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This is important! Undocumented youth- you can fight back and we are here to help!
Help Hector: Save Norma!!!!
URGENT ACTION ALERT: Call and Fax to Stop The Deportation of Hector’s Mom.
Daniels Fund Scholar Fights for Mothers Right to Stay after ICE home raid on model family nets a mother with a 4-year-old deportation order and lots of heartache.
May 4th, 2012
We need your urgent help TODAY!
Norma Galindo is the mother of two US Citizen sons, who was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a home raid the morning of Tuesday May 1st on a 4-year old removal order. Norma has been in the United States since 1991, she has done everything you can ask for from anyone who migrates to this country, learned English, paid taxes and raised two excellent sons.
Her oldest son is a great student Athlete who has earned numerous awards and was recently admitted to Duke University with the prestigious Daniels Fund Scholarship. Due to the events of this past Tuesday, Norma will not be able to attend her son Hector’s Graduation, Hector’s success is a product of his mother’s guidance. Norma never misses either of her sons’ sporting events, church functions, or educational award ceremonies - don’t let ICE keep her from being part of Hector’s graduation. She is a pillar of both the Morales household and the community.
Under current immigration enforcement priorities, Norma would be a prime candidate for prosecutorial discretion, and in three years she would be eligible for legalization through her son.
We need your URGENT HELP!
There will be an action by AJUA at the Garfield County Courthouse today (check out Press Release Here)
But if you can’t make it, there are 2 actions you can take RIGHT NOW!
After you send the fax, please make a call and ask John Longshore to have mercy and use his prosecutorial discretion in Normas ICE Detention!
CALL JOHN LONGSHORE AND DEMAND NORMA RECEIVE PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION!!!
John Longshore: 720 - 873 - 2899.
You could say:
“Hello MR. Longshore, My name is __________ and I’m calling in support of Mrs. Norma Galindo A#097 821 895
I ask that you use your prosecutorial discretion and let Mrs. Galindo stay in the country that she calls home and be allowed to
be back with her family as her eldest son will be graduating and she is an Important piece to his success.
“She is also mother to a 7th grade US Citizen who needs his mother’s continued support to help ensure he continues along the path that his older brother has been able to achieve thanks to their mother. Thank you for your consideration!
Respectfully __________”
Thank you for your time, dedication, and continued support.
Lets work together to keep Hector’s Mom here!
AJUA and CIRC
Undocumented youth and supporters rallied for more affordable tuition through the ASSET bill in Denver yesterday. You can check the photos over at my flickr account.
Diabetic Faces Deportation For Calling An Ambulance →
On March 3rd Claudio’s life changed forever. As he sat waiting in his car for his wife and 4 year old son to run some errands he began convulsing. Claudio is a type 2 diabetic, he had recently been put on new medication and was suffering a possible side effect.
A store employee saw what was happening and called an ambulance. The employee then saw Claudio vomiting on himself and called for an ambulance again. Still no ambulance came. The employee called an ambulance 3 times and 30 minutes later still no ambulance, however a police officer did show up.
Instead of receiving medical care Claudio was arrested and eventually transferred to ICE for deportation. Since Claudio and his family entered on a visa waiver they have no rights to an immigration judge or hearing. Claudio is being told ‘the next plane for Argentina leaves Tuesday!’
Why did a simple call to an ambulance lead to deportation? We need to keep this family together.
TAKE ACTION:2. Make a Phone Call: Call ICE – John Morton (202.732.3000)
Sample Script: ”I am calling to ask that ICE stop the deportation of Claudio Molina (A# 095-472-313). Claudio is type 2 diabetic, and began suffering from convulsions. Someone called an ambulance and instead police showed up and arrested Claudio. Claudio’s only crime is calling an ambulance for help! Stop his deportation.”Please Please SIGN and Spread! “It’s the law” my ass. Taking a patient in need of immediate medical attention to the jail.. shame so much shame
“I need an ambulance!” “Oh, I’m sorry, did you say you need the polICE?” This is disgusting- and you can help stop it. Sign, call and share to help keep Claudio here with his family!
History on repeat… #APIA #immigration #immyouth (Taken with instagram)
From a Fresno labor union resolution in 1907… Sound familiar? #immigration #immyouth #apia (Taken with instagram)
Someone had to say it….
I’m dying over here scrolling through UndocuMemes!
Undocumented Youth Power →
Tune in to an act of civil disobedience by brave, undocumented badasses in Arizona! http://bit.ly/liveundocaz
“Come get us! ARPAIO! DON’T BE A COWARD!” 2 hours of CD and counting. <3 <3<3
Joaquin Reyes, 15, sits next to his mother Shirley and listens in anguish to his father’s voice on the phone when he calls from federal prison Tuesday (Feb. 28).
Julio Reyes doesn’t exist.
