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AbUSed: Film depicts largest raid on undocumented immigrants in US history
10/31/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Postville Iowa immigration raid, ABUSED, Luis Argueta, meatpacking, illegal immigrants, ICE
Coming up today we'll meet film maker Luis Argueta. His film is AbUSed: The Postville Raid about the largest, most expensive immigration raid in the history of the United States. It reveals the effects of enforcement policies on families, children and communities. It also serves as a cautionary tale against government abuses of the rule of law, the constitution and labor rights. Luis Argueta joins us live.
Be the first to commentHuman Trafficking Awareness Month Recognized in Pinellas Park listen
01/13/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: human trafficking, Clearwater, immigration, ICE, crime
President Obama declared January National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month. In response, the Tampa Bay Area Task Force on Human Trafficking gathered today to discuss various aspects of the problem that is still widely regarded as unknown.
Representatives from various law enforcement agencies as well as some non-government organizations met today in Pinellas Park to raise awareness about human trafficking. Lieutenant George Koder of the Clearwater Police Department said that ...
Be the first to commentSami Al-Arian to go on trial on contempt charges listen
01/16/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Sami Al-Arian, civil liberties, Race, racism, immigration, ICE, Muslims, USF, human rights, terrorism
A federal judge in Virginia ruled today that Sami Al-Arian should stand trial in March for criminal contempt.
The ruling was a blow to the former USF professor, who was released on bail by Judge Leonie Brinkema back in September after being incarcerated in numerous prisons and jails since his arrest in February 2003 on federal terrorism charges.
Mel Underbakke is with the group Friends of Human Rights. She says she was one of nearly two dozen supporters of Al-Arian from Tampa in the ...
Be the first to commentAl-Arian released from prison listen
09/03/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Sami Al-Arian, civil liberties, Race, racism, immigration, ICE, Muslims, USF, human rights, terrorism
Yesterday Dr. Sami Al-Arian was released from custody for the first time in more than five years. Even though his criminal sentence ended 16 months ago, Al-Arian had been held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since a federal judge ordered him released on bail in July.
WMNF spoke with Al-Arian’s daughter, freelance journalist Laila Al-Arian Tuesday night.
Be the first to commentJudge postpones Al-Arian trial
08/08/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Sami Al-Arian, civil liberties, Race, racism, immigration, ICE, Muslims, USF, human rights, terrorism
The next trial of former USF professor Sami Al-Arian has been postponed after a judge raised new doubts about the validity of the prosecution.
Al-Arian had been scheduled to go on trial next week in Virginia on contempt charges after refusing to testify to a federal grand jury about a case unrelated to his original terrorist related charges. But today, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema overruled prosecutors' objections and postponed the trial indefinitely. In doing so, she questioned w...
Be the first to commentAl-Arian finally closer to freedom? listen
07/11/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Sami Al-Arian, civil liberties, Race, racism, immigration, ICE, Muslims, USF, human rights
Yesterday, a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, order Sami Al-Arian released on his criminal contempt charges, but refused to block immigration authorities from detaining him before he is to be deported.
The U.S. government agreed to "expeditiously" deport Al-Arian in 2006, once he finished serving his criminal sentence in a terrorism support case. He was arrested in 2003.
But over the past couple of years, as he served his time for pleading guilty to one charge of materially suppor...
Be the first to commentAl-Arian ends hunger strike listen
05/01/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Sami Al-Arian, civil liberties, Race, racism, immigration, ICE, Muslims, USF, human rights
Former USF engineering professor Dr. Sami Al-Arian suspended his most recent hunger strike on Monday and has since been moved from solitary confinement to the general population of the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Al-Arian has been in jail for more than five years; he completed his sentence last month yet he remains in jail awaiting the deportation called for in his plea agreement, said Mel Underbakke, who is with Friends of Human Rights.
Al-Arian ended his hung...
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