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Our Readers’ Answers to “What Is the Best Pro-Immigration Song Ever Recorded?”

May 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Earlier this week we asked our Facebook community a very simple question: “What is the Best Pro-Immigration Song Ever Recorded?” We received such an engaging and diverse response that we decided to share some of the selections here.

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Calle 13′s “Pal Norte”

La Santa Cecilia’s “Ice El Hielo”

Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”

Molotov’s “Frijolero”

Los Tigres del Norte’s “Somos más americanos”

Juan Gabriel’s “Canción 187″

Celtas Cortos’ “El Emigrante”

Ricardo Arjona’s “Mojado”

Vicente Fernández’s “Los Mandados”

Manu Chao’s “Clandestino”

 

Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee” (Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seger)

What other songs would you add? Let us know.

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#NoMames, Part Two: Texas Rep. Gohmert Says “Radical Islamists” Trained to “Act Like Hispanics”

April 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Yesterday it was Iowa Rep. Steve King who got all nutty by using the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombings as his “proof” that immigration security needs to be tighter.

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Today King was joined by Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert (R). This is what Salon reported today:

Louie Gohmert joined Steve King in warning against passing immigration reform too hastily in the wake the of attacks in Boston, saying that he’s worried that “radical Islamists” could pose as Hispanics and do “copycat things.”

Speaking on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Gohmert, R-Texas, said: “We know Al Qaeda has camps over with the drug cartels on the other side of the Mexican border. We know that people are now being trained to come in and act like Hispanic [sic] when they are radical Islamists. We know these things are happening. It is just insane not to protect ourselves, and make sure that people come in as most people do … They want the freedoms we have.”

It’s #NoMames, Part Two.

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Why Did Deportation Case of German Homeschooling Family Get Santorum’s Attention and Make ABC News?

April 5, 2013 by 4 Comments

I will be honest with you: I did a major double-take when the Facebook page of Rick Santorum posted the following plea this afternoon:

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Yes, the same Rick Santorum who said this at a Republican presidential debate:

Q: [to Santorum]:We heard from Gov. Romney, that self-deportation, or illegal immigrants leaving the country voluntarily, is a possible solution.

SANTORUM: I actually agree with Governor Romney. The bottom line is that we need to enforce the laws in this country. We are a country of laws. My grandfather came to this country because he wanted to come to a country that respected him. And a country that respects you is a country that lives by the laws that they have. And the first act when they come to this country, is to disobey a law, it’s not a particularly welcome way to enter this country. We have to have a country that not only do you respect the law when you come here, but you respect the law when you stay here. And people who have come to this country illegally have broken the law repeatedly. If you’re here, unless you’re here on a trust fund, you’ve been working illegally.

Source: CNN 2012 GOP primary debate on the eve of Florida primary , Jan 26, 2012

Santorum’s Facebook post led to a link from a national homeschooling association that is petitioning the White House to save the Romeike family from deportation. There is also a plea from an executive for Focus on the Family:

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Focus on the Family spokesman and Truth Project founder Dr. Del Tackett yesterday declared his support for HSLDA’s efforts to defend the Romeike family. Tackett believes that the U.S. government is siding with the restrictive homeschooling laws in Germany and that this could have serious implications for American homeschoolers.

“[The U.S. government] doesn’t believe that parents have a right to educate their children,” Tackett said. “It is more in line with the National Education Association that homeschooling shouldn’t be allowed. It believes that the government can best educate ‘America’s children.’ It doesn’t want another worldview taught in this country. It wants America’s children to have one worldview and one worldview only.”

In 2008, the Romeikes fled their home in Germany after facing fines and jail time and came to the U.S. seeking asylum, but now, the Obama Administration is opposing their quest for asylum by saying homeschooling is too vague and amorphous to be protected under asylum law. Their case is now set to be argued in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on April 23 by HSLDA Chairman Mike Farris.

In addition to representing the family in court, HSLDA has also launched a petition on WhiteHouse.gov calling on the Obama Administration “grant full and permanent legal status to Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their children.”

Now, when I saw the word “asylum,” I thought that the Romeikes were fleeing from serious political and religious persecution in Germany. Were they lives and beliefs being threatened? Then I read the letter again. I also checked out an ABC News story that ran on March 31:

A German family that fled to the United States in 2008 to be free to homeschool their children is fighting deportation after a decision granting them asylum was overturned.

Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, devout Christians from the southwest of Germany who now have six children, initially took their three oldest children out of school in their native country in 2006. Shortly after, the German government started fining the family and threatening them with legal action.