He is a voice on speakerphone, telling his wife and his two youngest sons Joaquin and Alejandro that he loves them from prison. He is a letter worn at the creases, written by a cellmate who can read and write.
… But on paper, he is nowhere. As an undocumented Mexican national, Julio Reyes has no birth certificate, no social security number, no driver’s license and no proof that he has lived and worked in Northern New Mexico for most of his life.
JESUS FUCK WHAT THE FUCK I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY ANYMORE ABOUT THIS SHIT. IT HURTS ME TO MY VERY SOUL THAT THIS IS HAPPENING TO MY PEOPLE AND I CAN’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. I’VE EXHAUSTED WORDS ON THIS. I REALLY HAVE. FUCK IT ALL. JUST…FUCK. FUCK!!!!!!!!
Wow. That’s crazy.
We can fight back. We are fighting back. Whenever you see reblogged petitions calling for release of detained immigrants- sign the petitions and make the phone calls. It’s not time consuming. They aren’t scary on the other end of the line (though, sometimes they get frustrated when we flood their office with calls). We have won cases and gotten folks released from detention. Please, don’t just skip the petitions.
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La Kemster: On the Shoulders of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: The Deportation of a Young, Black Man →
From: http://www.dreamactivist.org/blog/2012/01/16/al-chisom/
On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we begin, as he often liked to do, with a story:
It reads like the plot of a Jason Bourne movie - In a time of military dictatorship in a fledgling nation, a journalist hones his craft,…
THIS IS IMPORTANT. Click through, read the whole post. Then take action- sign the petition, make the calls. Don’t let President Obama’s administration deport Al the same way they did Andy…
<3 to La Kemster- great post, as always <3
An introspective note on ally-ship and privilege
It’s dawning on me that as an APIA advocate within the immigrants rights movement and as someone who is bilingual in Spanish, that I need to put my language skills to use in reminding other advocates, supporters and members of the community that immigration is not an issue that can be talked about in its entirety while excluding a significant portion of the community that is often marginalized. I need to be more assertive in saying “la communidad indocumentada no es solamente Latino y tenemos que recordar los que no hablen español y hacer un espacio inclusivo para asiaticos, africanos, y los otros que estan en un situacion similar…”
![Remember when President Obama said: “DREAM Act! First 100 days, for sure!” or “Now is the time for CIR.” or “Raids and separating families is not an American value.” and all the other things he used to get everyone excited?
Or maybe you remember him passing the 1,000,000 people deported mark this year. Or setting the goal of deporting 400,000 people per year. Or how he supported the expansion of [In]Secure Communities across the country, against the will of local jurisdictions and in the face of evidence of just how flawed the program is. Or how he said his administration isn’t deporting DREAMers- except when it does. Or how ICE enjoys the use of cowboy offices across the country who don’t follow what comes out of the DC offices. Or how divisions within his own party helped defeat the DREAM Act in 2010. And how certain Senators of his party continue to justify their inaction by referencing the shell of token legislation that Senator Menendez introduced….
Well, here’s a good way to remind President Obama that the Immigrant Youth Movement wants to start 2012 off on a better foot with him. Help his heart to grow for 2012 :-)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwm70zisFU1qgwpi7o1_500.jpg)
Remember when President Obama said: “DREAM Act! First 100 days, for sure!” or “Now is the time for CIR.” or “Raids and separating families is not an American value.” and all the other things he used to get everyone excited?
Or maybe you remember him passing the 1,000,000 people deported mark this year. Or setting the goal of deporting 400,000 people per year. Or how he supported the expansion of [In]Secure Communities across the country, against the will of local jurisdictions and in the face of evidence of just how flawed the program is. Or how he said his administration isn’t deporting DREAMers- except when it does. Or how ICE enjoys the use of cowboy offices across the country who don’t follow what comes out of the DC offices. Or how divisions within his own party helped defeat the DREAM Act in 2010. And how certain Senators of his party continue to justify their inaction by referencing the shell of token legislation that Senator Menendez introduced….
Well, here’s a good way to remind President Obama that the Immigrant Youth Movement wants to start 2012 off on a better foot with him. Help his heart to grow for 2012 :-)
If DHS is going to cut Joe Arpaio off from using ICE ACCESS programs, because they’re being used ‘improperly’- shouldn’t they rescind those programs from every municipality?
I mean, it’s great that they’re cutting Cowboy Joe off… but the thing is- that’s HOW 287g and S-Comm work across the country. So, if you’re going to cut him off for being a dick that abuses and racially profiles because he has access to a system that encourages racial profiling- aren’t you just pulling some smoke and mirrors shit?
Cutting off Cowboy Asshole Joe, while still running a system of Cowboy offices that don’t listen to the national office doesn’t really impress me. Cut the programs entirely, then I’ll be extra jubilant. Until then- goodbye, Arpaio- here’s hoping you’re not the last to get cut off from the DHS machine ;-)
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[image: a bar chart with criminal and non-criminal deportations plotted together, with the number of both more than doubling between 2002 and 2010].
