Latino freelance photographer, while working to document evidence of of illegal dumping, discovered the body of a woman in a plastic bag. Startled, Geraldo Carlos went to the East Ward Police Station in Newark, NJ to report the finding, which resulted in a homocide investigation. However, while at the crime scene police officers asked Carlos [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Crime reporting & Immigration crackdown
Posted in Immigration on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bush Threatens to Veto Global Gag Rule
Posted in Sex Education, Take Action, Uncategorized on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
President Bush Threatens to Veto Global Gag Rule
On September 6, 2007 an amendment to the 2008 fiscal year foreign aid appropriations bill repeals Global gag rule, passing by a vote of 53-41 in the Senate. In June, the House of Representatives voted 223-201 for a similar amendment to the 2008 foreign [...]
Save the Date! NLIRH Event with GIRE on October 3rd!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Immigration crackdown temporarily halted
Posted in Immigration on September 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Washington Post today reports that a federal judge ordered the planned immigration crackdown halted, in response to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union. The Bush Administration had planned to mail out thousands of “no-match” letters to employers who had workers with problems with their social security numbers.
The order was a victory for [...]