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In This Issue: 1) US Deported 400K+ immigrants (Pg 1) 2) US Expelling US Citizens (Pg 1) 3) ICE Detainee death (Pg 3) 4) Court Orders Release of Key ICE Memorandum (Pg 3) 5) Counties Vow Not to Detain Immigrants on ICE’s Behalf (Pg 4) 6) Somali women demand justice (Pg 5) 7) LA Car Wash Worker’s Union (Pg 5) 8) Updates, _Please Support NISN!_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/Nov11NewsAlert.html#donate) _Subscribe the Newsletter!_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/Nov11NewsAlert.html#newsletter) (Pg 6) Please download our latest newsletter: _http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Newsletter/Nov11.pdf_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Newsletter/Nov11.pdf) Message from National Immigrant Solidarity Network: Many activist across the county are occupying their community to protest again the greedy top 1% and the corrupted U.S. government policies, immigrant rights activist should also joining this powerful movement to occupy their local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office to protest against their racist anti-immigrant policies! National Immigrant Solidarity Network ____________________________________ US Deported over 400,000 immigrants for the Past 12 Months, 18,000 to El Salvador Voices from El Salvador - October 23, 2011 In the past twelve months, the United States government has deported over 400,000 immigrants back to their countries of origin, and according to a report by El Faro, 95% of the deportees were Latin American. The number of deportees has risen by 40,000 since 2008 when almost 350,000 people were deported from the U.S. The vast majority (286,893) of the deportees were Mexican. The country with the second most deportees is Guatemala (33,324). Honduras is third (23,822) and El Salvador is fourth (18,870). Of those deported, 55% had been charged with some crime in the U.S. President Obama ran on a platform that included immigration reform as one of his top priorities, but we have still seen no action other than a failed attempt at passing the Dream Act. Certainly much of the inaction on reform is attributable to the Tea Party Movement and the extreme positions taken by the Republican presidential candidates, who seem to stumble over each other to take the most extreme position possible on immigration enforcement. According to the online journal Infowars, immigration enforcement has been a cash cow for private prisons. There are 2 million immigrants in private prisons in the United States. The government pays these prisons $45-130 per day for their detention. Though the political climate is not favorable to immigration reform, our politicians need to at least keep trying and we have to keep this issue on the front on the front page of the papers. Let’s Fight Back! Workers win contract with country's first unionized car wash Los Angeles Times - October 25, 2011 Workers at a Southern California car wash have organized and won a labor contract with their employers, making it what’s believed to be the only unionized car wash in the country. The agreement, to be announced at a press conference Tuesday morning, is between some 30 car wash workers and the Sikder family, owners of Bonus Car Wash, at 2800 Lincoln Blvd. in Santa Monica, according to the contract The Times has received. As part of the agreement, the family has agreed to attempt to reopen Marina Car Wash in Venice, which had closed and had employed another 30 workers, said Chloe Osmer of the Community Labor Environmental Action Network (CLEAN), a group formed to organize car-wash workers. The contract calls for small pay increases of 2%. Its greater importance, Osmer said, is that it calls for owners to abide by state labor law regarding car wash working conditions, such as work breaks and when workers can clock in. It also provides a procedure for hearing workers' grievances and requires any new owners of the car wash to abide by the contract. In the past, workers would be asked to show up for work at a certain time, but then not allowed to clock in until customers began arriving. Work breaks were also limited, said Eduardo Tapia, a Bonus worker for five years. “It was a two-year struggle,” said Tapia. Now, “we have 10 more minutes of break. We have our water to drink. If they say show up at work at 10:30, I start work at 10:30.” Times’ telephone calls to Bonus Car Wash and the Sikder family attorney requesting comment were not returned. Counties Vow Not to Detain Immigrants on ICE’s Behalf Color Line - October, 2011 Issue Cooperating with the federal government’s immigration enforcement agenda may be mandatory for local law enforcement, but localities are finding ways around the federal government’s programs. Last week northern California’s Santa Clara County became the latest locality to pass an ordinance that will likely curb the number of its residents who get handed over to federal immigration authorities through the immigration enforcement program Secure Communities. That same week, Washington, D.C. mayor Vincent Gray signed an executive order reaffirming the rights of D.C. residents not to get harassed by law enforcement officers about their immigration status. These announcements are the latest in a string of similar moves from other counties which have attempted to push back on the federal government’s interpretation of its Secure Communities program. S-Comm, as the initiative is often called, allows immigration officials to check the fingerprints of everyone booked into a local or county jail against federal immigration records. Even if the person is wrongfully arrested or never charged with any crime, they become subject to deportation if they’re found to be undocumented. If a match is found, Immigration and Customs Enforcement — if it doesn’t already have an agent posted inside the local jail — will call local law enforcement and ask them to detain a person while ICE agents come down to the jail to take them away for detention proceedings. Santa Clara County has now determined that enforcing such detainers for ICE are “requests” from the federal government which it’s under