Hotline: 866-341-3858

==ACTION ALERT! Help Families Affected by the SWIFT ICE Raids in Greeley:You are invited to Make a Donation to Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, working with several other agencies to distribute financial assistance to the affected community.

Send Checks to: Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Attn: Rev. Bernard Schmitz, 1311 Third Street, Greeley, CO 80631,

Phone: 970.353.1747 (please don't flood them with calls,

Fax: 970.353.4830. Please write in the Memo line:  for the families affected by ICE.

==Friday, 12-15-06, 7:00 PM Mass & Vigil

Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church

1311 Third Street, Greeley, CO 80631

Community groups and immigrant rights organizations based in Greeley are holding a Candle Light Vigil and Mass this Friday evening, December 15, 2006 at 7:00 PM at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church.

==AFSC is organizing a complimentary vigil in Denver on Friday night. They are holding a planning meeting tonight and will have details on when and where tonight or tomorrow. From AFSC:

While a location has yet to be decided, please consider joining us tonight to plan a meaningful event and strategize for ways to further achieve Humane Comprehensive Immigration Reform

(Thanks to Jordan Garcia from American Friends Service Committee for the information on sending donations and about the candlelight vigils in Greeley and Denver.)

garbage from other countries India Korea Mexico SA

Makes me sick to my stomach. They breed like some

form of low life animals. Cant go to a motel without smelly

dot heads. No pride >>> All this garbage should be sent packing we dont owe them nothing!!!! No Immigrants

Legal or Illegal take care of 2nd and 3rd generation Americans. Roger Barnett and Trancredo are what we need

Not some idiot like Scwarzenneger who ran away from

Austria and turned his back on his homeland.

ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING.  KEEP LATINO S–T

OUT OF NA

“I congratulate all law enforcement agencies involved in the successful raid,” Tancredo, chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, said in a statement. “My hope at this point is that the U.S. government has the courage to prosecute the Swift & Company executives who may have been complicit in their hiring.”

“I don't care who the employer is. I expect them to obey the law,” Musgrave said in a telephone interview following the morning raids.

“No matter how high up it goes in Swift, (anyone) that is culpable in this needs to be gone-after to the fullest extent of the law,” Musgrave said. “We need to know who knew what and when they knew it and what they did about it.”

FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS SEEKS FEDERAL INJUNCTION TO END ATTACKS AGAINST WORKERS IN MEATPACKING PLANTS 

Washington DC-The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is seeking an immediate injunction in federal court, today, on behalf of workers employed by Swift and Company packing operations in Texas, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota.

The workers were subjected to a wholesale round up, including detention, by Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

“Essentially, the agents stormed the plants, many of them in riot gear, in an effort designed to terrorize the workforce,” said Mark Lauritsen, director of the UFCW Food Processing, Packing and Manufacturing division.

The UFCW represents workers at the Swift and Company plants, as well as other major packers around the country.

“This kind of action is totally uncalled for,” said Lauritsen. “It's designed to punish workers for working hard everyday, contributing to the success of their companies and communities. They are innocent victims in an immigration system that has been hijacked by corporations for the purpose of importing an exploitable workforce.”

For years, the UFCW has called for comprehensive immigration reform-reform that provides an orderly immigration process that protects worker rights, ensures good wages and benefits for all workers, and recognizes the contributions immigrants make to our society.

“We are advising all the detained workers to exercise their right to an attorney and remain silent until they confer with counsel. These actions today by ICE are an affront to decency.”

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The UFCW represents 1.4 million workers, 250,000 in the meatpacking and poultry industries. UFCW members also work in the health care, garment, chemical, distillery and retail industries.