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ICE Confirms S-Comm is a Voluntary Program

S-Comm is a program that automatically shares with ICE any fingerprints taken by local law enforcement right after any individuals are arrested, no matter how minimal the charge or whether the individual is eventually found to be innocent of alleged charges, thereby resulting in increased deportations and the tearing apart of families. In the past six months, ICE has tripled the number of jurisdictions operating S-Comm, and it is now in 494 jurisdictions in 27 states.

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Symposium Celebrates Daly Era of Community Activism

The symposium attracted as many as 200 residents to the event. Most of those in attendance were eager to honor the man who, after election to the Board of Supervisors in 2000, provided a powerful and sustained voice for issues and causes that would have otherwise been ignored.

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How Do You Spell Chutzpah? M-E-X-I-C-O

Arizona’s governor recently had to call off a border conference scheduled to take place in Phoenix because Mexican governors planned to boycott it, saying that Arizona’s new immigration law violates civil rights and is based on ethnic and cultural prejudices. No mention is made of their citizens violating the laws of our country.

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Thousands Protest Arizona Immigration Law
in San Francisco

The traditional May Day observance took on a more heated tone, however, when protesters clashed at Civic Center with members of the Golden Gate Minutemen and Norcal Tea Party, conservative groups that held a counter protest in support of strict immigration controls including Arizona’s immigration bill.

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Herrera, Campos Call on MLB to Move 2011 All-Star Game Over AZ Immigration Law,
MLBPA Responds

“We write to call upon Major League Baseball to seek a new host city for the 82nd All-Star Game, outside the State of Arizona, unless that state’s law is repealed,” the letter states. “Arizona’s draconian new anti-immigration law, which unless repealed or invalidated by a court will be in full effect in July 2011, poses an unambiguous and direct threat to the liberty of millions of Americans who are Latino or who may appear to be of foreign origin-including Major League Baseball players and their fans.”

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The Immigration Dilemma

Most people who come to our country illegally simply want a better life for themselves and their families. They want their children to be educated, their health needs attended to, a chance at a decent job with a fair wage. But without endless resources, we cannot sustain our own citizens, much less those of the impoverished world. To how many can we offer unfettered support before we all sink to substandard lives? This may sound cold, but they are cold facts, and Americans increasingly feel they are on a rudderless ship without direction or a clear sense of purpose.

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Herrera Calls for Boycott of Arizona
Over Draconian Immigration Law

Citing San Francisco’s moral leadership against such past injustices as South African apartheid, the exploitation of migrant farm workers, the economic oppression of Catholics in Northern Ireland, and discrimination against the LGBT community, Herrera offered the services of his office’s contracts, government litigation and investigations teams to work closely with City departments and commissions to identify applicable contracts and to aggressively pursue termination wherever legally tenable. Herrera also offered the assistance of his office’s attorneys in any legal challenges to the Arizona law.

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