Apoyo en Los Ángeles

El eco de lo que ayer le gritaron al sheriff Joe Arpaio en Phoenix, Arizona, retumbó también aquí en Los Ángeles cuando un grupo de manifestantes marchó en las inmediaciones de la Placita Olvera para exigir un alto a la política antiinmigrante.

"¡Arriba! ¡Abajo! ¡Arpaio al carajo!", coreaban unos cien manifestantes que apoyaron la movilización masiva en el condado de Maricopa.

"Estamos marchando en solidaridad con la acción nacional en Arizona, contra todas las violaciones de derechos humanos y racismo bajo el liderazgo del sheriff Joe Arpaio, pero también para unificar familias, para pedirle a Obama que pase una reforma migratoria este año," dijo Neidi Domínguez, del The Wage Justice Center, uno de los grupos organizadores.

http://www.impre.com/noticias/2010/1/17/apoyo-en-los-angeles-168839-1.html

[posted by: gloria j]

Los Ángeles prepara su propia megamarcha

Organizaciones aseguran que la comunidad se volcará a las calles, exigiendo al presidente Obama la reforma migratoria

• Eileen Truax/ eileen.truax@laopinion.com |
• 2010-03-11

En medio de los esfuerzos para impulsar la aprobación de una reforma migratoria, Los Ángeles se prepara para salir a la calle una vez más.

Un amplio grupo de organizaciones activistas y de defensa de los derechos de los inmigrantes hizo un llamado a la comunidad angelina para que participe en una manifestación multitudinaria el sábado 27 de marzo a las 10:00 a.m., con el fin de ejercer presión sobre el Congreso y el presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, a fin de lograr la aprobación de una reforma migratoria integral.

De acuerdo con los organizadores, el objetivo es que tras los eventos que se realizarán en Washington, D.C., el 21 de marzo, la comunidad de Los Ángeles pueda reforzar el mensaje una semana después a través de su participación directa en esta movilización, con la que se pretende recordar al presidente de EEUU su compromiso de aprobar una reforma migratoria durante su primer año de gobierno.

Juan José Gutiérrez, dirigente de la Coalición por los Derechos Plenos de los Inmigrantes, enfatizó por su parte la importancia de que organizaciones que en ocasiones anteriores han trabajado por separado se hayan puesto de acuerdo en esta ocasión para realizar un acto conjunto con un fin común.

http://www.impre.com/inmigracion/2010/3/11/los-angeles-prepara-su-propia--177433-1.html

[Posted by: Gloria J]

Revelan fraude de visas estudiantiles en California

• GILLIAN FLACCUS / Assocated Press |
• 2010-03-10

SANTA ANA, California (AP).- Eamonn Higgins no tiene un título universitario, pero desde hace siete asiste a la universidad por otros estudiantes.

Higgins fue acusado formalmente ayer de operar una red ilegal de personas que tomaban exámenes con identidades falsas para ayudar a decenas de personas oriundas del Oriente Medio a obtener visas estudiantiles en Estados Unidos. Los acusados tomaban exámenes de dominio del idioma inglés haciéndose pasar por los aspirantes y luego les ayudaban a mantener sus visas tomando cursos universitarios, exámenes finales y escribiendo monografías por ellos.

Las acusaciones revelan una violación potencialmente peligrosa de seguridad en el sistema de visas estudiantiles del país y resaltan la vulnerabilidad de un proceso que se apoya en las instituciones educativas y centros de exámenes para verificar las identidades de los estudiantes.

Higgins fue acusado en un tribunal federal en Santa Ana, California, de asociación ilícita para cometer fraude, al tiempo que las autoridades de inmigración arrestaron a 16 de sus presuntos clientes que seguían en el sur de California.

http://www.impre.com/inmigracion/2010/3/10/revelan-fraude-de-visas-estudi-177221-1.html

[Posted by: Gloria J]

Chinese Laborers Get Memorial -Los Angeles

The site where Chinese laborers were interred, their graves later forgotten, gets a memorial

Transit agency builds a memorial at Evergreen Cemetery and will rebury remains that were excavated during Gold Line Eastside Extension.

The Chinese graves in Boyle Heights were discovered five years ago, during construction of the Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension. The early Chinese immigrants who helped build California were forbidden to marry or own property. They were barred from Evergreen Cemetery, the oldest secular burial ground still operating in Los Angeles.

