tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63274599317414896542024-03-13T03:49:24.693-07:00Mexican ExpulsionsThe expulsion of Mexican peoples dates back to the 1830s and continues today. Mexicans are the victims of the largest mass expulsions in US History. Upwards of 1 million people were deported during the 1930s--60% of whom were US citizens. Operation Wetback in 1954 forcefully removed 1.4 million Mexican@s. DHS Reports reveal that over 3 million Mexicans have been deported by Obama, "The Deporter in Chief," between 2008-2016.Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comBlogger1272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-91440735668004603922019-08-05T17:40:00.000-07:002019-08-05T17:40:12.396-07:00“The Decree of 19 August 1848”: The First Repatriation Commissions and Postwar Settlements Along the U.S.-Mexico BorderlandsLike all other wars that bring about destruction and chaos in their wake, these momentous ruptures in the <span id="goog_795152985"></span><span id="goog_795152986"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a>historical structure are also moments of creativity and introspection surrounding the meaning of the nation, and its legacy. The end of the war simultaneously brought about the creation of the Department of Colonization because many amongst the intelligentsia believed that a failure to colonize and populate those areas lost to the US was the primary reason for this recent partition. To this end, the northern frontier was divided into three regions, and a Repatriate Commission was assigned to each: New Mexico, Texas and California. The primary function of these Repatriate Commissions, just like the Department of Colonization, was to identify, administer, and then to accommodate those Mexican citizens that opted to migrate southward across the new international boundary following the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). Because the New Mexico Territory was the most heavily populated, the creation of the First Repatriation Commission for this region was considered the most important of the three eventual assignments. Post-war instabilities, strapped financial resources, shifting geo-political boundaries, resistance by U.S. authorities, and internal accusations of financial mismanagement and corruption all contributed to the dissolution of these initial Repatriation Commissions. Legislation implemented to encourage Mexican citizens to return via the Department of Colonization and the Repatriation Commissions provided both the power of the Law and the agents of the government to the foundation of dozens of settlements along the newly established frontiers. In the end, colonies nevertheless emerged along the northern frontiers between the New Mexico Territory and through Baja California, due in large part to the will and survival skills of the repatriates themselves. <a href="https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/mjil/vol33/iss1/3/" target="_blank"> Decree of 19 August 1848: The First Repatriation Commissions and Postwar Settlements Along the US Mexico Borderlands</a><br /><a href="https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/mjil/vol33/iss1/3/"></a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-89248855846845902122012-10-02T10:58:00.000-07:002012-10-08T10:58:57.754-07:00United States and Mexico begin Interior Repatriation Initiative<b>United States and Mexico begin Interior Repatriation Initiative </b><br />
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El Paso, Texas - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Mexican Ministry of the Interior today announced the beginning of the Interior Repatriation Initiative (IRI), a new pilot to provide humane, safe and orderly repatriation of Mexican nationals to the interior of Mexico and ultimately to their hometowns, instead of returning them to towns on the U.S.-Mexico border.<br />
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ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) will provide air transportation via charter aircraft to Mexican nationals who emigrated from the interior of Mexico. Upon arrival in Mexico City, the Government of Mexico will provide them transportation to their places of origin. This initiative will allow the Government of Mexico to assist returning Mexican nationals in safely reintegrating into their communities.<br />
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"IRI reflects our commitment and ongoing bilateral effort with the government of Mexico to ensure strong, humane and effective enforcement of both nations' immigration laws," said ICE Director John Morton. "This initiative will better ensure that individuals repatriated to Mexico are removed in circumstances that are safe and controlled."<br />
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Gustavo Mohar Betancourt, Undersecretary of Mexico's population, migration and religious affairs said, "This initiative aims to collaborate and fully support border state authorities by reducing the number of Mexican nationals who are repatriated to the border region. The newly repatriated, often with no means to return home, are susceptible to becoming a part of criminal organizations as a means of survival."<br />
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The IRI will include Mexican nationals pending removal from all areas of the United States. Historically, a significant number of individuals are not from the northern border towns to which they are repatriated, leaving them in communities where they have no ties or family support. Removing Mexican nationals to the interior of Mexico is part of an effort to reduce repeat attempts to illegally enter the United States, avoid the loss of human life, and minimize the potential for exploitation of illegal migrants by human smuggling and trafficking organizations as well as other criminal organizations.<br />
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Individuals who participate in the pilot initiative are transferred from across the United States to the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral, N.M., before departure on an IRI flight.<br />
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The first repatriation flight of 131 Mexican nationals departed El Paso International Airport Tuesday, Oct. 2 and flights are scheduled to continue this year through to Nov. 29. Mexican nationals participating in IRI are removed on charter flights via the ICE ERO Air Operations (IAO) Unit. Headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., IAO has supported ERO since 2006 by providing air transportation and removal coordination services to ERO field offices nationwide. Staffed by ERO officers, these air charters enable the agency to repatriate large groups of deportees in an efficient, expeditious and humane manner.
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<a href="http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php/news/latest-news/1840-united-states-and-mexico-begin-interior-repatriation-initiative.html">http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php/news/latest-news/1840-united-states-and-mexico-begin-interior-repatriation-initiative.html</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-29819458043234832192012-09-11T11:33:00.000-07:002012-09-25T11:33:51.122-07:00U.S. suspends immigrant flights back to Mexico<h2 style="text-align: justify;">
<b>U.S. suspends immigrant flights back to Mexico </b></h2>
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<b>Written by Bob Ortega </b></h2>
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<b><i>The Arizona Republic </i></b></h2>
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<b>8:46 AM; September 11, 2012 </b></h2>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">PHOENIX —The U.S. government has temporarily stopped a
voluntary repatriation program to fly home undocumented Mexican immigrants
caught trying to enter Arizona during the summer because there aren’t enough illegal
border crossers to fill daily flights.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">There have been no flights this year under the 8-year-old
program designed to reduce immigrant deaths by dissuading Mexicans caught
crossing the Arizona border from trying again in the fierce heat of summer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Attempts to keep them going and justify the costs of the $100
million program by filling planes with deported criminals have apparently been
blocked by the Mexican government, which didn’t want violent male offenders
mixed in with women and children.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials said they are
still negotiating with the Mexican government to resume the program, though any
agreement will likely be too late for any flights this year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs
Enforcement have gone back to the practice of returning most immigrants
directly across the Arizona-Mexico border.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The Mexican Interior Repatriation Program had operated each
summer since 2004 under an agreement between Homeland Security and the Mexican
government aimed at reducing deaths in Arizona’s harsh deserts by deterring
apprehended immigrants from immediately crossing again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">By flying undocumented Mexican immigrants from Tucson more
than 1,100 miles south to Mexico City, rather than simply forcing them to walk
back across the border, it was believed fewer would make the trek back north
and seek out smugglers to try to lead them across again. But, as The Arizona
Republic reported last year, there have been questions about the program’s
effectiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">From 2004 to 2011, the government spent $90 million to $100
million to fly 125,164 undocumented immigrants back to Mexico from Tucson. The
program peaked in the summer of 2010, when 23,384 immigrants were flown back,
according to the DHS.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">But last summer, with a plunge in migration that officials
attributed to the weak economy and tougher immigration enforcement, only 8,893
immigrants were repatriated. Flights carrying up to 146 people were cut to once
from twice daily last year.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">With the numbers dropping, the DHS and the Mexican government
earlier this year began renegotiating the terms. Under the original deal, only
first-time crossers and families from Mexico’s interior states were eligible
for the voluntary flights.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">On arrival in Mexico City, they were given bus tickets to
their hometowns. The United States paid the full cost of the program. The
Mexican Consulate in Tucson interviewed each person to make sure the return was
voluntary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">But this year, according to an Associated Press report on
Monday, Mexican officials balked at a plan by the DHS to add immigrants with
criminal convictions to the planes to make the flights more cost-effective. DHS
officials would not confirm that account.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Mexican diplomatic officials in Tucson, Phoenix and
Washington, D.C., declined to answer questions about the disagreement. In a
written statement, a spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington said the
Mexican government continues to work with the U.S. government on “measures to
prevent the loss of human life at our common border.”</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Both governments have agreed to a separate program starting
next month, called the Interior Removal Initiative, under which undocumented
Mexican immigrants from across the U.S. could be flown back to Mexico. That
program would not be voluntary.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">More than 1,500 border crossers have died in Arizona’s desert
over the past decade, with most of the deaths during the summer. Before the
flight program, most undocumented immigrants caught in Arizona would simply be
returned to the border, where officials would watch them cross back into
Mexico, and where, officials acknowledged, most immediately sought the help of
smugglers to try to cross again.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Critics have questioned the effectiveness of the flight
program in reducing repeated crossing attempts by immigrants.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">As The Republic previously reported, Customs and Border
Protection records showed that, within months, hundreds of migrants flown south
had been caught trying to cross illegally again.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Although it appeared that the rate at which migrants tried to
cross did drop significantly, it was impossible to be certain because the
Border Patrol would not provide complete recidivism data. From 2008 to 2010, 6
to 12percent of those flown home were rearrested that summer.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">A 2010 review by the Government Accounting Office concluded
that ICE failed to track data in a way that allowed it to accurately measure
how well the repatriation program worked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">From 2004 to 2010, the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, which
accounts for most of Arizona’s border with Mexico, tallied 1,362 migrant
deaths. The numbers peaked in 2010, with 249 deaths, but have dropped the past
two years.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Through the end of August this year, there have been 150
deaths. However, immigrant groups argue that the numbers are still high given
the huge drops in estimated immigration over the past couple of years.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">“The people dying on the border, we’re seeing, are mostly
people who are very poor. There’s many indigenous people who are walking over
with ‘coyotes,’” said Juanita Molina, executive director of Border Action
Network, a Tucson human-rights group focused on migrant issues.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Although she sees some potential issues with the flights,
Molina said that simply dropping people off at the border, as is now happening
again, “makes them extremely vulnerable to being victimized.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20120911/NJNEWS18/309110014/U-S-suspends-immigrant-flights-back-to-Mexico" target="_blank">http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20120911/NJNEWS18/309110014/U-S-suspends-immigrant-flights-back-to-Mexico</a> </span></div>
Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-82177543626746484332012-05-11T04:58:00.000-07:002012-05-14T05:02:29.424-07:00El 40% de migrantes repatriados son veracruzanos<b>El gobierno del Estado brinda apoyo y asistencia a todos los paisanos que son repatriados de Estados Unidos</b><br />
Escrito por Carolina Miranda
<i> </i><br />
<i>ElGolfo.Info </i><br />
11 Mayo 2012<br />
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Xalapa, Ver.- El representante del Gobierno de Veracruz en Tamaulipas y en el Valle de Texas, Patricio Mora Domínguez, aseguró que de los 2 mil mexicanos que son repatriados anualmente de Estados Unidos al país, entre el 40 y 30 por ciento son veracruzanos.
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En entrevista, resaltó que el gobierno del Estado brinda apoyo y asistencia a todos los paisanos que son repatriados o regresan por si mismos a su lugar de origen.
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"Estamos hablando que al año se repatrían unas 2 mil personas, de esas un porcentajes de entre 30 y 40 por ciento son de nuestro estado, que muchas veces intentan retornar y el fin es darles la asistencia", dijo.
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El funcionario estatal dio a conocer que se estima que unos 200 mil personas originarias de Veracruz habitan tanto en Estados Unidos como en Tamaulipas, muchos de los cuales tienen más de 50 años viviendo en esas regiones.
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"Se hablaba que había unos 100 mil, 200 mil veracruzanos en ambos lados de la frontera, pero los que están en Reynosa emigraron hace más de 40 o 50 años con la cuestión de Pemex, posteriormente en los 80 llega la industria maquiladora y eso permite ofertar más empleo", explicó.
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Recordó que cuando un veracruzano fallece en la Unión Americana también brindan todo el apoyo necesario a las familias para el traslado del cuerpo.
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"También cuando fallece algún paisano nuestro en Estados Unidos el gobierno de Veracruz actúa de manera muy importante e inmediata en el traslado a sus lugares de origen, a partir del traslado aéreo a la ciudad de México y bueno de México a sus lugares de origen", aseveró.
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Agregó que el gobernador Javier Duarte de Ochoa ha dado la instrucción puntual de darle todo el respaldo de su administración a los migrantes veracruzanos.
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<a href="http://www.elgolfo.info/elgolfo/nota/113875-el-40-de-migrantes-repatriados-son-veracruzanos/">http://www.elgolfo.info/elgolfo/nota/113875-el-40-de-migrantes-repatriados-son-veracruzanos/</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-29803318120090975252012-05-09T08:33:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:34:22.244-07:00Life after deportation for U.S.-born children<b>Life after deportation for U.S.-born children</b><br />
By Bill Whitaker<br />
<i>CBS News</i><br />
8 May 2012
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(CBS News) TIJUANA, Mexico - The U.S. Border Patrol announced a new strategy Tuesday for catching illegal immigrants from Mexico: using improved intelligence to target repeat offenders.
