - Times: 1pm - 3pm	City: Fort Worth, TX - Street Location: 100 East Weatherford St. Tarrant County Court House - Times: 12-3pm
VIRGINIA
City: Alexandria, VA - Street Location: 333 N. Fairfax St. - Times: 11am-1pm
WASHINGTON
City: Yakima, WA - Street Location: 204 South 46th Ave. 'The Grange Building' - Times: 12:30pm - 2:00pm