Latin American Herald Tribune: More Mexicans are returning to their homeland than are emigrating to the United States, with a net outflow from this country of 140,000 between 2009 and 2014, according to a report released on Thursday.
The report, prepared by the Pew Research Center, says that more Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the U.S. than have migrated here since the end of the Great Recession. Read more.
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Jan 3, 2015
U.S. border apprehensions of Mexicans fall to historic lows
Pew Research Center: For the first time on record, more non-Mexicans than Mexicans were apprehended at U.S. borders in 2014 by the Border Patrol, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of more than 60 years of Border Patrol data. This shift is another sign that unauthorized immigrants from Mexico are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border significantly less often than they did before the Great Recession.
U.S. Border apprehensions of Mexicans fall to historic lows. About 229,000 Mexicans were apprehended by the Border Patrol in fiscal year 2014 compared with 257,000 non-Mexicans during the previous year, according to recently published Border Patrol data. Taken together, total apprehensions of Mexican and non-Mexican unauthorized immigrants (more than 486,000) were up 16% over the previous year. Read more.
U.S. Border apprehensions of Mexicans fall to historic lows. About 229,000 Mexicans were apprehended by the Border Patrol in fiscal year 2014 compared with 257,000 non-Mexicans during the previous year, according to recently published Border Patrol data. Taken together, total apprehensions of Mexican and non-Mexican unauthorized immigrants (more than 486,000) were up 16% over the previous year. Read more.
Jan 2, 2015
Who Really Crosses the U.S.-Mexico Border?
The Atlantic: For the first time in more than 60 years, more non-Mexicans than Mexicans were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol at checkpoints in 2014, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.
Approximately 257,000 non-Mexicans were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in 2014, compared to about 229,000 Mexicans, according to the recently released data. The total number of unauthorized immigrant apprehensions is up 16 percent from the prior year. Read more.
Approximately 257,000 non-Mexicans were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in 2014, compared to about 229,000 Mexicans, according to the recently released data. The total number of unauthorized immigrant apprehensions is up 16 percent from the prior year. Read more.
Jun 25, 2013
The Other Mexicans: Indigenous people come from a world apart from Spanish-speaking Mexicans
National Geographic
Mixteco is Villegas's native language. It is the only language he spoke fluently when he came to the United States sixteen years ago at the age of seven. The trilingual rap song is his own creation and he takes to heart its Spanish language refrain: "Mixteco is a language, not a dialect. It's the gold that I treasure."
Villegas spent two years working in the grape fields where his older siblings still toil. Now he is a community worker at the Fresno headquarters of the Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities, a nonprofit that focuses on the specific needs of indigenous Mexicans who have migrated to California. Across the United States these indigenous migrants are isolated even more than other immigrant groups. They speak neither English nor Spanish and are often looked down on by Spanish-speaking Mexicans.
They may not be the Spanish-speaking migrants that politicians picture when they discuss immigration reform, but as their numbers increase and trilingual members like Miguel organize, they have their own stake in the fractious debate in Washington. A possible language requirement would be particularly difficult for indigenous communities. Without Spanish, their road to English fluency will be that much harder. Their own languages are not traditionally written languages. Many have not had formal schooling. Read more.
Katya Cengel
Published June 24, 2013Mixteco is Villegas's native language. It is the only language he spoke fluently when he came to the United States sixteen years ago at the age of seven. The trilingual rap song is his own creation and he takes to heart its Spanish language refrain: "Mixteco is a language, not a dialect. It's the gold that I treasure."
Villegas spent two years working in the grape fields where his older siblings still toil. Now he is a community worker at the Fresno headquarters of the Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities, a nonprofit that focuses on the specific needs of indigenous Mexicans who have migrated to California. Across the United States these indigenous migrants are isolated even more than other immigrant groups. They speak neither English nor Spanish and are often looked down on by Spanish-speaking Mexicans.
They may not be the Spanish-speaking migrants that politicians picture when they discuss immigration reform, but as their numbers increase and trilingual members like Miguel organize, they have their own stake in the fractious debate in Washington. A possible language requirement would be particularly difficult for indigenous communities. Without Spanish, their road to English fluency will be that much harder. Their own languages are not traditionally written languages. Many have not had formal schooling. Read more.
