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Wall Street and the Criminalization of Immigrants

Posted 06 October 2010 | By | Categories: Citizen Action, Immigration, Right-to-Know & Communications Rights | 8 Comments

Over the past four years roughly a million immigrants have been incarcerated in dangerous detention facilities in our taxpayer-financed private prison system. A growing number of news reports and investigations confirm that for many of the people funneled into this system, it is a living nightmare. Children were abused, women were raped, and men died from lack of basic medical attention.

Larry Summers, Champion of Wall Street Greed Attained by Impoverishing the Mexican People

Posted 11 November 2008 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

Appointing Larry Summers our Treasury secretary would be a grave mistake, and a slap in the face to Mexico and those who struggle for economic justice on both sides of the border. Summers, while serving as under secretary of the Treasury in 1995, engineered the destruction of Mexico’s economy by increasing interest rates to unmanageable [...]

Wall Street and Immigration: Financial Services Giants Have Profited from the Beginning

Posted 03 December 2007 | By | Categories: Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Life began to get hard for most Americans beginning in the late 1990s due to increased family debt. During the same period, life got a lot harder for most Mexicans for the same reason. The same financial institutions created and profited from much of the family debt in both countries. According to census reports, 70% [...]