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These days, though, many Mexicans heading home outnumbers those coming to the U.S. Many of them had been deported, the result of stepped-up enforcement. CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports what happens when families are forced to leave.
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Every day Patricia Herrera walks her three children -- 12-year-old Yasmin, 10-year-old Elizabeth, and 8-year-old Vicente -- to school.
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But these days, this familiar routine is on unfamiliar terrain. This family from Salt Lake City -- these American children -- have been uprooted to Tijuana, Mexico. These English-speaking children struggle to learn in Spanish.
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"It's different and it's hard for me to understand what they're saying here," said one of the Herrera children.
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Right across from the house they share with relatives is the fortified fence that marks the U.S. border. When Patricia was a baby, her mother sneaked her across. She grew up thinking she was a U.S citizen until she was stopped one day by federal agents. Caught a second time last October, she was deported. To keep her family intact, she brought her children -- U.S. citizens -- over in February.
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"I was sad," said one of the Herrera children.
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"I was scared, I was shock, I was nervous," said another.
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Patricia Herrera said she is not adjusting well. "I never thought it would come to this, but it has. And it's hard<br />
for them."
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Four years ago, Tijuana schools started seeing a steady flow of American students whose parents had been deported. When the U.S. economy fell into deeper recession, that flow became a flood. The schools are overwhelmed.
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This school, Francisco Villa, is a prime example of what's going on. Two years ago, there were no U.S. students enrolled. Last year, six enrolled; this year, 35. In all Tijuana schools, 2,000 students from the U.S. have enrolled so far this year.
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Most feel trapped between two worlds. Cesar was born in Washington State. "I feel more American, he said, "because all my life I was over there."
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Jasleen was born in California. Whitaker asked her how is it different in Mexico than the U.S. "Like over there is cleaner," she said. "Here, it's kind of dangerous, like when it's dark."
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Patricia can't work because she can't speak Spanish well enough. She studies every night with her children. She survives on money her family sends from Utah every week.
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"I live right here on the borderline too," she said. "And it's hard to know that I look over there and [I say], 'Oh, my God, if I could only get through there.' But I know I can't. So I have to accept and learn to live my life here."
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It's a hard lesson many families from north of the border are having to learn.<br />
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<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57430387/life-after-deportation-for-u.s.-born-children/">http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57430387/life-after-deportation-for-u.s.-born-children/</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-52165676876964697032012-05-08T13:11:00.000-07:002012-05-08T13:16:22.270-07:00Deportation cases halted, but illegal immigrants lives remain on hold<b>Deportation cases halted, but illegal immigrants lives remain on hold</b><br />
By Jeremy Redmon
<i> </i><br />
<i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i><br />
5:39 a.m. Monday, May 7, 2012<br />
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Dalton -- Pedro “Peter” Morales remembers the party his family and friends threw last summer after he was freed from a detention center and told he would not be deported to Mexico.<br />
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They presented the 19-year-old with a chocolate cake that said
“Welcome Back, Pedro.” His dad grilled chicken and steaks. Morales --
who was illegally brought to the U.S. by his parents when he was 7 --
was relieved to be back home in North Georgia. But those happy feelings
have given way to anxiety. He still does not have legal status in the
U.S. And the government won’t permit him to work legally here.<br />
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His situation stems from the federal government’s efforts to shrink a
massive backlog in the nation’s immigration courts, totaling 306,010
cases as of last month. The government is shifting more of its focus
toward deporting violent criminals, fugitives from immigration
authorities, recent border crossers and people who have re-entered the
country illegally.<br />
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Morales’ deportation case is among 2,722 the government has closed as
part of this effort so far, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
figures show. Of those, 41 were from Atlanta’s immigration court,
according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access
Clearinghouse -- a research organization that monitors the federal
government.<br />
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Charles Kuck, Morales’ immigration attorney, said his firm has about
20 other clients in the same predicament as Morales. He predicted there
are many more caught in similar circumstances nationwide.<br />
“It’s quite clear that there was not a lot of thought given to what
happens to these people when we exercise our discretion of ‘Throw them
back in the ocean,’ ” said Kuck, who teaches immigration law at the
University of Georgia and is past president of the American Immigration
Lawyers Association. “It’s disappointing there wasn’t a better plan,
frankly.”<br />
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Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration
Studies, has a different view. He said halting illegal immigrants’
deportation cases and then permitting them to work here could send the
message that it is OK to enter the country illegally and stay here
without legal status.<br />
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“It is like: ‘Hey, you know, now I’m legal. It’s great. I’m glad ICE
arrested me,” said Krikorian, whose Washington-based organization
advocates for tighter immigration controls. “Giving work authorization
really is much more problematic.”<br />
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Federal officials said they are constrained by law concerning when
they may grant work permits. They said some people who have had their
deportation cases closed since last year have received work permits, but
they could not immediately say how many.<br />
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They also pointed out that the Obama administration has been pushing
Congress to pass the Dream Act. That measure -- which failed in Congress
in 2010 -- would give illegal immigrants a path to legal status if they
came here as children, graduated from high school and attended college
or served in the military.<br />
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Meanwhile, ICE officials said they are moving as quickly as they can
to review the cases pending in the nation’s immigration courts. They
said they are trying to “alleviate the burden posed on already
overwhelmed immigration courts” and have identified about 16,500 cases
that meet their criteria for being closed. Closing cases through this
process, according to ICE, allows the agency “to more quickly remove
those individuals who pose the biggest threat to community security and
who have most flagrantly abused our immigration system.”<br />
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ignited controversy in
August -- the same month Morales was freed -- when she announced the
case-by-case review. The government’s actions come as Georgia and
several other states are seeking to crack down on illegal immigration
through their own new laws. Among other things, those statutes seek to
block illegal immigrants from taking jobs from U.S. citizens and getting
public benefits they are not entitled to. Parts of those laws are tied
up in federal court amid legal challenges.<br />
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State Rep. Matt Ramsey, who authored Georgia’s illegal immigration
law, said it makes sense for the government to prioritize deporting
criminal illegal immigrants. But the government wouldn’t have such a
massive court backlog, he said, if it spent more resources keeping
illegal immigrants out of the country.<br />
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“They are in a position of having to do this because they have
fundamentally failed over a period of decades to stem the tide
effectively,” the Peachtree City Republican said, “and they are still
not adequately putting the resources behind it to address the problem.”<br />
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President Barack Obama's supporters point out that his administration
has deported a record number of illegal immigrants and other
noncitizens. Last fiscal year, that number was 396,906, the largest
number removed in the history of ICE.<br />
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Morales feels strongly about the government’s decision to halt
deportation cases like his. A graduate of Whitfield Career Academy, he
considers himself mostly American. His high school friends nicknamed him
Peter. He sometimes speaks to his parents in English because he doesn’t
know which Spanish words to use.<br />
“I was raised here,” said Morales, a quiet, polite man who speaks in a
somber tone. “I wouldn’t know what to do in Mexico if I go back.”<br />
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After his case was closed last year, Morales applied to the
government through a process that could lead to a work permit, but his
application was denied in March, his attorney said. Morales wants to get
a full-time job -- with health insurance benefits -- to pay for tuition
at Georgia Northwestern Technical College. He wants to study auto
mechanics there and open his own car repair shop. He said he can’t
support himself without full-time work, so he lives with his parents and
two U.S.-born siblings.<br />
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Morales talked about his case this month at his parent’s home in a
trailer park just outside Dalton. He said his parents brought him to the
United States in 1999, fleeing poverty and crime in Mexico City.
Morales was able to keep his legal status secret until he was arrested
on Father’s Day for driving without a license. Local authorities
determined that he was in the country illegally and turned him over to
ICE, which sent him to a detention center 145 miles south of Atlanta in
Stewart County. He said he spent many weeks there, depressed and worried
about his future.<br />
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Morales was freed after his attorney cited the government’s new
guidelines for “prosecutorial discretion” in court. Morales said he is
glad to be free but is nervous about drawing the attention of
immigration authorities again since they have the authority to reopen
his deportation case. He said he rarely leaves home. When he does,
friends drive. He mostly stays busy playing video games and working out
at a local gym, though he can’t shake his restlessness.<br />
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“I want to be a good citizen and make a living,” he said. “It’s kind of frustrating right now.”<br />
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<b>By the numbers</b><br />
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Seeking to shrink a massive backlog in the nation’s immigration
courts, federal officials have begun an extensive case-by-case review of
the 306,010 matters pending in the courts to see whether they should be
closed because they don’t meet the government’s top priorities for
enforcement. The federal government is shifting more of its focus toward
deporting violent criminals, recent border crossers, people who have
re-entered the country illegally and fugitives from immigration
authorities.<br />
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As of April 16, the government has reviewed 219,554 cases and
determined that about 16,500 of them meet its criteria for being closed.
Of those, 2,722 have been closed. They include:<br />
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2,055 who have had a “very long-term presence” in the U.S., have an
immediate relative who is a U.S. citizen, have established “compelling
ties and made compelling contributions” to the U.S.<br />
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182 who came to the U.S. under the age of 16, have been in the U.S.
for more than five years, have completed high school or its equivalent
and are now pursuing or have completed higher education in the U.S.<br />
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175 children who have been in the U.S. for more than five years and
are either enrolled in school or have completed high school or its
equivalent<br />
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103 who are a “very low enforcement priority”<br />
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100 who suffer from serious mental or physical conditions that would require “significant medical or detention resources”<br />
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60 victims of domestic violence, human trafficking or other serious crimes in the U.S.<br />
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23 who are older than 65 and have been in the U.S. for more than 10 years<br />
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16 who have been lawful permanent residents of the U.S. for 10 years
or more and have a single, minor conviction for a nonviolent offense;<br />
<br />
8 who are members of the U.S. military, honorably discharged U.S.
