Posted on 2009 October 27 by BBVM
Summary
United States Department of State Passport Bulletin 96-18. This bulletin confirms that the Department of State holds a different interpretation than the Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding Derivative Citizenship. Derivative Citizenship refers to U.S. citizenship that a child may derive after birth through the naturalization of a [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 22 by BBVM
ICE Announces Standardized 287(g) Agreements With 67 State and Local Law Enforcement Partners
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has just announced that it will continue with its partnership agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies which tasks these agencies with helping to enforce federal immigration [...]
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Posted on 2009 September 22 by BBVM
ADELANTO • A private prison operator has plans to build a 2,200-bed detention center that holds illegal immigrants on 51 acres near two other local prisons.
The Adelanto City Council will decide on Wednesday whether to approve the GEO Group Inc.’s development plan and conditional use permit to construct a new [...]
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Posted on 2009 September 21 by BBVM
[ Note: The firm mentioned, Eastcor Engineering, is listed with the phone number (410) 820-5521. This number is also listed to David Jackson, Jen McMaster and George Vojtech, all at the same address. ]
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit of the Department of Homeland Security is planning to [...]
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Posted on 2009 September 17 by BBVM
DEA says key ICE official sold info about informants, ran Panamanian cocaine to Spain via US ports
Richard Padilla Cramer, a 26-year veteran anti-drug official, is behind bars, arrested after officials accused him of directing a massive cocaine shipment to Spain via the United States, and selling important information in law [...]
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Posted on 2009 September 1 by BBVM
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano recently announced two new directives aimed at improving oversight for searches of computers and electronic decides at U.S. entry ports. This is viewed as an important move to support DHS efforts to “combat transnational crime and terrorism while protecting [...]
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Posted on 2009 August 24 by BBVM
SAN DIEGO — The chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says agents searching for people who ignore deportation orders will continue to arrest others in the country illegally who happen to be around when they show up.
John Morton spoke to reporters Wednesday in San Diego about ICE’s fugitive operations [...]
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Posted on 2009 August 21 by BBVM
The man who boasts he is “America’s Toughest Sheriff” — and who is being investigated by the Department of Justice for civil rights violations — this week added another lawsuit to thousands already pending against him.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Arizona are suing Joe Arpaio, the [...]
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Posted on 2009 August 19 by BBVM
In response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed yesterday that the government had failed to disclose 11 more deaths in immigration detention facilities.
In April, DHS officials released what they called a comprehensive list of all deaths [...]
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Posted on 2009 August 13 by BBVM
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has just announced a Major Overhaul to the immigration detention system in the United States. This announcement comes in the wake of intense criticism over the past months and years over immigration detention practices in the U.S. and amidst hopes that the new [...]
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Posted on 2009 July 25 by BBVM
Constitution on ICE: A Report on Immigration Home Raid Operations
The Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic has just released this report which cites widespread constitutional violations from immigration home raids conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in recent years. “This report is the first public effort to compile and [...]
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Posted on 2009 July 25 by BBVM
After federal border agents detained several Mexican immigrants in western New York in June, an article about the incident in a local newspaper drew an onslaught of vitriolic postings on its Web site. Some were racist. Others attacked farmers in the region, an apple-growing area east of Rochester, accusing them [...]
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Posted on 2009 July 17 by BBVM
Two flat-screen televisions loom large in a small booking office at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
Federally trained San Bernardino County sheriff’s employees use the screens to patch into other jails, some nearly 100 miles away, to identify inmates eligible for deportation.
For the past seven months, the Sheriff’s [...]
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Posted on 2009 June 23 by BBVM
Raids on Workers: Destroying Our Rights: A Comprehensive Analysis and Investigation of ICE Raids and Their Ramifications
This report from the National Commission on ICE Misconduct and Violations of 4th Amendment Rights investigates recent ICE workplace raids in the United States. “On December 12, 2006, the Bush administration conducted [...]
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Posted on 2009 May 26 by BBVM
May 7, 2009
Yesterday, 72 Mexican civil society organizations and a Brigadier General of the Mexican Army sent the following letter to US Congress demanding that all military aid to Mexico be immediately halted. The letter comes as the US House of Representative is considering more than doubling 2009 funding for the war [...]
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Posted on 2009 May 26 by BBVM
Download document here.
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Posted on 2009 May 24 by BBVM
A new generation of thugs is being trained for post-9/11 law enforcement. From the New York Times:
The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and [...]
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Posted on 2009 May 8 by BBVM
The news media are rife with stories about Mexican drug cartels operating throughout the United States and drug-related violence threatening U.S. cities near the border. Americans are becoming reluctant to cross into Mexican towns for fear of getting caught in the crossfire.
Do we need another reason to end the [...]
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Posted on 2009 April 24 by BBVM
Monday, April 20 2009 CLAREMONT, California– Despite the right wing’s efforts at deception and obfuscation, pro-immigrant, pro-human rights, anti-racist, and community activists organized strong opposition to the arrival of anti-immigrant extremist Jim Gilchrist to our neighborhood.
A group called the Mountain View Republican Club invited Gilchrist to speak at an [...]
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Posted on 2009 April 20 by BBVM
Drug Control: Better Coordination With the Department of Homeland Security and an Updated Accountability Framework Can Further Enhance DEA’s Efforts to Meet Post-9/11 Responsibilities
“Given the global context of the war on drugs-coupled with growing recognition since September 11, 2001 (9/11), of the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism-the mission [...]
