UW student facing deportation able to return for school.



Following her release from federal custody Tuesday, third-year UW-Madison pharmacy student Tope Awe will be able to return to campus within the next few days.

According to the statement released Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, both Awe and her brother Oluwabenga are required to wear ankle monitoring bracelets and check in with ICE periodically while deportation documents are assembled.

“I think the fact that the campus was behind her and that we showed our support may have helped with the decision to release her from Dodge County Jail, so she can come back and finish school while she’s still continuing to fight the legal proceedings,” said Salemawit Zewdie, a close friend of Awe’s.

“Our next goal is for Tope to be able to complete her one-year internship following her graduation from pharmacy school this May,” she said.

Zewdie and Awe served as co-chairs for the African Students Association during the 2006-’07 school year. Zewdie was one of the first students who began assembling petitions and organizing events to rally for Awe’s return to campus.

Zewdie attributed the immense amount of support to Awe’s character as a person and also as a student.

“When we initially started, when we first heard her case, we had 20 petitions and overnight it grew to 1,000,” Zewdie said.

There are now over 3,000 documents of support for the Awe family, not only from UW-Madison students, but also from students across the United States who heard about her case.

“I spoke to Tope when she got back to Milwaukee [after being released from federal custody], and she’s doing well. She’s high-spirited and hoping for the best outcome,” Zewdie said.

Missouri Student Fights Deportation to Costa Rica.


The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office is allowing Marie Gonzalez to remain in the country for one more year. That's long enough for her to graduate from Westminster College in Fulton.

This is the third extension Gonzalez has won since 2005.

She was born in Costa Rica, but has lived in Missouri since she was five. Her parents entered the country on a six-month visitor visas and missed their chance to apply for permanent status.

Lou Dobbs: Cotton... What?

Lou Dobbs nearly described Condoleezza Rice and other politicians as "cotton pickers"

American Legion Honors Lou Dobbs with Award? The Mariachi drummer Lou Dobbs.


Populist anchor news a true American Patriot?. Apparently The American Legion did not researched the Patriotism of Lou Dobbs.

The nation’s largest veterans organization honored CNN anchor Lou Dobbs Wednesday for “his coverage of illegal immigration and his support for the U.S. military.

The American Legion awarded Dobbs the “National Commander Public Relations Award.” Previous recipients include Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton, and former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw.

“Lou Dobbs is a true American patriot,” said Marty Conatser who heads the American Legion. “His compassion for America’s veterans and support for the U.S. military is clear to the viewers of Lou Dobbs Tonight. Lou has been a tireless and true leader in the fight against illegal immigration. America would be better off if lawmakers would heed his common sense solutions to serious problems that this nation faces.”

What kind of Jokes is this? Lou Dobbs supporting and have compassion for our troops? a true American Patriot? American Legion a conspiracy theory on Immigration?

Never mind he was honored an award for his coverage of Illegal Immigration.

OOOPPS They forgot to said the Mexican Illegal Immigration right?

Lou Dobbs a True American Patriot? I do not think so. Did you?

I will be exposed the Patriotism from Lou Dobbs and how pathetic he is.

He said " I began wearing a flag pin after September 11, 2001. I do so out of respect for those killed in the terrorist attacks, and in recognition of this country's war on radical Islamist terror.

Lou that reflection doesn't make you an exception to the rule of pathetic. Why did you started wearing the pin after the Sept 11?; So that's mean that you do not have a respect, pride, dignity, and values for the soldiers of World War I, II, the people died on OK bombing, the soldiers in Iraq, for the History of America and many other citizens killed for fighting for our freedom?

Wearing a flag pin a won't make you a higher order of patriotism either less. It's just a symbolic action.

Or even if you consider as an ethical theory to your statement I haven't seeing you trying to recover moral values for American Citizens either being a preeminent voice for Veterans.
Or you just want to expose yourself as an Archetype with tendency as personality traits.

Know days everything has a portion of Poison even the news. Right.

He just want to be populist and bigotry journalist. Lies flying out of his mouth. Thanks for lying to the American people.

The Nightmare of Lou Dobbs. " The Mexican Ilegal Alien Invasion".


The ignorance and arrogance of Lou Dobbs goes beyond reality. Obviously forgetting that all Hispanics, Latinos are not Mexicans and very few Mexicans are masked marauders.

Boatloads of Irish, European, Italians, Canadians, Asians and Middle Eastern immigrants coming to America for the promise of a better life, similar to Hispanic immigration today, clearly impacted the economic and social landscape of the 19th century.

