[statecom-discuss] Re: [statecom] Immediate crisis: rounding up
Massachusetts residents
Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com
Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com
Tue Mar 6 23:14:29 EST 2007
Thanks, Kim for putting this out-
I am very sorrythey are doing it at 11 because it onflicts with a big union
solidarity action - exactly the folks who need to come hear and support these
immigrant workers - ugh, and I cannot clone myself to be i nboth places at once
- Love, Grace
In a message dated 3/6/07 10:36:44 PM, kimlampereur at gmail.com writes:
> Just for everyone's information: MIRA, NALAC and Centro Presente will
> have a vigil tomorrow at 11:00 AM in front of the JFK Federal
> Building, home of the Field Office of ICE.
> They will also hold a press conference at 3PM.
>
> I'm all for a statement from the party honoring the worker and
> everyone's human rights. There are lots of ways to approach the issue
> from there. If we go after big corporations, we should also go after
> ICE and the federal government's policies on immigration.
> It's the two corporate parties that always craft an immigration policy
> that allows migrant workers to enter the country (however dangerously)
> but denies them citizenship rights, threatens to deport them if they
> try to stand up for their rights, imposes minimal fines for
> corporations that hire undocumented workers, and uses rhetoric to
> distract US-born workers from the failures of the economic system to
> instead make them angry at and afraid of immigrants.
>
> All of this of course serves to provide capital with cheap,
> exploitable labor and keeps US-born and migrant workers from
> organizing together to improve wages and working conditions for
> everyone. The corporations are guilty, but it's the Republicrats that
> craft the policies that orchestrate this whole thing.
>
> Kim
>
> 2007/3/6, Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com <Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com>:
> > Please read all the waythrough to make sense of this. Whole sale
> > deportations of the worst kind - probably in the hundreds - when do we
> stand up? Or do
> > we just wring our hands...
> >
> > A short press release fromthe party - saying that we believe first and
> > foremost in honoring the worker and human rights of all. How about going
> after the
> > "underground" economy of the big corporations and the top adminstrators
> get
> > to spend appropriate time in the same prisons as everyone else - This is
> > serious, Love,grace
> > In a message dated 3/6/07 2:34:42 PM, Camilleviv writes:
> >
> >
> > Please post widely:
> >
> > >
> > > Action:
> > > 1. Press Conference at 3pm in frontof facility.
> > > ---Please call press contacts if youhave them;
> > > ---please attend if you areable.
> > > 2. Command centertorecievefolks looking for assistance/information
> > > a. Paul will askabout Our Lady of Guadelupe at St. James
> > > b. CatholicSocial Services is alsooffering space.
> > > c. MIRA andCentro Presente will coordinate to look for volunteer
> > > psycologicalassistance
> > > d. If you arevolunteering and you are able please bring:
> > > 1.Water
> > > 2. Facialtissue
> > > 3.Blankets.
> > > 4.Flashlights
> > > 3. Possible vigil this evening at achurch (Stay tuned)
> > > a. Paul will askSt. James
> > > b. St. Anthony'sis an alternative
> > > 4. Phone bank has been canceled; ifyou were planning on attending,
> please
> > > volunteer at the commandcenter
> > > 5. Possible vigil tomorrow at JFK(Stay Tuned)
> > > a. MIRA willcoordinate with Centro
> > > b. Suggestedtime; 11am or noon
> > >
> > > Information:
> > > 1. Raid happened starting at 8pm;ICE is still processing people as of
> 1pm
> > > 2. DSS is trying to find enoughfamily placements for the children that
> will
> > > be leftbehind.
> > > 3. Most of the people detained wereMayan women with small children.
> > > 4. ICE is working with DSS andSchool Dept. to identify and release women
> > > whocan prove they arethe sole providers for children under 2 years of
> age or
> > > minoritychildren with disabilities or with elderly folks. How they are
> goingto
> > > prove this is unclear.
> > > 5. Official press conference at 1pmat Moakley Courthouse--closed to
> public
> > > 6. If you speak with detaineesplease advise them:
> > > 1. Not to confessanything.
> > > 2. Not to signanything.
> > > 3. To say theyare really the only ones that can care for
> > > theirdependents.
