I want to congratulate Mr. Patrick Garland for speaking about Human Values, Democracy, and true for the people has been scapegoating, persecuting, dimished and who do not have a political voice. Undocumented and Documented Immigrants.

Whoever tied the noose and hung it on his door knob was not ignorant of the symbol's meaning.




Unadilla Valley Central School officials have identified two students they believe are responsible for hanging a noose on a counselor's door last week.

School Superintendent Robert Mackey said Wednesday the students are being disciplined, but he would not release any specific information about who the students are or what disciplinary actions were being taken.

"I can tell you that the consequences will match the offensiveness of the act," Mackey said.

The students have not been attending school since they were identified, he said.

The noose tied from clothesline-type rope was found the morning of Feb. 6 on the door of the Liberty Partnership Program counselor's room while school was in session, troopers previously said.

The counselor was identified by the school as Mark Montgomery, who is black. He has been at the school for 11/2 years.

The incident remains under investigation by Norwich state police. Troopers on Wednesday said they were hoping to have closure in the case by Friday, but they would not indicate if that closure would involve criminal charges.

There are no other students involved, Mackey said.

"We are sure that this is it," Mackey said.

Mackey said school staff had heard from other students that the two suspected of hanging the noose may have learned how to tie it by watching a video on YouTube, the popular Internet video-sharing website.

Mackey said he couldn't speculate on a motive.

"We can't answer specifically what was going through the minds of the kids," Mackey said. "Many teenagers really act without ever thinking about the end result.

The school resource officer _ a state trooper _ was a huge help in bringing the incident to a quick resolution, Mackey said.

State police Bureau of Criminal Investigation officers were in the school within a few hours of the noose being found, he said.

Students began coming forward Sunday with information about who hung the noose, and by Tuesday, both students who participated were identified, Mackey said.

School officials are treating this as an isolated incident, he said, but as the school deals with the incident's aftermath, staff will be trying to gauge the depth of any racist sentiment that might exist at the school.

The school is planning an assembly for older elementary, middle and high school students after winter break next week, Mackey said.

Teachers will then "circle the desks" and talk with the students in a classroom setting about issues surrounding race and the noose incident.

"We're working on that phase now," Mackey said.

If there appears to be a need for a longer-term approach to any race or discrimination issues at the school, the district my opt to start an Alternatives to Violence program or participate in a course of study through Project Reach, which focuses on respecting ethnic and cultural heritage, Mackey said.

Ultimately, the noose incident could be an opportunity to educate students, he said.

"Our main goal is to facilitate learning every day," Mackey said.

Montgomery, a resident of Clayville in Oneida County, said Monday night he works with at-risk youth in his role with the Liberty Partnership program, which has a goal of reducing drop-out rates.

"I have sadly been exposed to racism my entire life," Montgomery said, but the hanging of a noose brought it to a new level.

Noose displays have garnered national media attention in recent months.

In late January, a federal grand jury indicted an 18-year-old Louisiana man on hate crime and conspiracy charges for allegedly fashioning nooses with a 16-year-old that were then displayed toward marchers traveling from a civil-rights rally in September.

Earlier in January, the editor of Golfweek magazine was fired for using a noose on the magazine's cover to illustrate coverage of controversy over comments regarding lynching and Tiger Woods made by a Golf Channel broadcaster.

President Bush spoke about the symbolism of the noose during an event Tuesday marking African-American History Month.

"The noose is not a symbol of prairie justice, but of gross injustice," Bush said. "Displaying one is not a harmless prank. Lynching is not a word to be mentioned in jest."

Montgomery said that whoever tied the noose and hung it on his door knob was not ignorant of the symbol's meaning

Why Media, TV, Anchor news has not talking about the missing cases of Black womans.
Why????????

Ironic but truthfully when we talking about to secure our borders and ports. Why isn't somebody fencing in Miami, Florida, San Diego Beaches, where is the fence at Malibu beach, Long Beach, Ca. Port, Oakland,Ca port? The real terrorist they caught was coming out of Canada with his trunk full of bombs.

The Border Patrol agent was a 30-year veteran. He walked me across a patch of desolation to the Mexican border. There was no border fence there yet. Just Arizona desert, a dusty dry creekbed, and Mexican desert beyond, indistinguishable from the United States.
If you want to hear philosophical reflections from an agent, you have to talk to old-timers. The hundreds of new Homeland Security-era officers who have flooded the border are extremely well trained - the Border Patrol academy is a monster among law enforcement training programs - and they are certainly gung-ho. But the old guys will tell you the new ones don't know the territory very well. There are fine points it might take 30 years to learn.
"My dad was a rancher," the veteran agent said. "I'm a rancher. I come out here and you know who I chase? Ranch hands and farmers." He wiped his brow, toed some possibly Mexican dirt. "Buddy, I am chasing my own people."

