DENVER - More than 800 people joined a march supporting immigration rights this morning, culminating in a lunchtime, festival-like gathering at Lincoln Park.
The march began shortly after 9 a.m. at Rude Park and proceeded without any problems, police said.
"It's been a fantastic group. I think this went off without a hitch," said police Capt. Joseph Padilla. "They've all been cooperative."
A group calling itself "World Can't Wait" led the march.
LAUREL, Miss. - A day after the largest single-workplace
immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to
send her son to school and worried about when she'd see her husband
again.
Nearly 600 immigrants suspected of being in the country
illegally were detained, creating panic among dozens of families in
this small southern Mississippi town.
LAUREL, Miss. - In another large-scale workplace immigration
crackdown, federal officials raided a factory here on Monday, detaining
at least 350 workers they said were in the country illegally.
Numerous agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement descended on a factory belonging to Howard Industries Inc., which manufactures electrical transformers, among other products.
The death of nine Central American and Mexican migrants in a vehicle
crash near Florence, Ariz. on Aug. 9 is only one of the latest grisly
manifestations of the mounting toll in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
More than 5,000 bodies have been recovered since the mid-1990s, the
"collateral damage" of a war on unauthorized migrants that has led them
and their guides to take ever-greater risks to evade the intensifying
boundary enforcement apparatus.
NEW YORK - Following revelations about the latest
death of a detainee in the custody of U.S. immigration officials,
lawyers and human rights groups are urging Congress to adopt new
legislation to ensure adequate medical care for all those held by the
U.S. immigration enforcement agency.
"A civilized society is in large part defined by the justice and
humanity of its law enforcement," said Charles Kuck of the American
Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). "Our immigration law
enforcement has ceased to be either just or humane."
