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	<title>sicsal-usa.org &#187; Immigration &amp; the Border</title>
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		<title>War on Working Mothers: ICE Raids on Immigrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.  Lift up a pants leg and you can see the black plastic band and monitor which is the size of a pack of cigarettes.  Most wore sandals.  Several were obviously pregnant. From the outside the building looked like any office park. But a blue Homeland Security flag waved right next to the red white and blue out in front. Inside, the mothers were being interviewed and readied for deportation.  The crime these mothers are charged with?  Not guns, not drugs, not spying.  Working to put food on the table for their families and not being citizens of the U.S. Heavily armed federal agents stormed the Laurel Mississippi parts plant where they worked in late August.  Helicopters swarmed in an operation ABC News described as &#8220;paramilitary.&#8221;  Agents shackled hundreds of workers at the wrist, waist and ankles. About one hundred women and nearly three hundred men were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SICSAL-USA / EPICA November Solidarity Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 for territorial rights. In September, thousands of indigenous people in Cauca mobilized to reclaim their lands, challenging the domination and exclusion they have experienced for generations. Colombia, like Central America in the 1980s, is the repressive face of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. What passed for a &#8220;war against communism&#8221; in the 1980s is called a &#8220;war on drugs&#8221; or a &#8220;war against terrorists&#8221; in Colombia. Just as the U.S. supported repressive militaries in Central America, the U.S. is supporting, training and financing one of the most repressive militaries in Colombia, a government and a military intimately linked to paramilitary death squads and drug-trafficking. SICSAL-USA / EPICA Efforts to Build North &#8211; South Solidarity  In addition to his responsibilities with Justicia y Paz in Colombia, Abilio Pena shares the leadership with Nidia Arrobo of Fundacion Pueblo Indio in Ecuador of SICSAL (International Christian Service in Solidarity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border of Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 reinforcement of the border. Each day the vigilance on the border to prevent Latinos from crossing the border is more rigid. Despite these extreme measures, migrants, pressured by unemployment, hunger and violence continue to take risks in search of a better life in this country to the north. Official statistics speak of nearly 40 million immigrants in the United States, the majority of them undocumented. Their stories are heartrending. Hundreds of single women who have left their children behind to look for work in the United States are sexually abused on their journey and emotionally destroyed. Thousands of men, women and children from Central America latch onto trains going north toward the border, expose themselves to the danger of falling from the trains, as happens many times, and losing life or limb in the fall. Men from Mexico or further south, impelled by necessity, leave their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>El Salvador: The Great Migration</title>
		<link>http://www.sicsal-usa.org/2008/10/el-salvador-the-great-migration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 out of desperation. They leave to feed t h e i r families or as young people in search of work or educational opportunities, and finally, some people leave because of extortion. Here we have the desperation character; people are leaving Central America at a great cost to themselves and their families. SN: How many people are leaving? DB: The US ambassador at this time last year in an interview with a paper in Syracuse New York said that according to the US embassy 740 people were leaving a day. Obviously not all of those people are making it to the US each day, because some people were deported two days later or two weeks later from Mexico or the US and are trying their 3rd or 4th time. The US border patrol two years ago said it was intercepting on the southern border an average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solidarity with Guatemalans Detained in Immigration Raid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; the largest single-site enforcement operation of its kind in the history of the United States. Of the 390 workers reportedly detained, nearly three hundred are from Guatemala. According to statistics from the United Nations, over 125 million people throughout the world live and work outside their countries of origin. Human migration is a global phenomenon fueled by war, persecution, economic and social inequality, environmental disaster, and poverty. International migration will continue until the underlying causes forcing people from their homelands are eliminated. As Guatemalans, we are too familiar with Human Rights violations and their lasting effects. During our country&#8217;s 36-year long civil war: 200,000 people were killed or disappeared and as many as 1.5 million people were displaced internally or forced to flee the country. U.S. funding and training underwrote the war &#8211; leaving the country in shambles and forcing many to leave. Those of us able to publicly sign this letter and our [...]]]></description>
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