Home schooling has been illegal in Germany since 1918, when school attendance was made compulsory, and parents who choose to homeschool anyway face financial penalties and legal consequences, including the potential loss of custody of their children.

To escape such legal action, the family fled to the United States in 2008 and was granted political asylum in 2010, eventually making their home in Tennessee. U.S. law states that individuals can qualify for asylum if they can prove they are being persecuted because of their religion or because they are members of a particular “social group.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement challenged the decision to grant the Romeikes asylum to the Board of Immigration Appeals in 2012, claiming that Germany’s stringent policy against homeschooling did not constitute persecution.

The Romeikes were doing what they believed is right, as any parent would. They were doing this for their children, and they would be willing to break the law and risk the consequences of entering a country illegally to give them the freedom to teach and raise their children they way that they want to.

It is an admirable and inspiring narrative, one that plays every day in this country. Yet the Romeikes make ABC News. What about these names: Montaño, Arreola, Arma, and so many others who aren’t named Romeike? Where were the major news cameras during those cases? Where was Rick Santorum? Or all those people who keep saying “illegal is illegal,” calling those who enter this country illegally “criminals,” but are now signing a “Don’t Deport the Romeikes” White House petition? Why the outrage now?

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The Romeikes are not threatening anyone, there are yet another low-priority case that has been tossed into the crucible of deportation proceedings. Their case speaks to how broken our immigration system truly is. Yet does anyone else see the irony that the people supporting the Romeikes have no problem asking the White House to ask for “permanent and legal status,” but are ready to send those who don’t come from Germany back home? You know, the “criminals” who crossed border “illegally”, instead of fleeing to the United States? (Did you notice that the ABC News piece doesn’t even mention the word “illegal” in this specific case or that it doesn’t even say that the Romeikes committed an “illegal act?” They just “fled.” I wonder why.) When one of the Latino Rebels admins addressed this very same double standard on Twitter tonight, a few of the profiles who were telling the Rebels earlier today that we supported amnesty for the “illegals,” had to pause for a second. You want to deport the Romeikes, too? The Twitter-jerk reaction wasn’t as swift.

The Romeike case is just one of thousands of similar stories of real people with real faces. People like Rody Alvarado Peña:

[She] came to the United States from Guatemala in 1995 after suffering vicious abuse at the hands of her husband for more than a decade. At age 16, Alvarado Peña had married a career soldier who raped and beat her, broke mirrors over her head, caused her to miscarry, and beat her unconsciousness. Divorce was impossible without her abusive husband’s consent, and with no shelters or other supports available, Alvarado Peña fled to the United States. She was granted asylum in 1996, but in the years since immigration courts have made conflicting rulings that left her in limbo.

Or these undocumented individuals from Mexico that CNN reported about in 2011:

The man was a Mexican immigrant who had been living in the United States illegally for several years. He was also deaf.

He abandoned Mexico to flee what he called persecution. He said he was socially ostracized, targeted by police. The abuse was too much to bear.

So now he was in California, and had already been ripped off once as he tried to seek asylum in the United States.

“He just stole my heart,” Bajramovic said of the immigrant.

It only took that initial short conversation to realize that “the situation in Mexico is very severe. I realized that there was persecution.”

Bajramovic took his case.

Then the next week, there were more phone calls to her office from deaf immigrants who had entered the country illegally looking for asylum.

As of this week, Bajramovic has had 30 deaf immigrants complete asylum interviews with the pertinent authorities, and has another 30 such clients awaiting their turn. They come from several countries, though the majority are from Mexico.

According to Bajramovic, these are the first petitions for asylum by deaf people on the grounds that they are persecuted for their disability. No rulings have been made in any of the novel cases, but critics say that they represent a perversion of the original intent of asylum law. While these types of cases are new, immigrants have long tested the boundaries of what merits persecution for the purposes of remaining legally in the United States.

So these are the “illegal invaders” the nativists fear?

Maybe, just maybe, the Romeike case will help to change a few people’s perceptions about the myths surrounding the undocumented. Maybe Santorum will start posting other pictures of other families who are facing deporting right now. Ok, I seriously doubt that, since it is clear to me that certain immigration narratives will never play well in certain circles, even when those circles decided to look away from their own anti-immigrant rhetoric towards those undocumented they selectively chose to exhibit compassionate for. Imagine if we did this for every undocumented family out there, those just like the Romeikes, who are just trying to do the best for their families, even if it means breaking an unjust law. Then change would certainly occur.

