North Carolina likes Undocumented Students

Well, this is from the News and Observer, all of it, so all credit belongs to them and the writer of the article, Kristin Collins. I’m busy now, I have a new Xbox 360, but I couldn’t pass the opportunity to post this. Stuff in bold is added by me for emphasis.

RALEIGH - The state Attorney General’s Office says it’s legal for the N.C. Community College System to admit illegal immigrants.

That advice, given to the colleges Thursday and made public today, represents a reversal for the office of Attorney General Roy Cooper, which advised the colleges in May to bar illegal immigrants from degree programs. The colleges took that advice and issued a new policy prohibiting illegal immigrants from enrolling, even at out-of-state tuition rates. Cooper’s office said at the time that post-secondary education might qualify as a public benefit to which illegal immigrants are not entitled under federal law.

But on Monday, Cooper’s office got a letter from federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in response to a request for clarification of the law. The letter, from former Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph, who now works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said that admission to colleges is not considered a public benefit under federal law.

Federal officials made the same statement to the News & Observer in May, but officials with the community colleges and the Attorney General’s Office said they wanted to wait for a formal letter.

J.B. Kelly, general counsel, advised the colleges in a letter Thursday that it is up to them to decide whether to admit illegal immigrants.

Community College System President Scott Ralls was not immediately available for comment on whether he would lift the ban on illegal immigrants.

Now, I’m pretty happy about this decision and you know what I do when I’m happy. I play video games. Not only that, but I laugh. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS. Maybe the people from NC aren’t as bad as I thought they were.

Fear of Being What We Are

Well, that is what it has come down to. Once again, in North Carolina. Again, I feel sorry for undocumented people living in this state. I’m glad I’m not there but I highly doubt my state is any better.

Anyway, it seems that Hispanic leaders have to be afraid because they are pro-immigrant. They have received the usual, profanity filled messages, hate messages, among others, I’ve received the same treatment. But now, they’ve received death threats. I mean, wow, how far are people willing to go.

This is from the News and Observer.

“This is not about immigration,” Bazán said. “This is not about debating policy. This has moved on to another sphere. This is hate.”

Rep. Pricey Harrison, a Greensboro Democrat who sponsored the bill (in-state tuition for undocumented students bill), said she received one phone message warning that “my days are numbered.” She said the message, which included profane insults, felt like a threat.

“I have not seen anything like what illegal immigration elicits,” Harrison said. “It’s revealing a very ugly side of humanity that I’ve never seen before.”

“When you describe immigrants as Third World invaders or murderers, or say that they are swarming or coming in hordes, this is dehumanizing language,” Lauter said. “That kind of rhetoric inspires others who might act out on hate.”

How low does this country have to go before things get better?

Of course, the comment section of the newspaper has comments like the following.

From Stonewall83.

Plain and simple get rid of those mexicans. We don’t need them. This is a country founded on wonderful anglosaxon traditions. Anything contrary is plain unamerican. Get out mexicans!

Buzzaw

People are sick and tired of non whites telling whites to conform to their cultures. This country was intended to be a european only country. Since we have strayed away from that, we have been on a sharp decline.

And I saw other recognizible names from an anti-immigrant website that I won’t mention, which leads me to believe that the rest of the comments are no better. It is sad that this is the norm. But at least we are not being killed on the streets–oh, wait.

Dream Act Students

Another great video. Must watch.

Another Political Cartoon

This is another political cartoon I like. Enjoy. From the US News and World Report.

It Continues

Again from North Carolina, what’s wrong with these people, I would NEVER want to live there. Anyway, back to the point, again from North Carolina, another sign of the GREAT job the police are doing.

It was another dangerous mother, doing the horrible crime of driving. I’ll just quote the rest of the story, because seriously people, I couldn’t make this shit up even if I was paid to. From the News and Observer.

An illegal immigrant arrested on a traffic violation last month was forced to leave her three children on the shoulder of Interstate 85 in the middle of the night — where they were alone and stranded for eight hours.

An Alamance County sheriff’s deputy pulled Maria Chavira Ventura over just before 2 a.m. on June 14, according to arrest records. He took her to jail for driving without a license and displaying a false license plate, and she was eventually put under a federal deportation order. He left her children, 14, 10 and 6, with a man they barely knew, according to the N.C. Justice Center and Maryland social workers. He was a fellow church member who had been catching a ride with the family.

