Deporting Ourselves? August 7, 2008
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This has to be a joke. I mean, seriously. It has to be. ICE has implemented a program that gives people the chance to turn themselves in and then they would be given a period of 90 days to fix their affairs. I mean, this has to be a PR stunt to make ICE seem more family friendly. But really, no one is going to do this. Why? Because people risk their lives to come here and have a better future. Does ICE think that they are just going to pack up and leave. Immigrants are part of this country, they are now and always will be.
This article from Reuters.
Star Trek Deportation August 6, 2008
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I found this while losing my life to–er, browsing Youtube. Yes, just browsing, no addiction to that site. None whatsoever. Anyways, I like this parody, from the guys and girls at Breakthrough.
Hypocrisy and Racism of the San Diego Minutement August 5, 2008
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This video was made by Kyle from Citizen Orange, great reporting. Watch for yourselves.
Deporting Researchers… August 4, 2008
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Ok, this is just getting ridiculous. This is an unfair rule, seriously, if this crap doesn’t show it, than what can?
A University of Idaho researcher who worked on bioterrorism defenses faces deportation to Poland after being denied residency by U.S. immigration officials.
This is sad. Here, we have a professional who saved lives, AMERICAN lives and still she being deported. She fought FUCKING terrorism because she was asked by the FBI of all institutions. But why is she getting deported, and got rejected because she worked while not having a permit, for the FBI.
At the same time immigration officials were denying her authorization to work, Dziewanowska held an FBI clearance for research to counter possible terrorist attacks with the plague.
But lets see why she didn’t have a permit in the first place.
While immigration officials considered her application, she was required to apply annually for temporary work permits called employment authorization documents.
In the fall of 2004 her application for a permit was rejected because she had submitted a profile photo rather than a face-forward one as required under new rules. She sent a face-forward photo, but that was rejected because officials said it included glare on one lens of her glasses.
Ok, that my friends, is a FUCKED up immigration system. Sorry for the bad language but this is someone who tried to save lives, paid her taxes, did everything as she was told but instead gets kicked out to Poland. This is a 64 year old woman for God’s sake. If this blog could channel my voice, it would be a very angry one. Ok, I need to go now and punch a pillow…
All the info and quotes belong to the following article, from the Seattle Time. Dziewanowska was a professor at the University of Idaho.
Advocating for an Identity July 30, 2008
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Appearing on a paper or news outlet is something I’ve yet to do. I still don’t know whether I’ll do it. But I admire the people who do, they have b***s. Seriously, you have to be brave to come out like that. Even if it is first name.
And so someone did. The girl below, named Stephanie.
This is one her quotes.
“When I’m a passenger in a friend’s car, it’s exciting for me,” she said. “It has really made me get excited about weird little things.”
While I can get in a car, it is always dangerous for me. I don’t drive myself though but the element of fear is always there, unless the person driving is one of my American friends. If it is one of them, then I feel better. And you know, I also tend to be excited about weird things. It’s a different lifestyle I guess.
Stephanie is an Asian undocumented student, and it takes me to the point that undocumented students are not just Latinos. That’s a misconception the anti forces would like to you think but it is not true at all. People in my particular situation comes in all shapes and sizes. I know many who are not Mexican but from other countries, from Asia, Africa and Europe.
Stephanie worries about the potential risks of speaking out about being undocumented, but she said she is more worried about what would happen if she did not talk about her experiences.
RandomHero from American Wetback has something I really like that goes along with the quote above. I’ll quote him below.
I have the power to help those in need. For me to idly stand by and do nothing about the immigration debate/battle going on right now would be irresponsible and stupid of me. I realize that in order for change to take place, someone has to be a catalyst.
Shame on those who don’t do anything. I’m not talking about blogging, or going to the news. And I’m not talking about hiding your identity either, because I do that, but shame on those who don’t even speak about the subject. Who don’t defend themselves against the overwhelming odds because it is people like Stephanie that are changing the perception of who we are. Shame on you if you haven’t changed at least one person’s mind on regards to immigration. The change is not going to handed to us, because we know a lot of others would like nothing less than to kick us out, we have to fight for it. That is why I applaud people like Stephanie.
The quotes from the article and the picture come from the following site and belong to the Pacific Citizen.
The Reign of ‘Sheriff Joe’ July 29, 2008
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Washington Post on Arpaio! Excellent editorial –MANUEL DE Jesus Ortega Melendres, a Mexican citizen, entered the United States legally last fall, using a visa valid until 2016 as well as a permit from the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Ortega had every reason to believe he was on the right side of the law, except for one small misstep: b…
The Journeys July 26, 2008
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This political cartoon represents the journeys of the immigrants and the anti immigrants.
I found this over at this website.
North Carolina likes Undocumented Students July 26, 2008
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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 July 25, 2008
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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 July 24, 2008
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Another great video. Must watch.
Another Political Cartoon July 23, 2008
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This is another political cartoon I like. Enjoy. From the US News and World Report.
It Continues July 23, 2008
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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! July 22, 2008
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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 July 20, 2008
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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 July 17, 2008
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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.
