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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Daily features: July 12, 2007

  • Daily video


Tomás Contreras, a legal immigrant and entrepreneur, talks about his three-month stay in an immigrant detention center. He was detained on his way back from visiting family in Mexico. This video is part of Voces de la Frontera's reality tour.
  • Thursday blog round-up
    • 'Gandhian' visa flower protest by Indian immigrants gets noticed, and the SAJA blog compiles news links.
    • The StructuralPatterns blog wonders why and how Rudy Giuliani can 'collapse' immigration and terrorism together.
    • The GreenFertility blog ridicules Pat Buchanan for stating that immigrants bring disease into the country; followed by a news article that states that the unhealthy are very unlikely to immigrate at all.
  • Cartoon of the day

By Daryl Cagle at MSNBC.com. Published July 11, 2007.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I want to get that bird tattooed on my back.

Anonymous said...

The way immigrants are treated in detention centers is absolutely shameful. It's like having Abu-Ghraib or Gitmo on U.S. soil. Disgraceful!

Anonymous said...

The way native-born and legal immigrant American citizens are treated in this country is what's "absolutely shameful." Our children are murdered every day by illegals, many of whom have been deported multiple times. Where's your pity for parents of this little girl?

http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/14Jul2007_news14.php

Her life could have been saved if our "government" had put her murderer into one of the detention centers you decry.

Anonymous said...

Also they are not "immigrants," they are illegal immigrants or illegal aliens. Stop the dishonest terminology please!

Anonymous said...

Good cartoon, the finger is clearly aimed at the native-born law-abiding tax-paying American citizens who pick up the tab for the masses of poor people that Mexico doesn't care about or want.

Isn't it time Carlos Slim Helou, THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, found out what it was like to fill out a tax form?