Written by Tom Anderson Monday, 22 November 2010 00:00
On July 29th, in front of hundreds of jeering protesters, Senator Stephen Sandstrom, a Republican from Utah, proposed yet another in a long line of anti-immigrant bills that have been churning out of the Utah State Legislature over the past few years. This time it was called the “Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act,” and it was largely taken word-for-word from the notorious Arizona SB1070 law. Mark Alvarez, a pro-immigration rights attorney, points out some of the many similarities between the two bills in an article entitled Why Sandstrom’s Proposed Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act is ‘Arizona Light’
Written by El Militante Sin Fronteras Friday, 22 May 2009 06:24
With this year’s May Day mobilizations, the question immigration is again a hot topic for discussion. Since 2006, when millions of immigrants and their allies took the streets in historic marches, May 1st has turned into a point of reference in the fight for immigrants’ rights.
The Minneapolis / St. Paul branch of the 
Negotiations in the U.S. Senate on immigration “reform” legislation have stalled. Is this a victory or a defeat for the working class? Despite the hypocritical tears of some national immigrant rights leaders who lament that “we lost a big opportunity”, in reality, this stagnation of the process reflects an equilibrium in the balance of forces between those who benefit from the most miserable exploitation of 12 million workers, and the interests and organizational strength of those workers and their allies. A detailed analysis of the proposal clearly reveals that this is an anti-immigrant “reform” which would increase the persecution of undocumented immigrants. This law would not improve the conditions of life of millions of families; on the contrary, it would make things worse.
Many traditional immigrant rights organizations are putting enormous pressure on grass roots groups to support the “Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act” (STRIVE). This proposal, put forward by Republican Jeff Flake (AZ) and Democrat Luis Gutierrez (IL), is being presented as a “lesser evil” and “the best we can get”. While on the surface it isn’t as overtly aggressive as Sensenbrenner’s HR4437, this remains an enforcement-first bill and offers little or nothing to immigrant workers and their families.
On March 12th and 13th there were demonstrations called in Providence, RI in response to the 