PS to Senator Santorum: whenever you need more pictures of families facing the tragedy of deportation every day, just like the Romeikes, let me know and I will send you them to you? A move like that would get my attention. In the meantime, stay hypocritical.

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Julio (Julito) Ricardo Varela (@julito77 on Twitter) founded LatinoRebels.com (part of Latino Rebels, LLC) in May, 2011 and proceeded to open it up to about 20 like-minded Rebeldes. His personal blog, juliorvarela.com, has been active since 2008 and is widely read in Puerto Rico and beyond. He pens columns on LR regularly. In the last 12 months, Julito represented the Rebeldes on CBS’ Face the Nation, NPR,  Univision, Forbes, and The New York Times.

 

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VIDEO: Facing Deportation Ourselves, We Call on You to Say “Not One More”

April 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Meet some of the real faces behind the headlines of “11 million.”

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For more information, visit NotOneMoreDeportation.com

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Today’s #NoMames Goes to Mexican-Workers.Com

April 2, 2013 by 1 Comment

Yesterday we got a direct message from @flyawaymari. She included a link that we thought was an April Fools’ joke. We checked it out. It wasn’t.

The link took us to a site called Mexican-Workers.com and it provided “insight”into Mexican workers and Mexican culture. The questions were intended for those American companies who need help with “understanding” Mexican workers. Let the patronizing overgeneralizations begin! Yes, this is actual copy. We are not kidding.

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We have worked with employers and Mexican workers for many years and we have traveled throughout Mexico many times and for extended periods. Perhaps these insights will be helpful to you as an employer of Mexican workers. Accept these ideas as general comments based on experience and study of many situations. And please understand that many remarks will not be valid for any individual. Also, these remarks may or may not apply to other Hispanic groups. These remarks are not to be associated with the H2A or H2B program and are offered as personal opinion only.

Why are my Mexican workers so darned shy and quiet?
Yes, this trait does show itself on the surface. Initial shyness can lead to more confidence as the worker gains confidence in the work and the employer. Good treatment can lead to positive responses from the worker. Positive feedback on the quality of the work done is important.

Why do some Mexican workers react so badly when I criticize or correct their work?
It is better to correct or chastise (if necessary) your workers separately and privately. There is a group feeling among Mexicans that is much stronger than among US workers.

Why do my Mexican workers all bunch up together?
A group work ethic is prevalent among Mexican workers. This makes it difficult to get the workers to compete against each other for excellence. Also bonus systems work better if you can make it a team or group bonus rather than an individual bonus.

Why is it so hard to get one Mexican worker to take responsibility for something?
Once again, group pressure is strong in a Mexican work group. As the Japanese say, “The nail that sticks up gets HAMMERED DOWN.” You, as an employer, should never expect to change the deep ingrained cultural attitudes of your Mexican workers. By constant attention, you can influence the behavior of your Mexican workers while on the job. You must have a lot of patience along the way.

Why do my Mexican workers break the equipment and tools but don’t tell me about it?
Mexican workers are worried about being blamed for broken equipment and having to pay for it. They may seek to shift the blame. They may blame you for not showing them how to use it. Many Mexican workers have never seen or handled the tools and equipment that we take as common items here. They also tend to blame the equipment as being faulty, thus not their fault.

Why do my Mexican workers so rough on the free housing that I provide?
This is part of a general feeling of separateness between the “real” life of the Mexican worker and your employment. Unless the workers know that they are responsible monetarily for the damages they do, they will not give your property the respect that you expect.

Why do my workers listen to my instructions but then immediately screw the work up?
Language may be the problem. Are you fluent enough in Spanish to be understood? I have heard employers speak Spanish that is NOT Spanish. It is gibberish. They only THINK that it is Spanish. Also, Mexican workers may not understand enough English to grasp what you tell them in English. The instructions may not be clear. The work and tools may be unfamiliar to the Mexican worker. Many a rose bush has been killed by workers who think they are wild brush. Try repetition, repetition, repetition. Try to demonstrate with your hands. Drawing diagrams and writing instructions may not work. Many Mexican workers will have a limited ability to read or write.

My workers drink too much, what can I do?
This is an impossible work situation for many employers. Even one or two heavy drinkers can spoil it for the rest of the workers and you, too. Establish a company policy. Seek advice on current labor laws on your work policies. If you are able to replace the workers who drink, do so. The best answer is to work toward an alcohol free work environment. Mexican workers who don’t drink are easily found in Mexico . Most of your good workers will appreciate an alcohol free environment.

