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Hey! I was here! It was fucking inspiring!
So inspiring. Probably the most courageous thing I’ve ever seen anyone do with my own eyes.
I am proud to have shared my time in jail with three of these warriors for our gente. I do not support the assimilationist/white supremacist DREAM Act, but these people are heroes for La Causa.
FIGHT BACK!
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Under the Obama administration’s 2011 Morton memo directive, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s primary concern is to deport criminals and repeat offenders, not caretakers of American children. Robin Baker, an ICE field office director for detention and removal operations in San Diego, said the agency tries to take into consideration what’s best for children.
“We always give [parents] the opportunity to make the decision on their own: Do you want to take the kids with you, or what do you want to do?” Baker told San Diego’s KPBS radio station. “But we are not taking sole caregivers, or both a mother and a father and leaving kids in an empty house. It does not happen.”
On Wednesday, two undocumented mothers made tearful pleas to ICE at a press conference in Los Angeles, asking that the agency allow them stay in the country for the sake of their U.S.-born children.
Carmen Ricsi is an undocumented immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for 22 years, has no criminal record, and is the mother to two U.S. born children — Brian, 14 and Angelo, 9. She was told Wednesday that she could not stay in the country due to prior dishonesty with the agency.
Minnesota Timberwolves point guard Ricky Rubio went out of his way this weekend to suggest his teammate, Kevin Love, looked “even worst” than a Mexican.
“Ok, he doesn’t look like a mexican anymore but I think he looks even worst… Here is our superstar,” tweeted Rubio Saturday in reference…
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Source: thinkmexican
“He’s trying to comply, trying to follow the rules of U.S. immigration law, but they are using that against him now. This whole thing is really heart-wrenching,” she said.
Humanitarian parole is granted to immigrants who have a compelling emergency that requires temporary entry into the United States. It is used sparingly: The government approves only about 25 percent of the 1,200 applications it gets each year.
Surin said Lopez qualifies. In fact, the Mexican husband of Tiffany Sanchez, the 29-year-old woman who died in the fire, was granted humanitarian parole to attend the funeral, she said.
Surin said border officials told her that Lopez was denied entry because he didn’t have a relationship with Damien. She said it’s just the opposite: Lopez shared partial custody of Damien and paid his ex-wife child support before leaving the United States.
Lopez, who worked as a mechanic in Shenandoah, said he was very close to his son.
“I have a video of him. I watch it often. Of when he graduated from kindergarten, you know how they do those parties. He was wearing his cap, a shirt and a tie,” Lopez said.
Though he hadn’t seen Damien in more than three years, they spoke over the phone twice a week.
Source: narconews.com
Mexico’s Struggle to End the Drug War Is Unlike Any in the World
Before the night of March 27, 2011, when a group of young men from Cuernavaca were assassinated, there was no national movement in Mexico to prevent these acts of violence from occurring. Javier Sicilia was a poet, journalist,…
Source: simply-warHausa-Moorish Man From Nigeria:This Hausa man from Nigeria is a dogari, an elite member of an emir’s household who acts as messenger and bodyguard. He wears loose, flowing robes, lavishly decorated with appliqué and embroidery as befitting his station.Compix/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New YorkThe Moors ruled on the Iberian kingdom of Granada, as the last Moorish kingdom in Spain until the 2nd of January in 1492 when they were conquered by the armies of Ferdinand and Isabelle.
The years after the Christian conquest of Granada were filled with acts of outrage such as murder, rape, enslvaement and imprisonment against the Moors of Africa. The acts of outrage grew as the Christians consolidated their conquest. In 1499, the bishop Cisneros demanded that all Moors should be baptized into the popish crusader legion of Rome if they were to live as free citizens.
Yes, there are people who write shit like this. They exist. Scary shit.
“i think mexicans trying to cross should be shot dead on sight.”
“i hate illegals. i think illegal mexicans should be shot dead. plain and simple. hate me for it because i could give a fuck less.”
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Out of the shadows and into the streets!
On March 14 2012, Tania Chairez and Jessica Hyejin Lee, openly undocumented and unafraid mujeres, blocked traffic in an act of civil disobedience in front of ICE headquarters in Philadelphia. They risked deportation to free Miguel, another undocumented youth who has been in ICE detention for more than 8 months, separated from his wife and U.S. citizen son.
Photo Credit: Jessica Hyejin Lee
These ladies are my new heroes.
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Many Republicans share Santorum’s belief, but could it rub Puerto Rican voters the wrong way. (Flickr: Gage Skidmore)
By JORDAN FABIAN
Channel: PoliticsPuerto Rico must adopt English as its main language if it wants to be considered for…
