Dear Professor Calderón,
On Wednesday, October 15, at 7:00 pm, the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center is collaborating with Deacon Mario López and the Department of Motor Vehicles to put on a forum on AB 60 for Spanish-speaking parishioners and community members. Continue reading
Good article by David Bacon (Debunking 8 Myths About Why Central American Children Are Migrating) who always comes through with deep analysis. Here, with David Bacon and Dolores Huerta at Agbayani Commemoration in Delano. Continue reading
Quick Update:
The Senate is trying to maintain order and pass a bill that will help the refugee children tonight. Despite attempts by Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL) and the likes to deter, drag out the process by adding on amendments that would rollback policies and hurt immigrant families, Dreamers, the Senate is keeping a CLEAN bill for a vote tonight, which would direct funding to help the children fleeing violence to have the due process protections and rights to legal representation. After this vote in the next 35 min, the Senate will adjourn for August recess, returning Sept 8. Continue reading
Nearly 100,000 unaccompanied minors are expected to travel to the U.S. this year, a surge that prompted President Barack Obama to ask Congress for $3.7 billion two weeks ago to unplug a heavy case backlog and reinforce border patrol’s detention capacity. Many who want to beef up immigration enforcement say Obama’s policies incited the surge, and a few in Congress have proposed ways to expedite the children’s often lengthy hearing process.
But critics, such as L.A.’s Central American Resource Center (Carecen), say the high rates of gang violence in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are driving the kids to seek a better, safer life. They need a chance to prove that in U.S. immigration court, advocates said at a news conference in Pico-Union, where El Salvador’s most dangerous gangs were formed in the 1980s.
They contend children won’t have a chance to develop a coherent argument for asylum under a proposal, called the HUMANE Act, introduced by Texas congressmen Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Henry Cuellar on July 15.
The proposal seeks a hearing for the unaccompanied migrant children within seven days of being screened by U.S. agents. It would modify the months- or years-long process laid out in the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, signed by President George Bush in 2008 that advocates say helps the migrant children.
http://www.losangelesregister.com/articles/immigration-602478-children-law.html
The Latino and Latina Roundtable urges you to call your Congressional Representatives in this area: Grace Napolitano, Judy Chu, Gloria Negrete-McCloud, and Xavier Becerra today and assure that there is no weakening of protections for children refugees who are fleeing violence and persecution. The phone numbers to call are below: Continue reading
From Article: The process Congress wants to use for child migrants is a disaster
On Monday, the White House said it was “likely” that migrant children facing the “credible threat” of death in their home countries would be allowed to stay in the United States, as the administration sought balance on the issue. Continue reading
Message from Madeline Rios in regards to forum on Driver’s License at Our Lady of Assumption, 6 PM, In Claremont this Tuesday: Continue reading
Contact Numbers for humanitarian help to Central American Children and Families:
For those of you that wish to do more on an individual level, here are the contact numbers that Emilio distributed in the meeting. Continue reading
En Murrieta en apoyo de Los derechos para familias INMIGRANTES. Paren las deportaciones! Continue reading