Upon their arrival, the Irish had no choice but to settle for the dregs, taking the lowest paying jobs in the northeastern cities. They, like African-Americans of the time, were on the fringe of society. While blacks didn't have the luxury of using race to slowly and eventually claw up from the social detritus into betterment, Irishmen did.

By the 1850s, the Irish, who often refused to work alongside blacks, began to drive their co-laborers out of the work force, as recorded in "How the Irish Became White" by Noel Ignatiev.

"Every hour sees us elbowed out of some employment to make room for some newly-arrived emigrant from the Emerald Isle, whose hunger and color entitle him to special favor," Frederick Douglass said in 1853 as referenced by Ignatiev. "These white men are becoming houseservants, cooks, stewards, waiters, and flunkies. For aught I see they adjust themselves to their stations with all proper humility. If they cannot rise to the dignity of white men, they show that they can fall to the degradation of black men."

Though that degradation continued long into the 20th century for blacks, the Irish more quickly climbed the rungs of society. That ascension was, in part, made possible by their whiteness.

Forward 1 1/2 centuries to our current immigration dilemma. Today, Hispanics are, in some ways, the new Irish. They further cement the fact that not only America's economy but her social conscious is irreversibly altered by large-scale immigration.

In 2003, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had become the largest minority in America, and a USA Today report from that year outlined numerous ways Hispanics have affected culture here, from the introduction of the bilingual children's show, "Dora the Explorer," to Time Inc.'s new publication, "People en Espanol," which first hit the streets in 1997.

Despite the influence, many Hispanics upon entry into the U.S. take the same blue-collar jobs as did their Irish brethren, including jobs in construction, food services and agriculture. But one stubborn caveat separates the Irish of the 19th century and today's Hispanic immigrant population: Hispanics don't have the automatic acceptance that white skin may potentially bring.

Talking heads like Lou Dobbs and Neal Boortz play on the irrational excitability of those who may be uncomfortable with the fact that ratios between white-, black-, brown- and yellow-skinned people are inching closer together. Boortz has used the term "illegal alien invasion" to describe Hispanics' exodus to this country, while Dobbs has called it a "Mexican invasion," the latter obviously forgetting that not all Hispanics are Mexican and very few Mexicans are masked marauders.

The economic and social ramifications of immigration are troubling for some, but the solutions offered by those same folks are inadequate at best and laughable at worst, with their droning cries to secure the borders.

The New York Times in a recent editorial echoed the opinion of several officials governing locations along the border about the feasibility of a monumental fence: "... nothing short of a phalanx of federal agents standing shoulder-to-shoulder for 2,000 miles would shut the border the way the hard-liners on talk radio want it shut."

Thus, from the Amistad insurrection to the Nat Turner rebellion to the Irish's social ascension to Hispanics' dreams of escaping a land that fails to support them, history has shown that the human will is an unstoppable force. Attempts to "lock down" the borders, whatever that means, are a clear waste of resources. Whether blame for illegal immigration falls on the Mexican government or to its people is irrelevant at this point.

Why not deal with the reality that America is once again changing and enact legislation to assist those who want to move here and succeed? Instead, we appear only to shove a finger in each ear, cover our eyes and hope 12 million people will simply stop trying to feed their families and stop seeking the hope we to the north hold so dear

Oklahoma Immigration Protest Gets Heated

Why Americans seems that the only Undocumented Immigrants are just from Mexico even the news? The conspiracy theory about Immigrants or the fear of other.

Rhode Island Store Owner ask to see shoppers social security cards.


In March 2008, José Genao and a friend went to a Rhode Island heating equipment supply store to buy a spare part for his boiler. While the owner, David Richardson, searched his inventory for the part, Genao and his friend began speaking to each other in Spanish. As Mr. Richardson was ringing up Mr. Genao’s purchase, he demanded to see the customers’ Social Security cards.

The Providence Journal reports:

When Genao told Richardson “he did not have the right to ask all those questions,” Richardson pulled out a membership card for Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement, a group that seeks curbs on illegal immigration.

Then, he lifted the phone receiver and threatened to call immigration authorities, Genao said. “He [Richardson] grabbed the phone and said, ‘I can call ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] anytime I see an illegal immigrant,’” said Genao. “He also said, ‘I can make a citizen’s arrest.’ ”

Genao, a Rhode Island state employee, is a native of the Dominican Republic and a U.S. citizen. He speaks fluent English. He said his friend — who declined comment — is also a Dominican native and U.S. citizen. “There is no problem with his status,” said Genao. “He is legal.” State records list both as registered voters.