military veterans or spouses or children of U.S. military veterans<br />
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Sources: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review<br />
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Find this article at:
<a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/deportation-cases-halted-but-1432683.html">http://www.ajc.com/news/deportation-cases-halted-but-1432683.html</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-12009517419098521482011-11-17T16:35:00.000-08:002011-11-17T16:37:17.255-08:00Supporters rally against deportation for detained Occupy OaklandBy Matt O'Brien<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Oakland Tribune<br /></span>11/16/2011<br /><br />OAKLAND -- Alameda County officials said Wednesday they have no authority to stop immigration agents from detaining and deporting an Occupy Oakland protester who was arrested while meditating outside City Hall.<br /><br />The District Attorney's office dropped misdemeanor charges against 36-year-old activist Pancho Ramos Stierle for loitering and refusing to disperse from Frank H. Ogawa Plaza as riot police were clearing out the Occupy encampment there on Monday.<br /><br />But while the criminal charges were dropped on Wednesday afternoon, a federal immigration hold on Ramos Stierle remains in effect and friends fear he could be deported to Mexico.<br /><br />"I don't have the authority to go against the federal government," said Alameda County Superior Court Commissioner Karen Rodrigue, speaking to dozens of Ramos Stierle's supporters who came to his arraignment in a downtown courthouse.<br /><br />The peace activist was among those arrested as riot police cleared the Occupy encampment in a predawn raid Monday.<br /><br />He had been meditating on the plaza for more than three hours as police officers surrounded the camp and most other protesters fled.<br /><br />After he was booked in a county jail, a federal fingerprints database flagged him as a deportable immigrant from Mexico. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent a note to jailers asking him to be held.<br /><br />The activist's lawyers argued on Wednesday that the note -- called an immigration detainer -- is<br />merely a request for local authorities to keep him detained, not a demand, and that the county has the ability to reject it.<br /><br />"Our position is that they don't have to honor the hold. That's clear as day," said lawyer Francisco Ugarte. "The federal government has said the hold is a request."<br /><br />The sheriff's department and district attorney's office disagreed.<br /><br />"The sheriff's department is going to pay attention to what the feds tell them to do," said Deputy District Attorney Josefa James, speaking in the courtroom to one of Ramos Stierle's lawyers.<br /><br />On the immigration hold, James said, "we don't have anything to do with it, but there's nothing we can do about it, either."<br /><br />About 50 activists and friends formed a meditation circle outside the courtroom and shared stories about Ramos Stierle as they awaited his arraignment.<br /><br />Equipped with notepads, pens, cellphones and laptops, they spent hours making phone calls and writing emails and handwritten letters to local authorities.<br /><br />"We all have the responsibility to do the right thing, and we're asking (District Attorney) Nancy O'Malley to do the right thing in this instance," said his lawyer, Yolanda Huang.<br /><br />O'Malley did not return a request for comment.<br /><br />Although Ramos Stierle is now in the county's custody, not the city's, Huang said county and federal authorities should respect ordinances approved by the Oakland City Council, which declared the city a sanctuary for all immigrants -- first in 1986, and then again in 2007.<br /><br />"He was arrested on city property," Huang said. "He was arrested by Oakland police officers. And he's been held in the city of Oakland."<br /><br />However, that "City of Refuge" policy has not been enforced, especially since Alameda County and all other Bay Area counties joined the federal Secure Communities network last year. Fingerprints of everyone arrested by local police get automatically sent to a federal database, which flags arrestees who appear to be immigrants subject to deportation, either because they are in the country illegally or committed a crime.<br /><br />Lawyers and immigration authorities have declined to discuss how Ramos Stierle was able to live in the U.S. and whether or not he had permission to be living here.<br /><br />"We are not at liberty to disclose further details about Mr. Stierle's immigration history," said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice, citing privacy restrictions. The agency has also not said if it intends to take custody of Ramos Stierle, but it did ask the county to keep him detained until agents decide if they wish to pick him up.<br /><br />Lawyers said the immigration agency has 48 hours after the arraignment, which was late on Wednesday afternoon, to make that determination.<br /><br />Friends said Ramos Stierle was from Mexico City and had studied at UC Berkeley on a student visa.<br /><br />He dropped out of a graduate astrophysics program at the university in 2008 and became a full-time activist, they said.<br /><br />A resident of Oakland's Fruitvale district, he gathered fruits from neighborhood trees and leftover organic produce from farmers markets and distributed the food for free to residents who needed it. He was involved in a range of causes, from immigrant rights to environmentalism, and had protested the city's gang injunctions. Much like a Buddhist monk, he lived off a "gift economy," supported by friends he inspired through his activism and secular spirituality.<br /><br />"He only rides bikes," said friend Miriam Dowd, visiting the courtroom Wednesday. "He calls gasoline 'dinosaur juice.'"<br /><br />Inspired by Gandhi, Ramos Stierle spent each Monday in silence, communicating only through writing. He was following that practice when Oakland police officers approached him after 6 a.m. Monday and arrested him.<br /><br />When they asked him questions, he answered on a notepad. He maintained the vow of silence all day in the county jail, but cracked a smile every once in a while, said cellmate Paul Bloom of San Francisco.<br /><br />"He was doing nothing but being a peaceful presence. That was our intention," said Adelaja Simon, 24, who was meditating with Ramos Stierle and another activist when the three of them were arrested. Simon, Bloom and more than 30 other arrested protesters were released later that day, but Ramos Stierle was kept in the county's custody because of the immigration hold.<br /><br />Simon said Ramos Stierle was conscious of his actions and he did not feel worried about what would happen to his friend.<br /><br />"He's calm and he's present, and wherever he lands, he'll still stand for love and he'll keep doing good work for the community," Simon said.<br /><br />Staff writer Robert Salonga contributed to this story.<br /><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/occupy-oakland/ci_19349925"><br />http://www.mercurynews.com/occupy-oakland/ci_19349925</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-6924645259085166362011-11-16T16:38:00.000-08:002011-11-17T16:39:51.444-08:00Westbrook home, Portland restaurant among targets of federal raidsFrom Staff Reports<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">American Journal</span> <br />November 16, 2011 1:54 pm<br /><br />WESTBROOK – Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this morning raided a Westbrook home and a restaurant on the Westbrook/Portland line.<br /><br />Similar raids have been reported at restaurants in Brewer, Waterville and Lewiston.<br /><br />The raid of the residence, at 100 Bridge St., near the Dana Warp Mill, involved Westbrook police officers as well as federal agents. Agents could be seen talking to a man outside the residence.<br /><br />Agents also raided Kon, an Asian restaurant on Brighton Avenue in Portland, near I-95 and the Westbrook line.<br /><br />Officials from ICE referred all questions to the U.S. Attorney's Office, which declined comment at the time. The raid coincided with raids at Super China Buffet in Waterville and Twin City Buffet in Brewer, as well as at a home in Brewer, which have been reported by Current Publishing's media partner, WCSH6 NEWSCENTER, which also reported that a sign at the Brewer restaurant said it is closed today. The Lewiston Sun Journal is reporting an ICE raid at a restaurant in Lewiston, as well.<br /><br />Check back to keepmecurrent.com for more on this developing story.<br /><a href="http://www.keepmecurrent.com/american_journal/news/westbrook-home-portland-restaurant-among-targets-of-federal-raids/article_c6f1dad6-107a-11e1-9ad1-001cc4c03286.html"><br />http://www.keepmecurrent.com/american_journal/news/westbrook-home-portland-restaurant-among-targets-of-federal-raids/article_c6f1dad6-107a-11e1-9ad1-001cc4c03286.html</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-73894715778753892632011-11-15T16:41:00.000-08:002011-11-17T16:42:42.738-08:00La mayoría de deportados es gente honrada: Cónsul<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Organización Editorial Mexicana</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">El Sol de Mexico</span><br /></span>14 de noviembre de 2011<br /><br />La Voz de la Frontera<br /><br />Mexicali.- Las funciones de apoyo que realizan los Consulados de México en los Estados Unidos a los mexicanos residentes en dicho país, son muy amplias y abarcan muchos aspectos de las necesidades que tienen en lo referente a trámites personales para la obtención de documentos y otros programas, explicó ayer la Cónsul de nuestro país en Caléxico, ex diputada Gina Andrea Cruz Blackedge.<br /><br />La funcionaria fue la invitada especial de la sesión semanal de todos los lunes del Grupo Los Madrugadores de Mexicali que coordina el señor José Holguín Navarro ante quienes hizo una amplia exposición de las diversas actividades que se desarrollan en apoyo de los mexicanos residentes en el valle Imperial vecino del municipio de Mexicali.<br /><br />Entre ellas destacó la asistencia que se brinda a las personas que son deportadas, principalmente de niños a los cuales se les presta especial atención por ser más vulnerables que los adultos, además de estar al tanto de las horas en que son repatriados nuestros connacionales de los cuales algunos quieren volver a ingresar al vecino país y otros regresar a sus lugares de origen.<br /><br />Al respecto, la Cónsul quien es oriunda de esta capital, indicó que el Consulado les brinda ayuda económica a estos mexicanos deportados la cual consiste en darles el boleto de regreso a sus entidades y 40 dólares más para los gastos del viaje, lo cual es aprovechado por muchos de ellos.<br /><br />Dijo que esto es un acto de confianza a estas personas ya que aún cuando se les da seguimiento no se sabe si puedan bajarse en algún otro punto de esta zona fronteriza, ya que no existe un estudio sobre ello, además de que rechazó las aseveraciones de algunos de que los migrantes son culpables de que haya aumentado la inseguridad en Mexicali.<br /><a href="http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/n2309247.htm"><br />http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/n2309247.htm</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-88631300181930586152011-11-10T03:38:00.000-08:002011-11-10T03:42:21.168-08:00Mexican Deportees Strain Cities South Of The BorderBy Jason Beaubien<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">NPR </span><br />9 November 2011<br /><br />For many Mexican migrants who've just been deported from the United States, the border city Reynosa is where the American Dream dies.<br /><br />Maria Nidelia Avila Basurto is a Catholic nun who heads a church-run shelter for deportees in Reynosa, in the northeast corner of Mexico, just across from McAllen, Texas.<br /><br />"Many of them arrive with nothing," she says. "We have to give them everything — clothes, shoes, everything."<br /><br />Last year, the U.S. deported a record number of immigrants. Almost 400,000 people who were in the country illegally were arrested and sent back to their home countries.<br /><br />The vast majority were Mexicans, and many were released into dangerous cities like Reynosa. The city is struggling to deal with the thousands of deportees who arrive each month and are vulnerable to violent thugs, drug gangs and corrupt officials.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Temporary Assistance</span><br /><br />Avila's shelter feeds the deportees and offers them bunks to sleep in, but only for three nights, then they have to leave. In the past, the shelter was shut during the day. Residents were expected to go out and search for work or try to line up help from relatives.<br /><br />Many of them arrive with nothing. We have to give them everything — clothes, shoes, everything.<br /><br />- Catholic nun Maria Nidelia Avila Basurto, who runs a shelter for Mexicans deported from the U.S.<br /><br />But Reynosa has gotten so dangerous over the past couple of years that now, rather than the deportees being locked out of the shelter during the day, they're locked in.<br /><br />Avila says that when the deportees were out during the day, many of them were abducted, beaten or robbed. But by keeping them in the shelter, the nun says, they've been able to avoid that.<br /><br />Mexican kidnapping gangs often target people who have family in the United States under the assumption that most can quickly raise a ransom of $500 or $1,000.<br /><br />This part of Mexico isn't dangerous just for migrants. Even the former mayor and his son were kidnapped over the summer.<br /><br />Avila says her problem is that the number of deportees continues to rise, making it harder for the shelter to help them make the transition back into Mexico.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deportation Numbers Growing</span><br /><br />Lately the deportations are happening every day, she says. Many days, 100 or 120 are released by U.S. immigration officials at the international bridge adjacent to downtown Reynosa. For some of them, this is their first taste of freedom after serving lengthy criminal sentences in the U.S. Others were picked up for drunk driving or traffic offenses.<br /><br />Santana Castrejon Alvarez, 58, said he was arrested after being caught using a fake Social Security number. "In the United States, everyone buys fake documents. Everyone. Unfortunately, I bought them too, like everyone else," he said.<br /><br />Castrejon says he spent much of his 21 years in the U.S. working at a McDonald's in Chicago. He also worked in a plastics factory and a pizza restaurant. Castrejon had just started a new job, and the employer turned him in to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.<br /><br />He says he has no intention of staying in Mexico and plans to try to cross again illegally into the U.S.<br /><br />"Here, I don't know where to go because all my family is still over there in Chicago. My wife, my sister, nieces, nephews — everyone," he says.<br /><br />For the deportees who do decide to stay in Mexico, they face more than just the perilous streets of Reynosa. Jobs are scarce. The minimum wage is the equivalent of $5 a day. And corruption is rampant.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deportees Need Mexican Documents</span><br /><br />Many of the deportees arrive in Reynosa with no form of identification. As the drug war has spread in Mexico, so have security checkpoints. It's nearly impossible to move through the country without a picture ID. Volunteers from a local human rights group make temporary credentials for anyone who needs them.<br /><br />The volunteers have just returned from the printer and are distributing them to the deportees.<br /><br />Jose Elejarza Maldonado with the Center for Border Studies and Human Rights in Reynosa says that without some form of identification, the returning migrants will fall prey to corrupt officials.<br /><br />Elejarza says his group regularly gets complaints that corrupt police and other authorities steal from these individuals.