Immigration

ICE Halts Deportation of Man Who Was Detained in Broward After Being Beaten With Hammer

By Chris Sweeney Wed., Nov. 14 2012 at 8:43 AM
Categories: Immigration
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Back in August, an undocumented immigrant named Oscar Silvan was beaten with a hammer, his skull cracked like an egg. He ended up in the intensive-care unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital for a week and underwent extensive surgery. But according to a recent complaint filed by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, his troubles were just starting.

When Silvan went to file a police report, he was detained and hauled off to the Broward Transitional Center, a privately run facility that, as recently documented by New Times, has been plagued by upheaval, hunger strikes, and even a rape with a Sharpie marker.

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- Activists Infiltrate Federal Detention Center
- DREAM Activists File Complaint Against BTC

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Dream Defenders Protest Presidential Debate at Lynn University

By Chris Sweeney Wed., Oct. 24 2012 at 8:38 AM
Categories: Immigration
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Both Obama and Romney have promised to overhaul the country's cumbersome and costly immigration system. Yet there was little talk about how they would actually do so over the course of three debates.

The Dream Defenders were one of the groups protesting the debate at Lynn University, and they sent along these photographs.

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DREAM Activists Send Complaint Against ICE's Plan to Deport Diabetic Man In Need of Surgery

By Chris Sweeney Fri., Oct. 19 2012 at 6:00 AM
Categories: Immigration
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Federal officials are poised to deport a diabetic man this afternoon, despite a doctor's insistence that he get a surgical procedure so he doesn't go blind, local immigration activists say. 
 
The case concerns an Ecuadorian man named Miguel Castillo-Santos, who was detained this past January at the Broward Transitional Center. His lawyer claims that the feds failed to provide adequate medical care, which resulted in Castillo-Santos developing a painful and dangerous eye condition.


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DREAM Activists to Be Released From Broward Detention Center

By Chris Sweeney Fri., Aug. 3 2012 at 1:45 PM
Categories: Immigration
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Updated Sunday, August 5: The National Immigrant Youth Alliance announced that Viridiana Martinez, Marco Saavedra, Ally Ruiz, and Daniel Alvarado -- all DREAM activists -- were arrested on Sunday. Martinez and Saavedra had just been released on Friday. "ICE wasn't taking us serious so we needed to show them that this community is no longer going to live in fear," said a statement from NIYA. It's unclear if ICE will detainee the activists at the Broward Detention Center, which is now on lockdown, according to NIYA. The group is taking donations to help with bail. 

See also "DREAM Activist Infiltrates Pompano Detention Center, Says Dozens of Immigrants Held in 'Terrible Conditions'"

Just days after DREAM activist Viridiana Martinez gave a number of interviews live from the Broward Transitional Center, she's being released, according to the National Immigrant Youth Alliance.

Martinez got herself detained on purpose a few weeks back to document the number of people detained at the facility who classify as low-priority cases who shouldn't be deported or detained.

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DREAM Activist Infiltrates Pompano Detention Center, Says Dozens of Immigrants Held in "Terrible Conditions"

By Chris Sweeney Thu., Aug. 2 2012 at 6:00 AM
Categories: Immigration
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On Wednesday, Viridiana Martinez picked up a phone at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach and called Amy Goodman at Democracy Now. Martinez, a 26-year-old DREAM activist working with the National Youth Immigrant Alliance, calmly explained that she intentionally got her self detained a few weeks ago so she could bear witness to the horrific situation inside the facility.

During the brief interview, Martinez said the facility, which is run by private firm GEO, is packed with dozens of immigrants who have been living in "terrible conditions." Martinez emphasized that these are "low priority" cases, the exact type President Obama said will not be deported and shouldn't be detained. Yet some of them have been held at the Broward facility for nearly two years simply for being pulled over with a busted taillight.

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Supreme Court Shoots Down Large Parts of SB 1070, Arizona Immigration Law That Rubio Dislikes, Romney Might Dislike, Who Knows?

By Rich Abdill Mon., Jun. 25 2012 at 11:30 AM
Categories: Immigration, Politics
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We had a four-story package a few weeks ago that looked at Arizona's SB 1070, the controversial law that would turn local law enforcement into immigration officials -- the controversial law that was just gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The court said this morning that Arizona was not allowed to make "not carrying your papers" a misdemeanor or criminalize illegal immigrants applying for jobs. The state, crazily, is also not allowed to "arrest someone based solely on the suspicion that the person is in this country illegally," per the Washington Post.

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Obama Announces Halt on Deporting Some Illegal Immigrants; Allen West Immediately Launches Conspiracy Theories (VIDEO)

By Rich Abdill Fri., Jun. 15 2012 at 4:12 PM
Categories: Immigration, Wild, Wild West
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Today, the Obama administration announced the issue of an executive order that says illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children will no longer be deported. It has plenty of caveats -- they must have no criminal record, for example, and earn a high school diploma, among other things.

Congressman Allen West was on Fox News in a matter of minutes to condemn the move, as many Republicans have, for overreaching with his executive authority on a matter they say should have proceeded legislatively.

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Arizona's Immigration Enforcement Law: Florida's Stances on Both Sides of SB 1070

By Rich Abdill Fri., Jun. 8 2012 at 9:18 AM
Categories: Immigration
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This week's issue includes a four-story special report from Village Voice Media about SB 1070, the Arizona immigration law that both casts criminal suspicion on anyone who looks Latino and transforms local law enforcement officers into immigration investigators. It's featured nationally because it is of national concern -- the U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule soon on whether the policies unlawfully step on federal toes, and Arizona isn't the only state looking to ask brown people for their papers.
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Lauderdale Cops Accused of Racial Profiling, but Their Actions May Be Law of the Land

By Eric Barton Thu., Jun. 7 2012 at 6:28 AM
Categories: Immigration
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Racial profiling is so prevalent in mostly black neighborhoods of Fort Lauderdale that Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein was forced to write the police department earlier this year to complain. 

How bad is it? Cops are even citing people for failing to walk on a sidewalk -- even on streets with no sidewalks, according to Channel 7. 

Cops defend their actions by saying they're targeting high-crime areas, not stopping people based on the color of their skin. 

Finkelstein wasn't buying it. "One can only conclude that the City of Fort Lauderdale condones profiling of its citizens for 'walking while black,'" Finkelstein wrote to the police department. "Law enforcement in the City of Fort Lauderdale has decided to bully and intimidate at all levels."

Such racial profiling will increase nationwide if the Supreme Court rubber stamps Arizona's immigration law. It's enough to think there's a war on the brown-skinned around the corner and spurred Village Voice Media to produce a special report this week. Read all of the 
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Florida Chock-Full o' Foreigners: Six Fun Facts From New Census Data

By Rich Abdill Fri., May 11 2012 at 10:03 AM
Categories: Immigration
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PAAAARTYYYY
Sound the alarm! Slide down the polls! Gold Five to Red Leader, we have inbound data sets!

That's right, ladies and gentlemen, the U.S. Census Bureau released a new batch of data yesterday, and the Pulp has done some spreadsheet surfing to bring you the hottest numbers from the report. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hug your pet and salute the flag. So buckle up, because here are six of the most interesting revelations about Florida and the United States that can be gleaned from the new report, based on numbers from early 2010.

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