I’m just shocked by all the hypocrisy in the matter of enforcement. Many anti-immigrant advocates say that their problem is not with immigration, just with illegals. No, that’s a lie. Their problem is with brown people because policies that give immigration powers to police that only go after Latinos. That’s the truth. There is no way to differentiate between legal and illegal residents unless the assumption that all Latinos are illegal is made, which is what the anti people do. And please, don’t say that’s a lie, this is discrimination and demonization of an entire group of people. I thought America was better than this.

Immigration Enforcement Working!

Oh yea, enforcement is working. It is taking those countless criminal scumbags of aliens of the streets and back where they belong. They are all so dangerous and scary. Lets take a look at the first example of a dangerous individual.

First up, as reported by FOXNews. There was an evil librarian in the town of Burlington, NC. Yep, she was taken care of. She was dangerous all right, being here for so long that she doesn’t remember the place she came from. And of course, she married a real American and had a kid. She committed the crime of stealing that guy from a real American woman. The shame! I’m so glad that giving the police immigration powers is working so swell.

Second to the plate, by the NY Times. This wretched human being was caught for driving badly. So, she went to jail for 6 days, she was 9 months pregnant and had a kid on a hospital while having an officer watching over her. Of course, she was also chained to the bed with handcuffs while having the kid. We all know women usually have a very merry time while giving birth. Having a kid is so easy that she could have tried to escape. So the police did the right thing by chaining her, right.

Now, I’m not even going to bother writing anything about this because I couldn’t seriously make this up or make fun about it, I’ll just quote the article.

After she was discharged from the hospital, Mrs. Villegas was separated from her nursing infant for two days and barred from taking a breast pump into the jail, her lawyer and a doctor familiar with the case said. Her breasts became infected, and the newborn boy developed jaundice, they said.

No, let me speak seriously for a minute. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS??? The woman had a baby for Christ’s sake. But of course, she is a dangerous individual.

I’m so tired of the bullshit that comes from giving police immigration powers. Instead of going after people that actually put people in danger, you know, actual criminals, they do this shit. Going after librarians? Recent mothers? People working at factories? I mean, come on, the hypocrisy of immigration enforcement is so thick I could cut it with a knife.

Those two stories above are shameful and people should be embarrassed that their tax payer money (including my parents’) is being used like that. How did we come to this? What next? I’ll be taken out because I was having fun at my university?

Hate Crime

Wow, this sort of news makes me sad for America. America  is supposed to be better than this but apparently not. A man named Luis Ramirez was beaten to death by 6 teenagers in the town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. The following are quotes from the article from ABC News.

“From what we understand right now, it wasn’t racially motivated,” Nestor said. “This looks like a street fight that went wrong.”

Umm, no, a street fight is one thing. Ganging up on someone and leaving them one step away from death is another. Look at the picture below.

Luis Ramirez. This is the result of a hate crime. (Crystal Dillman/AP Photo)

Retired Philadelphia police Officer Eileen Burke, who lives on the street where the fight occurred, told The Associated Press she heard a youth scream at one of Ramirez’s friends after the beating to tell her Mexican friends to get out of Shenandoah, “or you’re going to be laying next to him.”

On Dillman’s fireplace mantel hangs a medallion of Jesus that Ramirez was wearing the night he was beaten. Ramirez had an imprint of the medallion on his chest, marking where an assailant stomped on him, she said.

The Garcias said they heard the youths call Ramirez “stupid Mexican” and an ethnic slur.

Burke, the former Philadelphia officer, said she saw shirtless youths swarming around Ramirez, called 911 and went outside, when she heard a youth yell obscenities and make the get-out-of-Shenandoah remark.

But do the people in the town choose to believe this. Take a look at the quote below to know.

Despite the witness statements, Borough Manager Joseph Palubinsky said he doesn’t believe Ramirez’s ethnicity was what prompted the fight: “I have reason to know the kids who were involved, the families who were involved, and I’ve never known them to harbor this type of feeling.”