<br /><br />The Mexican government does help deportees with one-way bus tickets to their home states, and the U.S. government has started flying more of them into Central Mexico, but still thousands end up being exiled each month into violent border cities such as Reynosa.<br /><br />Migrant advocates here say that roughly 30 percent of the deportees immediately turn around and head north. They'd rather take their chances with the U.S. Border Patrol than venture out into an environment where they could get beaten, robbed, kidnapped or worse.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/11/09/141932810/mexican-deportees-strain-cities-south-of-the-border">http://www.npr.org/2011/11/09/141932810/mexican-deportees-strain-cities-south-of-the-border</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-14701194221753476032011-11-09T11:08:00.000-08:002011-11-09T11:10:17.728-08:00KU sociologist calls for legalizing current immigrantsContact: Mary Jane Dunlap<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">KU News Service</span><br />Nov. 8, 2011<br /><br />LAWRENCE — In a new book on U.S. immigration, University of Kansas sociologist Tanya Golash-Boza proposes that legalizing immigrants currently in the United States would not only be cost-effective but also a step toward focusing on the human rights of immigrants.<br /><br />Golash-Boza argues in “Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post 9/11 America” that the war on terror has translated into a war on immigrants.<br /><br />“Funding used to fight terrorism is being used to instill fear in immigrants,” says Golash-Boza, an assistant professor in both sociology and American studies at KU.<br /><br />With legalization, the United States would receive more revenue from income taxes – about 75 percent of an estimated 10 million undocumented migrants currently pay taxes. In addition, U.S. Treasury revenues would gain from administrative fees for legalization.<br /><br />Golash-Boza urges her readers to focus on the human cost of current policies: “The immigration policy debate must take into account the human cost, in addition to security and economic needs.<br /><br />“The practical solution is not to try to remove all of them or to scare them away, but to encourage them to come out of the shadows by offering them an incentive to do so.” Golash-Boza suggests making legalization less cumbersome and rendering quotas more in line with U.S. labor needs.<br /><br />U.S. immigration policies have failed to curtail the numbers of migrants, but instead have allowed an immigration industrial complex to thrive – fed in part by a fear of foreigners, Golash-Boza points out. The complex allows some industries to profit by marginalizing a workforce needed only part of a year and for others to profit from enforcement services, such as privately run detention facilities. The combination of fear, profit potential and political power has created a human rights crisis.<br /><br />A surge of deportations by U.S. immigration authorities since Sept. 11 is a trend that concerns Golash-Boza.<br /><br />“The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 made it clear that there are people who seek to harm civilians in the United States,” and that there is a need for national security, Golash-Boza writes. “Yet building fences, raiding factories and terrorizing immigrant communities does not make the United States a safer place.”<br /><br />Most migrants are not terrorists, Golash-Boza notes. Most come to the United States to work, and most come without intending to stay more than a year or two. Some discover they must to stay longer to pay off debt incurred to enter the country illegally. (The going rate to smuggle humans from Mexico is about $4,000 and from China, $80,000.) Most come from Central and South American countries.<br /><br />“Migrants from Mexico, Central and South America, or other countries in the Global South who walk across deserts, swim across rivers, or climb over fences in search of better employment are not terrorists. Neither are undocumented workers who work in meat processing and garment factories, “ Golash-Boza adds.<br /><br />Undocumented migrants make up 5 percent of the U.S. labor force – working primarily as agricultural workers, roofers, food-processing employees and as maids and housekeepers. Some U.S. farmers are reporting income losses due to the rise in deportations and increase in border enforcement, she notes.<br /><br />Undocumented immigrants are an easy group to scapegoat, she says. Media pundits fuel fear with sensationalized reports of crimes committed by undocumented or illegal immigrants. Media pundits and politicians campaigning for office de-humanize people by referring to undocumented immigrants as “illegals.”<br /><br />In 2009, 85 percent of the undocumented migrants came from 10 countries. The greatest number, 6.6 million, came from Mexico. El Salvador followed with 530,000; Guatemala with 480,000; Honduras with 320,000 and the Philippines with 270,000. India and Korea each contributed 200,000; Ecuador, 170,000; Brazil, 150,000 and China, 120,000.<br /><br />Yet when Golash-Boza compared the number of deportations by country, the top 10 list included nine nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America and none in Asia. Given the numbers of immigrants coming from Asia, Golash-Boza suggests racial profiling may explain the absence of Asian countries on the deportation top-10 list.<br /><br />In 2009, about 393,000 people were deported. Not quite a third had been convicted of a crime. More than two-thirds were deported for noncriminal offenses – they lacked proper documentation or had violated the terms of their visas.<br /><br />Golash-Boza points out that many deportees had lived in the United States for most of their lives, were legal permanent residents, and left behind jobs and families. In some cases, mothers arrested on the job were forced to leave infants behind -- some becoming wards of a state. A few 2009 deportees included teens adopted as toddlers by U.S. families who had never filed citizenship papers.<br /><br />Golash-Boza is among the first sociologists to focus on human rights. She serves on the American Sociological Association’s section on human rights. She is author of “Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru” and has two more to soon to be released: “Due<br />Process Denied” and “Deported: The Casualties of Mass Deportation from the United States.”<br /><br />“Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post 9/11 America,” was released by Paradigm Publishers this spring and will be available in paperback in March 2012.<br /><a href="http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/november/8/legalize.shtml"><br />http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/november/8/legalize.shtml</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-59423630263274136512011-11-08T05:07:00.000-08:002011-11-08T05:09:26.059-08:00Buscan solución al problema de los migrantesPor María ELENA DÍAZ<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">El MEXICANO</span><br />06 de noviembre de 2011<br /><br />MEXICALI.- Más que “satanizar” el problema que representan los miles de deportados por esta garita, hay que buscar opciones para apoyarlos, establecieron ayer representantes de la iniciativa privada durante una reunión que sostuvieron con autoridades de los tres niveles de gobierno.<br /><br />Lo anterior durante una reunión de trabajo que sostuvieron para analizar la problemática que se presenta con motivo de los miles de deportados por esta garita.<br /><br />En la reunión participaron por parte del sector empresarial, el Presidente del Consejo Coordinador Empresarial de esta ciudad, Angel Zaizar Prado y el Presidente de la Cámara Nacional de Comercio, Servicios y Turismo de Mexicali, Jorge Cervantes Arenas.<br /><br />Durante la reunión precisaron que de lo que va de Enero a Septiembre se han repatriado solamente por la garita de Mexicali más de 50 mil connacionales que son deportados por las autoridades Norteamericanas.<br /><br />Precisaron que de esa suma el 30 por ciento generalmente pretende regresar a los Estados Unidos a través de un promedio de dos intentos de retorno hacia el vecino país.<br /><br />Asimismo estuvieron presentes el Subsecretario de Población, Migración y Asuntos Religiosos, René Zenteno; el Director General de Registro de Población, Alberto Alonso Icoria; el Delegado de INAMI, Antonio Valladolid Rodríguez y la Cónsul de México en Calexico Gina Andrea Cruz Blackledge.<br /><br />Ante ellos, el dirigentes de los comerciantes aseguró que ello “no satanizan a los inmigrantes”, sino que pretenden que exista una solución definitiva para estas 50 mil personas que son deportadas hacia nuestra ciudad.<br /><br />Dentro de los acuerdos tomados por esta mesa presidida por el Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, Canaco Mexicali propuso el establecimiento de un Consejo Ecuménico en el que participen todas las Iglesias de todas las denominaciones que existen en esta ciudad para establecer en el centro de la Ciudad un lugar en donde se puedan atender a todos los migrantes con el objeto de darles hospedaje y comida durante dos o tres días con el compromiso de estos migrantes de conseguir trabajo.<br /><br />El presidente de la CANACO dijo que para este efecto hay que tener coordinación con la Secretaria del Trabajo a través del establecimiento de bolsas de trabajo en este Centro de Atención del Migrante, con la Sociedad Civil a través de la aportación de ingredientes para la confección de alimentos para dichos migrantes y con la aportación de los comerciantes para proveer a través del banco de alimentos, los alimentos necesarios para esta casa.<br /><br />Asimsimo Cervantes Arenas se comprometió a realizar las gestiones necesarias ante el Presidente Municipal, Francisco Pérez Tejada a efecto de que uno de los predios que se encuentran abandonados en la Zona Centro de la ciudad pueda ser destinado a este Centro de Atención al Migrante motivando a sus propietarios para que los remocen y los adecuen.<br /><br />Asimismo, el presidente de la Cámara de Comercio convocó a las autoridades presentes entre ellas, Luis Alfonso Vizcarra, Subsecretario General de Gobierno, para que a través de recursos del Gobierno del Estado, del Gobierno Federal y Municipal se lleven cabo estas acciones y poder asegurar que los connacionales puedan tener un techo donde refugiarse, comida como alimentarse y sobre todo buscar una forma honesta de vivir a través de una bolsa de trabajo.<br /><br />Asimismo se acordó en la mesa de trabajo ver la forma en que estas personas ya no busquen regresar a Estados Unidos, sino que quieran regresar a su lugar de origen en cualquier lugar de la República Mexicana para que sean trasladadas a estos lugares, buscando que se amplíen los recursos federales para este motivo y coordinándose con las aerolíneas para obtener precios baratos para trasladarlos o bien a través de transporte foráneo público.<br /><br />De esta manera se busca acotar el efecto de los repatriados, buscando por un lado conseguirles trabajo, pero por otro lado ayudándolos a regresar a su lugar de origen.<br /><br />Establecieron que las personas que pretender regresar a su lugar de origen, de acuerdo a las estadísticas, equivale a un 25 por cientos del total de los repatriados.<br /><br />También asistieron representantes de la Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del Estado, quienes se comprometieron a realizar los esfuerzos necesarios para ayudar con el problema de la migración.<br /><br />En esta mesa de trabajo se aclaró que de los poco más de 50 mil repatriados que regresan de Estados Unidos a Mexicali solamente mil personas de ellas son excarcelados de Estados Unidos.<br /><a href="http://www.el-mexicano.com.mx/informacion/noticias/1/3/estatal/2011/11/06/516978/buscan-solucion-al-problema-de-los-migrantes.aspx"><br />http://www.el-mexicano.com.mx/informacion/noticias/1/3/estatal/2011/11/06/516978/buscan-solucion-al-problema-de-los-migrantes.aspx</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-6390475796264128162011-11-07T01:46:00.000-08:002011-11-07T01:46:00.768-08:00Immigration officials back away from deportation program; Effort quickened process but raised rights issuesBy Daniel González<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Arizona Republic<br /></span>Nov. 6, 2011 <br /><br />Federal immigration officials have quietly backed away from a program in Arizona and other Western states aimed at quickly and efficiently deporting illegal immigrants rather than keeping them in costly detention centers.<br /><br />Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, including thousands from Arizona, have been deported under the program over the past several years. Called stipulated removal, it allows the government to quickly deport illegal immigrants held in detention centers as long as they forgo a hearing before a judge to review their legal rights and to determine if they want to fight their case.<br /><br />The phaseout follows controversies and concerns.<br /><br />Immigration officials hailed the program as cost-effective deportations for people who wanted to go home. Critics worried that the government was strong-arming immigrants to accept deportation without regard for their due-process rights.<br /><br />Immigration officials changed course in September 2010 after a federal appellate court ruled that an immigrant held in an Eloy detention center had his rights violated. After that, speedy removals were offered only to illegal immigrants with lawyers, who could help them fight their cases. Lawyers are not provided at taxpayer expense in deportation proceedings.<br /><br />Since then, immigration officials have not deported a single illegal immigrant through the program in Arizona, said Vincent Picard, a spokesman for ICE in Phoenix. Picard could not provide statistics for other states.<br /><br />ICE officials did not publicize the dramatic policy change. Many immigrant lawyers and critics of the program were unaware the change had been made.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Time and money</span><br /><br />In a deportation proceeding, an illegal immigrant has the right to appear in front of an immigration judge to decide whether to contest the case. The immigrant also has the right to hire a lawyer.<br /><br />But under stipulated removal, an immigrant who doesn't want to fight deportation gives up the right to a hearing. The immigrant also gives up the right to an appeal. Once the immigrant agrees to those stipulations, the judge signs a deportation order, even if the immigrant is not in the courtroom.<br /><br />Supporters of stipulated removal, which remains in effect in other parts of the country, say it benefits both the government and illegal immigrants. The program can save time and money.<br /><br />The illegal immigrant is typically deported within a day or two. In comparison, an illegal immigrant facing deportation can spend weeks or even months in detention. In 2011, the average time was 29 days, according to ICE statistics.<br /><br />The average daily cost of detention in 2011 was $112.83, said Virginia Kice, an ICE spokeswoman.<br /><br />"Such agreements between ICE and the alien are advantageous to the government in that it relieves the immigration court of the need to have a hearing, saves ICE additional detention costs, and allows the alien to return to his/her country expeditiously," Picard said in an e-mail.<br /><br />Jessica Vaughan, director of policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank that favors strict immigration enforcement, said the program should be expanded, not scaled back.<br /><br />Offering stipulated removal only to immigrants who hire their own lawyers bogs down the judicial process and defeats the purpose of the program: to quickly remove illegal immigrants with no legal grounds to remain in the U.S. who want to go home, Vaughan said. It also clogs up immigration courts, making less room for immigrants with strong legal cases to remain in the U.S.<br /><br />"I see the greater use of stipulated removal as expediting the inevitable, with the result being swifter access to hearings for the people who are more likely to benefit from them," she said.<br /><br />Phillip Crawford, a former field director for ICE's enforcement and removal operations in Arizona, said it is a shame that stipulated removals have been curtailed.