Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with immigration www.salem-news.com 2010 Jesus Navarro could die without a kidney transplant. His wife is a match, and he has health insurance. But because Jesus is undocumented, a state medical center is refusing to perform surgery, essentially leaving Jesus to die. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/transplant-denial.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/transplant-denial.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:10:00 PST Hanna Jaeckel had made up her mind. After carefully considering the current economic and political situation in the United States, the sixty- seven year old Danish –born woman weeded through a lifetime of possessions, packed up her Chevrolet SUV and, accompanied by her Rottweiler Katinka, took off for the Mexican border. http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/danish-national-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/danish-national-jp.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:39:00 PST In 1998, Hurricane Mitch ravaged Honduras and Nicaragua and resulted in the loss and displacement of hundreds of thousands of families who established roots in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Community organizations have formed a coalition and are launching a campaign to promote Permanent Residency for TPS beneficiaries from Central America. http://salem-news.com/articles/january272012/jewish-circumcision.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january272012/jewish-circumcision.php Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:35:00 PST Tomorrow, (Saturday, January 21st) we will host our 14th Annual Statewide Immigrant Action Day at Chemeketa Community College in Salem. The day long event will bring together delegations from Portland, Gresham, Cornelius, Hillsboro, Eugene, Springfield, Beaverton, Bend, Redmond, Madras, Sisters, Woodburn, Independence, Dayton, Dallas, Silverton, Lincoln City and St. Helens and Vancouver, Washington. http://salem-news.com/articles/january202012/immigrant-day.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january202012/immigrant-day.php Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:07:00 PST In an e-mail to constituents this month, El Paso Congressman Silvestre Reyes lauded the November opening of a new, high-tech pedestrian crossing system at the Paso del Norte (Santa Fe) Bridge between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso. With assistance from the Unisys Corporation, the maze-like system uses a combination of revolving doors, hand-held mobile devices and radio frequency identification (RFID) to process US passports; ten fingerprint biometric capture devices were also installed for inclusion in the system, according to Unisys. http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/border-crossing-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/border-crossing-kp.php Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:58:00 PST Migrant advocates in the southern New Mexico borderland plan to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Saturday, December 10. http://salem-news.com/articles/december062011/migrant-honors-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december062011/migrant-honors-kp.php Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:31:00 PST The last four years have been a rough road for Mexican immigrants in the US. Anti-immigrant laws in Arizona, Alabama and other states have disrupted lives and sent people packing, while record deportations have uprooted longtime residents and divided families. If public policy shifts weren't enough, economic tremors have clobbered the Mexican immigrant community. That's according to a report by BBVA Research, an arm of the BBVA bank in Mexico. http://salem-news.com/articles/november282011/immigrant-crisis.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november282011/immigrant-crisis.php Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:12:00 PST Summary executions, bodies of raped women, and families hiding from bombs in hastily dug trenches. The images shown in a recent Channel Four documentary bring back memories of tragedies such as the killing fields in Cambodia and the genocide in former Yugoslavia. But these massacres occurred just two years ago in Sri Lanka, at the bloody end of a conflict that had been going on for more than twenty-five years. http://salem-news.com/articles/september302011/killing-fields-dp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september302011/killing-fields-dp.php Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:49:00 PDT There was anticipation, and on the side of the government trepidation, that the Human Rights Council gathering in Geneva in mid-September would produce some fireworks. The outcome so far has been tame (writing on 20 September) though not without moments of theatre – for example HRC Commissioner Navi Pillay’s opening remarks about Sri Lanka having, Sri Lanka's suffering terrorist acts, "but the response of successive governments over the years has undermined independent institutions, human rights and the rule of law". http://salem-news.com/articles/september292011/sri-lanka-src-kd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september292011/sri-lanka-src-kd.php Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:03:00 PDT Frantic efforts by lawyers in London to prevent an aircraft, chartered by the British government, from forcibly returning failed asylum-seekers to Sri Lanka have succeeded in delaying the plane’s scheduled