This hotly contested stretch of sand and cinders stands to become a beneficiary of the $1.2 billion border fence that will seal off the southern American border. Well, it will seal off part of it. OK - it will seal off small areas of the border. Just east of where we stood, for example, the fence will stop. There are big scary mountains in place that will be included in the plan as natural immigration barriers. These are the same mountains over which many of the undocumented are already walking to avoid the good men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol.
But, the thinking goes, we have to start somewhere. On the Mexican side, among much gnashing of teeth, there is a joke that has been circulating the whole time. The gist of it is: Let them put up a fence! They'll hire us to build it! Then, when it's done, we'll run the tourist concessions and the taco stands. Then, when they get tired of it, they'll hire us to tear it down!

What are you getting for your 1 billion tax dollars? Well, you're getting a little less than 700 miles of fence. Much of it double-fencing, but substantial segments to be single-fence. That's the kind of security that has so successfully kept kids out of closed softball fields and skinny-dippers from midnight visits to neighborhood swimming pools.

Al Qaeda will weep with frustration when they encounter it and just go home.
Critics like to point out that the plan had originally called for triple-fencing, but somehow the folks who brought us Katrina relief can't manage that on a budget.

Critics also seem to enjoy reminding us that the border is 2,000 miles long. Of course, that would be as the crow flies. If you ironed out the Southwest, spread its many mountains (Homeland Security Immigration Barriers) flat, then pulled the squiggles and turns of the Rio Grande straight, how long would it really be? Buddy, that's a lot of fence for them ranchers to ride.
What is a border? According to Webster's, it is a margin. If one were to look at the margins of the United States, 700 miles of rockin' chain-link might not seem like enough. Although it's macho - it lends the desert a sense of WWF Steel Cage Death Match - a glance at the Canadian border suggests that it's even less secure than we hope. That same Border Patrol veteran pointed out to me that the one real terrorist they caught was coming out of Canada with his trunk full of bombs. And, of course, those 9/11 bastards were "legal aliens."
However, if we keep staring at the map with Zen clarity, a new revelation offers itself. I'll warn you, it takes work. But we suddenly see there is another border of the United States. It's called a coastline. Talk about unprotected. Why isn't somebody fencing in Miami? They hate us for our thongs, people. Where is the fence at Malibu?
Of course, terrorism is only part of the paradigm - it's illegal immigration, stupid.
California has long struggled with remaining a good neighbor while bringing the hammer down. It might have rankled to read the insensitive Mexican jokes about the border fence, but the Golden State Fence Company actually did hire "illegals" to build border fences in San Diego. Not only that, of course, but they seem to have used the undocumented to build fences at military bases, immigration jails and Border Patrol stations. They were fined $5 million in 2006; if you think about it, when you combine the cost-cutting involved in the illegal workforce and the hefty fine, the actual cost of the border fence might have shrunk by several percentage points. Voters and columnists might express outrage, but federal border agents are realists and ironists - they shake their heads and laugh. They know a snafu when they see it.
It's one thing to fence off a few miles of California or Arizona. It is quite another to try to fence off the meandering bed of the mighty Rio Grande in Texas. Somehow, much of the border has remained, for all its media and political notoriety, invisible. Nothing reveals this more than the Rio Grande. (Or, as those darned Mexicans call it, El Rio Bravo - the untamed or brave river.) One of the most interesting border books to appear in recent days is Keith Bowden's "The Tecate Journals." He somewhat maniacally canoes the entire length of the river. The book shows a major American riverine ecosystem that remains ignored and reviled - perhaps because it is also the border barrier of record. Beavers and deer - who knew?
Strangely, a coalition of Texas mayors came up with a proposal to strengthen the border while avoiding the fence. They suggested that the river itself be dredged and deepened and widened. The natural demarcation line between our nations, in other words, could be revived and cleaned up to do its ancient work. Fences? We don't need no stinkin' fences! A plan due to fail.

The problem in Texas is simple - 180 miles of proposed fence must follow the river, but not get too close to the river, because the river itself is the classic illegal alien and will change course, wiggle under fences, even erode banks and topple fences and open big gaps. Obviously, Mexico will stop at nothing - if an old truck won't bust the fence, they'll send a river. So the fence must, at certain points, be built up to a mile from the banks of the river.
Unfortunately, landowners (ranchers and farmers again) have lived on this land for hundreds of years. Some farm plots along the river have been in the same families since 1767. Mexicans were living there eating frijoles before American revolutionaries ate baked beans at the signing of the Constitution? That's awkward.