<br /><br />The program, he said, had several levels of "safeguards" to ensure that the rights of illegal immigrants were protected and that participants understood what they were signing. Each case was reviewed by ICE officers during processing at detention centers, by ICE prosecutors and by an immigration judge who has the power to reject the deportation if the judge believes the immigrant had legal grounds to remain.<br /><br />He also said the program targeted illegal immigrants from Mexico convicted of aggravated felonies with little chance of legally remaining in the U.S.<br /><br />"It was an excellent program," Crawford said.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rights protected?</span><br /><br />Critics say stipulated removal circumvents immigrants' rights and largely targeted immigrants who had not committed crimes.<br /><br />A 30-page report released in September by the National Immigration Law Center accused government officials of pressuring illegal immigrants to accept quick deportation by threatening long detention stays if they tried to fight to remain in the U.S. The government also often didn't provide adequate interpretation and translation to immigrants who didn't speak English, the report said.<br /><br />The report found that 80 percent of those deported through the program hadn't committed crimes.<br /><br />The report also found that 96 percent of those deported didn't have lawyers. Therefore, the report concluded, many of those without criminal records may have been eligible to remain in the U.S. if they had had a chance to fight their case.<br /><br />Instead of deportation, the non-criminals also may have qualified for less-severe voluntary departure, which gives immigrants the chance to return to the U.S. if they qualify for a green card, said Karen Tumlin, managing attorney for the Law Center. Instead, by accepting stipulated removal, immigrants are generally barred from coming back to the U.S. for as long as 10 years and face felony charges for illegally re-entering the country.<br /><br />The report was based on 20,000 government documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.<br /><br />Tumlin said she was unaware that ICE had stopped offering stipulated removals to immigrants unless they had a lawyer. The Arizona Republic discovered the new policy in September, when it began examining the Law Center report.<br /><br />"If that's true, it would be welcome news," Tumlin said.<br /><br />The change, she said, alleviates concerns that the quick removals were violating the due-process rights of illegal immigrants.<br /><br />Illegal immigrants placed in deportation proceedings can sometimes fight their case in court if they meet certain conditions, such as having resided in the U.S. for a long period of time, having no criminal record and having children born in this country.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolving program</span><br /><br />Launched in 1995 to help alleviate overcrowding in federal, state and local detention centers, the stipulated-removal program was rarely used until President George W. Bush's administration began ramping up immigration enforcement in 2004. The high rate continued during the first two years of President Barack Obama's administration. According to ICE, 32,635 people were deported in 2010.<br /><br />From 2004 to 2010, immigration officials deported more than 160,000 under the program, according to the National Immigration Law Center's September report.<br /><br />The report found that more than 24,000 came from the detention center in Eloy, the highest number of any facility in the country.<br /><br />Internal government e-mails obtained through the Freedom of Information lawsuit and posted online by the National Immigration Law Center show that in 2005 alone, 5,787 illegal immigrants from Mexico detained in Eloy were deported through the program and that stipulated removals accounted for more than 50 percent of all deportations at the center.<br /><br />In September 2010, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that immigration officials at Eloy had violated the rights of Isaac Ramos. Ramos, an illegal immigrant from Mexico with prior criminal convictions, had agreed to stipulated removal while being detained in Eloy in 2006. The court ruled that the government failed to make it clear to Ramos that he was giving up his right to talk to a lawyer, who could have explained the process and the penalties. The court also ruled that the immigration judge who signed Ramos' deportation order failed to determine if Ramos had agreed to stipulated removal "voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently," as required.<br /><br />Ramos, who is married to a legal permanent resident and has two U.S.-citizen children, had argued that he should be allowed to return to the U.S. since his rights to due process were violated. The court, however, denied that request.<br /><br />Since backing away from using stipulated removal, ICE has worked out a different approach in Arizona, Picard said.<br /><br />Illegal immigrants who do not have legal representation and do not want to contest their cases are given the option of attending "prompt hearings," Picard said.<br /><br />Held in front of immigration judges, the hearings ensure that immigrants facing deportation are advised of their "full array" of rights under the law, he said. Immigration judges also confirm that the immigrants are aware of any possibility to legally remain in the U.S.<br /><br />"Only if the judge is satisfied that the aliens are removable under the charges filed against them, and are making a knowing and intelligent waiver of their rights, will the judge order their removal," Picard said.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/11/06/20111106immigration-arizona-deportation-program.html#ixzz1cx6wDGx2">http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/11/06/20111106immigration-arizona-deportation-program.html#ixzz1cx6wDGx2</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-33189335562812665772011-11-06T11:09:00.000-08:002011-11-06T11:18:53.826-08:00DREAM Act Remembered On Day Of The DeadBy Yolanda Gonzalez Gomez<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Huffington Post</span><br />5 November 2011<br /><br />DENTON, Texas -- Juana Perez is a bilingual education major and the president of a campus organization that raises awareness about the federal DREAM Act, a bill that would enable certain undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors to apply for permanent residency.<br /><br />She is also undocumented.<br /><br />In honor of the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday on Nov. 1 that celebrates life and death, Perez dedicated an altar this week to the "Dreamers," those students unable attend college because they are undocumented. Her motto: "Education, not deportation."<br /><br />The celebration of the holiday at the University of North Texas -- the fourth largest university in the state, with 36,000 students, including 5,000 Latinos -- echoed a growing sentiment among Latino students: immigrant children who succeed in school should be given a chance to repay the investment in their education.<br /><br />Perez, a petite young woman brought to the U.S. by her parents from Mexico, placed crosses at the altar with the names of young people who died trying to cross the border into the United States. She lit candles in honor of "Dreamers" caught up in deportation proceedings, and those who have died in detention centers for lack of medical services.<br /><br />"We never give up trying to educate others about the DREAM Act and how important it is," said Perez, adding that the proposed law would not only benefit Latinos but also young people of all nationalities.<br /><br />The long-standing DREAM legislation, an un-passed bill that would grant some undocumented students legal status in return for two years of college or military service, has become a focal point of the heated immigration debate.<br /><br />President Obama has expressed support for the DREAM Act and immigration reform, with the administration recently announcing a policy change that would spare many "Dreamers" from deportation as enforcement is focused on undocumented immigrants with criminal records, rather than young people or students. According to the policy, the administration has also begun reviewing more than 300,000 deportation proceedings to weed out the "low-priority" cases. Yet, the administration also recently released its latest deportation numbers, which showed a record number of nearly 400,000 deportations in fiscal year 2011, which ended in September.<br /><br />Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, has supported undocumented students, signing a bill as governor that allowed undocumented immigrants who are Texas residents to obtain in-state tuition rates.<br /><br />Still, students have become an active and vocal force in pushing for immigration reform, attending DREAM Act hearings and rallying across the country.<br /><br />At the University of North Texas, professors of Mexican-American studies, history and anthropology asked students to prepare altars that spoke to social issues affecting the Latino community. The theme: "Knowledge is power."<br /><br />"It was a cultural exercise that echoes the demographic reality of Hispanics in Texas," said Roberto Calderon, who teaches history and Mexican-American studies.<br /><br />The campus-wide celebration included a procession of altars honoring Chicano professors, family members killed on 9/11, the DREAM Act and "Dreamers."<br /><br />The traditional altars were decorated with skulls, flowers, candles, religious icons, food, portraits of loved ones and admired public figures. The students shared Mexican sweet bread and churros, a fried-dough pastry, amid music and dancing.<br /><br />"This enduring tradition promotes an exchange between different ethnic traditions and gives shape to our own culture," Calderon said. More Latino students receive a college education in this suburb north of Dallas than in the city and Forth Worth combined, he added.<br /><br />This year, more students participated in the university's three-year-old Day of the Dead celebration than in the past, Calderon said.<br /><br />"Exclusion and opposition are no longer viable in our society, as new communities gain more power and presence," he said.<br /><br />Favian Rios, a member of the Lambda Theta Phil fraternity and a criminal justice major, dedicated an altar to the undocumented students missing from college classrooms.<br /><br />"We hope that the university and the community might take notice of our participation, that we are proud of our heritage, and break stereotypes about Latinos," Rios said.<br /><br />"We wanted to express that we are in touch with our traditions, that we haven't forgotten that we are Latinos in a country where our identities can be forgotten," said Elizabeth Guevara, also a criminal justice major.<br /><br />Anthropology Professor Mariela Nuñez-Janes, said the celebration was intended to, "send the message to educators that our Hispanic culture is important in places of higher education."<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/04/dream-act-day-of-the-dead_n_1076490.html"><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/04/dream-act-day-of-the-dead_n_1076490.html</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-70453328895199119702011-11-05T11:19:00.000-07:002011-11-06T11:20:38.848-08:00Judge orders immediate deportation of dance group member<span style="font-style: italic;">Latino Fox News</span><br />November 04, 2011<br /><br />Chicago – An Ohio judge ordered the immediate deportation of a young Hispanic detained 14 days ago along with members of his Aztec dance group as they were driving across several states to put on a show.<br /><br />Judge D. Williams Evans Jr. ordered the immediate deportation of Joel Almeida Gonzalez, who had a previous deportation order and will be sent back to Mexico next Tuesday.<br /><br />Gonzalez is one of five undocumented dancers who were driving from New York to Joliet, Illinois, to take part in an Aztec dance ceremony on Oct. 21.<br /><br />Joel was traveling with his brother Erick Almeida Gonzalez and Alberto Vera Ramirez, Carlos Tirado Carmona and Byron Tzoc Guarchaj when they were stopped in Tiffin, Ohio.<br /><br />All of the immigrants are from Mexico with the exception of Guarchaj, who is a Guatemalan citizen.<br /><br />When their vehicle was pulled over, police found that the travelers had no documents and consequently handed them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<br /><br />The men were held in Seneca County Jail until Thursday.<br /><br />Debra J. Pelto, spokeswoman for the detainees, told Efe that Tirado Carmona, freed on $5,000 bail, and Erick Almeida Gonzalez on $2,500 bail, were ordered to leave the country voluntarily by Dec. 18.<br /><br />Vera Ramirez, who was let out on $1,500 bail, and Guarchaj, on $5,000 bail, face another appearance in court.<br /><br />"The intention was to release them all, including the two who have been given a date for voluntarily leaving the country, so they at least have a chance to put their affairs in order in New York and say goodbye to their families," Pelto said.<br /><br />The arrest of the Hispanics caused surprise in New York and Chicago where the Aztec dancers are known in artistic circles.<br /><br />In New York last week volunteers collected donations at several points around the city and managed to come up with $3,000 toward paying the bail bonds. In Chicago groups formed to help the detainees' families.<br /><br />Roberto Ferreyra of the Nahui Ollin dance group in Chicago told Efe that a change in immigration laws is vital in order to prevent incidents like this.<br /><br />"There should be a way that people who contribute to this country can work," Ferreyra said. "It's a binational problem - there's free transit for trade and there ought to be free transit as well for those who work."<br /><br /><a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/11/04/judge-orders-immediate-deportation-dance-group-member/#ixzz1cxF5p2nH">http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/11/04/judge-orders-immediate-deportation-dance-group-member/#ixzz1cxF5p2nH</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-13514188086860750712011-11-04T11:12:00.000-07:002011-11-06T11:14:49.780-08:00Deportaciones separan a miles de niños estadounidenses de sus padres<span style="font-style: italic;">Univision</span><br />Fecha: 11/03/2011<br /><br />Hay 5 mil niños en cuidado temporal tras quedar sin sus padres, reveló estudio<br /><br />La intersección entre el proceso federal de deportación de inmigrantes y el sistema local de bienestar infantil está llevando a situaciones desastrosas, en las que padres detenidos o deportados terminan perdiendo la custodia de sus hijos porque no pueden asistir a las audiencias ni cumplir con los requisitos necesarios para recuperarlos.<br /><br />Un estudio nacional sin precedentes develado el miércoles estimó que hay más de 5 mil niños en el sistema de cuidado temporal cuyos padres están detenidos por inmigración o fueron deportados a su país de origen, sin que estos hayan podido hacer nada para recuperar a sus hijos.<br /><br />"Cuando por alguna razón padres e hijos se ven separados y los hijos pasan al cuidado del estado, la mayoría de las veces se logra una reunificación. Pero en el caso de los padres inmigrantes deportables, las barreras son increíblemente más elevadas", explicó Seth Freed Wessler, autor del estudio Familias Destrozadas, del Centro de Investigaciones Aplicadas (ARC).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Familias destruidas</span><br /><br />Este problema se hace más acuciante en los estados y localidades cuyos departamentos de policía tienen acuerdos con el gobierno federal para asistir en labores de deportación, ya que tienden a realizar más deportaciones de personas con tiempo en el país y lazos familiares.<br /><br />Como esa colaboración y la cantidad de deportaciones han venido aumentando, también son más los padres que han terminado por perder la custodia de sus hijos, sea temporal o permanentemente.