Feb 4, 2013
U.S. Conservatives See Writing On the Wall: Immigration Reform is Coming (El Universal, Mexico)
"This time conditions are ripe for change. In 2012, the Hispanic community demonstrated its power at the polls. It was thanks to the 70 percent of Latinos who voted for Obama that the president was reelected. The interpretation of analysts and politicians is clear: their opposition to Republican Mitt Romney was in retaliation for his party's anti-immigrant position. It has never been more costly than it is today for a U.S. politician to oppose reform in this area."
Mexico - El Universal - Original Article (Spanish)
Translated By Miguel Gutierrez for worldsmeet.us
January 31, 2013
For the first time in years, perhaps since the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001, there exists a real chance for a reform of immigration that will benefit the millions of Mexicans living without papers in the United States. This is the inevitable result of the growing economic and political influence of Mexican nationals in that country.
This week, a group of Republican and Democratic senators launched an initiative to regularize 11 million illegal immigrants - a proposal that was well received yesterday by President Barack Obama. The president's priority in this area is such, that he has already announced that if lawmakers fail to rapidly come to terms on their project, he will send one to Congress himself. Read more.
Mexico - El Universal - Original Article (Spanish)
Translated By Miguel Gutierrez for worldsmeet.us
January 31, 2013
For the first time in years, perhaps since the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001, there exists a real chance for a reform of immigration that will benefit the millions of Mexicans living without papers in the United States. This is the inevitable result of the growing economic and political influence of Mexican nationals in that country.
This week, a group of Republican and Democratic senators launched an initiative to regularize 11 million illegal immigrants - a proposal that was well received yesterday by President Barack Obama. The president's priority in this area is such, that he has already announced that if lawmakers fail to rapidly come to terms on their project, he will send one to Congress himself. Read more.
Sep 5, 2012
Undocumented Latinos end protest tour of south at Democratic convention
'No Papers No Fear' group reach Charlotte,
North Carolina after six weeks of holding rallies and confronting prejudice.
The Guardian.
Ed Pilkington.
For the past
15 years Miguel Guerra has been living in the shadows as an undocumented Latino
immigrant in the US. He kept out of view, avoided public places and never spoke
his mind to anyone outside his immediate family.
Not any more.
Under a
blazing North Carolina sun,
Guerra joined almost 50 other undocumented Latino immigrants on a Sunday in a
park on the outskirts of Charlotte, the North Carolinan venue of this week's
Democratic national convention. It was in effect a mass coming out ceremony.
For the past
six weeks the group has been riding across the American south in a converted
Greyhound bus bearing the slogan: "No Papers No Fear". They have
stopped in about 20 cities in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia before arriving in North
Carolina, holding rallies and confronting anti-Latino prejudice along the way.
"We're
no longer afraid to say we are undocumented," Guerra declared. Read
more.
Aug 28, 2012
#Yo Soy 132 Garners International Support
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| #YoSoy132 New York in Action. |
Just after the group’s inception the #YoSoy132 movement began
forming groups, or “cells”, beyond Mexico´s borders. Mexican youth and their supporters have organized actions of international solidarity in Argentina, Barcelona and Paris and
dozens of other cities.The protests against the return of the Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI), election fraud, and biases in elections reporting by
the mainstream Mexican media, now find their way into newspapers on several
continents.
Jul 18, 2012
US-born kids of migrants lose rights in Mexico
The children of migrants who have been deported from the United States or returned to Mexico on their own due to the economic slump in the U.S face many challenges. U.S.-born children cannot register for any public services including school without going through a lengthy and often expensive legal process.
AP: MALINALCO, Mexico - As a cold drizzle washed over this town of narrow cobblestone streets in the forested highlands of central Mexico, mothers waiting outside the colonial-era cultural center wrapped wool blankets around the infants snuggled in their arms. Other parents tightened plastic bags around folders filled with U.S. passports and birth certificates from California, Ohio and Texas.
One by one, the parents filed inside, sat down before a Mexican government worker and told stories of lives that had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border twice. First, they crossed illegally into the United States for work, found jobs, and had children. Then, they were caught and deported, or left on their own as the work dried up with the U.S. economic slump. Now they are back in Mexico with children who are American citizens by virtue of being born on U.S. soil. Read more.