no obligation to carry out. It’s further argued that holding onto people in county jails for ICE is a costly financial burden that localities, which are not reimbursed by the federal government, should not to have enforce. “Today is historic,” said Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa on the day of the vote, New America Media reported. “We now have the most progressive policy in this field, and the whole nation will be looking at us as Santa Clara County makes it official: we don’t do ICE’s job.” Washington, D.C. Mayor Gray signed an executive order that also promised to stop the practice of holding onto people for ICE longer than the legally mandated 48-hour period, which localities have done as a courtesy to the federal agency. “We’re not going to be instruments of federal law when it comes to immigration status,” Gray said last week, Washington D.C.’s WTOP reported. Such resistance comes as the federal government is pushing harder and harder to limit states’ attempts to opt out of the once-optional program. This past summer, after the governors of Illinois, New York and Massachusetts all attempted to opt out or distance their states from the program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responded by canceling every contract it had drawn up with participating states. DHS argued that the program was not optional after all. The program has been a cornerstone of the Obama administration’s deportation agenda, and been a primary driver of the administration’s record-breaking deportation rates. While the loudest resistance to the program has come from immigrant rights advocates, local law enforcement officers have also been vocal in their criticisms. Traditionally, immigration violations are civil offenses that are not enforced by local law enforcement. But that’s no longer the case. The school of thinking among a growing number of law enforcement experts, and not just immigrant advocates, is that forcing police to help the federal government enforce immigration law breaks down trust in a community, and hampers police officers’ ability to do their primary job of ensuring public safety. Partnerships between local law enforcement and immigration officials “ creates the very distinct impression that police are agents of ICE,” said Stephen Smith, the organizing director of the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights. “And if you think the police are agents and you are part of a mixed status family, you don’t call the police and you don’t report crimes on your own.” Earlier this summer San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessy, citing exactly this reasoning, announced that he’d no longer honor ICE detainer requests for people who were arrested by not charged with a crime; those who were victims of domestic violence and those with no prior criminal record. Last month Illinois’ Cook County, where the cost of detaining people on behalf of ICE amounts to $15.7 million dollars a year, passed a local ordinance similar to Santa Clara County’s. Smith credited local law enforcement officials in Illinois and around the country for providing leadership on the issue to get these ordinances passed. “The unsung heroes in this are the law enforcement officials who are providing legitimacy to claims that if anything, these programs make us less safe, not more safe,” Smith said. While other attempts to end participation in Secure Communities have not been successful, localities have been able to assert this kind of resistance so far. “I think what sheriffs and what localities are doing in setting this trend is totally within their right and within their scope of local jurisdiction, ” said B. Loewe, a spokesperson with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, which is organizing to dismantle Secure Communities. “How their agencies respond to [detainer] requests is within their purview.” “Jurisdictions who ignore detainers bear the risk of possible dangers to public safety,” ICE spokesperson Gillian Christensen said this summer, US News reported. According to Smith, such framing is a disingenuous ploy, since local ordinances that limit localities’ cooperation with detainer requests do not bar the federal government from picking up the tab for these costs. Secure Communities is slated to be operational across the entire country by 2013. Please download our latest newsletter: _http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Newsletter/Nov11.pdf_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Newsletter/Nov11.pdf) Past NISN News Letters _Winter 2011_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/Winter11NewsAlert.html) | _Summer 2011_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/Summer11NewsAlert.html) | _Fall 2011_ (http://w ww.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/Fall11NewsAlert.html) | _September - October 2009_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/Sep-Oct09NewsAlert.html) | _Spring 2010_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/Spring10NewsAlert.html) | _Fall 2010_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/Fall10NewsAlert.html) | _October-Novermber 10_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/Oct-Nov10NewsAlert.html) _May - June 2009_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/May-June09NewsAlert.html) | _March - April 2009_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/March-April09NewsAlert.html) | _January - February 2009_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/Jan-Feb09NewsAlert.html) | _November - December 2008_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/News/Nov-Dec08NewsAlert.html) ____________________________________ Useful Immigrant Resources on Detention and Deportation Face Sheet: _Immigration Detention--Questions and Answers_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/detq&aflier.pdf) (Dec, 2008) by: _http://www.thepoliticsofimmigration.org_ (http://www.thepoliticsofimmigration.org/) Thanks for GREAT works from Detention Watch Network (DWN) to compiled the following information, please visit DWN website: _http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org_ (http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/) _Tracking ICE's Enforcement Agenda_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/DWN/4.