<br /><br />Según el estimado de ARC, 46 mil madres o padres de ciudadanos estadounidenses fueron deportados en los primeros meses de 2011.<br /><br />En cualquier caso, las decisiones son difíciles, pero más aún cuando los niños caen en la custodia de autoridades de bienestar infantil.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Separaciones forzadas</span><br /><br />El estudio identificó casos de este tipo de separación forzada en al menos 22 estados. En Los Ángeles, en el período estudiado, se encontró que hay 1,178 niños en hogares de cuidado temporal, con padres deportados o en proceso de deportación, un 6.2% del total.<br /><br />"Cuando los niños pasan a la custodia del estado, es común en casos de detenidos por ICE que los padres pierdan todo contacto con sus hijos. A menudo los mueven a centros de detención muy alejados de su lugar previo de residencia y no les permiten asistir a las audiencias en la corte infantil", dijo Rinku Sen, directora ejecutiva de ARC.<br /><br />En muchas ocasiones, los padres son inmigrantes que no han cometido ningún delito, simplemente caen en manos de las autoridades por manejar sin licencia, estar en el lugar equivocado y hasta ser víctimas de violencia doméstica.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Doble castigo</span><br /><br />Ese fue el caso de Hilaria, una mujer en Phonix, cuya historia está explicada con detalle en el reporte. Hilaria fue arrestada tras un incidente de violencia doméstica mientras trataba de defenderse de una paliza de su marido, que la acusó a ella del ataque. Por ser indocumentada, Hilaria terminó detenida por inmigración.<br /><br />Los niños quedaron con él, hasta que algún tiempo después las autoridades de bienestar infantil se dieron cuenta de que él abusaba de las drogas y se llevaron a los pequeños.<br /><br />Hilaria sigue detenida y sus hijos en foster care. Cuando fue entrevistada en un centro de detención por los investigadores del estudio, la mujer declaró que "aguanté el abuso por mis hijos, pero ahora me los han robado".<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Familias destruidas</span><br /><br />Hay otros casos similares. Dos hermanas indocumentadas fueron arrestadas en Nuevo México y deportadas cuatro meses después. Ninguna de ellas tenía un delito en su haber y sin embargo sus tres hijos fueron colocados en cuidado temporal, donde permanecieron durante 14 meses hasta que gracias a la intervención del consulado mexicano pudieron reunirse en México.<br /><br />No obstante, los casos con final feliz no son tan comunes, dijeron los investigadores. Las leyes actuales requieren detención obligatoria para la mayoría de los inmigrantes en proceso de deportación y no existe un mecanismo formal que permita a una persona detenida participar activamente del proceso que se inicia cuando los menores son puestos en custodia del estado.<br /><br />Asimismo, el sistema de bienestar infantil no tiene mecanismos para actuar y, según las conclusiones del estudio, a menudo no tienen una idea clara de lo que está pasando y creen que por el hecho de estar detenidos, las personas deben ser delincuentes y, por tanto, la reunificación resulta menos deseable.<br /><br />En los casos en los que los consulados de las personas deportables son contactadas y entran en acción, se observan mejores resultados, pero esto no ocurre sino en un puñado de lugares donde las autoridades del condado han buscado activamente esa relación.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fustigan al gobierno</span><br /><br />Los autores del estudio fustigaron a las autoridades de inmigración por lo que caracterizaron como indiferencia ante la situación de estas familias.<br /><br />"ICE no siente que tenga ninguna responsabilidad por las vidas reales que la gente tenía antes de la detención", dijo Wessler. "No hacen prácticamente nada para facilitar el contacto de los detenidos con las autoridades de bienestar infantil".<br /><br />Pero una portavoz de ICE negó las acusaciones.<br /><br />"No hemos visto el contenido de este reporte, pero en realidad nuestro departamento hace lo posible para asegurar que los detenidos tienen la oportunidad de hacer las decisiones importantes respecto al cuidado y custodia de sus hijos", dijo Virginia Kice.<br /><br />"De acuerdo con el memo de prioridades emitido en junio de 2010, ICE generalmente no arresta a individuos que son los principales custodios de menores, a menos que sean sujetos legalmente a la detención obligatoria por el riesgo de fuga o la severidad de su historia criminal".<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cifras escandalosas</span><br /><br />El reporte de ARC, sin embargo, parece contradecir esta afirmación a cada paso.<br /><br />"No me sorprende para nada ver estas cifras. Cuando deportas a más de un millón de personas hay padres y madres de niños ciudadanos... muchas veces se llevan a ambos, dejando a estos niños desprotegidos. En los viajes que he hecho por el país lo he visto en carne propia", dijo el congresista Luis Gutiérrez, al reaccionar ante el reporte.<br /><br />“Cuando por alguna razón padres e hijos se ven separados y los hijos pasan al cuidado del estado, la mayoría de las veces se logra una reunificación. Pero en el caso de los padres inmigrantes deportables, las barreras son increíblemente más elevada”, agregó.<br /><br /><a href="http://noticias.univision.com/inmigracion/noticias/article/2011-11-03/estudio-deportacion-padres">http://noticias.univision.com/inmigracion/noticias/article/2011-11-03/estudio-deportacion-padres</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-37075058825598222002011-11-03T11:07:00.000-07:002011-11-06T11:09:26.532-08:00Estadounidense finge ser indocumentado para ser deportado y evitar la prisión<span style="font-style: italic;">EFE</span><br />Fecha: 11/03/201<br /><br />Washington, 3 nov (EFE).- Un ciudadano estadounidense de Utah fingió ser un inmigrante indocumentado tras ser detenido por tráfico de drogas, para ser deportado a México y evitar así una larga condena en prisión, informó hoy la emisora de radio local KTAR.<br /><br />Jaime Alvarado, de 27 años, fue acusado el miércoles en un tribunal federal de un cargo por hacer declaraciones falsas o inconsistentes y otro por dar información personal falsa a un agente del orden, por lo que permanecerá en prisión hasta su juicio.<br /><br />Tras ser detenido en febrero de 2010, Alvarado aseguró al tribunal que se llamaba Saúl Quiroz, que era mexicano y que se encontraba en el país ilegalmente, y a continuación se declaró culpable, según los documentos del caso citados por la emisora.<br /><br />El tribunal refirió entonces su caso a la Oficina de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE) y fue efectivamente deportado a México.<br /><br />Casi un año más tarde, el pasado febrero, el hombre volvió a ser arrestado en el condado de Salt Lake, en Utah, en relación con sus antiguos cargos.<br /><br />Esta vez, en cambio, Alvarado reconoció ante el juez que no se llamaba Saúl Quiroz y que "en realidad era un ciudadano estadounidense", según los documentos.<br /><br />El joven pasó entonces a custodia de los agentes de ICE, quienes le refirieron de nuevo a las autoridades locales una vez comprobada su ciudadanía.<br /><br />En su reunión con esos agentes, Alvarado explicó que había vuelto a entrar en Estados Unidos en abril de 2010, utilizando su pasaporte estadounidense, y que había inventado la historia "para evitar una larga sentencia a prisión".<br /><a href="http://feeds.univision.com/feeds/article/2011-11-03/estadounidense-finge-ser-indocumentado-para"><br />http://feeds.univision.com/feeds/article/2011-11-03/estadounidense-finge-ser-indocumentado-para</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-66306508331572029502011-11-02T11:50:00.000-07:002011-11-06T11:53:23.809-08:00Amid record deportations from the US, Mexico urges migrants to head home<span style="font-weight: bold;">But despite record deportations, many migrants at a shelter in Nogales, Mexico, now consider the US to be home.<br /></span>By Lourdes Medrano<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Christian Science Monitor</span><br />November 3, 2011<br /><br />Nogales, Mexico: Day and night, hundreds of Mexican migrants stream into this border city after being deported from the US amid record deportations taking place under the Obama administration.<br /><br />At one migrant shelter in Nogales, workers encourage deportees to return home rather than attempt to cross into the US illegally again, through the treacherous desert that spans both sides of the border.<br /><br />“There’s a federal program that will pay for your bus ticket so you can get back home,” Valente Camacho Terraza tells a group of migrants arriving at the center, which functions both as a shelter and transportation company.<br /><br />But "home" for many of them is not the interior town from which they left, but cities in the US where they have worked for a decade or two, or sometimes more. Cuauhtémoc Bravo Guerrero, a migrant at the center who was recently deported from California, says he spent 30 years in the US. He has been at the shelter for days, unsure of his next move. “I want to go back to California,” he says.<br /><br />Most of the migrants get a couple days of rest and nourishment before deciding whether to return to their states of origin or head back toward the international line. Without money or family ties in Nogales, many accept the Mexican government’s offer, Mr. Camacho says.<br /><br />But in the past year, he has noticed that a lot of migrants tend to stay longer – some up to a month. He attributes that to the changing make-up of the migrant population.<br /><br />About five years ago, the shelter was crowded with migrants – mostly men – who kept getting caught after crossing the border repeatedly. That has changed over time to include more women and children, who are housed in another shelter for minors. The mix now includes fewer people heading north and more migrants who are being deported after spending a decade or two north of the border, Camacho says. They linger at the shelter trying to reach family members in the US and figuring out where they might go next.<br /><br />“Things get complicated for them,” Camacho says.<br /><br />In an outdoor waiting area, several men wait in silence. Most have just been deported after being picked up in Arizona, California, and other states. No one is eager to share names. Two young men say they were deported after spending time behind bars in Arizona. A middle-aged man who lived in the US for 20 years says he was deported after Phoenix police stopped him while driving with a broken side mirror.<br /><br />A few miles away, at the downtown border crossing, a Border Patrol bus arrives mid-afternoon with another group of deportees: a boy about eight years old, 23 women and 35 men who walk toward Mexico in a single file.<br /><br />Officials might try to urge them to continue heading south, but for many their roots are now behind them.<br /><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2011/1103/Amid-record-deportations-from-the-US-Mexico-urges-migrants-to-head-home"><br />http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2011/1103/Amid-record-deportations-from-the-US-Mexico-urges-migrants-to-head-home</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-12960620705574173902011-11-01T11:56:00.000-07:002011-11-06T11:57:51.937-08:00ACLU Lawsuit: Warrantless Raid on Tennessee Apartments Aimed to Clear Complex of Hispanic ResidentsBy Ashley Portero<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Business and Law</span><br />November 1, 2011<br /><br />The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of 15 residents of a Tennessee apartment complex who had their homes illegally raided by immigration officials on Oct. 20, 2010, an act the suit claims was the result of a conspiracy to rid the complex of its Hispanic residents.<br /><br />Multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, in addition to officers from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department and the employees for the private security company Crime Suppression Services, forced their ways into multiple residences in South Nashville's Clairmont Apartments without a search warrant, ultimately arresting 20 people, according to the lawsuit. The ACLU of Tennessee reports ICE officials broke into apartments, harassed residents with racially-charged slurs and even held guns to the heads of some unarmed individuals.<br /><br />When one of the residents asked the law enforcements agents if they had a search warrant, one agent reportedly replied, "We don't need a warrant, we're ICE." He then gestured to his genitals and made an explicit reference, saying the warrant was "coming out" of that area.<br /><br />It is unclear as to whether the agent in question has been identified. Lindsay Kee, the communications director of ACLU Tennessee told the International Business Times the office did not have any additional information about the incident beyond what is listed in the legal complaint.<br /><br />ICE officials did not return a request for comment. The agency told The Tennessean it does not comment on pending litigation.<br /><br />Did Law Enforcement Officials Violate 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments?<br /><br />The lawsuit argues law enforcement officials violated the plaintiffs' -- who are all U.S. citizens -- rights under the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and federal civil rights laws.<br /><br />In particular, the Fourth Amendment strictly prohibits law enforcement from intruding into private homes without a judicially authorized search warrant. In the absence of a warrant, citizens' must offers their voluntary and knowing consent.<br /><br />The plaintiffs include a child who the ACLU claims was detained and interrogated while playing soccer on a playground because he appeared to be of Latino descent.<br /><br />The lawsuit names several ICE agents, officers from the Nashville police department as well as the apartment complex's owner, manager and security company. The apartment complex is managed by Greystar Real Estate Partners and owned by TriTex Real Estate Partners.<br /><br />In a statement released shortly after the incident, the Nashville Police Department said the raid was in response to reports from Clairmont Apartments' employees who said there was a threatening gang presence at the complex, The Tennessean reports. Police said they were concerned gangs were preying on undocumented immigrants that were hesitant to report robberies and other crimes because of their immigration status.<br /><br />The department statement, according to the newspaper, said officers merely conducted "knock and talks" and did not illegally force their way into their homes.<br /><br />The statement does not appear on the police department's Web site.<br /><br />The lawsuit claims Greystar manager Tracy Hall told police she intended to "clean house, and get the Hispanics gone." As a result, the management company reportedly allowed building conditions to deteriorate. In addition, in the course of one rental cycle Greystar abandoned its on-site offices, began demanding Social Security numbers in order to sign lease agreements, and coordinated immigration raids that led to 20 detentions and resulted in scores of apartment vacancies.<br /><br />Some of the 20 people arrested during the Oct. 2010 raid were placed into deportation proceedings, while others were released. No criminal charges were pursued.<br /><br />In an Oct. 19 news conference where ACLU officials announced the lawsuit -- just one day before the year-anniversary of the incident -- Megan Macaraeg of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition said many Hispanic residents are leaving Clairmont Apartments out of fear.<br /><br />"I was just there today chatting with residents," Macaraeg said. "There are still apartments that stand vacant, and most Hispanic residents who were there are gone, have fled the site of terror."