> > >
> > > Contact info (cellphones):
> > > 1. Paulfrom UAI:617-960-7465
> > > 2. Corinn from Community EconomicDevelopment: 774-451-8687
> > > 3. Helena from Imm. AssistanceCenter: 508-735-1953
> > > 4. Michele of MIRA:875-919-3574
> > > 5. Jessica of Centro Presente:617-251-6844
> > > 6. Shuya (press) MIRA:617-821-8990
> > >
> > > Cynthia Tschampl
> > > Senior Legislative Organizer
> > > MIRA Coalition
> > > 105 Chauncy St, Suite 901
> > > Boston, MA 02111
> > > www.miracoalition.org
> > > Phone: 617-350-5480 ext. 212
> > > Save the Date! Interfaith Summitfor Immigrant Justice, April 12th at the
> > > State House.
> > > Migra Raids in New Bedford Today
> > >
> > > 90 people in custody after immigration raid in New Bedford
> > >
> > > By Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff
> > >
> > > Federal immigration agents raided a New Bedford leather manufacturer
> this
> > > morning and
> > >
> > > arrested the company's owner and three managers on charges that they
> hired
> > > illegal workers.
> > >
> > > Officials did not release the names of the people who were arrested or
> > > identify the firm
> > >
> > > targeted in the raid, but a local immigration
> > >
> > > activist identified the company as Michael Bianco Inc., which makes
> > >
> > > handbags and other leather products.
> > >
> > > About 90 people had been taken into custody by 9:30 a.m., said Corinn
> > >
> > > Williams, executive director of the Community Economic Development
> > >
> > > Center in New Bedford, which has been fielding calls from worried
> > >
> > > immigrants .
> > >
> > > The number of arrests is expected to climb, she said, because the
> > >
> > > waterfront factory, which has about 400 workers, employs mostly
> > >
> > > immigrants from Guatemala and El Salvador. Williams said some
> > >
> > > employees, most of them female, fled the factory when the raid began,
> > >
> > > and helicopters hovered overhead to alert authorities of escape routes.
> > >
> > >
> > > "A lot of the women working there left small children in child care
> > >
> > > today," Williams said. "Members of the community are just devastated.
> > >
> > > People are just in disbelief. They're hard-working people."
> > >
> > >
> > > Williams said she has received assurances that the women who have
> > >
> > > children with no one else to care for them would be released today.
> > >
> > > The others will be put into deportation proceedings, she was told.
> > >
> > >
> > > Paula Grenier, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman,
> > >
> > > declined to confirm or provide details about the raid. Grenier said
> > >
> > > only that the arrests followed a 10-month investigation by federal
> > >
> > > officials working with state and local law enforcement.
> > >
> > >
> > > The arrests were made as Congress is preparing to grapple once more
> > >
> > > with the issue of comprehensive immigration reform and as the agency
> > >
> > > has stepped up efforts to target employers who hire illegal
> > >
> > > immigrants.
> > >
> > > "I question the timing on this," Williams said. "We're on the eve of
> > >
> > > another introduction of comprehensive immigration reform. My hope is
> > >
> > > that many people will have the opportunity to normalize their status.
> > >
> > > This is going to drive people back into the shadows and make them much
> > >
> > > more vulnerable."
> > > Posted by the Boston Globe City & Region Desk at 11:52 AM
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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> > Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 2:34:42 PM
> > From: Camilleviv
> > To: correspondingsignal at hotmail.com, corinn at juno.com, JSoler at UMassD.Edu,
> > brian_pastori at yahoo.com, seacandace at yahoo.com
> > cc: missy at caporganize.org, putouttheword at yahoo.com, BGilbarg,
> > gsmlaborcouncil at verizon.net, movepalante at yahoogroups.com
> >
> >
> > Please post widely:
> >
> > Action:
> > 1. Press Conference at 3pm in frontof facility.
> > ---Please call press contacts if youhave them;
> > ---please attend if you areable.
> > 2. Command centertorecievefolks looking for assistance/information
> > a. Paul will askabout Our Lady of Guadelupe at St. James
> > b. CatholicSocial Services is alsooffering space.
> > c. MIRA andCentro Presente will coordinate to look for volunteer
> > psycologicalassistance
> > d. If you arevolunteering and you are able please bring:
> > 1.Water
> > 2. Facialtissue
> > 3.Blankets.
