By Bill Quigley Is this what our nation has come to? War against unarmed working mothers? Have we no shame? Dozens of petite young mothers gathered this week in the parking lot outside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Mississippi. Each wore a long dress or pants to hide their electronic ankle bracelets. ...
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Colombia Human Rights Tour in November Last month, SICSAL-USA / EPICA hosted a month-long tour throughout the United States of a Colombian human rights activist, Abilio Pena, who received two death threats over the summer. Abilio works with the Inter-ecclesial Commission for Human Rights accompanying a dozen different struggles of Afro-colombian and indigenous communities...
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By Abilio Pena, Inter-ecclesial Commission on Justice and Peace, Colombia / SICSAL November 2008 Since 1994, more than 5,000 people have died trying to cross the border that separates Mexico from the United States. During the 1990s, the migratory route changed from the border towns to the Arizona desert, as a result of the...
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CRISPAZ Interview with Dean Brackley, SJ Reprinted from SALVANET, Winter 2007 Salvanet (SN): Dean, you recently returned from a speaking tour on Immigration in the States. Can you enlighten us on the depth and importance of this topic? Dean Brackley (DB): The situation here in El Salvador is unbelievably bad. The majority is migrating...
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Solidarity with Guatemalans Detained in Immigration Raid Potsville, Iowa, Summer 2008 By Amalia Anderson, Carlos Ariel, Axel Fuentes, Reginaldo Haslett Marroquin, and Ana Nijera Mendoza As Guatemalans (by birth and by family origin) living in the United States we strongly condemn the Postville, Iowa raid – the largest single-site enforcement operation of its kind...
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