<br /><a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/241396/20111101/aclu-lawsuit-warrantless-raid-tennessee-apartment-complex.htm"><br />http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/241396/20111101/aclu-lawsuit-warrantless-raid-tennessee-apartment-complex.htm</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-91944043895973977622011-10-31T11:15:00.000-07:002011-11-06T11:17:34.974-08:00EU violó acuerdos en casi 50% de repatriaciones: SG<span style="font-weight: bold;">Preocupa al gobierno la criminalización que se hace de los migrantes para deportarlos</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">La Jornada<br /></span>31 Octubre 2011<br /><br /><br />México, DF. El gobierno mexicano solicitó a su contraparte estadunidense revisar los convenios de repatriación, ante el hecho de que casi la mitad de las expulsiones se ejecutan fuera de los convenios bilaterales y de las pautas (detenciones y devoluciones) registradas por décadas.<br /><br />En ese contexto, demanda a Washington que garantice el acceso a la información relacionada con los motivos de expulsión de cada uno de los repatriados y, en los expedientes de aquellos con antecedentes penales, conocer los motivos del encarcelamiento.<br /><br />"El gobierno federal debe impulsar la revisión de los convenios de repatriación", señaló a La Jornada René Zenteno Quintero, subsecretario de Población, Migración y Asuntos Religiosos de la Secretaría de Gobernación (SG).<br /><br />Esta dependencia, responsable de la política interna y de migración, puso en alerta a la administración federal en conjunto, así como a los gobiernos de las entidades fronterizas, luego de revisar las estadísticas del Departamento de Seguridad Interna de Washington y del propio Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM).<br /><br />Con base en lo anterior, el subsecretario Zenteno concluye que si bien el número total de mexicanos repatriados ha disminuido sistemáticamente (de 1.7 millones en 2000 a 637 mil en 2010), el perfil de los operativos para deportarlos “se ha vuelto más heterogéneo, principalmente por la creciente presencia de migrantes procesados dentro de Estados Unidos.<br /><br />“Muchos de ellos –dijo– tienen varios años viviendo allende la frontera; tienen redes familiares sólidas, sus hijos nacieron en el vecino país y otros son deportados por medio de una ‘orden judicial de remoción’. En esta condición –con tintes de criminalización– fueron devueltos 282 mil mexicanos, motivo de preocupación del gobierno mexicano.<br /><br />"Actualmente casi la mitad de las repatriaciones no se reconocen en la pauta, por décadas dominante, de detenciones en la frontera y devoluciones inmediatas a México. Todo ello confronta el diseño y operación de la política pública hacia la población repatriada en las ciudades fronterizas", subrayó el funcionario.<br /><br />La alerta anterior se relaciona a que las expulsiones están fuera del Memorándum de Entendimiento sobre Repatriación Segura y Ordenada de Nacionales Mexicanos. Por ello, el gobierno pide a su contraparte ampliar y fortalecer el mismo.<br /><br />Ese convenio está firmado entre distintas agencias estadunidenses y dependencias de México, el cual establece que las repatriaciones deben realizarse en horarios y con procedimientos que garanticen orden y seguridad para todos los involucrados en 18 puntos oficiales de devolución, localizados en 17 ciudades de la frontera norte de nuestro país.<br /><br />Las estadísticas del INM dan cuenta acerca de estos procesos de repatriación con base en el citado memorándum: cerca de 50 por ciento de los actos anuales ocurridos entre 2004 y 2010 se concretaron en las ciudades de Tijuana, Baja California, y Nogales, Sonora.<br /><br />En ese lapso, Tijuana registró más de 150 mil repatriaciones por año. En lo que va de 2011 van 322 mil deportaciones. Tijuana ha recibido casi a 65 mil connacionales; le siguen Mexicali, Nogales y Nuevo Laredo, con 51 mil, 45 mil y 39 mil, respectivamente.<br /><br />Como se difundió (La Jornada, 9 de agosto de 2010), de los mexicanos devueltos por autoridades migratorias de Estados Unidos, 35 mil 779 afirmaron que fueron detenidos en sus trabajos u hogares (en 2005 sólo fueron 8 mil 146).<br /><br />Además, 52 mil 835 fueron devueltos sin sus familiares (en 2004, ese indicador se ubicó en 18 mil 714 mexicanos), según la Encuesta sobre Migración en la Frontera Norte.<br /><br />A escala general, las agencias estadunidenses destacaron en sus informes que el año pasado alcanzaron un cifra récord de casi 393 mil personas deportadas, de las cuales 72 por ciento fueron mexicanos. Para el gobierno federal es preocupante que sus homólogos argumenten que estos operativos tiene como fin "remover" a un mayor número de criminales extranjeros. Para el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, son antecedentes criminales incluso las faltas administrativas.<br /><br />Además de la ruptura de familias y otras redes comunitarias, al ejecutar abruptamente las deportaciones, la oleada de expulsiones de quienes tienen antecedentes penales representa también una preocupación para el gobierno mexicano, por el impacto que las repatriaciones colectivas traen aparejadas en la ya de por sí violenta frontera norte.<br /><br />El problema con las repatriaciones, explicó, no ocurre sólo con base en cuántos llegan o a qué ritmo lo hacen, sino también cómo se incorporan al tejido social en las ciudades fronterizas o en el interior del país.<br /><br />Por lo pronto, autoridades de los tres niveles de gobierno han tenido que coordinar acciones para determinar qué harán con el "nuevo perfil" de las deportaciones, especialmente para comunicar a los migrantes con sus familiares en ambos países y, en muchos casos, dotarles de documentos de identidad oficial.<br /><br />Como muchos de los connacionales han pasado incluso varios lustros en Estados Unidos, deben tramitar su registro al sistema de salud y, en su caso, integrarse a actividades productivas.<br /><br />Ante ésto, la Secretaría de Gobernación pide también la colaboración de la sociedad para que, junto con las autoridades, se proteja a los repatriados y se les facilite el acceso a los servicios a los que, como mexicanos, tienen derecho.<br /><a href="http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/euvioloacuerdosencasi50derepatriacionessg-1136070.html"><br />http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/euvioloacuerdosencasi50derepatriacionessg-1136070.html</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-44035940448460818182011-10-30T11:59:00.000-07:002011-11-06T12:01:52.079-08:00Transfer programs push deportations to record highWritten by Sandra Dibble<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">San Diego Tribune</span><br />Oct. 30, 2011<br /><br />Deportations along the California-Mexico border rose sharply during the past fiscal year mainly because of U.S. efforts to disrupt smuggling routes and discourage migrants who keep making illegal crossings, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<br /><br />During the 12-month period that ended Sept. 30, the agency reported 33,006 removals in the region — an increase of more than 82 percent over the previous year. The latest figure is a record high for the California-Mexico region.<br /><br />Deportations also reached an unprecedented level nationally, though the rise was far less steep. ICE this month reported 396,906 removals nationwide during fiscal 2011, an uptick of barely more than 1 percent over fiscal 2010.<br /><br />Removals along the California-Mexico border are carried out through the agency’s San Diego Field Office, which covers San Diego and Imperial counties. That office’s newest annual deportation total ranked third nationally, after San Antonio (63,090) and Phoenix (56,198).<br /><br />The dramatic boost in removals for the San Diego office was largely due to two “lateral repatriation programs” designed to deter persistent illegal border-crossers and thwart smugglers, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for ICE in San Diego.<br /><br />In February, a local program was launched to target undocumented immigrants who are repeatedly caught at the San Diego border and transfer them to other jurisdictions for removal from the country. The San Diego office handles about 400 of those cases in a typical month, Mack said.<br /><br />Also contributing to the soaring total was a national program spearheaded by Customs and Border Patrol that last year brought thousands of illegal immigrants who were detained in Arizona and Texas to San Diego for deportation, and those numbers were added to the San Diego tally as well, Mack said.<br /><br />A primary rationale for the transfer programs is that deporting people farther away from where they entered the United States will make it tougher — and more expensive — for them to reconnect with their smugglers and try to cross again.<br /><br />The ICE figures have sparked renewed discussion about the Obama administration’s deportation policy, which has placed greater focus on undocumented immigrants with criminal records. The national ICE statistics show that 55 percent of deportees in fiscal year 2011 had been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor — compared with 31 percent in 2008.<br /><br />About 43 percent of deportees handled by the San Diego Field Office in the most recent fiscal year had criminal records.<br /><br />Nationally, the major crime categories were traffic offenses, led by drunken driving. These were followed by crimes involving dangerous drugs, including use, possession and distribution; immigration violations; and assaults.<br /><br />Deportations across the country have skyrocketed over the past decade, though the rate of increase has dropped over the past three years. One factor driving some of the increases has been the Secure Communities program launched in 2008 under then President George W. Bush, through which the fingerprints of detainees — anyone from shoplifters to killers — are checked for immigration violations, said Aarti Kohli, director of immigration policy at the Berkeley-based Warren Institute.<br /><br />Andrea Guerrero, executive director of Equality Alliance San Diego, is among those challenging the administration’s immigration enforcement strategies.<br /><br />“Increased deportations are not a fix to our broken immigration system,” she said. “Contrary to what the administration promised, the deportations are not focused on serious criminals. They are sweeping up misdemeanor offenders and non-criminals.”<br /><br />Many immigrants are confused by the administration’s policy, said Lilia Velazquez, an immigration attorney in San Diego. “People tell me, ‘I was arrested, (but) didn’t the president say that people like us should not be arrested?’”<br /><br />Others criticize President Barack Obama for being too lenient on border security and deportations.<br /><br />Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C., said the record-setting removal numbers for fiscal year 2011 are still too small to make a substantial impact.<br /><br />“The administration refuses to ask for additional resources for deportations,” said Krikorian, who favors stronger limits on both legal and illegal immigration.<br /><br />Peter Nuñez, a former U.S. attorney in San Diego who lectures at the University of San Diego, said it’s hard to argue against the administration’s official emphasis on deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records. “But we can’t send a message at the same time that all other illegal (immigrants) are essentially immune from being removed or deported.”<br /><br />At the Warren Institute, Kohli said the ultimate solution is wide-ranging immigration reform.<br /><br />“There are a lot of things that are broken with our immigration system,” she said. “The one entity that could fix it, Congress, has been unable to do that.”<br /><a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/30/transfer-programs-push-deportations-record-high/"><br />http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/30/transfer-programs-push-deportations-record-high/</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-17771001253415621392011-10-29T01:32:00.000-07:002011-11-06T12:08:05.041-08:00El gobierno de Zacatecas abrirá en Tijuana una oficina para atender a los paisanos que han sido deportados y a quienes no pudieron cruzar la frontera.<span style="font-weight: bold;">En Tijuana ayudarán a zacatecanos; Se abrirá en diciembre próximo un centro de apoyo para quienes son deportados</span><br />Por Jorge Morales Almada |<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">La Opinión</span><br />2011-10-29<br /><br />El gobierno de Zacatecas abrirá en Tijuana una oficina para atender a los paisanos que han sido deportados y a quienes no pudieron cruzar la frontera.<br /><br />Rafael Hurtado, representante del gobierno de Zacatecas en California, informó que el centro de atención a zacatecanos se inaugurará entre el 15 y 18 de diciembre.<br /><br />En California se estima que radican unos 400 mil zacatecanos, casi una tercera parte de la población total en ese estado del centro de México.<br /><br />Hurtado dijo que la apertura de ese centro de atención es en respuesta a la necesidad que hay por el incremento de zacatecanos que están siendo deportados o que se están regresando debido a la crisis económica en Estados Unidos.<br /><br />"El Ayuntamiento de Tijuana, a través del DIF, nos va a echar la mano mientras encontramos una oficina", comentó Hurtado.<br /><br />En la oficina de atención a zacatecanos se les ofrecerá alimento, transportación a los albergues de migrantes y ayuda económica para el pasaje de regreso a Zacatecas. También se atenderá a quienes requieren realizar algún trámite en su estado.<br /><br />La oficina de atención a migrantes de Zacatecas operará de manera similar a las que ya existen en Los Ángeles, California; Chicago, Illinois, y Dallas, Texas.<br /><br />La nueva oficina dependerá el Instituto Estatal de Migración de Zacatecas, la cual tiene un presupuesto de 8 millones de pesos anuales para ese tipo de centros de ayuda.<br /><br />Se estima que cada mes unos 200 zacatecanos están siendo repatriados por la frontera de Tijuana.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MÁS RECURSOS</span><br /><br />Por su parte, Efraín Jiménez, vicepresidente de la Red Mexicana de Líderes y Organizaciones Migrantes, dijo en entrevista desde la Ciudad de México, que dentro del presupuesto que se discute en el Congreso han acordado con los diputados que integran la Comisión de Población, Fronteras y Asuntos Migratorios aumentar el Fondo de Apoyo al Migrante de 100 millones de pesos a 300 millones de pesos.<br /><br />Sin embargo, recalcó, ese montó podría elevarse hasta los 1,000 millones debido a la gran necesidad y ante lo cual están de acuerdo varios diputados que integran la comisión.<br /><br />Este año, dijo Jiménez, se estima que unos 700 mil migrantes han regresado a México por la crisis, las políticas antiinmigrantes o las deportaciones.<br /><br />Ese dinero se destinaría para crear proyectos productivos de los migrantes deportados y para ayudar a las familias a la reintegración, mencionó el representante de los migrantes.<br /><br />El Fondo de Apoyo al Migrante se creó en 2009 con 300 millones de pesos ante la contingencia por las masivas deportaciones, el año pasado se redujo a 100 millones, y este año se espera elevarlo a 1,000 millones.<br /><br />Por lo menos ese fondo recuperará los 200 millones que le quitaron el año pasado, apuntó Jiménez.<br /><br />De elevarse a los 1,000 millones, indicó Jiménez, la cifra representaría solo el 3% de los impuestos que se pagan por concepto de remesas.<br /><br />"Es decir que el gobierno de México no nos está dando nada, solo regresando parte de lo que pagamos en impuestos", recalcó.<br /><br />De manera adicional, dijo, se están gestionando más de 200 millones de pesos para un fondo que estaría abriendo albergues para deportados en la frontera norte de México.<br /><br />También se está abogando para que no se reduzca el fondo del Programa 3 X 1, ya que en el presupuesto de egresos se pretenden recortar 57 millones de pesos.<br /><br />‘El Ayuntamiento de Tijuana, a través del DIF, nos va a echar la mano mientras encontramos una oficina’.