What can I do to for my Mexican workers to like me?
Be careful in deciding what you want. Do you want to be liked or respected? See the section on Respect. Show that you are approachable. Shake hands a lot more with your workers. It is good policy to greet workers in the morning with a handshake and say good afternoon same way. I don’t believe that it is possible to shake hands too often. Even with a group of 20 workers, take the time to shake hands with each one. Greet them by name. Make a special effort to find out their names. Don’t use their nicknames unless invited to. Jesus should be called Jesus even if his friends call him Chuey. You should show an interest in their personal life. To many Mexican workers, their family life is everything. They don’t give much weight to things that happen at work. For them, work is not nearly as important as the employer may hope it is.

How can I get respect from my Mexican workers?
To get respect, you must show respect. As an employer, most Mexican workers who you encounter will give you respect and treat you as an authority figure. You should be as formal in your relationships with your Mexican workers as the work situation allows. The less joking around, the more serious attitude, the better. Small shared jokes are OK but avoid anything that will single out a worker or make him or the work group look foolish. This means politeness, not coldness. Workers will quickly detect a superiority attitude if you have one. For Pablo Garcia , you may address him as Señor Garcia , Señor Pablo or Don Pablo .

Even if you don´t speak Spanish, try a little, like “Buenos Días” or “Buenas Tardes.”This will show respect and a good attitude.

My workers never ask any questions. What can I do about it?
Again, this is a cultural problem. Many Mexican workers will not ask questions out of a feeling of respect and awareness that you are the figure of authority. They may expect that you have all the knowledge and will tell them what they need to know. They will be reluctant to be negative and show independence if they are in a group. They may wait for someone else to ask the questions. They may hope their buddy understood and will ask him later.

My workers want to go home to Mexico. Now what can I do?
This subject is worthy of a book. There are many, many reasons why workers want to go home. Here are some from our experience at USAMEX Ltd:

The worker:

  • has earned enough money to support his family for a time into the future. He doesn’t need more. This is a strange concept to most North American employers.
  • just wants to go back home to see his family.
  • wants to leave your job and is trying to be polite about it.
  • has a special fiesta that he wants to participate in his home town or village.

More later………

For a little extra, you can also find out about the value of “good Mexican landscapers:”

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Many landscape contractors have discovered the value of a good Mexican landscapers. They’ll mow the lawns, trim the shrubs, dig the drip line trenches……..whatever you need done. And they will do it all day long at a good pace.

Our Landscaping employers like the fact that we go to Mexico to recruit workers directly without any middlemen. They have found out that we truly are concerned with finding good workers with good work attitudes and habits.

The company that developed these questions has a URL call USAMex.org. The company’s site claims the following: “We are concerned mostly with workers from Mexico. We help you get CERTIFIED by the Department of Labor. We prepare the documents for the USCIS (formerly, the INS) Your workers qualify for US temporary work visas. H2A or H2B. This work is overseen by the US Department of Labor (DOL), USCIS, and the US State Department. USAMEX Ltd acts as the AGENT of the employer in becoming certified by DOL and preparing the documents to obtain the visas for the foreign workers needed.” The website was last updated in 2011.

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Immigration: The Political Rubik’s Cube

March 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment

First, the good news: Immigration reform has gained support among Democrats and Republicans. And now, the bad news: Immigration reform also has some very determined opponents in both parties.

As recent headlines show, the pro-reform Republicans include national party leaders who see their party in a demographic death spiral without Latino support along with employers in labor-starved industries. Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, worried about the negative effects on Latino voters of racist-laced rhetoric against illegal immigration, urged the GOP to “stop being the stupid party.” Meanwhile, high-tech business leaders have organized a “virtual march for immigration reform” to bring more skilled workers into the country as part of a comprehensive immigration bill. All this bodes well for a bi-partisan reform effort. However, the Republicans are deeply divided on the issue.

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Opposing reform in the GOP is the nativist fringe. Their xenophobic fears are best summed up by a woman at a Tea Party rally with a sign that read: I want my country back. Along with Tea Party types, the nativist wing is represented by well-organized lobbying groups like NumbersUSA, Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee (ALIPAC), the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). Although the Republican national leadership has scaled back its support for these groups, they will still pose a formidable obstacle to immigration reform. Their members have proven to be energetic and highly vocal in the past. “An amnesty bill is going to split the party,” FAIR spokesman Bob Kane told the New York Times.