“I wanted to see the Social Security number from the one who wasn’t speaking English,” said Richardson. “I just kind of mentioned I’d like to see his Social Security card. And he kinda balked. He left and walked out the door.” When the friend returned to urge Genao to leave, Richardson added, “he started to speak in English. That surprised me.”

[...]

Richardson said he has asked for customers’ Social Security numbers if they do not speak English well, and estimated that he has done so “fifteen or twenty times.” At first, Richardson said he has refused to do business with some people who declined to show him a Social Security card. He subsequently denied that, and said he had asked people for their cards “maybe 10 times in the last five years.”

Though Richardson said it is his legal right to demand a Social Security card — it may not be.

Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Richardson appears to have violated a state law (R.I. General Law 6-13-17) related to “unfair sales practices."

[...]

Brown said the law, “designed to protect consumers’ rights, generally prohibits businesses from requiring customers to disclose their Social Security number. The law contains both criminal and civil penalties.” In Brown’s opinion, “by demanding that this customer present his Social Security card, the owner clearly ran afoul of that law.”

Brown said Richardson’s actions “also appear to clearly violate state laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race or national origin in places of public accommodation. There can be little question that this customer was singled out for discriminatory and humiliating treatment based on his national origin. Store owners have a legal obligation to serve all customers, and threatening to arrest a customer for speaking Spanish and for refusing to show a Social Security card is precisely the type of discriminatory conduct that the state’s ‘public accommodations’ law was meant to bar.”1

Myths:

Individuals who speak Spanish in the United States are generally undocumented immigrants. Store owners generally can, without fear of legal consequence, require Spanish-speaking customers to show Social Security cards before serving them.

Fact:

Business owners who demand Social Security Cards and refuse to serve Spanish-speaking customers run significant risks of violating state, federal, and municipal civil rights laws against national origin discrimination. Federal law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin in privately owned business facilities such as restaurants, hotels, theaters, and retail stores. (42 U.S.C. § 2000). In addition, civil rights laws in most states and many cities also prevent business owners from discriminating on the basis of national origin (by requiring customers to show Social Security cards before being served, for example). In Rhode Island and many other states, both civil damages and criminal penalties may result from national origin discrimination.

In addition, business owners (and all Americans) should keep in mind that the majority of U.S. Spanish-speakers are not undocumented immigrants.

1.-Spanish is spoken at home by about 34 million U.S. residents aged 5 or older.

2.- This figure is far larger than the size of the undocumented immigrant population (~12 million). Also, more than the half of individuals living in Spanish-speaking homes say they also speak English “very well.”

3.- Therefore, most U.S. residents who speak Spanish are bilingual or multilingual citizens or legal immigrants.
Also, in case there is any doubt, research is clear that Latinos highly value learning English. The vast majority (88%) of second generation Latinos speak English very well, a figure that rises to 94% by the third generation.

4.-92% of Latinos believe that “teaching English to the children of immigrant families” is “very important.”

5.-In fact, maintaining fluency in Spanish is often a challenge for second and third generation Hispanics. Just 11% of second generation Latino adults and 6% of third-generation Latinos speak only Spanish in the home.

6.- The Rhode Island incident described above illustrates that anti-immigrant rhetoric has inflamed anti-Hispanic tension such that ignorant store owners are mistakenly targeting Latino citizens for discrimination. In so doing, owners and operators of retail establishments make themselves vulnerable to private lawsuits, civil fines, and potential criminal penalties.

Meanwhile, the truth is that Spanish is spoken in the United States mostly by U.S. citizens and legal immigrants

Another War but not in Iraq instead in Arizona between Joe Arpaio and Mayor Phil Gordon.



Days after Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon mocked his immigration raids as "made-for-TV stunts," Sheriff Joe Arpaio complained to Phoenix officials that the mayor's remarks could lead to civil disobedience or worse.

In a letter to Phoenix City Manager Frank Fairbanks, Arpaio called Gordon's Friday speech "inaccurate" and said that the mayor's call for citizens to "make your voice heard" created "a hostile environment" for his deputies at a protest later that day.

The sheriff's response came three days after Gordon accused Arpaio of racial profiling in his crackdowns on illegal immigrants. Last week, the sheriff deployed deputies and his armed volunteer posse near Cave Creek and Bell roads to conduct sweeps.

During two days, 53 people were arrested, 27 of whom were believed to be in the country illegally.

