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We pointed out a mere two of the inanities of the 2012 GOP Texas platform.
One reader listed much of what we had chosen to miss.
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Then there's return to the gold standard, abolish all sex education except total abstinence until marriage, abolish the capital gains tax, reduce education funding, trade property taxes for a consumption tax... it's a parade of craziness. John T. Harvey, writing in Forbes, calls it "terrifying."
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DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings will thank the fans of Hockeytown by hosting its annual 'Fan Appreciation Night' on Friday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. when the Red Wings take on the Carolina Hurricanes in the final regular season home game of the 2013-14 campaign.
Fans in attendance at Joe Louis Arena for Friday's game, along with those tuning in to the exclusive broadcast on FOX Sports Detroit and following the Red Wings social media channels (Facebook, Twitter), will be eligible to win hundreds of exciting giveaways, prizes and unique Red Wings experiences. In addition, fans who subscribe to the team's text alerts (Text "WINGS" to 21732) are also eligible to win prizes.
Along with giveaways throughout the night, 23 lucky fans will be selected to take part in a post-game ceremony on the ice to receive a game-used stick directly from a Red Wings player. Each player will sign the stick and pose for a photo with the fan. The Red Wings will also host "Suite Life" upgrades, moving 10 fans and their guests to a suite on the Rehmann Suite Level to enjoy the game.
Fans will have an opportunity to win great prizes for the upcoming 2014-15 season, including two 10-game plans, a preseason suite night, penalty box visits, Zamboni rides and a tour of the FOX Sports Detroit Call Sam Studio and broadcast truck. Additional prizes awarded during Friday's game include a 60-inch television, an Xbox 360 gaming system, $100 merchandise gift certificates, complete 2013-14 bobblehead sets and autographed copies of the limited-edition book "Five: A Salute to Nicklas Lidstrom."
Several lucky seat and row giveaways will be announced throughout the night, featuring prizes from Red Wings corporate partners such as: gift cards to Antonio's Cucina, Buffalo Wild Wings, Hard Rock Café, Meijer and Tim Hortons; Olympia Entertainment concert and show tickets; Little Caesars Pizza Kits; Pandora Jewelry hockey charms; an autographed set of Henrik Zetterberg gloves courtesy of Warrior Hockey; movie passes for Uptown Entertainment theatres; overnight stays at MotorCity Casino Hotel and more.
All fans in attendance will receive a sample bag of Jack Links Beef Jerky upon entering Joe Louis Arena and one lucky fan will be selected to win beef jerky for a year. Friday's game also falls on the final Fathead Friday of the season. The first 10,000 fans to Joe Louis Arena will receive a Fathead of forward Johan Franzen, courtesy of Quicken Loans and Fathead.
A complete list of prizes can be found at http://www.DetroitRedWings.com/FanAppreciation.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The University of Connecticut men's and women's basketball teams hit the streets of Hartford in a parade celebrating their national championships.
The parade kicked off at the state Capitol at 4 p.m. Sunday and wound its way through the downtown area before returning to the Capitol for a "victory rally."
Police described the outpouring as the largest event anyone could remember in the city of Hartford _ bigger than the St. Patrick's Day parade, bigger than the 2004 UConn basketball celebration.
"Next to having my children and marrying my wife, this is the greatest moment of my life," said UConn alumnus Brian Fitzgerald of Glastonbury as he cheered the team.
The UConn men beat Kentucky for the national title last Monday night, while the women's team defeated Notre Dame for its record-breaking ninth championship Tuesday night.
UConn is the only school to win both the men's and women's Division I basketball championships in the same year, a feat they also accomplished in 2004.
Laura Soll, a spokeswoman for parade organizers, said that the degree of excitement over this year's championships and ideal weather conditions forecast for Sunday were expected to boost attendance to levels seen 10 years ago when about 300,000 turned out to celebrate the last time both teams won national titles.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Connecticut businesses payed for Sunday's festivities.
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"Lindsay's really embarrassed by that music, it was really poppy and cheesy. She sees herself as far more credible now," a source explained to British newspaper The Mirror.
"Jamie is one of her idols - she loves The Kills and sees herself as a bit of a rock chick."
Rumours Lohan is working on an album began circulating after the star posted teasing photographs of herself working on a secret project in a music studio.
She shared a photo of a signed copy of The Kills record Satellite, and the caption for the image read: "#jamiehince #tomh #robbie #bigpink #studiotime."