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posted by Prof. Montejano

AB540: UC Berkeley's Most Vulnerable

As different groups on campus organize and prepare for what will be a historic day on Mar. 4, AB 540 students on this campus brace for a storm of larger proportions. AB 540 students are students just like everyone else whose only sin is the lack of formal U.S citizenship status, which closes all options for financial aid, a sin partially forgiven by the state of California when Assembly Bill 540 (AB 540) was passed in 2001

http://www.dailycal.org/article/108312/ab_540_uc_berkeley_s_most_vulnerable

[posted by: Alejandro Jimenez]

Light skinned, British and Undocumented

She imagined the streets here paved with gold, a country where every day was like a Hollywood movie. The United States, in her mind, was everything her hometown, the English port city of Hull, was not.
Growing up poor, life was tough for Burns. She and a sibling were raised by a mother who supported the family on a teacher's salary. Hull, in Yorkshire, was insulated, a city with a small-town mentality where, according to Burns, "everybody was in everybody's business."

www.ocregister.com/articles/burns-237401-immigrants-immigration.html


[posted by: Alejandro Jimenez]

Deportations to tear apart S.F. family

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

(03-01) 18:31 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Immigrants' rights advocates brought forth a family of five Monday to illustrate what they called the human consequences of San Francisco's deportation crackdown: a Muni driver, his Australian wife and three children soon to be separated because a 13-year-old boy punched a schoolmate and stole 46 cents.

"I feel like they've taken my right to have a family," Charles Washington, 42, said at a news conference in the San Francisco office of the Asian Law Caucus.

Beside him sat his wife of 11 months, Tracey Washington, holding her 5-year-old son. With them were Washington's 12-year-old daughter from a previous marriage and his 13-year-old stepson, his wife's child.

On Friday, Tracey Washington and her two children are scheduled to be deported to Australia for staying in the United States after their legal status expired in May. They applied for legal residence in December based on her marriage to a U.S. citizen, but a lawyer said those hopes were doomed by the 13-year-old's schoolyard folly and the city's crackdown.

Posted By: Ayanna Spikes

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/02/BAMM1C98SC.DTL

Marchers rally for immigrant rights

San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Saturday, May 2, 2009
Author: Tyche Hendricks, Chronicle Staff Writer

Hundreds of immigrants and their allies braved the rain Friday in San Francisco and Oakland to join in spirited marches, calling for an end to immigration raids and legalization for the nation's estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants.

Holding handmade signs reading "Stop the Raids" and chanting "si, se puede," the Oakland contingent marched slowly on International Boulevard from Fruitvale Plaza to City Hall. The spirited if soggy parade of umbrellas and rain ponchos included many teenagers as well as parents pushing strollers and leading children by the hand.

"The rain doesn't matter," said Lucia Cortes, 27, a bakery worker from Sinaloa, Mexico, who is married to a U.S. citizen but cannot legalize her immigration status because she entered the country without authorization. "There are many people like me who are here illegally but who want to comply with the rights and obligations of this country. We want immigration reform."

They were among tens of thousands across the country who turned out for events intended to keep the pressure on President Obama and Washington policymakers for an immigration rules overhaul this year. Pro-immigrant marches took place in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Washington, among many other cities. In the Bay Area, events were planned for Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Napa and Martinez.

Posted By: Ayanna Spikes

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/02/BASO17CSRG.DTL

Anti-immigration Cartoons (IMMIVASION)

Immivasion.us is a website that has a collection of contemporary anti-immigration political cartoons. The website claims that its content and material are solely for humor and satire. Check it our for yourselves.


http://www.immivasion.us/



[fixed by Prof. Montejano]

California For Population Control (CAPS) ADS REVEAL IMMIGRANTS CREATE FOUR TIMES MORE CARBON EMISSIONS WHEN THEY COME TO THE U.S.

Ads Say Saving Earth Starts In California With Less Immigration
Listen to Ad

SANTA BARBARA, CA. – This week, Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) began rolling out a multi-media, multi-market ad campaign making the link between too much population growth, too fast and environmental degradation. The campaign includes broadcast radio and television and will be launched in markets across California over the next two weeks.
http://www.capsweb.org/content.php?id=739&menu_id=8

Costa Mesa-Crackdown confirms fears

January 30, 2007 | By Jennifer Delson
In a city that has clashed loudly and publicly over immigration laws, the arrest of Marcelino Tzir Tzul underscored the worst fears in Costa Mesa's Latino community. The 37-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala was picked up for riding his bicycle on the wrong side of the street, brought before a federal agent at the city jail and then shipped to a federal lockup to await his likely deportation.
http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/costa-mesa-ca/recent/3