> > 4.Flashlights
> > 3. Possible vigil this evening at achurch (Stay tuned)
> > a. Paul will askSt. James
> > b. St. Anthony'sis an alternative
> > 4. Phone bank has been canceled; ifyou were planning on attending, please
> > volunteer at the commandcenter
> > 5. Possible vigil tomorrow at JFK(Stay Tuned)
> > a. MIRA willcoordinate with Centro
> > b. Suggestedtime; 11am or noon
> >
> > Information:
> > 1. Raid happened starting at 8pm;ICE is still processing people as of 1pm
> > 2. DSS is trying to find enoughfamily placements for the children that
> will
> > be leftbehind.
> > 3. Most of the people detained wereMayan women with small children.
> > 4. ICE is working with DSS andSchool Dept. to identify and release women
> > whocan prove they arethe sole providers for children under 2 years of age
> or
> > minoritychildren with disabilities or with elderly folks. How they are
> goingto
> > prove this is unclear.
> > 5. Official press conference at 1pmat Moakley Courthouse--closed to public
> > 6. If you speak with detaineesplease advise them:
> > 1. Not to confessanything.
> > 2. Not to signanything.
> > 3. To say theyare really the only ones that can care for theirdependents.
> >
> > Contact info (cellphones):
> > 1. Paulfrom UAI:617-960-7465
> > 2. Corinn from Community EconomicDevelopment: 774-451-8687
> > 3. Helena from Imm. AssistanceCenter: 508-735-1953
> > 4. Michele of MIRA:875-919-3574
> > 5. Jessica of Centro Presente:617-251-6844
> > 6. Shuya (press) MIRA:617-821-8990
> >
> > Cynthia Tschampl
> > Senior Legislative Organizer
> > MIRA Coalition
> > 105 Chauncy St, Suite 901
> > Boston, MA 02111
> > www.miracoalition.org
> > Phone: 617-350-5480 ext. 212
> > Save the Date! Interfaith Summitfor Immigrant Justice, April 12th at the
> > State House.
> > Migra Raids in New Bedford Today
> >
> > 90 people in custody after immigration raid in New Bedford
> >
> > By Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff
> >
> > Federal immigration agents raided a New Bedford leather manufacturer this
> > morning and
> >
> > arrested the company's owner and three managers on charges that they hired
> > illegal workers.
> >
> > Officials did not release the names of the people who were arrested or
> > identify the firm
> >
> > targeted in the raid, but a local immigration
> >
> > activist identified the company as Michael Bianco Inc., which makes
> >
> > handbags and other leather products.
> >
> > About 90 people had been taken into custody by 9:30 a.m., said Corinn
> >
> > Williams, executive director of the Community Economic Development
> >
> > Center in New Bedford, which has been fielding calls from worried
> >
> > immigrants .
> >
> > The number of arrests is expected to climb, she said, because the
> >
> > waterfront factory, which has about 400 workers, employs mostly
> >
> > immigrants from Guatemala and El Salvador. Williams said some
> >
> > employees, most of them female, fled the factory when the raid began,
> >
> > and helicopters hovered overhead to alert authorities of escape routes.
> >
> >
> > "A lot of the women working there left small children in child care
> >
> > today," Williams said. "Members of the community are just devastated.
> >
> > People are just in disbelief. They're hard-working people."
> >
> >
> > Williams said she has received assurances that the women who have
> >
> > children with no one else to care for them would be released today.
> >
> > The others will be put into deportation proceedings, she was told.
> >
> >
> > Paula Grenier, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman,
> >
> > declined to confirm or provide details about the raid. Grenier said
> >
> > only that the arrests followed a 10-month investigation by federal
> >
> > officials working with state and local law enforcement.
> >
> >
> > The arrests were made as Congress is preparing to grapple once more
> >
> > with the issue of comprehensive immigration reform and as the agency
> >
> > has stepped up efforts to target employers who hire illegal
> >
> > immigrants.
> >
> > "I question the timing on this," Williams said. "We're on the eve of
> >
> > another introduction of comprehensive immigration reform. My hope is
> >
> > that many people will have the opportunity to normalize their status.
> >
> > This is going to drive people back into the shadows and make them much
> >
> > more vulnerable."
> > Posted by the Boston Globe City & Region Desk at 11:52 AM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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