Lohan has had six stints in rehabilitation centres over the years, dating back to 2007, as well as numerous run-ins with the law.
She was most recently released from court-ordered treatment earlier this year and it is now rumoured she will be writing a tell-all book about her life.
According to TMZ, Lindsay will spill the beans on her arrests, drug abuse and family in the alleged tome.
Last week she reportedly met with literary agency Waxman Leavell in New York to discuss the possibility of a deal.
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From the Bookshelves: Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada Edited by Benjamin Bryce and Alexander Freund
Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada Edited by Benjamin Bryce and Alexander Freund (University Press of Florida 2015).
For almost two centuries North America has been a major destination for international migrants, but from the late nineteenth century onward, governments began to regulate borders, set immigration quotas, and define categories of citizenship. To highlight the complexities of migration, the contributors to this volume focus on people born in the United States and Canada who migrated to the other country, as well as Japanese, Chinese, German, and Mexican migrants who came to the United States and Canada. These case studies go beyond the confines of national historiographies to situate the history of North America in an international context.
By including local, national, and transnational perspectives, the editors emphasize the value of tracking connections over large spaces and political boundaries and, in so doing, present rich new scholarship to the field. This volume ultimately contends that crucial issues in the United States and Canada, such as labor, economic growth, and ideas about the racial or religious makeup of the nations, are shaped by the two countries' connections to each other and the surrounding world.
Here is the table of contents.
Benjamin Bryce is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Northern British Columbia. Alexander Freund is professor of history and chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg. He is the editor of Beyond the Nation? Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures and coeditor of Oral History and Photography.
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015
From the Bookshelves: Not from Here: A Memoir by Allan G. Johnson
Not from Here: A Memoir by Allan G. Johnson
When Allan Johnson asked his dying father where he wanted his ashes to be placed, his father replied—without hesitation—that it made no difference to him at all. In his poignant, powerful memoir, Not from Here, Johnson embarks on an extraordinary two-thousand-mile journey across the Upper Midwest and Great Plains to find the place where his father's ashes belong.
As a white man of Norwegian and English lineage, Johnson explores both America and the question of belonging to a place whose history holds the continuing legacy of the displacement, dispossession, and genocide of Native Peoples. More than a personal narrative, Not from Here illuminates not only the national silence around unresolved questions of accountability, race, and identity politics but also the dilemma of how to take responsibility for a past we did not create.
Johnson's story—of the past living in the present; of redemption, fate, family, tribe, and nation; of love and grief—raises profound questions about belonging, identity, and place.
"What it means to be white, what it means to be American, and what it means to be from a place and to belong to it are questions that Johnson raises throughout the book. He is painfully aware that as a descendant of those who took the land from others, dispossessing and displacing them, he is today the beneficiary of acts he did not perform. . . . [T]hose expecting a son's gentle memoir will be in for a surprise." —Kirkus Reviews
June 9, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, June 8, 2015
More Luis Alberto Urrea on Life Along the U.S./Mexico Border
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of the classic book (The Devil's Highway) on the immigration enforcement along the U.S./Mexico border, has two new books on the border. Listen to this radio interview with the author on the books. Here is a summary of the show:
The border between poetry and fiction is dismantled when the poet/author is Luis Alberto Urrea. He finds a border and builds a bridge. Urrea's two most recent books, one of poetry -- The Tijuana Book of the Dead (Soft Skull Press) -- and one of short stories -- The Water Museum (Little, Brown and Company) -- work together to bridge the gap between the logical coherence of fiction and the surrealism of poetry. He deconstructs the border that acts as a brutal metaphor for the separation of people.
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From the Bookshelves: Marjorie S. Zatz and Nancy Rodriguez, Dreams and Nightmares: Immigration Policy, Youth and Families
Marjorie S. Zatz, a dedicated reader of the ImmigrationProf blog, announces the publication of her new book Dreams and Nightmares: Immigration Policy, Youth and Families, co-authored with Nancy Rodriguez. The book takes a critical look at the challenges and dilemmas of immigration policy and practice in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. The experiences of children and youth provide a prism through which the interwoven dynamics and consequences of immigration policy become apparent.
Using a unique sociolegal perspective, Zatz and Rodriguez examine the mechanisms by which immigration policies and practices mitigate or exacerbate harm to vulnerable youth. They pay particular attention to prosecutorial discretion, assessing its potential and limitations for resolving issues involving parental detention and deportation, unaccompanied minors, and Dreamers who came to the United States as young children.