In his letter, Arpaio alleges that Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris asked federal officials to revoke his immigration-enforcement abilities, as outlined in an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Harris said Monday that he asked Alonzo Peña, former special agent in charge of ICE in Phoenix, whether Arpaio's operations in Phoenix were "appropriate" in adhering to the county's 287 (g) agreement forged with ICE.

"That was all," Harris said. "He said he was going to look into it."

The 287 (g) agreement allows ICE officials to train local law enforcement to enforce immigration laws. However, Peña since has moved to the agency's Mexico City liaison office and the new special agent in charge starts in June.

Virginia Kice, regional spokeswoman for ICE, would not comment about the Sheriff's Office agreement. She said ICE constantly monitors partnering agencies' activities to make sure the agreements are being properly enforced. Several other Arizona agencies have similar agreements.

Arpaio also disputed Gordon's assertion that the sheriff has not cooperated meaningfully with Phoenix police. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office informed Phoenix police of its current crackdown days in advance, Arpaio said.

"Gordon's claim that officers were put in danger by my operation is directly contrary to the communique received by my office indicating that Phoenix police had no 'special needs which required being addressed,' " Arpaio said in his letter. "Mayor Gordon's remarks were not only patently false; they instilled fear and acrimony in the community he serves."

Gordon said the sheriff's notices did not give the department adequate time to assess the potential effect on undercover operations police officers have going in the area.

"His cursory e-mails to the Phoenix Police Department are not adequate notification of his intentions - and notification is not cooperation," Gordon said in a statement.

"He purposefully sets the stage for confrontation, and then points at everyone else."

Arpaio's letter seemed certain to prolong a war of words between the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and City Hall about how much manpower a law-enforcement agency should devote to investigating illegal immigration.

Gordon said he was not surprised by Arpaio's reaction.

"If you criticize the sheriff, you know what's coming next," he said. "The sheriff's sad and predictable response to criticism is always to retaliate. The issue here is public safety and nothing else."

Gordon, who endorsed Arpaio in his last election, decided to criticize his tactics Friday after the sheriff began blasting Phoenix for not doing more to arrest illegal immigrants living in the city.

In his letter, Arpaio says Gordon's remarks threaten future cooperation between the city and the Sheriff's Office.

"Every day, this sheriff's office voluntarily provides many unique services to the Phoenix Police Department," he said. "What we do saves your officers thousands of man hours and allows them to go back onto the streets to fight crime.

"I am very concerned that this negative and misleading rhetoric by Mayor Gordon and other elected officials is seriously deteriorating our excellent and longstanding relationship."

Phoenix police said they were unprepared to respond to the sheriff's remarks late Monday and would respond today.

Anti Immigrants are not you glad to know this!!!! Mexico to help pay costs for immigrants to go home.

TIJUANA, Mexico - Undocumented immigrants deported from the United States will be eligible for free transportation back to their hometowns and other services under a new program by the Mexican government.

Migrants arriving in the city of Tijuana will be offered free tickets home, Raul Zarate, a spokesman for the National Immigration Institute, said yesterday. Previously, the government had offered to pay half the cost.

Source: http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173355156457&path=!nationworld&s=1037645509161

AL LADO DE UN GRAN LIDER ESTUVO UNA GRAN MUJER. DOLORES C. HUERTA





Dolores C. Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is the co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW)

Her parents divorced when she was three years old. Her mother, Alicia Chavez, raised Dolores, along with her two brothers, and two sisters, in the central San Joaquin Valley farmworker community of Stockton, California. Her mother was a businesswoman who owned a restaurant and a 70-room hotel that often put up farmworker families for free.

In 1955, Huerta co-founded the Sacramento chapter of the Community Service Organization, and in 1960 co-founded the Agricultural Workers Association. In 1962, she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Cesar Chávez, which would later become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and still later, the UFW. In 1966, she negotiated a contract between the UFWOC and Schenley Wine Company, marking the first time that farmworkers were able to successfully collectively bargain with an agricultural enterprise.

Huerta directed the UFW’s national grape boycott, taking the plight of the farm workers to the consumers. The boycott resulted in the entire California table grape industry signing a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the United Farm Workers.

