The Murders of Raul and Brisenia Flores
The little girl's name was Brisenia Flores. She lived near the border outside Arivaca, Arizona. A woman named Shawna Forde led an offshoot unit of Minutemen who ran armed border patrols for patriotic "fun." On 30 May 2009, they decided to go "operational," which meant they concocted a scheme to raid drug smugglers and take their money and drugs and use it to finance a border race war. They targeted the Flores home, which had neither money nor drugs, based on dubious information. They convinced Brisenia's father to let them in by claiming to be law-enforcement officers seeking fugitives, then shot him point-blank in the head when he questioned them and wounded his wife, Gina Gonzalez. And then, while she pleaded for her life, they shot Brisenia in cold blood in the head.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/shawna-forde-trial-will-mainstream-m
Slave Labor for the Mafia
Xenophobes in homogenous European countries often complain that immigrants will erase their most precious cultural norms. The race riots in southern Italy last weekend may be one indicator that change is inevitable, as African immigrants who do not live by the country's infamous omertà code of silence violently protested against the powerful Mafia clans that control their lives, says Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah, an anti-Mafia book that earned him both critical praise and a 24-hour police guard. Saviano says the rioters are among the hundreds of thousands of immigrants caught up in a brutal cheap-labor system the Mafia runs for legitimate businesses from Milan to Naples. Many have political asylum or are otherwise legally in Italy, but legal or not, the migrants are managed by a Mafia-run employment system, the caporalato, that operates like a 21st century chain gang. Saviano says that those who object to low wages or poor working conditions are simply eliminated. If they complain, they get killed.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1953619,00.html
The Abu Ghraib Syndrome
Silence has long shrouded the men and women who die in US immigration jails. For years, they went uncounted and unnamed in the public record. Few facts were available about who these people were and how they died. Behind the scenes, the deaths generated thousands of pages of government documents, including scathing investigative reports kept under wraps, and a trail of confidential memos showing officials stymieing outside inquiry. The documents concern most of the 107 deaths in detention counted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since October 2003, after the agency was created within the Department of Homeland Security.The documents show how officials covered up evidence of mistreatment, deflect scrutiny by the news media or prepare exculpatory public statements after gathering facts that pointed to substandard care or abuse.
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