The book demonstrates how these policies and practices offer a means of prioritizing immigration enforcement in ways that alleviate harm to children, and why they remain controversial and vulnerable to political challenges.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
From the Bookshelves: Review of Ben Herzog, Revoking Citizenship: Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror
In this review, Leticia Saucedo, former ImmigrationProf blogger, reviews Ben Herzog, Revoking Citizenship: Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror (NYU Press 2015). (The book has previously been previewed on this blog.). She concludes that
Herzog's contribution to the growing debate over membership in our polity is important for its reminder that citizenship has historically been contingent in the United States, despite the claims to constitutional status that citizenship might invoke. At 139 pages (not including notes), it is a short read that will induce the reader to rethink the nature of citizenship in our democracy.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Ann Coulter's Latest on Immigration
Ann Coulter is in the immigration news. To promote her new book, Adios, America, Coulter sat down with Jorge Ramos for a town hall-style interview. At one point, immigration activist Gaby Pacheco stood up and asked if she could give Coulter a hug. Coulter awkwardly declined
During the interview, Ramos questioned Coulter about her belief that Americans should "fear immigrants" from Mexico "more than ISIS." "I have a little tip," Coulter told him. "If you don't want to be killed by ISIS, don't go to Syria. If you don't want to be killed by a Mexican, there's nothing I can tell you."
Here is a description on Amazon.com of Coulter's new book:
"Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their `charity,' and greedy Republican businessmen and campaign consultants—all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that's tearing the country apart. Applying her trademark biting humor to the disaster that is U.S. immigration policy, Coulter proves that immigration is the most important issue facing America today."
UPDATE (May 30): Yesterday, Ann Coulter said in an email to Breitbart News that if she ran the immigration system, she wouldn't "admit overweight girls" into the United States. Coulter's comments were reportedly made in response to a question about the incident that occurred earlier in the week when Coulter refused to hug Gaby Pacheco during an audience Q&A on the cable network Fusion.
May 27, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, May 25, 2015
From the Bookshelves: Global Migration: Old Assumptions, New Dynamics by Diego Acosta Arcarazo and Anja Wiesbrock, Editors
Global Migration Old Assumptions, New Dynamics by Diego Acosta Arcarazo and Anja Wiesbrock, Editors
Even in an age of mobility, 97 percent of people stay in the country where they were born.
This three-volume work exposes myths and debunks misinformation about global migration, an issue generating emotional debate from the highest levels of power to kitchen tables across the United States, Europe, and worldwide. Many don't realize that migration has been a central element of global social change since the 15th century. Unfortunately, misconceptions about the 3 percent of world citizens who do choose to migrate can be destructive. In 2008, riots broke out in South Africa over workers from neighboring countries. Today's rising tensions along the U.S.-Mexican border are inciting political, social, and economic upheaval. In the EU, political fortunes rise and fall on positions regarding the future of multiculturalism in Europe.
Relying on fact, not rhetoric, this three-volume book seeks to inform readers, allay fears, and advance solutions. While other reference works tend to limit their scope to one country or one dimension of this hot-button issue, this book looks at the topic through a wide and interdisciplinary lens. Truly global in scope, this collection explores issues on all five continents, discussing examples from more than 50 countries through analysis by 40 top scholars across 8 disciplines. By exploring the past, present, and future of measures that have been implemented in an attempt to deal with migration—ranging from regularization procedures to criminalization—readers will be able to understand this worldwide phenomenon. Both the expert and the general reader will find a wealth of information free of the unsustainable claims and polarized opinions usually presented in the media.
Here is the introductory chapter of this book.
Offers the university student or interested lay reader a broad and accessible introduction to key questions on migration issues in 50 countries spanning 5 continents
Presents cutting-edge research drawn from the eight academic perspectives of law, economics, politics, sociology, demography, geography, anthropology, and history to allow the activist, journalist, or specialist to discuss the issues more thoroughly
Dispels numerous common myths surrounding migration, providing more depth and perspective than what is usually presented in the media Supplies the broad scope, accessibility, and utility to serve nearly every audience, making this three-volume work an ideal choice for libraries seeking to purchase one reference work on immigration
Authors: Diego Acosta Arcarazo, PhD, is a lecturer in law at the University of Bristol, UK. He holds a doctorate in EU migration law from King's College University, London, UK, and he previously lectured at the University of Sheffield. His published works include The Long-Term Resident Status as a Subsidiary Form of EU Citizenship and EU Security and Justice Law.