<br /><br />Rafael Hurtado<br /><br />Representante del gobierno de Zacatecas en California<br /><a href="http://www.impre.com/laopinion/noticias/2011/10/29/en-tijuana-ayudaran-a-zacateca-279668-1.html"><br />http://www.impre.com/laopinion/noticias/2011/10/29/en-tijuana-ayudaran-a-zacateca-279668-1.html</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-22374254677205632032011-10-28T12:09:00.000-07:002011-11-06T12:12:19.013-08:00Protecting illegal immigrants to catch criminalsBy PAUL McENROE <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Minneapolis Star Tribune</span> <br />28 October 2011<br /><br />AUSTIN, Minn. - It was after 1 a.m. when the policeman arrived at Patricia Sanchez's house, and he understood in a glance why she had dialed 911. Her face was streaked with scratches and her neck bore the red imprint of a man's hand.<br /><br />"You're lucky to be alive," he said. He arrested her husband for domestic violence with intent to strangle and told the young woman to get an order for protection as soon as the courthouse opened.<br /><br />The next morning, before returning to work at her packinghouse job, Sanchez stood at a court clerk's window, filling out a piece of paper supposedly strong enough to stop abuse.<br /><br />While Sanchez waited at the courthouse, though, police were at her home, searching for evidence that her husband was an illegal immigrant. Rummaging through drawers and bedding, an officer noticed a framed photograph on the living room wall. It depicted a woman identified as Lisa Salazar in her white work uniform and hard hat, honored as Quality Pork Processors' Employee of the Month.<br /><br />Except that Salazar looked exactly like Patricia Sanchez. Police also found documents suggesting Sanchez had committed identity fraud to get work and receive benefits for her children.<br /><br />A week later, Sanchez sat bewildered in the Mower County jail, facing immigration charges and the threat of deportation back to Mexico. The victim had become a suspect.<br /><br />The frightening June night in 2009 transformed Sanchez's life -- and now it has thrust Mower County into the vanguard of a national struggle over illegal immigration, policing and crime.<br /><br />Today, after more than a year of soul-searching over law and justice, Mower County has a striking new policy: Illegal immigrants who become victims of violent crime will not be charged with document offenses, giving them immunity to aid the prosecution of more serious, violent felonies.<br /><br />In Austin, a storied meatpacking town of 24,700 near the Iowa border, the issue has been pushed to the fore by an unlikely voice: Jeremy Clinefelter, the tough-minded assistant prosecutor who helped deport Sanchez's husband and then charged her with felony fraud.<br /><br />"It didn't feel right morally," Clinefelter said. "We're prosecutors. But more that, we're here to be fair and just."<br /><br />Mower County may be unique in the Upper Midwest, according to Rice County Attorney Paul Beaumaster, president of the Minnesota County Attorneys Association. But its new approach, he said, could have wider repercussions by removing a form of blackmail used against illegal immigrants.<br /><br />"The abuser says, 'You can't go to the police, or I'm going to tell them you're here illegally,' " Beaumaster said. "It's a legitimate use of prosecutorial discretion in assuring that a defendant doesn't get to use our immigration laws as a weapon."<br /><br />Since Congress created a program called Secure Communities in 2007, local police and prosecutors across the country have been playing an ever-larger role in enforcing federal immigration law. Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants have been arrested and deported, often in a process that started with a routine traffic stop or a set of fingerprints taken at a county jail.<br /><br />But one question keeps arising: How can police and prosecutors build trust in growing ethnic communities when illegal immigrants who are otherwise law-abiding fear they will face arrest and deportation if they step forward to report crime?<br /><br />Secure Communities places a priority on catching dangerous illegal immigrants convicted of violent felonies, yet federal documents show that one-fourth of the immigrants deported under the act had no criminal convictions.<br /><br />At least five states have dropped out of the program in the past year, amid concerns about the potential for abusive and counterproductive tactics.<br /><br />In Minnesota, however, some influential lawmakers are eager to have the state participate, even though that's not mandatory until 2013.<br /><br />Sen. Julianne Ortman, R-Chanhassen, who pressed the legislation last spring, says the issue has been unfairly politicized. "I agree we should have amnesty programs for victims and witnesses who report crimes," she said. "But if we're going to house them in our jails or in our custody, we want to find out whether they're here illegally."<br /><br />But civil liberties lawyers -- and some prominent lawmen -- disagree.<br /><br />"You're going to put the community in an adversarial position with their police," says John Harrington, a state senator and former St. Paul police chief. "You're taking out the people who are in the best position to tell us about dangerous people in our community."<br /><br />He soon found that, geographically and emotionally, Austin sat at the center of an immigration wave roiling southern Minnesota. The big meatpacking plants across the state's southern tier required an endless supply of workers willing to do grueling, dangerous jobs for modest wages. People willing to travel thousands of miles from the Texas-Mexico border for low wages satisfied it.<br /><br />But there was a hidden cost to the boom. Austin had hundreds of residents with two, sometimes three, different names. They had purchased stolen IDs from brokers along the Mexican border or once they arrived in the Midwest. That meant there were also hundreds of victims of identity theft somewhere -- crime victims who suffered because of immigrants seeking work.<br /><br />From 2000 to 2009, the Hispanic population in Mower County more than doubled, to nearly 3,500, part of a larger immigration wave statewide. Clinefelter's stolen-identity caseload was running at 50 to 70 files per year by 2005, most of them illegal immigrants. He'd become the office expert on document crimes.<br /><br />As a teenager, Patricia Sanchez had risked her life crossing the Mexican border and the treacherous Sonoran Desert to get to the United States for a better life. Now, in the summer of 2009, she found herself in a Sherburne County jail cell leased by federal immigration authorities. Her sister in California had taken the children.<br /><br />"People at immigration see us as criminals," she recalled. "I told them: 'I came here to work. I don't use drugs, I don't drink. I am not a bad person."<br /><br />Meanwhile, her case had been taken up by a St. Paul attorney, former Ramsey County District Judge Alberto Miera. He argued that the police had conducted an illegal search of Sanchez's purse and wanted the fraud case dismissed.<br /><br />Finally, the attorneys agreed to go to trial on a charge of simple forgery, still a felony. A judge found Sanchez guilty. She received a year's stay, marked down to a misdemeanor if she obeyed the law.<br /><br />Then, satisfied with a finding of guilt, Clinefelter and Nelsen took a step on Sanchez's behalf -- the crucial step that could save her from deportation. They supported her application for a special visa granted to victims of domestic violence, a document known as a U-Visa. It worked.<br /><br />By that fall, Sanchez was released from federal custody, reunited with her children, and back at work on the cutting line at Quality Pork.<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/immigrant-protect102811/immigrant-protect102811/"><br />http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/immigrant-protect102811/immigrant-protect102811/</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-42829329263690097102011-10-27T12:13:00.000-07:002011-11-06T12:14:39.683-08:00Most deported illegal immigrants from 4 Latin American countriesBy Brady McCombs<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Arizona Daily Star<br /></span>October 27, 2011<br /><br />Four Latin American countries accounted for 91 percent of the record number of people deported in the recently-completed fiscal year.<br /><br />Nearly 363,000 of the 396,900 people deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in fiscal year 2011 were from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, government figures show. Here’s the breakdown:<br /><br />• Mexico - 286,893 (72 percent)<br /><br />• Guatemala - 33,324 (8 percent)<br /><br />• Honduras - 23,822 (6 percent)<br /><br />• El Salvador - 18,870 (5 percent)<br /><br />There was a big dropoff to the next country, Brazil, which accounted for 3,364 deportations. Only seven other countries accounted for more than 1,000 deportations: Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Jamaica, China and Peru.<br /><br />The combined deportations of citizens from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have accounted for 87-91 percent of the yearly deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement every year since 2001, government figures show.<br /><br />Mexico has been the leading country of origin for deportees every year in this span, accounting for 57-73 percent of the yearly deportations.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Criminal illegal immigrants</span><br /><br />The breakdown of the felony and misdemeanor crimes committed by the nearly 217,000 deportees defined as "criminal" illegal immigrants is not yet available for the completed fiscal year 2011.<br /><br />But, the figures through the first 10 1/2 months of fiscal 2011 show that five crimes account for 62 percent of the people in this category:<br /><br />• Dangerous drugs - 37,083 (22 percent)<br /><br />• Driving under the influence, liquor - 28,214 (17 percent)<br /><br />• Immigration offenses - 28,110 (17 percent)<br /><br />• Miscellaneous traffic offense - 14,331 (8 percent)<br /><br />• Assault - 11,386 (7 percent).<br /><br />Four of these crimes — drugs, DUI, immigration and assault — have been among the top five every year since 2001.<br /><br />But the miscellaneous traffic offenses category has not always been among the leaders. The percentage of criminal illegal immigrants who have committed some kind of traffic offense has been on the rise each of the past five years.<br /><br />This category includes hit and run; transporting dangerous material; driving under the influence of drugs; driving under the influence of liquor; and other traffic offenses. Here is a look at how this category has increased as a percentage of the total deportations of “criminal” illegal immigrants:<br /><br />Fiscal 2011* — 44,136 (26 percent)<br /><br />Fiscal 2010 — 42,339 (22 percent)<br /><br />Fiscal 2009 — 27,354 (20 percent)<br /><br />Fiscal 2008 — 16,249 (14 percent)<br /><br />Fiscal 2007 — 10,787 (10 percent)<br /><br />Fiscal 2006 — 6,154 (7 percent)<br /><br />The Obama administration has taken criticism from both sides of the immigration debate for rising deportation levels.<br /><br />Republican border hawks and critics of the administration's immigration enforcement strategy call the deportation numbers inflated because they include people who voluntarily leave with no penalties and may be able to cross back into the country illegally.<br /><br />Immigrant rights groups contend the government is unfairly targeting illegal immigrants who are not a menace to society, separating families and creating fear in immigrant communities.<br /><br />Contact reporter Brady McCombs at 573-4213 or bmccombs@azstarnet.com<br /><br /><a href="http://azstarnet.com/most-deported-illegal-immigrants-from-latin-american-countries/article_2943c31c-00d0-11e1-aca9-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1cxSmWity">http://azstarnet.com/most-deported-illegal-immigrants-from-latin-american-countries/article_2943c31c-00d0-11e1-aca9-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1cxSmWity</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327459931741489654.post-67641062478963025632011-10-26T12:19:00.000-07:002011-11-06T12:21:03.764-08:00Juárez: Migrants' situation worsens with decrease in support servicesby Lourdes Cardenas<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">El Paso Times</span><br />10/24/2011<br /><br />CIUDAD JUAREZ -- The vulnerability of migrants has worsened in recent years not only due to the drug-related violence throughout Mexico, but also because of the conditions in which they are being deported from the United States, analysts said in a conference on immigration last week.<br /><br />"Many come with nontreated health problems, poorly fed, without belongings," said Rodolfo Rubio, a researcher at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte. " They are even deported with the uniform of the detention center. They have no family or social networks (in the place where they are left), their situation is highly vulnerable."<br /><br />The situation has deteriorated even more. Support services offered to migrants in cities such as Juarez are declining. In fact, Juarez's municipal office dedicated to provide services to migrants -- in transit or repatriated -- closed its operations in July.<br /><br />A spokesman for the Juarez municipal government confirmed that the migrant services office (Oficina de Atención al Migrante) closed its operations July 19. He cited budget issues as one of the reasons.<br /><br />"The office used to support returnees with a bus ticket to travel to their place of origin, as well as providing them food for the trip," said Luis Cano, city spokesman. "Migrants continue to receive support from state government through the office of the National Employment System, plus the federal government by the National Institute of Migration."<br /><br />The decline began in 2009 when former mayor José Reyes Ferriz asked the U.S. immigration authorities to repatriate them to other places, arguing that many of the deportees were criminals that could be easily recruited by organized crime. At the time, between 60 and 65 percent of the deportees to Juarez would come from immigration detention centers in the United States.<br /><br />Reyes' decision created a crisis to the institutions that provided services because of the lack of migrants to be served, Rubio said.<br /><br />In 2008, only 1.2 percent of migrants going to the United States passed through Juarez, a percentage that continues today.<br /><br />The same decline occurred with deportations. In 2004, 12.8 percent of those deported by all border-crossing points were sent to Juarez. Four years later, in 2008, the percentage stood at 9.8 percent. Today, there are no deportations to Juarez from U.S. detention centers. The bulk of the deportations (36.3 percent) now go through Tucson-Nogales.<br /><br />The changes have made things difficult for those organizations that help migrants.<br /><br />Take for instance, the "Casa del Migrante" of the Catholic Diocese of Juarez. It receives between 20 and 30 people daily, a figure that includes transit migrants and deported. The house can accommodate up to 300 people.<br /><br />"Due to the increase of violence it was decided to deport people to other borders, but still, so far this year we have had a considerable number of migrants," said Blanca Rivera, in charge of the Casa del Migrante.<br /><br />The organization receives funds from the Catholic Dioceses as well as donations from other institutions.<br /><br />Regarding the possibility of going back to the previous trends in which migrants crossed through big cities such as Tijuana and Juárez, Rubio said it would depend more on the U.S. surveillance measures.<br /><br />"The migrants, the smugglers and the coyotes are in constant search of the places where the possibility of being apprehended is less, not where the possibility of risk is higher or lower," he said. "It seems then that the crossing point choice has more to do with the idea of getting to the place rather than with security conditions."<br /><br />Lourdes Cardenas may be reached at lcardenas@elpasotimes.com; 546-6249<br /><a href="http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_19179826?source=most_viewed"><br />http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_19179826?source=most_viewed</a>Mexican Expulsionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609275065616998594noreply@blogger.com