She has been highly politically active, lobbying in favor of (and against) numerous California and federal laws. The laws that she supported included:

A 1960 bill to permit people to take the California driver's examination in Spanish

1962 legislation repealing the Bracero Program

1963 legislation to extend Aid to Families with Dependent Children to California farmworkers

The 1973 Agricultural Labor Relations Act

As an advocate for farmworkers' rights, Huerta has been arrested twenty-two times for participating in non-violent civil disobedience activities and strikes. Huerta's organizing and lobbying efforts are often overshadowed by those of Cesar Chávez, who is revered by many (especially Chicanos) as the primary figure of the Chicano civil rights movement. She remains active in progressive causes, and serves on the boards of People For the American Way and Feminist Majority Foundation.

In September of 1988 in front of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Huerta was severely beaten by San Francisco Police officers during a peaceful and lawful protest of the policies/platform of then-candidate for president George H.W. Bush. The baton-beating caused significant internal injuries to her torso, resulting in several broken ribs and necessitating the removal of her spleen in emergency surgery. The beating was caught on videotape and broadcast widely on local television news, including the clear ramming of the butt end of a baton into Huerta's torso by one of the helmeted officers. Later, Huerta won a large judgment against the SFPD and the City of San Francisco, the proceeds of which were used in benefit of farm workers. The assault is credited with starting yet another movement to change SFPD crowd-control policies, as well as the manner in which officer discipline is handled.

HONOR A QUIEN HONOR MERECE. YOUR LEGACY WILL CONTINUE CESAR E. CHAVEZ.

On April 29, 1993, Cesar Estrada Chavez was honored in death by those he led in life. More than 50,000 mourners came to honor the charismatic labor leader at the site of his first public fast in 1968 and his last in 1988, the United Farm Workers Delano Field Office at "Forty Acres."
It was the largest funeral of any labor leader in the history of the U.S. They came in caravans from Florida to California to pay respect to a man whose strength was in his simplicity.

Farm workers, family members, friends and union staff took turns standing vigil over the plain pine coffin which held the body of Cesar Chavez. Among the honor guard were many celebrities who had supported Chavez throughout his years of struggle to better the lot of farmworkers throughout America.


Many of the mourners had marched side by side with Chavez during his tumultuous years in the vineyards and farms of America. For the last time, they came to march by the side of the man who had taught them to stand up for their rights, through nonviolent protest and collective bargaining.

Cardinal Roger M. Mahoney, who celebrated the funeral mass, called Chavez "a special prophet for the worlds' farm workers." Pall bearers, including crews of these workers, Chavez children and grandchildren, then carried their fallen leader, resting at last, from the Memorial Park to Forty Acres.

The death of Chavez marked an era of dramatic changes in American agriculture. His contributions would be eroded, and others would have to shoulder the burden of his work. But, Cesar Chavez, who insisted that those who labor in the earth were entitled to share fairly in the rewards of their toil, would never be forgotten.

As Luis Valdez said, "Cesar, we have come to plant your heart like a seed . . . the farm workers shall harvest in the seed of your memory."

FINAL RESTING PLACE/FINAL RECOGNITION


The body of Cesar Chavez was taken to La Paz, the UFW's California headquarters, by his family and UFW leadership. He was laid to rest near a bed of roses, in front of his office.

On August 8, 1994, at a White House ceremony, Helen Chavez, Cesar's widow, accepted the Medal of Freedom for her late husband from President Clinton. In the citation accompanying America's highest civilian honor which was awarded posthumously, the President lauded Chavez for having "faced formidable, often violent opposition with dignity and nonviolence.

And he was victorious. Cesar Chavez left our world better than he found it, and his legacy inspires us still. He was for his own people a Moses figure," the President declared. "The farm workers who labored in the fields and yearned for respect and self-sufficiency pinned their hopes on this remarkable man who, with faith and discipline, soft spoken humility and amazing inner strength, led a very courageous life"

The citation accompanying the award noted how Chavez was a farm worker from childhood who "possessed a deep personal understanding of the plight of migrant workers, and he labored all his years to lift their lives." During his lifetime, Chavez never earned more than $5,000 a year. The late Senator Robert Kennedy called him "one of the heroic figures of our time."

Chavez's successor, said, "Every day in California and in other states where farm workers are organizing, Cesar Chavez lives in their hearts. Cesar lives wherever Americans' he inspired work nonviolently for social change."

The Story of Cesar Chavez
HONOR A QUIEN HONOR MERECE. THE BEGINNING OF OUR GREAT LEADER, OUR HERO.



The story of Cesar Estrada Chavez begins near Yuma, Arizona. Cesar was born on March 31, 1927. He was named after his grandfather, Cesario. Regrettably, the story of Cesar Estrada Chavez also ends near Yuma, Arizona. He passed away on April 23, 1993, in San Luis, a small village near Yuma, Arizona.