Anja Wiesbrock, PhD, is a senior judicial advisor at the Research Council of Norway. She has previously worked as an assistant professor in EU Law at the Department of International and European Law of Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Her published works include Legal Migration to the European Union and The Greening of European Business Under EU Law: Taking Article 11 TFEU Seriously.
Their book has benefited from the input of an advisory board composed of UN Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants François Crépeau; the former UN rapporteur, Jorge Bustamante; and five key migration scholars: Professors Aderanti Adepoju, Binod Khadria, Wei Li, Kees Groenendijk, and Andrew Geddes. The contributors are leading scholars from five continents in eight different disciplines.
May 25, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, May 23, 2015
From the Bookshelves: Immigration Law & the Military, 2nd Edition by Margaret D. Stock
Immigration Law & the Military, 2nd Edition by Margaret D. Stock
Immigration Law & the Military addresses immigration issues encountered by:
Noncitizens serving on active duty
Noncitizens affected by disciplinary and court martial procedures
U.S. military personnel who marry citizens of other countries
Children of U.S. military personnel who are adopted overseas and are in need of immigrant/nonimmigrant visas
Immigration Law & the Military is the only resource available that gives you the tools to tackle issues such as:
Selective service and enlistment rules Special rules and procedures for naturalization through military service
Types of military discharges
Implications of military disciplinary proceedings & courts martial
Parole in Place
Military-related issues for family members of military personnel
Civilian employees/contractors who work alongside military member
In addition to the above topics,Immigration Law & the Military explores common military-related issues through real case examples and provides information on special resources available to military personnel and their family members. Confidently handle immigration cases for military personnel and their families with the help of a top expert in the field.
As a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Military Police, U.S. Army Reserve, Margaret Stock has extensive experience with U.S. military issues. She has also worked as a professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and as an adjunct instructor at the University of Alaska. Margaret is a member of the board of the Federal Bar Association's Immigration Law Section and a former member of the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration. In 2013, she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
May 23, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, May 18, 2015
From the Bookshelves: Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control by Tom Wong
Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control by Tom Wong
Immigration is among the most prominent, enduring, and contentious features of our globalized world. Yet, there is little systematic, cross-national research on why countries "do what they do" when it comes to their immigration policies. Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control addresses this gap by examining what are arguably the most contested and dynamic immigration policies—immigration control—across 25 immigrant-receiving countries, including the U.S. and most of the European Union. The book addresses head on three of the most salient aspects of immigration control: the denial of rights to non-citizens, their physical removal and exclusion from the polity through deportation, and their deprivation of liberty and freedom of movement in immigration detention. In addition to answering the question of why states do what they do, the book describes contemporary trends in what Tom K. Wong refers to as the machinery of immigration control, analyzes the determinants of these trends using a combination of quantitative analysis and fieldwork, and explores whether efforts to deter unwanted immigration are actually working.
Tom K. Wong is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.
May 18, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, May 16, 2015
From the Bookshelves: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: Legislating a New America, Gabriel J. Chin and Rose Cuison Villazor, editors
Watch out for this book by two of my my UC Davis colleagues!
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: Legislating a New America Editors: Gabriel J. Chin and Rose Cuison Villazor (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming September 2015).
Along with the civil rights and voting rights acts, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is one of the most important bills of the civil rights era. The Act's political, legal, and demographic impact continues to be felt, yet its legacy is controversial. The 1965 Act was groundbreaking in eliminating the white America immigration policy in place since 1790, ending Asian exclusion, and limiting discrimination against Eastern European Catholics and Jews. At the same time, the Act discriminated against gay men and lesbians, tied refugee status to Cold War political interests, and shattered traditional patterns of Mexican migration, setting the stage for current immigration politics. Drawing from studies in law, political science, anthropology, and economics, this book will be an essential tool for any scholar or student interested in immigration law.
The first book devoted to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments. It includes contributions by scholars in law, political science, cultural studies, and economics reflect the modern interdisciplinary approach to immigration studies. The volume places the current-day immigration debates in context and provides historically informed policy suggestions.
Here is the table of contents:
Foreword Cruz Reynoso
Introduction Gabriel J. Chin and Rose Cuison Villazor
Part I. The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965: Ushering in an Era of Racial Equality or Furthering Racial Discrimination?
