- Submitted by Anemone Mars of the Narragansett Nation of Rhode Island aka the Front Lines from approx around 1600...
Anyone else have any commentary about Arizona's recent plan for State sanctioned racial profiling?
Monday, April 26, 2010
in response to Arizona:
"BREAKING NEWS: The National Congress of American Indians has announced the deportation of all Non-Indigenous peoples effective at midnight standard Indian Time. If you cannot provide papers to prove your ancestry before 1492 you will be fined and all your assets seized without compensation."
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≈ Great post... BOO Arizona! ≈
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ReplyDelete"i am a human wishing earth was the only country. the rest is a bad dream."
Here's more information about the event my friend Paige is putting together on May 21st. Hopefully we can get something together to perform!
ReplyDeleteImmigration Awareness: Bringing Home the Border
Old Union Courtyard, May 21, 5pm-8pm
Immigration Awareness Forum
Stanford students highlight issues of immigration reform relating to education, poverty, health, sustainability, and other social issues.
Art & Music Affair
Members of the Stanford community will share artwork relating to immigration issues in the form of still or performance pieces, including poetry, paintings, drawings, song, and dance.
Activities Fair
Co-sponsoring groups will be able to set up booths or tables at the end to spread awareness about their causes and recruit new members.
Poverty
* Immigrants are 50% more likely to be living in poverty than the U.S.-born.
* 33% of immigrant-headed families receive welfare services, compared to 19% of families born in the U.S.
* Despite significant progress across generations, even immigrants who have lived here for 20+ years are more likely to live in poverty.
Foreign aid/community service
* 17% of immigrants and their U.S.-born children live below the poverty line.
* Low education levels is the primary reason for the high rates of immigrant poverty, lack of health insurance, and welfare use.
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Battered women, fearful of deportation, are especially vulnerable and do not report domestic abuse crimes.
Health focus
* Since 1994, over 5000 migrant bodies have been found in the borderlands, individuals who perished while crossing due to exposure to the elements.
* Women immigrants especially suffer from gender inequities in the health care system, often denied proper prenatal care while in detention centers.
* 34 percent of immigrants lack health insurance, compared to 13 percent of the U.S.-born.
Queer Community
* There are an estimated 35,820 binational same-sex couples who reported to the most recent Census.
* Nearly 16,000 (or 47% of) binational couples reported to be raising children in the home.
* LGBT and HIV-positive immigrants are particularly vulnerable in immigrant detention centers as a result of little protection and lack of health care.
Kids and education
* About 9% of Border Patrol apprehensions are children under the age of 17.
* In 2007, more than 8,300 unaccompanied children were held in detention centers across the U.S., often under inappropriate conditions.
* Every year, 65,000 undocumented youth graduate high school and find themselves with little opportunities and no benefits such as financial aid.
Sustainability/environment
* Homeland Security voided all federal environmental laws to build segments of the border wall in Arizona.
* Freedom of movement is critical to healthy wildlife populations, and border walls block wildlife movement. Humans just find their way around.
* Legally protected natural resources are damaged, and rare and endangered wildlife are disturbed, by increased activities of the Border Patrol.