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Day June 24, 2011

Migrants decry new US legislation

Migrants decry new US legislation

Like thousands of undocumented people across the US, Alicia Torres waits apprehensively as a new bill which she thinks will lead to racial profiling and employment discrimination sits on the North Carolina governor’s desk waiting for the stamp of approval.

Immigration policy is generally considered to be a federal responsibility in the US, but North Carolina is the latest state to make its own rules.

House Bill 36, which has been passed by North Carolina’s state congress and senate, will institute an E-Verify system, demanding some employers match social security numbers against the names of people they hire.
Critics like Torres say the computerised system is based on unreliable data and its implementation will make it harder for immigrants to find work, as business won’t want to risk the trouble or oversight of hiring people of colour or those whose English isn’t perfect…

 

Museums Take up Civil Rights, Immigration Issues and Their History

Museums Take up Civil Rights, Immigration Issues and Their History

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Do the issues of civil rights and immigration intersect? According to the mission of the Civil Rights Sites of Conscience Network, they do. The group of museums from the Southeast recently met over four days in Charlotte. Emily Zimmern, president and CEO of the host Levine Museum of the New South, lamented “what passes as dialogue” in the immigration debate, words that don’t acknowledge “the long sweep of history.” But she was hopeful that the stand-off can be advanced with informed community engagement. “That’s what museums do.”

At the Levine, that means pairing African-American and Hispanic groups to discuss two museum exhibits: “Courage,” which explores the Carolina roots of the Brown v. Board of Education decision that outlawed segregated schools, and “Para Todos Los Niño,” which chronicles the landmark legal anti-discrimination struggles of Latino families in Southern California almost 10 years before Brown. Another program aimed at high school and college students will ask: “Where is courage needed today?”…

 

Unión Europea: Amnistía Internacional denuncia la hipocresía intrínseca de las políticas migratorias y asilo

Unión Europea: Amnistía Internacional denuncia la hipocresía intrínseca de las políticas migratorias y asilo

Londres/Madrid.- Hace unas semanas se encontraron los cadáveres de 150 personas frente a las costas de las islas Kerkennah, pertenecientes a Túnez. Eran personas que habían huido del conflicto de Libia buscando seguridad en Europa. Su muerte pasó a engrosar la cifra de personas refugiadas y migrantes que han perdido la vida tratando de llegar a Europa: más de 1.400 en lo que va de año.

No es un problema nuevo. Desde hace años, refugiados y migrantes emprenden esta misma travesía. Sin embargo, mientras que Egipto y Túnez, en medio de su propia agitación política, admitieron sin titubeos a cientos de miles de refugiados procedentes de Libia, los Estados miembros de la Unión Europea (UE) no tomaron medidas creíbles para tratar de impedir que miles de personas que huían de este país murieran en el mar”, asegura Sherif Elsayed Ali responsable del Equipo sobre Derechos de Personas Refugiadas y Migrantes de Amnistía Internacional…

 

What Every Immigrant Needs To Know

What Every Immigrant Needs To Know: Practical information for living and succeeding in the United States

This 45-page guidebook provides practical information about living and succeeding in the U.S. Offered in Spanish and English, the guide provides immigrants and refugees with information about 170 essentials including health, finances, housing, education, insurance, laws, and social values…