Below is a resolution that is being presented to the Pomona city council in support of a full investigation into the disappearance of 43 students from Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.The resolution has been given to the Mayor to place on the agenda. There will be a city council Continue reading
Invitation from Professor Miguel Tinker-Salas (see attached flyers) to:
Presentation “From Pain to Hope” by Luis Hernandez Navarro, the Editor of the Opinion section of La Jornada, a leading paper in Mexico City who will analyze the situation in Mexico and the students in Guerrero.
Prepare for your Driver’s License
As of January 2, Californians will be eligible to apply for a driver’s license regardless of their immigration status. Make your appointment, find out which documents you need to submit and prepare for the examinations. A representative from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will come and present the most updated information.
Place: Pomona School District
The Village@ Indian Hill
Conference Center, Entrance #1
1460 E. Holt Ave, Pomona CA
Date: October 29, 2014
Time: 6:15 p.m.
A service of the following Community organization:
Parent’s Committee of the Pomona School District, Plaza Comunitaria, Pomona Economic Opportunity Center, Latino Roundtable, and the Pomona Unified School District
For more information, contact the Pomona Unified School District: (909) 397-4800 x 23942
Prepárate para tu Licencia de Manejar
A partir del 2 de enero, se podrá solicitar una licencia de manejar en el estado de California independientemente de tu estatus migratorio. Haz tu cita, infórmate sobre los documentos que debes presentar y prepárate para los exámenes. Habrá un representante del Departamento de Motores y Vehículos (DMV) que nos dará la información más actualizada.
Distrito Escolar de Pomona
The Village@ Indian Hill
Centro de Conferencias, Entrada #1
1460 E. Holt Ave, Pomona CA
Fecha: 29 de octubre de 2014
Horas: 6:15 p.m.
Un servicio de las siguientes organizaciones comunitarias:
Comité de Padres del Distrito Escolar de Pomona, Plaza Comunitaria, Centro de Jornaleros de Pomona, Latino Roundtable y el Distrito Escolar de Pomona
Para más información comuníquese con el Distrito Escolar de Pomona (909) 397-4800 x 23942
Now this is an exemplary University President who is doing something about how the stratification structure in the larger society is replicated on our college campuses.Today, we still need to transform our colleges and universities to meet the demographic transformations occurring in the communities around our campuses. Continue reading
From Fernando Romero Orozco:
So this is film by Gael Garcia Bernal is being screened next Tuesday August 5th at the Laemmle’s in Claremont.
It’s about Central American migrants crossings and the deaths at the US/Mexico border. Just yesterday, I was in that very church in this scene, placing a candle to the Virgin of Guadalupe thinking of all the migrants crossing or about to cross. Shit’s real down there. 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 Sen. Feinstein 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
Below are some of articles that have a common theme of exposing the roots of the migration of children and families from Central America. A phone number can be used to call Obama
at 866-473-5915 “to expedite humanitarian relief for immigrants, to protect the children by ensuring their human rights, and to support their rights as ensured by the 2008 Victims Reauthorization Act. ” Continue reading
The National Day Laborer Organizing Network said Friday that “a delay serves no one and nothing but the status quo.” At the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, executive director Angelica Salas said: “President Obama is wrong in halting a much-needed review of immigration deportations many agree is fraught with injustice.”