Washington Examiner: "Two men visiting Alabama to protest the state's tough new law on illegal immigration walked into a U.S. Border Patrol office and said they were in the country illegally, resulting in their arrest. They remain in federal custody more than two weeks later awaiting deportation proceedings. ...Isaac Barrera, 20, and Jonathan Perez, 24, Mexican men, ... lived in California before coming to Alabama to demonstrate against the state law.
... The Obama administration said this summer it would concentrate on deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records rather than people only living in the United States without the proper legal documents, so Barrera and Perez staged a test of the policy Nov. 10 at the Border Patrol office in Mobile. " read more
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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