SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 5MAY08 - Two hundred protesters from churches, unions and community groups marched and picketed outside the office of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in downtown San Francisco on May 5, Cinco de Mayo. On Friday, May 2, the day after marches took place across the country for immigrants' rights, immigration agents arrested 64 workers at Los Balazos taquerias throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of the employees had no criminal records, and were arrested for the crime of working to support their families.

OAKLAND, CA - 6MAY08 - Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums joined unions and community groups at Stonehurst Elementary School after agents from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed up earlier in the morning. Dellums and others protested the ICE activity in Oakland, which is a sanctuary city, just days after marches took place across the country for immigrants' rights. Dellums talked with concerned parents, as worried children left school at the end of the day.






--For more articles and images on immigration, see http://dbacon.igc.org/Imgrants/imgrants.htm

Coming in September, 2008, from Beacon Press: People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants

See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)

See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)

--From David Bacon, Photographs and Stories