On the surface, Democratic support appears strong. President Obama has declared that immigration reform is a priority of his second term. But labor unions, a powerful Democratic constituency, are opposed to a key component of any comprehensive immigration bill: a guest worker program. Will the Democrats risk a major source of funds and organizing power and pass a bill opposed by big labor? Not likely.

The safest play for the Democrats will be to pay lip service to comprehensive immigration reform, do very little to see it passed, and blame the Republicans when it doesn’t. This tactic will secure Democratic support among Latinos while avoiding a confrontation with big labor.

How do supporters of immigration reform solve this political Rubik’s Cube? One way is to avoid a “comprehensive” bill altogether. Remember the horror show of divisiveness over comprehensive health care reform? That debate might seem civil compared to the passions comprehensive immigration reform could stir.

We’ve made progress on the DREAM Act. Let’s push it over the top. A guest worker program is another piece of immigration reform that could be passed separately (with Republican support) and help undocumented workers come out of the shadows. Increasing the number of visas for highly skilled workers would help the U.S. become more competitive as well. Taken one at a time, each issue has a better chance of emerging intact than as part of a behemoth comprehensive bill requiring compromises that will leave everyone dissatisfied.

Let’s solve the immigration Rubik’s Cube by passing reforms one at a time.

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raul_ramos_y_sanchezRaul Ramos y Sanchez is the award-winning author of the novels AMERICA LIBRE, HOUSE DIVIDED and PANCHO LAND. He is also host and editor of MyImmigrationStory.com. For more information visit www.RaulRamos.com.

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Dear Mississippi Media: Yes, “Wetback” Is a Racial Slur

March 21, 2013 by 1 Comment

File this one under the “We Have Now Seen Everything” category. In a local news article from southwestern Mississippi, reporter Caleb Bedillion was writing a dry standard story about corporate tax breaks.

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Rather boring stuff until you get to this part of the story, which quoted local county official Nolan Williamson. Wait for this one:

Williamson further mocked the idea that corporate tax breaks serve an economic development purpose and suggested that he if received a tax break, he could benefit the local economy.

“I might hire me two or three wetbacks, and I’d create jobs,” said Williamson, utilizing a term often considered a slur for Mexican immigrants in the United States.

Williamson’s quote was shocking, but what about the reporter? We are still trying to think of those situations where such a term is NOT a racial slur. And seriously, no one said anything?

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VIDEO Update from Cuéntame: Mother Faces Deportation for Having Barking Dogs

March 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment

This just in from our friends at Cuéntame, who added this update about Bakersfield woman who is facing deportation because of her barking dogs.

Call Now: (202) 732-3000

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Sample script:

“I am calling in support of Ruth Montaño, Case No. A205 763 399 and ask that her deportation case be dropped. She is a low priority deportation, she has no criminal record. She has 3 U.S. citizen children.”

Once you are done calling, you can tweet to have your friends call as well.

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By Jennie Pasquarella, ACLU of Southern California and Axel Caballero, Cuéntame 

Where would you expect to find half-a-dozen patrol cars on New Year’s Eve?  In Bakersfield, California, ranked in the highest ten percent of the most violent cities in America, you’d hope they’d be responding to incidents of violence and preventing murder, rape, and other violent crime.  At the very least, you’d expect them to be patrolling for drunk drivers.

Not so.  At least not when it comes to prioritizing such matters as “barking dogs.”  On December 31, 2012, the Kern County Sheriff’s Department deployed six police cars and numerous officers at the behest of a white resident who called for help from, well, the sounds of two small barking dogs.  Her neighbor, Ruth Montaño, a Latina farm-worker, and her three American children owned the dogs.

As Ruth poignantly describes in her own words, when she and her children returned to their trailer around 10pm that night from the grocery store, officers approached her and began shouting and cursing at her.  They said they were responding to a neighbor’s complaint that her two small dogs were being noisy.  Her dogs, a Chihuahua and a Shih Tzu, were enclosed in a fenced-in area outside her trailer.  But when Ruth asked the officers what the dogs had done, they refused to answer.  When she offered to put the dogs inside, they ignored her.

Instead, the officers questioned her about how long she had been in the United States and insulted her for not speaking English well.  They called her and her children garbage and threatened to arrest her.  When she pled with them to tell her why they were interrogating her, they again refused to say, growing even more hostile and agitated, and aggressively placing her under arrest.  As they walked her over to the patrol car, her children cried and pled for them not to take their mommy.  One officer violently bashed Ruth’s head into the side of the patrol car, before forcing her into the vehicle.