departure. Immigration lawyers have been seeking last-minute stays on the grounds that returnees – many of whom have claimed past links with the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – risk interrogation and torture on arrival back in Sri Lanka. http://salem-news.com/articles/september282011/deportation-halted-jm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september282011/deportation-halted-jm.php Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:12:00 PDT Although I have written only sparingly about the ATF’s misguided attempts to sell and track guns as they went into Mexico, Operation Fast and Furious, I have followed it with some interest. It is the best example of a sting operation gone bad and as a result, people have died, including one of our own Border Patrol agents. As a direct result of Fast and Furious, Agent Brian Terry was killed with a weapon that was traced back to the operation. http://salem-news.com/articles/september232011/fast-furious-ldj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september232011/fast-furious-ldj.php Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:14:00 PDT The fingerprints of the CIA have surfaced in a controversial federal criminal case pending in Chicago against Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, an alleged kingpin in the Sinaloa “drug cartel.” US government prosecutors filed pleadings in the case late last week seeking to invoke the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), a measure designed to assure national security information does not surface in public court proceedings. http://salem-news.com/articles/september122011/cartel-immunity-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september122011/cartel-immunity-bc.php Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:09:00 PDT Defying the stormy skies of a late summer monsoon season, immigrants and their supporters had a message for New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez: http://salem-news.com/articles/september032011/immigrant-fight-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september032011/immigrant-fight-kp.php Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:54:00 PDT In May 2011, Mexican investigators uncovered another mass clandestine grave with dozens of mutilated corpses; bringing the total number of victims to 40,000 killed since 2006 when the Calderon regime announced its “war on drug traffickers” Backed by advisers, agents and arms, the White House has been the principal promotor of a ‘war’ that has totally decimated Mexico’s society and economy. http://salem-news.com/articles/august302011/war-genocide-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august302011/war-genocide-jp.php Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:54:00 PDT Crossings and detentions of undocumented migrants might be sharply down on the US-Mexico border, but many people stuck on the international line face stark conditions. Despite the well-known dangers and difficulties in crossing the border without papers, migrants continue attempting almost Herculean feats to reach the US. And more than a few die on the journey to the Promised Land. http://salem-news.com/articles/july132011/migrant-heartbreak.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july132011/migrant-heartbreak.php Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:30:00 PDT In the closing days of the campaign for the key 3 July gubernatorial election in Mexico’s most populated state, migration reemerged as one of the local issues. At a 23rd June meeting in the Mexico state town of Tonatico, center-left candidate Alejandro Encinas Rodriguez agreed to a five-point action plan on migrant-related issues if he is elected governor. http://salem-news.com/articles/june282011/mexican-election.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june282011/mexican-election.php Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:58:00 PDT The recent raid of a stash site on the Mexican side of the border suspected of containing a cache of guns and/or drugs is drawing attention once again to the U.S. border town of Columbus, N.M. This is where 11 people, including the mayor, police chief and a village trustee, were recently indicted on gun-running charges. http://salem-news.com/articles/june202011/tosh-mexico-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june202011/tosh-mexico-bc.php Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:19:00 PDT On Memorial Day, Albuquerque resident Michael Brown embarked on a run of more than 260-miles to the US-Mexico border. The long-distance runner began his marathon at the spot where the bodies of 11 murdered women were found on Albuquerque’s West Mesa back in February 2009. Headed south, the US Navy veteran stopped at a grave site to honor his fallen military brethren and then visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Truth or Consequences, NM. http://salem-news.com/articles/june182011/grito-de-el-paso-kp-2.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june182011/grito-de-el-paso-kp-2.php Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:19:00 PDT Completing an epic journey across Mexico, the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity arrived late last week to a tumultuous welcome in Ciudad Juarez. It's the place where the beleaguered border city poet and caravan organizer Javier Sicilia calls Mexico’s “epicenter of pain.” http://salem-news.com/articles/june162011/ciudad-juarez-kp-1.