He learned about justice or rather injustice early in his life. Cesar grew up in Arizona; the small adobe home, where Cesar was born was swindled from them by dishonest Anglos. Cesar's father agreed to clear eighty acres of land and in exchange he would receive the deed to forty acres of land that adjoined the home. The agreement was broken and the land sold to a man named Justus Jackson. Cesar's dad went to a lawyer who advised him to borrow money and buy the land. Later when Cesar's father could not pay the interest on the loan the lawyer bought back the land and sold it to the original owner. Cesar learned a lesson about injustice that he would never forget. Later, he would say, The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.


In 1938 he and his family moved to California. He lived in La Colonia Barrio in Oxnard for a short period, returning to Arizona several months later. They returned to California in June 1939 and this time settled in San Jose. They lived in the barrio called Sal Si Puedes -"Get Out If You Can." Cesar thought the only way to get out of the circle of poverty was to work his way up and send the kids to college. He and his family worked in the fields of California from Brawley to Oxnard, Atascadero, Gonzales, King City, Salinas, McFarland, Delano, Wasco, Selma, Kingsburg, and Mendota.

He did not like school as a child, probably because he spoke only Spanish at home. The teachers were mostly Anglo and only spoke English. Spanish was forbidden in school. He remembers being punished with a ruler to his knuckles for violating the rule. He also remembers that some schools were segregated and he felt that in the integrated schools he was like a monkey in a cage. He remembers having to listen to a lot of racist remarks. He remembers seeing signs that read whites only. He and his brother, Richard, attended thirty-seven schools. He felt that education had nothing to do with his farm worker/migrant way of life. In 1942 he graduated from the eighth grade. Because his father, Librado, had been in an accident and because he did not want his mother, Juana, to work in the fields, he could not to go to high school, and instead became a migrant farm worker.

While his childhood school education was not the best, later in life, education was his passion. The walls of his office in La Paz (United Farm Worker Headquarters ) are lined with hundreds of books ranging from philosophy, economics, cooperatives, and unions, to biographies on Gandhi and the Kennedys'. He believed that, "The end of all education should surely be service to others," a belief that he practiced until his untimely death.

In 1944 he joined the Navy at the age of seventeen. He served two years and in addition to discrimination, he experienced strict regimentation.

In 1948 Cesar married Helen Fabela. They honeymooned in California by visiting all the California Missions from Sonoma to San Diego (again the influence of education). They settled in Delano and started their family. First Fernando, then Sylvia, then Linda, and five more children were to follow.

Cesar returned to San Jose where he met and was influenced by Father Donald McDonnell. They talked about farm workers and strikes. Cesar began reading about St. Francis and Gandhi and nonviolence. After Father McDonnell came another very influential person, Fred Ross.

Cesar became an organizer for Ross' organization, the Community Service Organization - CSO. His first task was voter registration.

African American do not have a room for bigotry. They do not want the Minuteman closed to their Communitty.

The Minute Men Cant Stop this Man

Judge for for yourself. New coalition Black and Latinos.

Anti Immigrants aren't you glad to know this information.





Individuals using Taxpayer identification numbers are not part of the stimulus package. So stop your paranoia that undocumented Immigrants are getting billions of dollars at taxpayer expenses.

Q. I file using an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN). Can I still get a stimulus payment?

A: No. The law does not allow stimulus payments to people who file a return using an ITIN. A taxpayer must have a valid Social Security Number to qualify for the stimulus payment. If married filing jointly, both taxpayers must have a valid Social Security Number. And children must have valid Social Security Numbers to be eligible as qualifying children

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=179181,00.html

National Geographic gives a fair and balanced view of 'Border Wars'.
Tonight at 8 pm. by Tom Dorsey.

First meet Jose tonight in Altar, Mexico, on his way to his new Kentucky home
"We've come to this town on our way north to find work to help our families," he says. "We're planning to go to Kentucky, but we don't have a job lined up yet, but as soon as we get there we'll find one," Jose tells a National Geographic Channel reporter (Insight 450) on "Explorer: Border Wars" at 8 p.m.

Jose doesn't use his last name because he's an Undocumented immigrant. He does have a wife, and their three children were born in this country.

Jose spends half of the money he makes in Kentucky on his family and sends the rest home to his parents. His father is sick, so he goes back to see him once a year and then runs the gantlet back from Mexico to somewhere in Kentucky.

Jose is in a $3-a-night room in Altar, Mexico, crowded with other men headed for the promised land. We're told that only one or two will make it.