1. Were the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 anti-racist? Gabriel J. Chin
2. African migration to the United States: assigned to the back of the bus Bill Ong Hing
3. The beginning of the end: the Immigration Act of 1965 and the emergence of the modern US-Mexico border state Kevin R. Johnson
4. The last preference: refugees and the 1965 Immigration Act Brian Soucek
Part II. The 1965 Immigration Act and Policy of Family Unification
5. The 1965 Immigration Act: family unification and non-discrimination fifty years later Rose Cuison Villazor
6. Workers without families: the unintended consequences Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Cerissa Salazar Parreñas
7. Sexual deviants need not apply: LGBTQ oppression in the 1965 Immigration Amendments Atticus Lee
Part III. The 1965 Immigration Act and Employment-Based Immigration
8. Coming to America: the business of trafficked workers Valerie Francisco and Robyn Rodriguez
9. The impact of 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act on the evolution of temporary guest worker programs, or how the 1965 Act punted on creating a rightful place for Mexican worker migration Leticia M. Saucedo
Part IV. Political and Economic Issues
10. The 1965 Immigration Act: the demographic and political transformation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in US border communities Jeannette Money and Kristina Victor
11. Economic performance of immigrants, following the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 Giovanni Peri
May 16, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, May 7, 2015
From the Bookshelves: Justice and Authority in Immigration Law by Colin Grey
Justice and Authority in Immigration Law by Colin Grey
This book provides a new and powerful account of the demands of justice on immigration law and policy. Drawing principally on the work of Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and John Rawls, it argues that justice requires states to give priority of admission to the most disadvantaged migrants, and to grant some form of citizenship or non-oppressive status to those migrants who become integrated. It also argues that states must avoid policies of admission and exclusion that can only be implemented through unjust means. It therefore refutes the common misconception that justice places no limits on the discretion of states to control immigration.
Colin Grey is a legal adviser at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
May 7, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, April 30, 2015
From the Bookshelves: Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Selfa A. Chew and Shameful Victory: The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine by John H. M. Laslett
There are two history books that soon will be released that may interest readers of the ImmigrationProf blog.
Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Selfa A. Chew
Joining the U.S.' war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel Ávila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and approved the creation of internment camps and zones of confinement. Under this relocation program, a new pro-American nationalism developed in Mexico that scripted Japanese Mexicans as an internal racial enemy. In spite of the broad resistance presented by the communities wherein they were valued members, Japanese Mexicans lost their freedom, property, and lives.
In Uprooting Community, Selfa A. Chew examines the lived experience of Japanese Mexicans in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands during World War II. Studying the collaboration of Latin American nation-states with the U.S. government, Chew illuminates the efforts to detain, deport, and confine Japanese residents and Japanese-descent citizens of Latin American countries during World War II. These narratives challenge the notion that Japanese Mexicans enjoyed the protection of the Mexican government during the war and refute the mistaken idea that Japanese immigrants and their descendants were not subjected to internment in Mexico during this period. Through her research, Chew provides evidence that, despite the principles of racial democracy espoused by the Mexican elite, Japanese Mexicans were in fact victims of racial prejudice bolstered by the political alliances between the United States and Mexico.
The treatment of the ethnic Japanese in Mexico was even harsher than what Japanese immigrants and their children in the United States endured during the war, according to Chew. She argues that the number of persons affected during World War II extended beyond the first-generation Japanese immigrants "handled" by the Mexican government during this period, noting instead that the entire multiethnic social fabric of the borderlands was reconfigured by the absence of Japanese Mexicans.
Shameful Victory: The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine by John H. M. Laslett
On May 8, 1959, the evening news shocked Los Angeles residents, who saw LA County sheriffs carrying a Mexican American woman from her home in Chavez Ravine not far from downtown. Immediately afterward, the house was bulldozed to the ground. This violent act was the last step in the forced eviction of 3,500 families from the unique hilltop barrio that in 1962 became the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers that is now known as Dodger Stadium.
John H. M. Laslett offers a new interpretation of the Chavez Ravine tragedy, paying special attention to the early history of the barrio, the reform of Los Angeles's destructive urban renewal policies, and the influence of the evictions on the collective memory of the Mexican American community.
In addition to examining the political decisions made by power brokers at city hall, Shameful Victory argues that the tragedy exerted a much greater influence on the history of the Los Angeles civil rights movement than has hitherto been appreciated. The author also sheds fresh light on how the community grew, on the experience of individual home owners who were evicted from the barrio, and on the influence that the event had on the development of recent Chicano/a popular music, drama, and literature.
