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Last sunday, we paddled to Angel Island, in the middle of San Francisco bay, where the immigration station admitted approximately 1,000,000 people to the United States between 1910 and 1940.
Yosenia Guerrero is held back by a friend as Woodland police officer Luke Spence tries to disperse a large crowd of students protesting immigration reform. March 31, 2006, in Woodland, Calif.
A North American butterfly that immigrated to South Australia in 1874.
Further information is available here: www.butterflygardening.net.au/PDFs/factsheets/Wanderer.pdf
A Path to Citizenship for All. Rise and Resist Immigration Vigil at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal
On May 1, 2010 leaders of the immigration reform movement were arrested in Washington DC. At the end of a peaceful demonstration at Lafayette Park, leaders of the immigration reform movement were arrested for a sit-in at the railings in front of the White House in what was intended to be an act of civil disobedience. Set against the background of Arizona's adoption of SB1070, the leaders vowed not to move from the railings until either an immigration reform law was passed or they were arrested. Police arrested the volunteers in a very calm and civil pro-forma manner while the surrounding crowds called on President Obama to take the lead in implementing immigration reform. The speakers said that the Democrat Party, because of the promises it made, especially to the Latino community, during the election, now had a duty to deliver on those promises. The leaders were arrested and placed on board a bus that had been parked nearby. The bus then drove 20-30 feet to the plaza in front of the White House, where each of the arrested leaders was removed one at a time, photographed and videotaped, and then put back on the bus. The bus remained parked for 10 minutes and then drove away, apparently taking the arrested volunteers and leaders to a police station in Anacostia in Washington DC for processing. Once the bus left the crowd dispersed peacefully. One police officer that was overseeing the police activity at the scene said that the organizers of the demonstration had ensured that it was both well organized and controlled.
This is an Inspiration-generated concept map of vocabulary words associated by educators in El Paso of the word IMMIGRATION. (For more on this activity, refer to my podcast "Outstanding Commercial Digital Curriculum.")
22/02/20. Central Piers, Hong Kong.
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Immigration checkpoint inside the united states on the 90 between Del Rio and El Paso TX where we were unconstitutionally stopped and asked what our citizenship was by border patrol men with dogs and guns. September 14th 2009
The Berghoff restaurant, at 17 West Adams Street, near the center of the Chicago Loop, was opened in 1898 by Herman Joseph Berghoff and has become a Chicago landmark.
Herman Berghoff immigrated to America from Dortmund, Germany in 1870. Herman and his three brothers, Henry, Hubert and Gustav, started brewing Berghoff's Beer in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1887. Herman wanted to expand the market for the family's beer and to do so he sold beer at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.
The beer was well received which inspired Herman to open a cafe to showcase Berghoff's Dortmunder-style beer which it sold for a nickel. Sandwiches were offered for free. The bar remained open even through the prohibition period by selling a near beer (which is now sold as Berghoff's Root Beer) and Bergo Soda Pop and became a full service restaurant. After prohibition was repealed in 1933 The Berghoff was issued Liquor License No. 1. Long after most restaurants ended the practice, the Berghoff maintained a separate men's only bar. The segregation ended in 1969, when seven members of the National Organization for Women sat at the bar and demanded service.
For much of its history, the Berghoff waiters would purchase the meals they were serving from the kitchen and then deliver them to the customer, keeping the amount the customer paid for the meals.
On December 28, 2005 it was announced by Herman Berghoff, 70, and his wife Jan Berghoff that after 107 years of operation, The Berghoff would close on February 28, 2006. Herman and Jan are the third generation of Berghoffs to own the restaurant.
The restaurant's basement cafe reopened on April 18, 2006 during weekday lunch hours only, and is run by Carlyn Berghoff, Herman and Jan's daughter. She also reopened the Berghoff's bar on May 23, 2006, under the new name "17/West at The Berghoff." Carlyn Berghoff has converted the dining room of the restaurant into a private banquet hall called "The Century Room." The Berghoff Cafe at O'Hare Airport also remains open. Berghoff beer, which is served almost exclusively at the establishment, is currently owned by Joseph Huber Brewing Company.