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Obama’s immigration policies are destroying families
As the nation’s toughest immigration law goes under review in Alabama, new victims of anti-immigrant policies are swept under the rug according to a new report from the Applied Research Center, which advocates for immigration reform. The report states that there are about 5,100 children in 22 states in foster care as a result of parental deportation. ARC expects that number to triple in the next five years.
Nearly 397,000 people were deported in fiscal year 2011, up from over 392,000 in 2010. Over a million people have been deported under the Obama administration.
White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz told PBS Frontline: “Even if the [immigration] law is executed with perfection, there will be parents separated from their children.”
Why do liberals want me to vote for Obama again?
Don’t like the PSL at all but the info here is right and important.
How much of this is attributable to Obama? Almost all of the graph goes before his presidency. It must be said that he has done nothing to prevent deportation during his term however. Wasn’t he for some kind of immigrant amnesty during his election campaign?
umm wtf does it matter wtf he SAID he was for when clearly that shit dont correlate w reality?
no, obama. just no.
He not only said it the first time…. “CIR- yes we can!” “DREAM Act! First 100 days- promise!”’… he’s fucking doing it again while this damned chart goes up and is promised to at minimum maintain that 400,000 people per year mark. All while Dem allies in congress talk about “Deporting Criminals” and ally orgs keep pushing the “sins of the parents, learn english, pay taxes, back of the line” bullshit. FUCK THAT LITTLE TINY ASS BLUE BAR AND THOSE WHO ASSENT TO ITS RELEVANCE! They (DHS) ADMIT that the tiny blue bar (aka “criminal deportations”) is of felony convictions AND misdemeanors. FUCKING DRIVING WHILE BROWN AND JAYWALKING ARE MISDEMEANORS! All while they say “Look, we got the sooper skary immigrantz and took them away!”
FUCK. Every. Vibration. Of. That. Noise.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvb1gx6SS71qzhl7go1_500.jpg)
[image: a bar chart with criminal and non-criminal deportations plotted together, with the number of both more than doubling between 2002 and 2010].
Obama’s immigration policies are destroying families
As the nation’s toughest immigration law goes under review in Alabama, new victims of anti-immigrant policies are swept under the rug according to a new report from the Applied Research Center, which advocates for immigration reform. The report states that there are about 5,100 children in 22 states in foster care as a result of parental deportation. ARC expects that number to triple in the next five years.
Nearly 397,000 people were deported in fiscal year 2011, up from over 392,000 in 2010. Over a million people have been deported under the Obama administration.
White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz told PBS Frontline: “Even if the [immigration] law is executed with perfection, there will be parents separated from their children.”
Why do liberals want me to vote for Obama again?
Don’t like the PSL at all but the info here is right and important.
How much of this is attributable to Obama? Almost all of the graph goes before his presidency. It must be said that he has done nothing to prevent deportation during his term however. Wasn’t he for some kind of immigrant amnesty during his election campaign?
umm wtf does it matter wtf he SAID he was for when clearly that shit dont correlate w reality?
no, obama. just no.
He not only said it the first time…. “CIR- yes we can!” “DREAM Act! First 100 days- promise!”’… he’s fucking doing it again while this damned chart goes up and is promised to at minimum maintain that 400,000 people per year mark. All while Dem allies in congress talk about “Deporting Criminals” and ally orgs keep pushing the “sins of the parents, learn english, pay taxes, back of the line” bullshit. FUCK THAT LITTLE TINY ASS BLUE BAR AND THOSE WHO ASSENT TO ITS RELEVANCE! They (DHS) ADMIT that the tiny blue bar (aka “criminal deportations”) is of felony convictions AND misdemeanors. FUCKING DRIVING WHILE BROWN AND JAYWALKING ARE MISDEMEANORS! All while they say “Look, we got the sooper skary immigrantz and took them away!”
FUCK. Every. Vibration. Of. That. Noise.
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Between 1990 and 2000, the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina experienced an increase of nearly 800% in its Hispanic population (Suro & Singer, 2002). Such a percentage represented the largest influx of Hispanics/Latinos to any region in the United States.
Of the 30,000 Hispanics/Latinos living in one of the Triad cities, 80% were identified as Afro-Latinos (Hoppenjans & Richardson, 2005). Most of these newcomers had originated in the Mexican states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Veracruz.
Kuhl & Vargas (via larepublicadedet)
Cackalack has its fingers in its ears screaming anti-immigrant hate and pushing on laws that criminalize the community while at the same time ignoring the fact that the growth in this state is fueled by immigrants -documented and especially undocumented- as are the cheap as fuck agricultural produce that comes from here. seriously nc, you make me angry as fuck. daily. DAILY.
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