I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Congressman Mark Schauer (D-Bedford Township) Tuesday called for investigations into allegations that Hallmark Industrial hired undocumented workers for clean up jobs on the oil spill in Calhoun County. The call came in letters to the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. A Michigan Messenger investigation over the weekend uncovered [...]
Ivan Nikolov, the undocumented youth featured on Monday’s Michigan Messenger, is being released rather than deported. Activists say Nikolov will be released sometime in the next 24 hours and are planning a press conference in front of Sen. Carl Levin’s Detroit offices Tuesday morning.
An undocumented Russian immigrant who has lived in Michigan for the last decade is in jail in Calhoun County awaiting word on whether he will be deported by ICE. Like Mohammad Abdollahi, he would be eligible for a path to citizenship if the DREAM Act was passed.
The New York Times has an interesting piece exploring the enforcement of immigration laws in regards to undocumented youth. According to the Times, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are heading for a banner year in relation to detaining and deporting people in this county illegally. But those statistic show the vast majority of people being [...]
Mohammad Abdollahi, the gay man from Iran who participated in a protest at Arizona Sen. John McCain’s office earlier this year, has been featured in a report by ABC News. In the piece, immigration experts and advocates discuss the difficulty Abdollahi faces in seeking asylum. Abdollahi came to the U.S. when he was three years [...]
In an editorial published May 19, the New York Times took a cue from four undocumented youth who staged a sit-in protest at the Tucson AZ offices of Sen. John McCain on Monday. They were protesting for passage of the DREAM Act, a piece of federal legislation that would create a path to citizenship for [...]
The 24-year old Michigan man who had himself arrested as an undocumented immigrant to highlight the need to pass legislation with a path to citizenship for 65,000 others like him speaks to the Michigan Messenger about his hopes and his fears after taking such a bold public stand.
In one of those abundantly obvious statements spokespeople sometimes make, the case of Mohammad Abdollahi and two other undocumented youth detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona this afternoon has provided the best “well, duh” statement yet: “We have reason to believe they might be in the country unlawfully,” [Vincent] Picard said.
This story is a few days old but still worth noting and commenting on. A retired GM worker who was born in Canada but has lived in the United States since he was a year old has been deported to Canada and forbidden from ever entering the United States again, all over a 10 year [...]
Like other media outlets, from time to time we get email — some of it angry, some of it appreciative. But this is a first: a request from the Department of Homeland Security to modify a blog post published last week, in regards to illegal immigrants cleaning Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff’s home. Mind you, DHS [...]
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