The others will be scooped up by the Border Patrol and shipped back to Mexico if they don't have criminal records. Some are first-timers. Many are people who just keep coming back until they make it or die.

Lots of them are found dead in the desert, where temperatures soar well above 100 degrees. Their sun-bleached bones are discovered after the buzzards are through with them.

The Mexicans pay $4,000 a head to be guided through the no man's land to America. Half is in cash upfront. There is a regular line of shuttle vans that transport them from Altar to the border for the risky trip. The guide refuses to let the Geographic crew go beyond a certain point, and the team loses track of Jose.

Then the documentary unit joins up with the U.S. Border Patrol to get the other side of the story. Viewers who think nothing is being done should watch what members of the patrol are doing.

We see them operating everything from high-tech, remote-control Predator drone airplanes to low-tech methods used by guys who track the Mexicans by following their footprints in the desert.

It takes 50 pounds of water to survive the three-day trek across the desert. The cameras are there when one delirious woman, who got separated from her group and couldn't keep up, wanders down a road.

She just wants to go home. The Good Samaritan who gives her a drink could be sentenced to 10 years in prison for giving her a ride to the border.

The Border Patrol operation is especially intense and sophisticated at places such as Nogales, Ariz. A fence runs down the middle of town separating it from Nogales, Mexico, on the other side.

The fence extends to a point outside town, where it runs out. America has a 2,000-mile-long border with Mexico, and there's no wall that long. Besides, people always find ways around it.

The patrol has an army of vehicles and equipment to stop the flow, which isn't all just desperate people trying to find work to feed their families. We watch the patrol running down drug dealers who use this route to mule-pack large bales of marijuana into the U.S.

The average immigrant poses no problem when he's stopped. He or she simply surrenders when confronted and goes back willingly across the border. Drug dealers, however, can be deadly enemies.

The agents catch up with thousands of Mexicans every day. Thousands more, no one knows how many, slip by. The most popular estimate is that 12 million are in this country illegally.

President Bush is seen saying border protection is critical, but that it's not ever going to be enough to solve the problem. It might take an army bigger than the one we have in Iraq to do the job.

In the end, the Geographic teams finds Jose in Kentucky with his family. He's defied the odds again. His biggest fear is that he and his wife will be deported.

Geographic doesn't take sides. It just shows us the people caught up in the drama. Lou Dobbs, who has made a career out of ranting about the dilemma on CNN, might not care for this approach, but it's a fair, balanced and honest one that pictures the problem for what it is.

THREE INDICTED FOR FILING FALSE TAX RETURNS USING NAMES AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS OF PRISONERS. GUESS WHAT. NONE OF THEM WERE UNDOCUMENTED.


Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Giacumo Marzano, age 66, of Baltimore; Karen Woodard, age 42, of Suitland, Maryland; and Melanie Taylor, age 34, of La Plata, Maryland, on fraud and identity theft charges in connection with a scheme to file false income tax returns using the names and social security numbers of inmates from the Maryland Department of Corrections and other prisons, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. The indictment was returned on March 25, 2008.

According to the 10 count indictment, from 2004 to 2007, Marzano supplied inmates of the Maryland Division of Correction with income tax forms. Marzano coordinated with Woodard and Taylor to mail, receive and cash the inmate's tax refunds. Marzano and Taylor opened bank accounts for inmates to facilitate cashing the tax refund checks. Marzano also opened a post office box which received money orders from the proceeds of the fictitious tax refunds. After taking part of the refunds for themselves, Woodard and Taylor sent the remainder of the refunds to Marzano, the inmates and others. To hide the scheme and their true identities, the defendants often used fake names.

According to the indictment, the scheme involved over 101 fictitious inmate tax returns with claims totaling $365,599.41.

Each of the defendants faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States and 20 years in prison for mail fraud. Marzano also faces a maximum of 15 years in prison for producing false identification documents, and a mandatory two years in prison for aggravated identity theft, consecutive to any other sentence imposed. The defendants are scheduled to have their initial appearances in federal district court at 3:00 p.m. today.

An indictment is not a finding of guilt. An individual charged by indictment is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at some later criminal proceedings.

United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein thanked the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their investigative work. Mr. Rosenstein commended Assistant United States Attorney Kwame J. Manley, who is prosecuting the case

Geraldo Rivera exposed why Americans fear Hispanics in the U.S.
By Faiza Elmasry



Immigration has emerged as one of the most controversial issues in American society and politics in recent years. As Faiza Elmasry reports, the latest voice in the ongoing debate comes from Hispanic-American reporter Geraldo Rivera.

