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San Diego: The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (SDIRC) expresses its concern about the H.R. 399, “Secure Our Borders First Act,” a border enforcement-only bill introduced on January 16, 2015 by Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), which seeks to further militarize border communities. The bill is a misguided attempt at addressing […]
Jose Luis Cisneros’s face still bears the marks of the violence he suffered more than 10 years ago. Cisneros, now in his mid-50s, spent 20 years working as a migrant farm worker in Washington, Oregon and California, crossing back and forth following the harvests. But Cisneros’s life changed dramatically in […]
The U.S. Senate passed a sweeping immigration bill today, after weeks of negotiation over amendments designed to appeal to the most recalcitrant anti-immigration legislators. The Democratic controlled Senate passed the bill by a vote of 68-32, but not before adding provisions for a massive buildup of border security. The “border […]
The U.S. Senate today came to an agreement on the immigration reform bill, agreeing to a “border surge” amendment which would double the number of border patrol agents–adding an additional 20,000 agents, mandate excessive spending on border security infrastructure–700 additional miles of border walls, more access roads, forward operating bases, lights […]
Yesterday, Senator Rob Wyden of Oregon sponsored an amendment to the Senate immigration reform bill. The current bill sacrifices environmental protection and the safety of border communities for the sake of a pathway to citizenship. But this is ugly, divisive politics. The hyper militarization of the border is not only […]
Southern Border Region | After years of advocating for the Federal Government to control the U.S. Border Patrol, the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) has learned that the Office of the Inspector General will be conducting an investigation that will look into cases of brutality or use of excessive force by Customs and […]
SAN DIEGO, CA – The Southern Border Communities Coalition condemns the Department of Justice decision not to prosecute the Border Patrol agent responsible for killing 15 year-old Ciudad Juarez resident Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca. The violent incident was caught on video by bystanders and sent shockwaves across the borderlands on […]
Protecting our public wildlands just got a little harder. On October 5, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Natural Resources Committee passed the unpopular National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act (HR 1505) by a vote of 26 to 17. The bill prohibits the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the United […]
Activists, writers and documentary photographers and filmmakers concerned with the U.S.-Mexico border wall are increasingly demonstrating the parallels between the wall in the U.S. and the Apartheid Wall that Israel is building to fragment and contain Palestinian lands. In this review Joseph Nevins, author of Operation Gatekeeper: the rise of […]
Today in San Diego’s local online newspaper VoiceofSanDiego.org, an article was published that clearly articulates our position and demonstrates that Border Patrol officials have heard and acknowledged our demands. A limited victory, certainly, but a long way from the silencing and refusal to take our plan seriously we have experienced […]