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june162011/ciudad-juarez-kp-1.php Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:47:00 PDT Perhaps historians surveying the course of human events can identify for a land beyond Palestine, where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population prepared to depart, while those with actual millennial roots; victims of ethnic cleansing, seek their right of Return. Studies show as many as half of Israel's Jews will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. http://salem-news.com/articles/june032011/israeli-passports-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june032011/israeli-passports-fl.php Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:25:00 PDT In the long view of history, one hundred years is a flash in the pan. A mere century ago, the US-Mexico border county of Dona Ana was a different world. Upriver, there was no Elephant Butte Dam to channel and store the Rio Grande that waters the vast pecan forest and many export crops that today cover large parts of the county. http://salem-news.com/articles/may252011/border-economy-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may252011/border-economy-kp.php Wed, 25 May 2011 00:24:00 PDT Dancing to the soaring cumbia sounds of Frontera Bugalu, a large crowd inaugurated El Paso’s newest gem this month. The fruit of patient planners and grassroots visionaries, Museo Urbano (Urban Museum) is now a reality. http://salem-news.com/articles/may132011/border-history-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may132011/border-history-kp.php Fri, 13 May 2011 01:24:00 PDT Five years ago, possibly millions of people marched across the US demanding justice for the nation’s estimated 12 million undocumented residents. Hitting a high point with work stoppages on May Day 2006, the pro-immigrant protest was the largest social movement in the US since the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War years. http://salem-news.com/articles/april242011/immigration-stalemate-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april242011/immigration-stalemate-kp.php Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:44:00 PDT In widely separated parts of Mexico, many people ask the same troubling question: Are our loved ones among the 145 dead found in the mass graves near San Fernando, Tamaulipas? That’s been the question tearing at families in San Pedro Pochutla, a town in the southern state of Oaxaca. Last summer, ten townspeople set off on a long journey to the northern border state of Tamaulipas. http://salem-news.com/articles/april212011/death-tamaulipas.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april212011/death-tamaulipas.php Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:28:00 PDT Shrouded in burka-like attire, the anonymous woman was suddenly transformed into “nobody.” http://salem-news.com/articles/april062011/struggle-war.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april062011/struggle-war.php Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:57:00 PDT Below is a statement from Senate Majority Leader Diane Rosenbaum on the passage of SB 742, legislation that grants in-state tuition to students entering the Oregon University System that have attended and graduated from an Oregon high school, been admitted to an Oregon University, and who are actively working toward U.S. citizenship: This bill gives students fair tuition rates, nothing more. http://salem-news.com/articles/march302011/tuition-equality.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march302011/tuition-equality.php Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:27:00 PDT Democracy is a verb, not a noun. It’s an active condition, not merely a state of existence. A journey, and not a destination. Since February 11, I’ve kept these words clearly in my mind since I watched the protestors cheering in Cairo, from Tahrir Square, lately dubbed Independence Square, to the Nile River. http://salem-news.com/articles/march252011/democracy-verb-dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march252011/democracy-verb-dj.php Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:02:00 PDT Mexico-US border police chiefs were at the top of the news in recent days. In a bitter twist to an almost fairytale story that captured the imagination of the US and Mexican press, the 20-year-old police chief of a small town in the blood-soaked Juarez Valley, Marisol Valles, fled to the US seeking political asylum last week. http://salem-news.com/articles/march132011/high-noon-ciudad.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march132011/high-noon-ciudad.php Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:31:00 PDT In Ciudad Juarez and other parts of Mexico, the killings of children and young people are now routine headlines. In particular, the last week has been a rough time for many families in the border city. http://salem-news.com/articles/march032011/children-slaughter.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march032011/children-slaughter.php Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:36:00 PST Stunned by the murders of three people whose lives they tried to save, human rights activists in Ciudad Juarez vow nevertheless to press forward with their movement for justice. On Saturday, February 26, Elias Reyes Salazar, his sister Magdalena Reyes and Luisa Ornelas, the wife of Elias Reyes, were laid to rest in the rural Juarez Valley south of the city. http://salem-news.com/articles/march012011/las-cruces-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march012011/las-cruces-kp.php Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:15:00 PST