AP: MALINALCO, Mexico - As a cold drizzle washed over this town of narrow cobblestone streets in the forested highlands of central Mexico, mothers waiting outside the colonial-era cultural center wrapped wool blankets around the infants snuggled in their arms. Other parents tightened plastic bags around folders filled with U.S. passports and birth certificates from California, Ohio and Texas.
One by one, the parents filed inside, sat down before a Mexican government worker and told stories of lives that had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border twice. First, they crossed illegally into the United States for work, found jobs, and had children. Then, they were caught and deported, or left on their own as the work dried up with the U.S. economic slump. Now they are back in Mexico with children who are American citizens by virtue of being born on U.S. soil. Read more.
Posted by Marlene Medrano.
Jun 27, 2012
Casting ballots on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border
Of the 45,000 Mexicans registered to vote from the United States for the Mexican presidential elections, a small percentage of the estimated 11 million, several share their concerns for both Mexico's future and for their own presence and that of illegal immigrants in the United States.
CNN: Carlos Coria-Sanchez remembers the frantic phone calls and the fear in his family members' voices. His nephew had been kidnapped just outside Mexico City. Men wearing police uniforms held him hostage, robbed him and released him five hours later.
Coria-Sanchez also remembers the looks on the faces of dozens of children -- his own included -- as they waited outside a North Carolina courtroom while a judge weighed whether to deport their soccer coach.
These distinct moments in the 52-year-old professor's life have little to do with campaign signs or exit polls. But they are fresh in his mind as he prepares to cast ballots in two elections. Read more.
Coria-Sanchez also remembers the looks on the faces of dozens of children -- his own included -- as they waited outside a North Carolina courtroom while a judge weighed whether to deport their soccer coach.
These distinct moments in the 52-year-old professor's life have little to do with campaign signs or exit polls. But they are fresh in his mind as he prepares to cast ballots in two elections. Read more.
Jun 22, 2012
Op-Ed: Death in the Desert
NY Times (Op-Ed): NO matter how the Supreme Court rules this month in Arizona v. United States, which will determine the fate of Arizona’s aggressive illegal immigration law, the national conversation about illegal immigration has shifted. As recent data from the Pew Hispanic Center and the United States Border Patrol indicate, illegal immigration is on the wane, with arrests of migrants trying to cross the United States-Mexico border at a 40-year low and with net migration to the United States at a standstill — and perhaps even reversing direction. In the eyes of many, this is cause for celebration: no more straining the resources of border states while migrants risk life and limb for a shot at a better life.
But this rosy image of “success” ignores the larger, sobering picture of which migrant death and suffering is still very much a part. Read more.
But this rosy image of “success” ignores the larger, sobering picture of which migrant death and suffering is still very much a part. Read more.
Jun 19, 2012
American Children, Now Struggling to Adjust to Life in Mexico
NY Times: IZÚCAR DE MATAMOROS, Mexico — Jeffrey Isidoro sat near the door of his fifth-grade classroom here in central Mexico, staring outside through designer glasses that, like his Nike sneakers and Nike backpack, signaled a life lived almost entirely in the United States. His parents are at home in Mexico. Jeffrey is lost.
When his teacher asked in Spanish how dolphins communicate, a boy next to him reached over to underline the right answer. When it was Jeffrey’s turn to read, his classmates laughed and shouted “en inglés, en inglés” — causing Jeffrey to blush. Read more.
When his teacher asked in Spanish how dolphins communicate, a boy next to him reached over to underline the right answer. When it was Jeffrey’s turn to read, his classmates laughed and shouted “en inglés, en inglés” — causing Jeffrey to blush. Read more.
Jun 13, 2012
Young migrants make perilous US-Mexico journey
BBC: Born in Nayarit, on Mexico's west coast, Daniel had planned for months to organise a trip to the US to find himself a job in construction.
He thought of taking a small boat up the coast from Tijuana to San Diego. But he got frightened and instead hired a coyote who took him across the Rio Grande by boat.
He eventually landed on the other side but was spotted by the border patrol, handcuffed and taken to a station to be interrogated. He was 16 years old. Read more.
He thought of taking a small boat up the coast from Tijuana to San Diego. But he got frightened and instead hired a coyote who took him across the Rio Grande by boat.