April 30, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs, Sports | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, April 27, 2015
Fresh Off the Boat and the Lighter Side of Immigrant Assimilation
ImmigrationProf previously posted about "Fresh Off the Boat", the ABC sitcom based on celebrity chef' Eddie Huang's memoir. (Huang has been critical of the depiction of his life in the show.). It is the first network primetime show to feature an Asian-American family in 20 years.
The show is set in 1995 and 11-year-old hip-hop loving Eddie Huang has just moved with his family from Chinatown in Washington D.C. to suburban Orlando. They quickly discover things are very different there. Orlando doesn't even have a Chinatown—unless you count the Huang house.
In Fresh Off The Boat's season finale, Jessica, the family matriarch, worries over whether or not she and her kids have assimilated too much, a common concern of immigrant parents.. For a further look at the finale on NPR, click here.
April 27, 2015 in Books, Film & Television | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
From the Bookshelves: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Immigration Law
What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Immigration Law by Anna Williams Shavers, Jennifer Hermansky, Jill E. Family, Lillian Katherine Kalmykov, William S Jordan III, 2014, 562 pages
This practical guide provides legal practitioners with tips on issues that they may encounter when representing clients that may necessitate an examination of immigration-related issues.
Given the many ways in which immigration law can affect a single individual as well as large corporation, most lawyers will encounter a client needing immigration law advice. Yet for the non-specialist, immigration law can be daunting, particularly because it is governed by a complex mix of statutes, regulations, and federal and administrative court guidance - as well as by adjudicatory policies from multiple administrative agencies. Thus, it is important for lawyers to understand how best to spot immigration issues for clients, and when to involve an immigration attorney for assistance with a client. This book was written by immigration law specialists who insights, guidance, and practice tips can offer help in understanding these issues. The book is meant to provide attorneys working in various areas of law with enough information to identify problematic immigration issues, counsel their clients accordingly and if the matter is advanced to know when to advise the client to consult with immigration counsel. It will also introduce attorneys to the myriad of agencies involved in the immigration process.
April 14, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (1)
Thursday, April 2, 2015
From the Bookshelves: Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande By George T. Díaz
Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande By George T. Díaz
In this first history of smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border, Díaz shows how illicit trade evolved from a common practice of ordinary people into a professional, often violent, criminal activity.
Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande upset local trade and caused popular resentment. Rather than acquiesce to what they regarded as arbitrary trade regulations, borderlanders continued to cross goods and accepted many forms of smuggling as just.
In Border Contraband, George T. Díaz provides the first history of the common, yet little studied, practice of smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. In Part I, he examines the period between 1848 and 1910, when the United States' and Mexico's trade concerns focused on tariff collection and on borderlanders' attempts to avoid paying tariffs by smuggling. Part II begins with the onset of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, when national customs and other security forces on the border shifted their emphasis to the interdiction of prohibited items (particularly guns and drugs) that threatened the state. Díaz's pioneering research explains how greater restrictions have transformed smuggling from a low-level mundane activity, widely accepted and still routinely practiced, into a highly profitable professional criminal enterprise.
April 2, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, March 28, 2015
From the Bookshelves: Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases by Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases by Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia (NYU Press, 2015)
When Beatles star John Lennon faced deportation from the U.S. in the 1970s, his lawyer Leon Wildes made a groundbreaking argument. He argued that Lennon should be granted "nonpriority" status pursuant to INS's (now DHS's) policy of prosecutorial discretion. In U.S. immigration law, the agency exercises prosecutorial discretion favorably when it refrains from enforcing the full scope of immigration law. A prosecutorial discretion grant is important to an agency seeking to focus its priorities on the "truly dangerous" in order to conserve resources and to bring compassion into immigration enforcement. The Lennon case marked the first moment that the immigration agency's prosecutorial discretion policy became public knowledge. Today, the concept of prosecutorial discretion is more widely known in light of the Obama Administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA program, a record number of deportations and a stalemate in Congress to move immigration reform.
Beyond Deportation is the first book to comprehensively describe the history, theory, and application of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law. It provides a rich history of the role of prosecutorial discretion in the immigration system and unveils the powerful role it plays in protecting individuals from deportation and saving the government resources. Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia draws on her years of experience as an immigration attorney, policy leader, and law professor to advocate for a bolder standard on prosecutorial discretion, greater mechanisms for accountability when such standards are ignored, improved transparency about the cases involving prosecutorial discretion, and recognition of "deferred action" in the law as a formal benefit.