The dogs, meanwhile, remained outside, untouched.  Barking.

The officers claim that they arrested Ruth for “having animals making excessive noise” and for resisting arrest. But, under Kern County law, “having animals making excessive noise” is neither an arrestable offense, nor is it within the authority of the Sheriff’s Department to investigate – rather it is an issue for Animal Control.

Ruth believes she was arrested for one sole reason: racism.  We think she’s right.  If not, what’s one other plausible explanation for what happened to her?  Anti-immigrant sentiment runs high in places like Bakersfield, and law enforcement officers often target Latino residents.  Officers know that all they have to do is make an arrest – whether lawful or not – to turn any suspected “illegal immigrant” from today’s contributing resident into tomorrow’s deportee.

This is because under the federal government’s disastrous Secure Communities (“S-Comm”) program every person who is arrested is immediately screened and identified by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) for possible deportation, regardless of their charges.

Dragnet federal immigration enforcement programs, like S-Comm, increasingly are to blame for abusive and unlawful police conduct that target Latinos, violate their civil rights, and undermine public safety.  The program encourages police to take action based on race, language, and perceived immigration status – knowing that any arrest could lead to deportation – rather than doing their jobs to ferret out threats to public safety.

Stories like Ruth’s only reinforce the urgent need for California to finally adopt the TRUST Act, a bill that would ensure that the police can no longer detain for ICE people like Ruth who have done no harm to our communities.  And it demonstrates the need for Congress to pass common-sense immigration reform to ensure that residents like Ruth are put on a road to citizenship, not a highway to family separation.

Ruth still faces deportation.  Do your part and tell ICE to take her out of deportation proceedings.  Call (202) 732-3000. Her case number is A205 763 399.

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GOP Chairman of House Judiciary Committee Calls Obama Administration’s Sequestration Release of Immigrants “Abhorrent”

February 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment

This just in today from The Hill, which reported that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R—VA) is not happy at all with the news that the Obama administration has released hundreds of low-priority undocumented individuals from immigration detention centers due to looming cuts from the sequester.

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This is what Goodlatte said, according to The Hill:

“It’s abhorrent that President Obama is releasing criminals into our communities to promote his political agenda on sequestration,” said Goodlatte, who will play a key role in immigration as Judiciary’s chairman. “By releasing criminal immigrants onto the streets, the administration is needlessly endangering American lives.”

Goodlatte said the move also “undermines our efforts to come together with the administration and reform our nation’s immigration laws.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released the illegal immigrants this week for fear the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts widely expected to be triggered on Friday would limit the number of detainees they could house.

ICE officials have reviewed several hundred cases, and have released detainees on special supervision programs that cost less than housing them at detention centers, according to agency spokeswoman Gillian Christensen.

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Meanwhile, over in Nativist Corner, Alabama GOP Senator Jeff Sessions just couldn’t resist from commenting as well, when he issued a statement, also reported by The Hill:

It is clear the administration is using the sequester as a convenient excuse to bow to political pressure from the amnesty groups, as it did with its unilateral decision to confer legal status on millions who are not lawfully present.

With this new action, the administration has further demonstrated that it has no commitment to enforcing the law and cannot be trusted to deliver on any future promises of enforcement.

They really don’t know that President Obama and his administration has deported individuals in record numbers, do they?

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The #NoMames Meme of the Week: There Are Homeless Veterans But No “Homeless Illegals”

February 21, 2013 by 1 Comment

This week’s #NoMames meme of the week goes to the Facebook page of “Support our troops or get the f–k out.” As of this posting, over 5,000 people have liked it and the meme has been shared over 4,000 times.

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The Facebook thread also contains many lovely comments, such as these:

f*ck every and anything you said Veterans should be top priority over those f*cking illegals who mooch off the welfare systems and complain after they get life handed to them by my tax dollars what needs to be done is close the f*cking borders top creating inflation and the goverment needs to take care of the vets first of course and then the rest of the country

and A MONKEY FIGURED THIS OUT…..SMH

Easy answer. The government cares more about the politics behind what an illegal can do for them, than they do our Vets; to them, they have served their purpose. It’s getting even worse as time goes on for our current servicemen and women.

Therefore, people should be way more pissed about the state of our Country than they currently are. Everything is upside-down and it breaks my heart to hear all of the horror stories of how Vets are treated upon returning home. Not only by our government, but by some of our own citizens..

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