America's Ethnicity History

Bay Area immigrants are on their toes after Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf warned her community about a Bay Area wide ICE sweep , which she heard from multiple sources and not official channels.   Schaaf believes her announcement was an “ethical obligation”   and her duty despite the possibility of increased fear. She wants to protect these people and have them "prepared but not in panic." “This is an opportunity for people to learn their rights and responsibilities,” she said, adding that there are “strict protocols” in the Oakland's public schools, and that   “police officers are ‘prohibited’ from participating in ICE enforcement, and that state law limits business owners in assisting ICE.”   This, according to the article, is why there are now rising tensions between federal and local authorities because   of our state's “limited cooperation with deportation efforts.” There was at least one ICE detainee in Napa, as well as   depor...

"For over 30 years, the Multicultural Association of the Greater Moncton Area has existed for just one reason: to welcome newcomers from around the world, and help them become a valued member of the Canadian family" (http://magma-amgm.org/site/index.php/about-us) Canadian social service organization The Multicultural Association of the Greater Moncton Area (MAGMA) settlement counselor Sharla Goodwin is continuously welcoming newcomers/immigrants and helping them adjust to their new life.   In Canadian province New Brunswick, Goodwin says she has over 20 clients from the Philippines, including Filipino father of 3 Val Lagumbay, who works for heating and ventilation company Imperial Manufacturing Group. The company encouraged him, as well as the rest of its immigrant employees, to bring his family and “settle in the community.” Lagumbay, who moved to Canada for the future of his kids, expresses how accepting   the community has been to him and his family, an...

Lisa See, author of “Shangai Girls,” shares a short story of how a young Chinese boy, and his father, was being treated differently by his grandfather compared to the rest of their family.   It turns out, the young boy’s father was a paper son and those he thought were his relatives weren’t actually related to him at all. See said that when she was in her early 30's, she also found out that some of her uncles weren’t really her uncles. She says that while some families are more open about being paper sons, some are very secretive about it.   See’s great grandfather, a a legitimate Chinese merchant, said that many paid him to be listed as his [paper] partners, aka fake merchants, in the paperwork he was required to show the government every 6 months.   After discussing the definition, process, origin of paper sons, which we learned in class,   Lee said the paper son legacy still continued after the overturn of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The   US govern...

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Conditions-worsen-for-some-ICE-detainees-at-12346066.php NDNU Alternative Spring Break 2017- Visiting the West County Detention Center ICE and the Contra Costa County have a “$6 million-a-year contract” to run the Richmond federal detention center with some 800 male and female ICE detainees for the feds. These inmates are being “treated poorly because of their immigration status,” according to a letter signed by 27 women immigrant inmates for Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement, or CIVIC, a San Francisco group that monitors jails where immigrants are detained. This letter includes stories saying that these women do not have access to classroom learning materials, unlike nonimmigrant inmates. They are required to stay in their cell all day despite the doors being unlocked. They are also sometimes denied access to the restroom, unlike their non immigrant inmates, and are told to wait up to 23 hours to use...