%20Tracking%20ICE%20Enforcement%20Agenda.doc) _Real Deal fact sheet on detention_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/DWN/5.%20Real%20Deal%20fact%20sheet%20on%20detention.pdf) _Real Deal fact sheet on border_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/DWN/6.%20Real%20Deal%20fact%20sheet%20on%20border.pdf) - _From Raids to Deportation-A Community Resource Kit_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/DWN/39.%20From%20Raids%20to%20Deportation--A%20Com munity%20Resource%20Kit.pdf) - Know Your Rights in the Community (_English_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/DWN/40.%20Know%20your%20Rights%20in%20Community%20--%20Eng lish.pdf) , _Spanish_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/DWN/41.%20Know%20Your%20Rights%20in%20Community%20--%20Spanish.pdf) ) - _Know Your Rights in Detention_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/DWN/42.%20Know%20Your%20Rights%20in%20Detention.pdf) - _Pre-Raid Community Safety Plan_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/DWN/43.%20Pre%20Raid%20Community%20Safety%20Plan.pdf) - _Raids to Deportation Map_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/DWN/44.%20Raids%20to%20Deportation%20Map.pdf) - _Raids to Deportation Policy Map_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Documents/DWN/45.%20Raids%20to%20Deportation%20Policy%20Map.pdf) More on Immigration Resource Page _http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/resource.htm_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/resource.htm) Useful Handouts and Know Your Immigrant Rights When Marches Immigrant Marches / Marchas de los Inmigrantes (By ACLU) EN ESPAÑOL _Acerca de la Union Americana de Libertades Civiles_ (http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/espanol/index.html) Immigrants and their supporters are participating in marches all over the country to protest proposed national legislation and to seek justice for immigrants. The materials available here provide important information about the rights and risks involved for anyone who is planning to participate in the ongoing marches. If government agents question you, it is important to understand your rights. You should be careful in the way you speak when approached by the police, FBI, or INS. If you give answers, they can be used against you in a criminal, immigration, or civil case. The ACLU's publications below provide effective and useful guidance in several languages for many situations. The brochures apprise you of your legal rights, recommend how to preserve those rights, and provide guidance on how to interact with officials. IMMIGRATION _Know Your Rights When Encountering Law Enforcement_ (http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/immigrants/kyr_english.pdf) | _Conozca Sus Derechos Frente A Los Agentes Del Orden Público_ (http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/immigrants/immigration_kyr_spanish.pdf) ACLU of Massachusetts - Your Rights And Responsibilities If You Are Contacted By The Authorities _English_ (http://www.aclum.org/pdf/bustcard.pdf) | _Spanish_ (http://www.aclu-nj.org/downloads/BustcardSpanish.pdf) | _Chinese_ (http://www.aclum.org/pdf/bustcard.pdf) ACLU of Massachusetts - _What to do if stopped and questioned about your immigration status on the street, the subway, or the bus_ (http://www.aclum.org/pdf/Operation%20Safe%20Commute.pdf) | _Que hacer si Usted es interrogado en el tren o autobus acerca de su estatus inmigratorio_ (http://www.aclum.org/pdf/Operation_Safe_Commute_SPANISH.pdf) ACLU of South Carolina - _How To Deal With A 287(g)_ (http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/immigrants/immigration_287g_english.pdf) | _Como Lidiar Con Una 287(g)_ (http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/immigrants/immigration_287g_spanish.pdf) ACLU of Southern California - _What to Do If Immigration Agents or Police Stop You While on Foot, in Your Car, or Come to Your Home_ (http://www.aclu-sc.org/attach/k/kyr_immigration_en.pdf) | _Qué Hacer Si Agentes de Inmigración o la Policía lo Paran Mientras Va Caminando, lo Detienen en su Auto o Vienen a su Hogar_ (http://www.aclu-sc.org/attach/k/kyr_immigration_sp.pdf) ACLU of Washington - Brochure for Iraqis: What to Do If the FBI or Police Contact You for Questioning _English_ (http://www.aclu-wa.org/detail.cfm?id=200) | _Arabic_ (http://aclu-wa.org/detail.cfm?id=354) ACLU of Washington - _Your Rights at Checkpoints at Ferry Terminals_ (http://www.aclu-wa.org/library_files/FerryCheckpointsEng%206-08.pdf) | _Sus Derechos en Puestos de Control en las Terminales de Transbordadores_ (http://www.aclu-wa.org/library_files/FerryCheckpointsSpan%206-08.pdf) LABOR / FREE SPEECH _Immigrant Protests - What Every Worker Should Know: _ (http://www.nilc.org/ce/nilc/protests_what_every_worker_should_know.pdf) | _Manifestaciones de los Inmigrantes - Lo Que Todo Trabajador Debe Saber_ (http://www.nilc.org/ce/nilc/protests_what_every_worker_should_know_sp.pdf) PROTESTERS ACLU of Florida Brochure - _The Rights of Protesters_ (ht tp://www.aclufl.org/PDFs/right_to_protest_brochure.pdf) | _Los Derechos de los Manifestantes_ (http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/immigrants/acluprotestbrochuresp1.pdf) STUDENTS Washington State - _Student Walkouts and Political Speech at School_ (http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/immigrants/studentwalkouts20060503.pdf) | _Huelgas Estudiantiles y Expresión Política en las Escuelas_ (http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/immigrants/studentwalkouts20060503_spanish.pdf) _California Students: Public School Walk-outs and Free Speech_ (http://www.aclu-sc.org/attach/k/KYRCAStudentProtestsEnglish.pdf) | _Estudiantes de California: Marchas o Huelgas y La Libertad de Expresión en las Escuelas Públicas_ (http://www.aclu-sc.org/attach/k/KYRCAStudentProtestsSpanish.pdf) ____________________________________ Please Subscribe to the US Immigration Alert Newsletter! 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