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Posted on 2009 April 16 by BBVM
L.A. County Network Against Police Murder and AbuseICE Raids and Police Brutality Teach-In
• PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVE BEEN BATTLING POLICE BRUTALITY FOR YEARS
• NOW THE POLICE ARE WORKING TO DEPORT PEOPLE AND TEAR APART FAMILIES
• COME LEARN ABOUT THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ICE AGENTS AND LOCAL POLICE
MONDAY, APRIL 20TH
6:30 PM
AFIBA CENTER
5730 S. CRENSHAW
LOS ANGELES, CA
FOR [...]
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Posted on 2009 April 1 by BBVM
Naturalizations in the United States: 2008
U.S. Legal Permanent Residents: 2008
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics has just released these two statistical reports which provide information on U.S. legal permanent residents and naturalizations for the year 2008. These reports are part of an ongoing [...]
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Posted on 2009 March 2 by BBVM
Despite the “Largest and Hardest Hitting Operation to Ever Target” the Sinaloa Cartel, the DEA is Merely Treading Water in the War on Drugs
On February 25, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) held a press conference celebrating the culmination of Operation Xcellerator, which it says resulted in the arrests [...]
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Posted on 2009 March 1 by BBVM
Thousands of opponents of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s illegal-immigration policies held their “March to Stop the Hate” in downtown Phoenix on Saturday..
As of 1:30 p.m., the speeches were still being made at the march’s destination, the federal building. According to initial reports, the march was peaceful, with no major incidents as [...]
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Posted on 2009 February 19 by BBVM
WASHINGTON – House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), and Immigration Subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Constitution Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Crime Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) called on Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to investigate allegations of misconduct [...]
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Posted on 2009 February 13 by BBVM
When I flew home from Washington, DC after a business trip last week, the TSA agent asked to test my laptop. I politely asked what they were testing for. It was just routine she told me. And she’s right, it has become routine, a much too routine standard operating procedure [...]
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Posted on 2009 January 22 by BBVM
See also:
Domestic Militarization Comes to San Bernardino County
Patriot Act – The War on Civil Liberties
The Second Amendment Versus The Police State?
Veterans for Peace (VFP) Opposes Combat Brigade’s Permanent U.S. Assignment
Assignment America: Keep juries dumb
Excellent Article on the Corrupt Prison-Industrial Complex
Court Rules Patriot Act’s “National Security Letter” Gag Provisions Unconstitutional
SoCal [...]
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Posted on 2008 December 30 by BBVM
Yes, we reporters might get stuck covering the late shift or — egad! — a parade. When disaster strikes or a source calls back on deadline, the nights can be long. Newspaper layoffs and hard economic times can cast a pall over just about everything we do.
But those concerns seem a [...]
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Posted on 2008 December 7 by BBVM
On January 17, 1920, The 18th Amendment went into effect and what is known as Prohibition became reality. What did not become reality were the predictions of the benefits it would have vis-a-vis Organized Crime.
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Posted on 2008 November 30 by BBVM
The 163rd Air National Guard at March Air Reserve Base is beginning a new mission.
After two years of being the only National Guard unit to fly unmanned Predator drones in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it will begin training the next crop of Predator pilots. The goal is to increase the military’s capacity for [...]
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Posted on 2008 November 29 by BBVM
A new poll from Rasmussen Reports indicates that although Americans strongly support the saying of the Pledge of Allegience, less than half of them believe that “the United States is truly the land of liberty and justice for all.”
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Posted on 2008 November 27 by BBVM
OCEANSIDE — Two years after his arrest, a former Marine gunnery sergeant is talking about the FBI, CIA and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement files he stole from Camp Pendleton for a civilian agency.
In interviews with The San Diego Union-Tribune, Gary Maziarz, 39, said “dozens of files” he gave the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning [...]
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Posted on 2008 November 27 by BBVM
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Posted on 2008 November 26 by BBVM
On November 17, U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) concluded Vigilant Shield 09 (VS09), described in a press release as a training exercise focused on “homeland defense and civil support.”
Launched by President Bush in 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, NORTHCOM has been mired [...]
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Posted on 2008 November 22 by BBVM
USA has no remorse over its brazen acts of aggression and rationalizes its invasion and destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq as compulsory acts to ensure security of its homeland. It justifies its offensive actions under Article 51 of UN charter. It is now trying to justify its intended offensive against Pakistan under the same Act [...]
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Posted on 2008 November 20 by BBVM
The military industrial complex has absorbed a huge amount of our economy and the military has transformed local law enforcement by giving them billions of dollars in military equipment. We are rapidly being reduced to a nation whose economy primarily employs industry that supports the military, government, policing and prison systems.
If we don’t slam the [...]
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Posted on 2008 November 19 by BBVM
When one walks into a business, most often you are greeted. As part of treating customers as their very livelihood, companies usually enact policies that make it a requirement for employees to acknowledge the arrival of a client or customer.
Imagine, however, if instead of getting a “hello” or “good morning,” the manager of the store [...]
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Posted on 2008 November 19 by BBVM
One of the many flying contraptions that buzz above the desert crashed Monday morning near El Mirage Dry Lake.
But details about the crash remain a mystery. No one will claim responsibility for what local officials said was an ultralight drone. It’s not clear why the device crashed or what purpose it served before its demise.
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Posted on 2008 November 19 by BBVM
TUCSON — The bad news is that the US Border Patrol has four drones flying out of Fort Huachuca over the US/Mexico border for surveillance. One drone has already crashed near Nogales and these unmanned aerial planes, provided first by Israel’s Apartheid spy technology maker, Elbit Systems, are a risk to the lives of those [...]
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Posted on 2008 October 13 by BBVM
The family of a Pomona man who died from accidental electrocution while in custody at a Lancaster immigrant detention center has filed a wrongful-death suit against several government agencies, raising new questions about safety as national authorities crack down on immigration violations.
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