ICE Set to Deport University of Arkansas Honors Student An unfortunate story from CHANGE.ORG: “Jonathan Chavez, an honors student at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, was on his way home to visit his parents when immigration authorities nabbed him on a bus and hauled him to a private detention facility in Florida. His crime? [...]
Mon, January 31 2011 » Uncategorized » Comments Off
State Rep. William Snyder has portrayed his Arizona-style immigration bill as a foregone conclusion for Florida. If he doesn’t push for the law cracking down on illegal immigrants, there are a slew of other lawmakers who will, the Republican from Stuart said earlier this month during a town hall meeting in Palm City. We had [...]
Mon, January 31 2011 » Uncategorized » Comments Off
Let the games begin as state legislators crawl out of their rocks and return to work for the new year. Oregon legislators, sadly, are set to face a raft of anti-immigrant bills, many of them inspired by Arizona. From Arizona’s 1994 Proposition 200 that requires proof of citizenship to vote and obtain social services, to [...]
Mon, January 31 2011 » Uncategorized » Comments Off
In connection with an immigration reform/DREAM Act rally and symposium the FIU Collge of Law is organizing for February 23rd-25th, the following is a petition we have drafted calling for support for reform and the DREAM Act. Please consider signing it my commenting your support here. ALso, please consider editng to identify your home institution [...]
Sun, January 30 2011 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Thanks for Prof. Alberto Bernabe, of Chicago’s John Marshall School of Law, who has brought this recent case to my attention. In Farias v. Mr. Heater, 2010 WL 4814660, the United States District Court of the Southern District of Florida found that there is no duty to provide safety warnings about products in Spanish. [...]
Sun, January 30 2011 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
I wanted to bring to the attention of our readers an excellent new article, Raúl Madrid, “The Origins of the Two Lefts in Latin America,” Political Science Quarterly 125(4):587-609 (2010-2011). Madrid, an associate professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, has produced an insightful analysis that adds a necessary [...]
Sat, January 29 2011 » Latin America, Law and Society, Uncategorized » Comments Off
Mil Gracias Austin Protesters: and A Sin Verguenza Award to UTEP Bring out the smelling salts. Just as I was going to post a blog about the recent announcement of Napolitano cancelling the virtual border fence project came news of University of Texas El Paso (“UTEP”) senate officials breaching (whether intentional or not) the [...]
Fri, January 28 2011 » Uncategorized » Comments Off
As her mother tells it, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores had begged the border vigilantes who had just broken into her house, “Please don’t shoot me.” But they did — in the face at point-blank range, prosecutors allege, as Brisenia’s father sat dead on the couch and her mother lay on the floor, pretending that she too [...]
Wed, January 26 2011 » Uncategorized » Comments Off
More promises or a call to action: One last point about education. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of students excelling in our schools who are not American citizens. Some are the children of undocumented workers, who had nothing to do with the actions of their parents. They grew up as Americans and pledge allegiance [...]
Tue, January 25 2011 » Uncategorized » Comments Off
The BBC Recently reported that the “UN human rights chief has urged Mexico to investigate the possible involvement of officials in the abduction of about 40 migrants.” UN calls for Mexico probe into migrant train abductions, BBC News Online, Jan. 21, 2011. For related stories courtesy of the BBC, see: Mexico migrant abduction disputed 22 [...]
Sun, January 23 2011 » immigrants, Latin America, Legal Development, Mexico, Uncategorized » Comments Off