March 28, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, March 23, 2015
From the Bookshelves: 2nd Edition of the Handbook on Protection Gaps in the Protection of Palestinian Refugees
Handbook on the Protection of Palestinian Refugees, co-edited by Susan Akram and Nidal Al-Azza
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights has published a new edition of the Handbook on the Protection of Palestinian Refugees in State Signatories to the 1951 Convention. Building on the 2005 edition and the 2011 update, this year's Handbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of international legal protection standards applicable to Palestinian refugees – most notably, Article 1D of the 1951 Refugee Convention. As the result of a monumental gathering of evidence, the Handbook examines new developments in international guidelines regarding the application of Article 1D as well as it presents an extensive survey on the protection afforded to Palestinian refugees in 30 countries in Europe, Oceania, the Americas and Africa, with a special focus on legislation and case law related to Article 1D. In the last chapter, BADIL presents its alternative approach to Article 1D, providing a wider ground to grant protection not only to Palestinian refugees, but also to all refugees in secondary movement who seek asylum in a new host country.
This publication constitutes a primary text for lawyers providing legal assistance to asylum seekers in any of the countries surveyed. The Handbook could also be of interest to national and international organizations concerned with refugees and asylum seekers, providing support to advocacy efforts to change national practices vis-à-vis refugees in secondary movement. Furthermore, the Handbook is also of scholarly interest inasmuch as it presents a historical analysis of the circumstances that gave rise to the Palestinian diaspora and the international mechanisms and bodies devised to cope with its challenges, as well as it explains the protection gaps that emerged in the protection regime of Palestinian refugees.
March 23, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Immigration Article of the Day: Law and Migration: Many Constants, Few Changes by David Abraham
Law and Migration: Many Constants, Few Changes by David Abraham, University of Miami - School of Law October 23, 2014 in Caroline Bretell and James Hollifield, Eds., Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines (New York and London: Routledge 2015), pp. 289-317 University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-8
Abstract: Addressing an interdisciplinary readership, the essay takes on a host of current and nettlesome issues in regard to "Immigration and Sovereignty," core "Westphalian and Post-Westphalian Problems and Reforms," recent developments that might be characterized as a simultaneous "Post-Westphalian and Neo-Westphalian Backlash," and ongoing debates over "Post-Multiculturalism and the Neo-Liberal Welfare State."
Law is not a research discipline or tool of social analysis. Law is, in the first instance, a tool of regulation; as such it constructs legality and illegality, the permissible and the impermissible. Law is also an expression of norms of justice as construed by a particular sovereign legislating community, one whose own composition is dynamic and changed by the very things, including migration, it seeks to regulate. Law, like the state in general, may be construed as a society's résumé, indicating where the society has been and where it stands at any particular time, what is there and then being contested and what is not, who is in charge and who is not. Since it may evolve, law is also a terrain of struggle over where and how to steer society, one of many fields in which class and interest politics, constructed in myriad ways, play out in simple and complicated venues. Finally, since law, notwithstanding the existence of bi- and multilateral agreements, is overwhelmingly produced on a national basis, methodological nationalism is reflected in most thinking about law and what it does. Westphalian conceptions of sovereignty still prevail, and perhaps more in the arena of migration and citizenship than in most others.
March 23, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, March 9, 2015
From the Bookshelves: Forgotten Citizens Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans by Luis Zayas
Forgotten Citizens: Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans by Luis Zayas (Oxford University Press, 2015)
A topic of immigration that has never been dealt with directly
Walks the reader through the immigration, arrest, detention, and deportation process using real-life cases
Well-researched and describes the impact of deportation in human terms
Suggests new policies and practices that can be implemented to protect the children's and our nation's future
March 9, 2015 in Books, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, March 2, 2015
The Dr. Seuss Anti-Japanese War Bond Cartoons
Today is the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Kids around the country will be reading The Cat in the Hat and other fabulous rhyming books. They will dress up for Wacky Wednesday and count all the places they might go.
But you may not know that in the 1940s, Dr. Seuss drew overtly racist cartoons in support of US war bonds. UC San Diego has an online collection of the cartoons.
At least one biographer has said that Dr. Seuss regretted his anti-Japanese stance during the war. His famous tale Horton Hears a Who was dedicated to "My Great Friend, Mitsugi Nakamura of Kyoto, Japan." The book is, apparently, about the post-war occupation of Japan by the US.