Throughout his career as a television journalist and talk show host, Geraldo Rivera has often tackled America's most controversial and divisive issues. And that's what he continues to do in his latest book, His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.

Rivera starts out on a personal note. He talks about his father, Cruz Rivera, the sixth of 17 children born to Juan and Tomasa Rivera. At age 21, he says, his father decided to leave Puerto Rico, come to America and stay forever.

"My Dad came in 1937 on a banana boat, one of the vessels that were flying the Caribbean bringing bananas and fruits from the tropics up to the city (New York City)," he says. "He met my Mom, a Jewish lady from New Jersey. He was the counterman in a restaurant. She was a waitress. They fell in love."
They got married. The Riveras continued to work hard and settled down in Brooklyn.

"It's a story that's like so many tens of millions before and after us," he says. "All my Dad ever wanted was for us to grow up and be assimilated, to be Americans, real Americans."
Becoming real Americans, he says, is what motivates immigrants to adapt to their new life.

"America has a way of changing immigrants much more than immigrants change America," he says. "The problem is to teach our children Spanish. That's the problem. English is everywhere. You can't find a second generation immigrant in this country who doesn't speak English."

Over the last 5 decades, the number of Hispanic immigrants in the United States has grown tenfold.

"In 1950, in the U.S., there were 4 million Hispanics," he says. "Now, there are 45 million in the U.S. It's projected that Hispanics will be 25 percent of the entire U.S. population by 2040. We are already the largest minority in the U.S."

Rivera notes that there are many nationalities in that large minority, and that they are not treated equally when they arrive in the U.S.

"Puerto Ricans are citizens of the United States ever since 1917," he says. "We can't vote in the presidential elections if we live in Puerto Rico, but if we live here we can vote. Then you compare the way that Cubans are treated when they get here to the way Haitians are treated when they get here. The Haitians, if they arrive on our shores, they are immediately detained and deported. A Cuban, if they touch our land, they can stay. Some of it has to do with the fact that we are anti-Castro, anti-communist Cuba."

The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that more than 12 million Hispanic immigrants are in the United States illegally. Most have crossed the border from Mexico. Rivera says this influx was not seen as a serious problem until recently.

"Mexican immigrants, drawn by lax border enforcement and a paying job, hundreds of thousands, come across the southern border to work in the fields and ranches of the Southwest," he says. "They come to work in the meat processing plants and poultry packing plants. They populated some small towns in the south that had been abandoned by their original residents. But then, 9/11 happened, and everyone started to clamor about terrorism and securing the borders and the poor Latin American immigrants got caught in between."
Rivera says many law-abiding Hispanic-Americans are facing discrimination and mistreatment as a result of anti-immigrant sentiment in the country.

"There are many instances now where citizens, Hispanics, are being asked for a proof of status, a proof of citizenship because they have brown skin or a moustache," he says. "A guy called me, a naturalized citizen who came originally from Mexico. He has a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old son who were born here. Obviously, they are citizens. The kids come home crying from school saying, 'Dad, what is the border jumper?' They were being called border jumpers by the kids in their school."

In his book, Geraldo Rivera outlines why many Americans fear Hispanics… and why they shouldn't.

"We're seeing immigrants, particularly Hispanics, being blamed for bringing crimes and disease, stealing jobs from native born Americans and spreading terrorism," he says. "Ninety-seven-and-a-half percent of the people in the American prisons are citizens. Immigrants by every study I've seen commit fewer crimes than citizens. They don't bring in disease. They are not terrorists. There has not been a single terrorist penetration of our southern border yet. I interviewed the Homeland Security Secretary and asked him three times that question. There has never been one."

Rivera says the message of his book is simple and clear.

"You don't want to send a message to the world that America is open to everybody who can get here," he says. "That's not the message you want to send. You need control. You need to know who is here. But, for goodness sake, you also need to be compassionate and broadminded. You need a dual approach, a stricter border and an amnesty program or a path to an earned citizenship or at least a visa. So the 12 million [illegal Hispanic immigrants] or more who are here can live their lives normalized without fears of retribution or arrest or deportation and families being split up and all the rest of that."

Hispanics, Geraldo Rivera says, are not the first wave of immigrants to spark mistrust and controversy… nor will they be the last. Developing a practical and humane immigration policy, he says, is essential for a nation that was created and made great by the contributions of immigrants.

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