Links

Politics

The National Immigration Forum is a leading pro-immigration national advocacy and lobbying group.
http://www.immigrationforum.org/

Detention Watch Network is dedicated to protecting immigrants in federal detention.
http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/

Immigration from Fujian Province

A BBC investigative story launched in 2001 after 58 Fujianese immigrants were found dead in a truck that had just crossed the English Channel to Dover.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/1243616.stm

A BBC report about the 23 Fujianese immigrants who drowned in the rising tide as they gathered cockles in Morcambe Bay, Scotland.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4238209.stm

A sociologist's site with useful information about Asian immigrants in the US.
http://www.asian-nation.org/immigrant-stats.shtml

Ko-Lin Chin's "Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States" is the definitive study of illegal immigration from Fujian.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/

A look at the role of Myanmar and Cambodia in the smuggling process.
http://www.asiapacificms.com/papers/pdf/gt_alien_smuggling.pdf

Organizations

The Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center in York, PA is the major cultural institution in York that hosted the film's theatrical premiere on May 13, 2006.
http://www.strandcapitol.org/

The Museum of Chinese in the Americas in New York was the site of a major exhibition of the art of the Golden Venture passengers in 1997, playing an important role in the Clinton parole.
http://www.mocanyc.org

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund is a New York advocacy group that sent some of the first lawyers to meet with the Golden Venture passengers.
http://www.aaldef.org/

Miscellany

A fascinating family web page devoted to Robert Porges, the Harvard-trained lawyer who was convicted of working for the Snakeheads and is now serving a nine-year sentence.
http://www.porges.net/FamilyTreesBiographies/RobertPorges.html

Craig Trebilcock, a leading Golden Venture advocate who launched an epic courtroom battle to prevent their deportation, is also in the army reserve. He served in Bosnia and in Iraq. Craig has written a brilliant satirical book loosely based on his time in Iraq, "One Weekend a Month."
http://www.booklocker.com/books/2356.html

Immigration Blogs

Immigration Prof Blog is the biggest, most active blog for supporters of enlightened immigration policy.