As of sometime in 2007, The Berghoff has been reopened with a somewhat changed menu.
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A message of love in two languages decorates the steel beams of the border fence that separates the U.S. from Mexico at El Faro Park in Tijuana, Mexico. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
another story of a wrongful deportation in denmark.
the article can be found here in today's politiken, but the gist of it is: after 18 years of marriage, a kenyan woman who is married to a dane (and together, they have a daughter), is forcibly being deported because of the current immigration laws. she has done nothing wrong, she has committed no crime.
she is being deported despite the fact her husband is a danish citizen, has paid taxes all of his life, has worked for years on behalf of the danish foreign service (danida - the danish equivalent to the peace corps) for providing aid work in developing nations, is gainfully employed as an engineer, and together, they are homeowners. the immigration laws include a provision that stipulates that any dane who has received unemployment compensation for a cumulative period of over one year shall be ineligible to bring a foreign born spouse into the country under the "family reunion" act. and it is not just limited to unemployment compensation, the law penalizes danes who have ever benefited from ANY state-provided assistance (thus being deemed a so-called burden on society) by in-effect denying these danes the right to ever marry someone who is from outside the EU or scandinavia and then expect to live together in denmark.
had this woman been from sweden or poland, under the current laws, they would have no problem. but she is from kenya, and therefore she is being forced out. the law treats her terribly and also treats danes differently. the law tells danes who they should marry and who they should not marry by giving danes who marry the "right "person many significant advantages. it is unfair and it is wrong.
and of course, the law is inhumane, unreasonable and discriminatory towards the non-danish spouse. the law separates jane frederiksen from the others because she is different. it tells her that she is not good enough. think about that.
it's bullshit because this law does not apply to the two LARGEST recipients of state supported welfare: crown prince frederik and his younger brother joachim, who both have both married non-eu foreigners and in each case, a special law has been put into effect that circumvents the immigration laws for the sake of their spouses, the new princesses. nobody raises an eyebrow. why doesn't jane frederiksen get the princess treatment?
more importantly, why do we make exceptions for these two people from the royal family whose entire lifestyle is subsidized by the taxes generated from our income? we are paying for their lifestyle, yet we don't enjoy the same rights as they do. just as bent frederiksen pays the same taxes as most danes, why shouldn't he also enjoy the same rights as most other danes? why does the law signal him out, and his wife? what makes them less desirable? do they not contribute to the richness in denmark? are they not just as vital a part of the social fabric as the rest of us?
this is bullshit and you know it.
many of the legal problems that bent and jane are facing are the same problems that adriana and i faced, and fought a 3 year battle against the authorities to protect the right to live together in my (bullshit) country of denmark.
how are the people of denmark better served by this kind of law that breaks up this marriage and forces this woman out of the country? how can we justify treating these two people this way?
please remember bent frederiksen and jane wamboi kariuki frederiksen and help them if you can. you can write to the immigration office and to the integration minister (at the Ministeriet for Flygtninge, Indvandrere og Integration) and tell them how you feel. addresses are: Immigration Services - Udlændingeservice, Ryesgade 53, 2100 København Ø (and fuck their re-branded website at www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/), and the ministry: Ministeriet for Flygtninge, Indvandrere og Integration, Holbergsgade 6, 1057 København K. the minister is the wonderfully warm Rikke Hvilsøj, the next pia kjærsgaard and the very definition of dum, visionsløs og firkantet - you can email her indirectly at inm@inm.dk.
in the mean time, jane frederiksen will seek asylum in sweden - where the laws are much more humane. but this is bullshit. it should never have come to this.
and when it's time again for elections in denmark, remember this episode, one of many episodes that are strikingly similar. remember what this is doing to denmark and also what this tells the world about denmark.
this is the work of the ruling government parties: venstre, de konservative, and dansk folkeparti. hold them accountable. vote them out of power.