Of course, the witnesses are lying. Yep. They are just out to ruin the kids who were defending themselves from the big scary Mexican illegal. OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH look out, I’m also scary. I’m like boogie man, out to get you. I guess someone forgot to inform my girlfriend and friends that I’m scary, because all Mexicans are, right?

The people defending on this story are full of shit, it is that simple. They are defending kids because what, they are football players and win games. Because they know the families involved? All shit. The kids deserve to go to jail or more for the crime they committed. It doesn’t matter whether the person who is now dead was illegal or not, he was attacked by the simple fact of being Mexican. The man was stomped one and kicked in the head, how is that not a crime.

This article and event are disturbing beyond belief, I’m Mexican and I’ve always been afraid of something like this happening to me or my family. This is what happens when the immigration debate gets out context and everyone within group are labeled as demons, in this case, Latinos. I thought American was better than this.

The rest of the abomination is written in the following article by ABC News, the quotes and pictures belong to them.

Sweeps Threaten Latinos and Constitution in Maricopa County

The deputies began driving into the neighborhood, terrorizing the community until almost 11 p.m. that night. Young Latino men were brought into the parking lot in handcuffs. They looked terrified as they arrived in the back of sheriff
’s vehicles.Stadium lights were everywhere. The media was on-site interviewing deputies and concerned residents.

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Beaufort County, SC and Operation Surge

What, now counties? Unlike my other two postings, which consentrated on blaming immigrants for the end of the world, now it is an entire county. It seems like we are moving up. Actually, this is quite scary since this has been the third article of this kind in the last couple of days.

So, what’s going on in South Carolina. Well, the entire state hates us but this county does it with a vengeance. The started something called Operation Surge, which to what I’m reading, it means that all brown people will be arrested and have the documents checked. No, of course there is no racial profiling, who would ever think that!?

It is disgusting that things are happening this way. Note to self, never visit Beaufort County, Escondido or Freemont. I’ll take my money elsewhere.

Read the article over the crap that is going over there in the following link.

Our Stories

Do you know how it feels to be unwanted? Do you know how it feels to be a burden? To be unknown and untruthful? Do you know how it feels to be invisible? Do you know how it feels to be not understood. To live in the shadows and in fear? Being undocumented is that and so much more. Try to understand us and watch, we only want to be accepted.

Escondido, oh the irony…

The city of Escondido is now adding itself to the list of cities that want to get rid of us.  Because we are nuisances. It’s ironic that the city is trying to get rid of its brown residents when the name of the city itself comes from such people. Escondido, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, and the like, all the cities with Spanish backgrounds. It is just funny to me.

Anyways, the mantra of Escondido is that if you can’t get rid of us directly, use the stereotypes against us. Ordinances against trash, graffiti and junk cars. Oh no, this is not racist at all, because really, only Latinos do this, no wait! Undocumented people is now a race.

From the article.

The police department’s most controversial move, however, was establishing checkpoints to find unlicensed drivers. Last year, the department set up 18 license checkpoints, resulting in 293 impounded cars, 14 arrests and 296 citations. Maher said those checkpoints helped officers find at least 290 unlicensed drivers and helped reduce the city’s number of hit-and-run crashes.

“Some folks say they are controversial because they target a specific segment of the population,” he said. “That is absolutely not true. Our checkpoints are for one reason and one reason only: traffic safety.”

Traffic safety? Yeah, right. What a world we live in folks. The purges continue and another dark chapter in the long dark history of US immigration is being written. Unfortunately for me, I feel the damn ink hurting all over.

Read the rest of the article here, courtesy and all rights belonging to the LA Times.

In Limbo

Wow, talk about being stuck in limbo and then some. I have the unique advantage of people not knowing my location and such, I keep a low profile. I mean, I could go out and party and such, make a disgrace of myself but I choose not to, I think it is the smarter move. Anyway, back to the point, this kid who goes by the name of Arthur Mkoyan is stuck in the limbo from hell.

He graduated with a 4.0 GPA, probably higher than most of his American-born peers, and a letter of admission to UC Davis. So, that would be good right. Well, no, he is an undocumented immigrant from Armenia. But wait you say, I thought all undocumented immigrants were stinky Mexicans. No, you are wrong, epic fail.