He eventually landed on the other side but was spotted by the border patrol, handcuffed and taken to a station to be interrogated. He was 16 years old. Read more.
Apr 9, 2012
Home again in Mexico: Illegal immigration hits net zero
CSMonitor.com: "At this time of year in this tiny rural outpost that sits on a mountainside in Guanajuato State, most able-bodied men are gone. They're off plucking and cutting chicken in processing plants in Georgia or pruning the backyards of Seattle."
But this year, Pedro Laguna and his wife, Silvia Arellano, are clearing rocks from their yard to prepare a field for corn. They've returned home to Tamaula,Mexico, with their four young children, after 20 years in the United States working illegally. Pedro's cousin Jorge Laguna and his brothers are planting garbanzo beansin the plot behind their father's home. Their next-door neighbor Gregorio Zambrano is also home: One recent morning he badgered a visiting social worker for funds to start a honey-production enterprise. read more
But this year, Pedro Laguna and his wife, Silvia Arellano, are clearing rocks from their yard to prepare a field for corn. They've returned home to Tamaula,Mexico, with their four young children, after 20 years in the United States working illegally. Pedro's cousin Jorge Laguna and his brothers are planting garbanzo beansin the plot behind their father's home. Their next-door neighbor Gregorio Zambrano is also home: One recent morning he badgered a visiting social worker for funds to start a honey-production enterprise. read more
Nov 3, 2011
Immigration Crackdown - the Reality: Amid record deportations from the US, Mexico urges migrants to head home
CSMonitor.com: Nogales, Mexico. "Day and night, hundreds of Mexican migrants stream into this border city after being deported from the US amid record deportations taking place under the Obama administration. At one migrant shelter in Nogales workers encourage deportees to return home rather than attempt to cross into the US illegally again, through the treacherous desert that spans both sides of the border.
“There’s a federal program that will pay for your bus ticket so you can get back home,” Valente Camacho Terraza tells a group of migrants arriving at the center, which functions both as a shelter and transportation company. But "home" for many of them is not the interior town from which they left, but cities in the US where they have worked for a decade or two, or sometimes more. " read more
“There’s a federal program that will pay for your bus ticket so you can get back home,” Valente Camacho Terraza tells a group of migrants arriving at the center, which functions both as a shelter and transportation company. But "home" for many of them is not the interior town from which they left, but cities in the US where they have worked for a decade or two, or sometimes more. " read more
Sep 10, 2011
Immigration Politics: Marking 9/11 With Hope, Not Fear of the Other
Feet in 2 Worlds: "There was hope for immigrants and their families during George W. Bush’s presidency—the promise of change in our country’s immigration system—before September 11, 2001.
A Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report reminds us that “the U.S. system seemed poised for a major immigration reform in 2001,” before the attacks in New York and Washington, DC."
A Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report reminds us that “the U.S. system seemed poised for a major immigration reform in 2001,” before the attacks in New York and Washington, DC."
Aug 29, 2011
Immigration Crackdown - Alabama: Hundreds rally against immigration law
The Montgomery Advertiser: "Just days before Alabama's strict immigration law is to go into effect, hundreds rallied in front of the state Capitol to protest the law, which makes it a state crime to be an undocumented alien in Alabama and for undocumented aliens to work in the state, among other provisions.
The organizer of the event, Edward Menefee, invoked the name of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his famous "I have a dream" speech, which he delivered 48 years ago Sunday. "(King) preached about the beloved community, where all people would be welcomed and all people would be treated with respect," Menefee said to the crowd."
The organizer of the event, Edward Menefee, invoked the name of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his famous "I have a dream" speech, which he delivered 48 years ago Sunday. "(King) preached about the beloved community, where all people would be welcomed and all people would be treated with respect," Menefee said to the crowd."
Immigration Crackdown - Alabama: The Nation’s Cruelest Immigration Law
New York Times editorial
NYTimes.com: "The Alabama Legislature ...passed, and the governor signed, the country’s cruelest, most unforgiving immigration law."
The law, which takes effect Sept. 1, is so inhumane that four Alabama church leaders — an Episcopal bishop, a Methodist bishop and a Roman Catholic archbishop and bishop —have sued to block it, saying it criminalizes acts of Christian compassion. It is a sweeping attempt to terrorize undocumented immigrants in every aspect of their lives, and to make potential criminals of anyone who may work or live with them or show them kindness.
