Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
~Edmund Burke
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David Bacon | October 23, 2008 Editor: Emily Schwartz Greco Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org
The first of the 388 workers arrested in the immigration raid on the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, were deported in mid-October, having spent five months in federal prison. Their crime? Giving a bad Social Security number to the company to get hired. Among them will be a young man who had his eyes covered with duct tape by a supervisor on the line, who then beat him with a meathook. The supervisor is still on the job.
The Postville raid was one of the many recent immigration operations leading to criminal charges and deportations for thousands of people. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff calls this "closing the back door. " Meanwhile, his department seeks to "open the front door" by establishing new guest-worker programs, called "close to slavery" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. |
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NewsChannel 8 Oklahoma City - Twenty-eight different business, labor and civil rights groups have filed briefs in support of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's legal fight against Oklahoma's tough illegal immigration law.
The chamber questions the validity of a requirement that businesses use a voluntary federal worker verification system. The lawsuit is currently before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
A spokesman for the chamber, in a statement Monday from Washington, D.C., said diverse groups agree that states should not set national immigration policy.
Chamber officials argue the law imposes tax penalties on any employer who fails to use the "E-Verify" pilot program, and sets up employers for discrimination lawsuits.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Change to Win labor coalition are among those groups backing the lawsuit. |
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Immigration has, once again, become a highly emotional and contentious challenge facing our society. It is time we work to learn from each other. A path forged out of working together is our best chance for a solution. Federal immigration reform is a complex challenge requiring a comprehensive transpartisan solution and directly effects the creation and sustainability of a vital community in the Valley of the Sun/the Phoenix, AZ metro area. In Arizona, during this most recent debate in immigration reform, we have seen some of the worst be brought out in individuals and some of the best .
We have witnessed eloquence and vitriolic personal attacks. We have seen communities work together and we have seen families ripped apart. |
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Voices for Civil Dialogue first public forum “Immigration: Creating a Path to Solutions," will be hosted by Arizona State University's College of Public Programs from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 13 at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Room 122, located at 555 N. Central Ave. |
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After spending 15 months running for Congress in Congressional District 3 in Arizona (Phoenix, Paradise Valley, Cave Creek Carefree, New River) The FUSION Foundation Co-Founder - Annie Loyd stepped down and made a commitment to dedicate her time to building a coalition from the public, private, corporate and government sectors addressing the challenge of immigration reform. Voices for Civil Dialogue is one of the many projects to emerge from this work. Voices for Civil Dialogue is a transpartisan, inclusive coalition of community leaders dedicated to genuine, respectful cooperation, involving groups and individuals from all sectors of society. |
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