So, why is the kid an undocumented immigrant. His father made the choice of emigrating to the US bringing his wife and kid, Arthur, at the age of 1. So, now, after a 16 year process that didn’t give the family assylum, they are supposed to be deported. Apparently having your house burned down and shop they owned getting ransacked aren’t valid enough reasons to flee your country and seek asylum elsewhere.

Well, now, here we are 16 years later and Arthur is stuck in limbo. He wants to continue his education but that has become doubtful considering he is undocumented. So, here we have a kid who would probably do well in life, his life in the US, but can’t because of the mistakes of others. Are you going to ask him to leave to a place where he has never been? Is that fair? And I thought I had it bad. I still can’t believe things like this could happen in this country but I guess I was wrong.

Read more about Arthur and his family’s story in the following article.

Umm…if only there was a piece of legislation that would allow his DREAMs to come true. Nah, I’m sure there isn’t one, no wait–

Arpaio Leaves Citizens Behind

Well, here we go, from the so-called America’s toughest sheriff. He is leaving his residents behind. When the sheriff’s office started to concentrate on becoming immigration agents, their real jobs, being police agents to you know, protect and serve, was thrown out the window. This is what would happen if people get their way on regards to transforming police officers into immigration agents.

It is the rural communities that are affected by this measure. They depended on the man they elected and he threw them out the window in his search of glory and his five minutes of fame. Here is a quote from the article.

As a result, even serious criminal investigations began to suffer, the Tribune reported. In El Mirage, for instance, sheriff’s detectives did little or no investigation into at least 30 violent crime cases, including a dozen reported sexual assaults, during 2006 and 2007. The lack of significant work on those cases prompted the sheriff’s office to open an internal affairs investigation.

Is that what the residents wanted, unsafe communities. Sure, there are less immigrants now but only the hardworking ones are being scapegoated and such. It is quite sad. That’s the price that has to be made by giving the power of immigration to the local authorities. I hope that Arpaio is enjoying his 15-minutes of fame, because I know after all this mess is solved, he will live in infamy forever.

Read the rest of the sheriff’s bad decisions on the following article by KTAR.com.

Ban on Immigrants

Well, now, this is insulting and unnecessary. I mean, has it really come to this. I guess so. Well, the following article from the city of Freemont says that now you have to have a license in order to live anywhere. I guess they finally found a way banish us. But really, I don’t think such an ordinance will be able to stand up in court. Such things never do.

Unsurprisingly, the article says that the ordinance doesn’t stipulate a penalty for landlords who fail to comply in checking out the licenses. Isn’t this like the raids, going after the little people instead of the ones who hire them. In this case, the people who allow them to have a residency.

Apparently the people are ’sick and tired’ on the lax immigration laws or the lack of action on the part of the federal government. Really, these people are sick and tired of what all the nativist are tired of, seeing people who are brown and therefore not liking them.

I’m sick and tired of all of this. Sick and tired of being considered a burden and a criminal. It depresses me the level of hate that people have toward me when they haven’t even met me. Or try to meet me.

This is a quote from the article from the Omaha World Herald, all credit goes to them, describing the racial stereotypes.

Angel Freytez, commission spokesman, said some opponents of the ban left the meeting early because they felt there was inadequate security. One opponent of the ordinance later broke into tears because of the “hateful” statements, said Freytez, who called the behavior at the meeting “shameful.”

“Instead of raising the level of dialogue over the immigration issue,” Freytez said, “they are degrading it.”

Pflanz, the Appleseed attorney, said some people in the audience of Latino and Asian descent overheard remarks aimed at them: “There’s an illegal. There’s an illegal.”

An illegal. An illegal. It goes on and on, doesn’t it? I’m tired of it. I’m tired of waking up and being on the same situation, I’m tired of just everything. How long can this mess continue, and even I don’t think I can last that long. Is it going to be until 2010? I don’t know, so many questions with no answers, yet. Banish? Cockroaches? And more, how long can this continue?

Read the rest of the article over the crap that is happening in Nebraska right here.

Border Agents Using Racial Profiling to U.S. Citizens

The patrols have sparked protests in the city as well as upstate, most recently last weekend in Syracuse, where a group said that agents have even targeted U.S. citizens who look “foreign”. Immigration attorneys say witnesses have said that agents sometimes question only people of color.

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