... You’d think that any state would think twice before embracing a law that so vividly brings to mind the Fugitive Slave Act, the brutal legal and law-enforcement apparatus of the Jim Crow era, and the civil-rights struggle led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But waves of anti-immigrant hostility have made many in this country forget who and what we are.
NYTimes.com: "The Alabama Legislature ...passed, and the governor signed, the country’s cruelest, most unforgiving immigration law."
The law, which takes effect Sept. 1, is so inhumane that four Alabama church leaders — an Episcopal bishop, a Methodist bishop and a Roman Catholic archbishop and bishop —have sued to block it, saying it criminalizes acts of Christian compassion. It is a sweeping attempt to terrorize undocumented immigrants in every aspect of their lives, and to make potential criminals of anyone who may work or live with them or show them kindness.
... You’d think that any state would think twice before embracing a law that so vividly brings to mind the Fugitive Slave Act, the brutal legal and law-enforcement apparatus of the Jim Crow era, and the civil-rights struggle led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But waves of anti-immigrant hostility have made many in this country forget who and what we are.
Aug 26, 2011
Immigration Crackdown: Quinn hits back against Secure Communities
WBEZ: "Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is trying to throw another wrench into a key immigration-enforcement program of President Obama’s administration, saying it ensnares too many people and erodes trust in local police.
An August 18 letter from the governor’s office to John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, hints about a possible legal challenge and asks the federal agency to contact all 26 Illinois counties that have agreed to participate in the program, called Secure Communities, to confirm they still want to take part."
Immigration Politics: McCain blasted for linking Wallow Fire to illegal immigrants
Tucson Sentinel: "News that two cousins from Southern Arizona who left a campfire unattended have been charged with starting the largest wildfire in Arizona history has put U.S. Sen. John McCain in the hot seat.
After touring the fire site in June, McCain seemed to suggest that it was possible that illegal immigrants had caused the blaze. "We are concerned about, particularly, areas down on the border where there is substantial evidence that some of these fires are caused by people who have crossed our border illegally," McCain said on June 18, according to KOLD News.
On Thursday, Hispanic leaders held a press conference to call for Sen. McCain to apologize. "He owes it to us to not spread fear and hate," said Daniel Ortega, a Phoenix attorney who is board chair of the National Council of La Raza, a national advocacy group, The Associated Press reports."
After touring the fire site in June, McCain seemed to suggest that it was possible that illegal immigrants had caused the blaze. "We are concerned about, particularly, areas down on the border where there is substantial evidence that some of these fires are caused by people who have crossed our border illegally," McCain said on June 18, according to KOLD News.
On Thursday, Hispanic leaders held a press conference to call for Sen. McCain to apologize. "He owes it to us to not spread fear and hate," said Daniel Ortega, a Phoenix attorney who is board chair of the National Council of La Raza, a national advocacy group, The Associated Press reports."
Immigration Politics: First Deportation Cases To Benefit From New Immigration Policy
Huffington Post: "One week after it's announcement by Homeland Security, two young men in Georgia were two of the first apparent beneficiaries of a new policy aimed at making undocumented immigrants with no criminal record, a low-priority for deportation....
Luis Enrique Hernandez, 18, and Pedro Morales, 19, can breathe a sigh of relief after their lawyer, Lino R. Rodriguez Jr. successfully filed a petition to halt their removal proceedings. Rodriguez said in a phone interview with The Huffington Post that past cases like Hernandez’ and Morales’ “would have ended in deportation”. “We haven’t had this argument [the Morton Memo] before, we didn’t have the tool to use. I think there would have been a very good chance that this would have ended in voluntary departure for both of them,” said Rodriguez."
Luis Enrique Hernandez, 18, and Pedro Morales, 19, can breathe a sigh of relief after their lawyer, Lino R. Rodriguez Jr. successfully filed a petition to halt their removal proceedings. Rodriguez said in a phone interview with The Huffington Post that past cases like Hernandez’ and Morales’ “would have ended in deportation”. “We haven’t had this argument [the Morton Memo] before, we didn’t have the tool to use. I think there would have been a very good chance that this would have ended in voluntary departure for both of them,” said Rodriguez."
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