Although it is true that everyone ought to be willing to suffer for the security of the nation, in Brownsville, the fence line has cut off a section of the college's soccer field and given it back to Mexico. Gen. Santa Anna is rising from his grave, rubbing his hands in glee: He's actually getting back some of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

The Chicago Tribune quoted the mayor of Brownsville on Jan. 16: "To appease people in middle America, they are going to kill our communities along the border. The rest of America has no idea how we live our lives here. We are linked by the Rio Grande, not divided by it." Linked? By a border? Not divided? What a concept.
If Americans want security, then they should get real security. If you really want a border fence, build a real border fence. I have some nephews in Tijuana who need work. But please, Mr. Chertoff - fence off Cannery Row while you still can.

Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of "The Devil's Highway" and "The Hummingbird's Daughter." He teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His blog is http://lavistaluisurrea. blogspot.com

The start of a sad Immigration story ended in an overwhelming and happiness emotion. Thousands of cases like this are out there do to a dysfunctional and bureacratic Immigration system.

A former American soldier's widow, who was facing deportation to Venezuela after her husband was killed while working as a contractor in Iraq, has finally been awarded permanent residency in the United States.

''This is an overwhelming emotion,'' Dahianna Heard said in a telephone interview from her home in Casselberry, near Orlando. ``After so much struggle and suffering, I will finally see the light and build a normal life with my kids.''

Heard, 36, knew that her life would change forever when her husband, Jeffrey Heard, was killed in March 2006. A U.S. military veteran, he was shot in the head during an ambush while working in Iraq for a private security firm.

A short time after learning of her husband's death, Heard was notified by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that both she and her two sons were to be deported because her petition had not been processed before her husband was killed and her marriage had not lasted the minimum two years necessary for her to qualify for permanent status.

The couple would have celebrated their second anniversary in July 2006 -- four months after her husband was killed.

Her youngest son, Bryan Harley Heard, was only 5 months old when he lost his father. Dahianna Heard's 14-year-old son from a previous marriage already has a green card.
In January, El Nuevo Herald reported on the many times Heard's petition for permanent residency had been denied by the USCIS and immigration courts, where such petitions are usually denied based on the two-year rule.

The only exceptions to the rule are the widows and widowers of active U.S. military personnel and the rare cases where the petitions are actually processed before a petitioner dies.
After El Nuevo Herald's report, the USCIS decided to review the case and additional information about Jeffrey Heard's former military service.
As it turned out, he had served in the armed forces for 12 years and received an honorable discharge in 1992. According to his family, he served as a member of the Army Special Forces and the Florida National Guard.
On Thursday, Dahianna Heard was notified that the USCIS had approved the petition her husband had submitted for her permanent residency.
''I am very happy and very grateful,'' said Heard, adding, ``I give thanks to God, to my husband, who from heaven has always been here, to my lawyer and to immigration for having reconsidered my case.''
USCIS Director Emilio González said he decided to reopen the case after reading about Heard's predicament in El Nuevo Herald.
''We interpreted the law by which widows and widowers of armed forces veterans can be considered as active members of the military, so their families can be awarded legal immigration status,'' said González, who noted that any widow or widower who also fulfills those requirements may qualify for permanent residency.
''The authorities saw that this was a special case because of the circumstances of her husband's death,'' said Heard's lawyer, Ralph Pineda. ``He made the ultimate sacrifice, even though he wasn't wearing a uniform.''
Heard was part of a class-action suit brought against the federal government by 22 widows and widowers who found themselves in similar circumstances.
Another 128 widows and widowers have joined the class-action suit.
Brent Renison, an Oregon-based lawyer who presented the case in a Los Angeles court, said that he decided to move forward with the lawsuit for lack of an immigration overhaul. The case is ongoing.
Meanwhile, Heard is getting used to her new life.
''Now I can feel secure,'' she said. ``I'll be able to work, study and even write a book.''

What's the benefit obtained when we separating kids from parents aparts? What's the value? Can we learned from our past mistakes and prevent the mentally torture to their the kids?

This is all about American Values? Separating families, causing pain, anger, and mental torture to their kids.. Please, open your human values and change it forever.

Can we understand the function of the Nature of Law?

Why we haven't acknowledge and understand the real American Culture?

This is what is all about America, Dream, Hope, Freedom, great spirit; Immigrants has been showing what they can do for America know is America who needs to redeem an Opportunity and hope to Immigrants .