March 2, 2015 in Books | Permalink | Comments (0)


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Architecture: Alexandre Jacques catalogues the patterned buildings of the world
Even if you've royally had enough of looking at photographs of patterns – patterns on clothing, on walls, on anything – I'd hazard a guess that you'll be sucked in by these from Alexandre Jacques. The architecture buff has created a series of stunning images of the façades of buildings, where the patterns they bear make them seem to be fading hazily into the distance, and then painstakingly documented all of them in fascinating detail on his brilliantly concise website, Architectural Pattern.
The information he records includes the architect who designed the building: the floor count, the date that the construction ended and the design factors referenced in it, alongside a fairly in depth description of the structure itself. The result is not just-another-pattern-blog, but a gorgeously abstract series of images and an invaluable database of architectural and design knowledge. It has a lovely scroll too.
- Hello and welcome to the new look It's Nice That
- Sweet, surreal still lifes by Paris-based Clotilde Viannay
- We ask some established creatives what they wish they'd learned at art school
- Embracing the uncanny with photographer Nadia Lee Cohen (NSFW)
- Music's slick, dark designs for British Fashion Council annual review
- Wonder Room shows how to adapt posters designed for print for online
- Yolanda Dominguez asks kids to describe what they see in fashion campaigns
- Street photography shot on an iPhone during fake phonecalls by Jay Giampietro
- Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic logos unveiled
- Should creatives ever accept unpaid work? We ask some seasoned experts
- Illustrated campaign for Volkswagen uses parents lying to children as a metaphor
- We get a sneak peek of TASCHEN's new book documenting 50 years of Pirelli


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ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new service offering to help critical infrastructure organizations utilize a new Cybersecurity Framework announced this week by the Administration at the White House.
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The new Cybersecurity Framework is the product of a year-long collaboration between the U.S. government and industry, coordinated and led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The goal of the Framework is to help organizations assess and manage cybersecurity risk with respect to key categories and functions, leveraging existing best practices. Today's factories, power facilities and other physical assets are increasingly interconnected, making the Framework strategically important to the security of today's enterprises and the infrastructure they depend upon.
Rather than dictate specific technologies, measures or outcomes, the framework establishes a common language for organizations to evaluate their cybersecurity posture and to identify and prioritize opportunities to improve it. Because the Framework is designed to be adaptable to organizations of different types and sizes, it can be customized to an individual organization depending on its risk profile, resources, and needs.
The IBM Industrial Controls Cybersecurity Consulting service is designed to help companies apply the Framework to baseline and improve their security maturity, prioritize security investments and resources, and protect themselves from cyber risks to infrastructure and elements necessary for critical operations and networks.
IBM security consultants will educate clients on details and mechanics of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and perform a comprehensive assessment of a client's security maturity relative to the guidelines, best practices and international standards referenced in the Framework. Clients receive recommendations for improvements as well as a roadmap for improving capabilities and reducing risk.
"Cyber threats are not limited to select industries such as financial services and retail companies. There is a growing need to apply advanced security to our increasingly interconnected critical infrastructure like power facilities, electrical grids, industrial manufacturing operations and others," said Kris Lovejoy, general manager of IBM Security Services. "If organizations take the steps outlined in the Framework, they'll be better positioned to protect themselves and their practices. IBM can help its clients adopt these best practices now - and to distinguish themselves as an industry leader in security."
The industries most dependent on the nation's infrastructure are also some of the most attacked. IBM's own analysis, based on findings in the most recent IBM Cyber Security Intelligence Index, security intelligence analysis generated from IBM's global security monitoring operation of over 4000 clients. Data from the report shows that infrastructure-dependent industries are among the most targeted by cyber attackers. The top five industries that reported the most incidents include:
- Manufacturing – 26.5% of all observed security incidents
- Finance and Insurance – 20.9%
- Information and Communication – 18.7%
- Health and Social Services – 7.3%
- Retail and wholesale – 6.6%
About IBM Security
IBM Security helps organizations stay secure by offering intelligence, integration and expertise – and helps clients take a step-by-step approach to building a security strategy and establishing security intelligence. IBM Security harnesses analytics, new innovations, and a systematic approach to security will usher businesses into a new era markedly more secure than the past.
For more information on IBM Security Services visit http://www.ibm.com/services/us/en/it-services/security-services/ibm-industrial-controls-cybersecurity-consulting/index.html. Join the conversation on social media channels by following @IBMSecurity on Twitter, joining IBM Security on LinkedIn Groups and by visiting our Security Intelligence Blog at www.securityintelligence.com
For more information about IBM visit www.ibm.com.
Tod Freeman
IBM Media Relations
Kevin Acocella
IBM Communications
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