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Share your undocumented or ally experiences because no one but yourself can do it. Stories will be displayed on www.DreamActivist.org or www.Nysylc.org if you feel comfortable with it. Stories are being collected starting Dec 2011 - Feb 2012

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No human being is illegal.

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Justice Department: Arpaio violated Latinos' civil rights

Arpaio is accused of racially profiling Latinos and using draconian methods to enforce immigration laws. (Wikipedia)

By JUAN GASTELUM Channel: Immigration, Politics

The Justice Department on Thursday accused Arizona’s infamous immigration hardliner, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, of a litany civil rights violations against Latinos under his jurisdiction.

The department issued a 22-page report, which is the result of a three year investigation of Arpaio’s office, that reveals a pattern of racial profiling and discrimination against Latinos, including heavy-handed immigration raids based on racially-charged citizen complaints. 

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OUR YOUTH COULDN’T GET INTO THE HEARING BECAUSE THEY LACKED ID’s. THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO PASS THE NEW YORK DREAM ACT

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“Drop the I Word” is human rights campaign which strives to achieve equality, opportunity, and sustainability through the reformation of the public school system and the investment in green energy.

Philosophy

In the U.S. whenever immigration is discussed, we almost always see the term...

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Mike Luckovich: No Milk and Cookies This Year - Truthdig

GET INFORMED ABOUT THE UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH

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I’m not sure if this warrants a TW but these stories are heartbreaking and essentially are government sanctioned kidnapping. It may, therefore, be triggering.

This image is from a Colorlines article called “Thousands of Kids Taken From Parents in U.S Deportation System.” The article details findings from a year long investigation by Esther Portillo-Gonzales and Seth Freed-Wessler for the Applied Research Center. The report is called Shattered Families. Their research is still ongoing.

These children, many of whom should never have been separated from their parents in the first place, face often insurmountable obstacles to reunifying with their mothers and fathers. Though child welfare departments are required by federal law to reunify children with any parents who are able to provide for the basic safety of their children, detention makes this all but impossible. Then, once parents are deported, families are often separated for long periods. Ultimately, child welfare departments and juvenile courts too often move to terminate the parental rights of deportees and put children up for adoption, rather than attempt to unify the family as they would in other circumstances.

Some key findings from the report:

There are at least 5,100 children currently living in foster care who are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents.

If nothing changes, 15,000 more children may face a similar fate in the next 5 years.

This is a growing national problem, not one confined to border jurisdictions or states— ARC identified at least 22 states where these cases have emerged.

Families are more likely to be separated where local police aggressively participate in immigration enforcement.

Immigrant victims of domestic violence are at particular risk of losing their children

ICE detention obstructs participation in Child Protective Services’ plans for family unity.

Most child welfare departments lack systemic policies to keep families united when parents are detained or deported.

Further Reading:

Follow-up article: “U.S. Deports 46k Parents With Citizen Kids In Just Six Months.”

RESOURCES:

“How to Protect Your Parental Rights from Detention” Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project Spanish / English (PDF) “FAQ: Detained Parents with Minor Kids” Americans for Immigrant Justice (formerly, FIAC) Spanish / English (PDF) ADDITIONAL READINGS: 

“Torn Apart by Immigration Enforcement: Parental Rights and Immigration Detention” Women’s Refugee Commission

“Disappearing Parents: A Report on Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System” University of Arizona. Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program

“The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Child Welfare” First Focus

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On Saturday members of the Occupy Birmingham movement branched out from their camp and marched with other Alabama civic and religious organizations to the Etowah County Detention Center to protest the state’s harsh immigration law, which has been challenged in court as racial profiling, among other things. Occupy Birmingham says it has a long list of objections to the law, H.B. 56, but it names the jailing of people for profit as one of the factors that ties the Occupy movement with immigrant rights.

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Two recent UCLA graduates who were leaders in the movement to support undocumented immigrant students.

  Tam Tran, 27, and Cinthya Felix Perez, 26, died Saturday, May 15, in Trenton, Maine, when the car in which they were riding collided with a pickup truck traveling in the opposite direction. The accident is under investigation by the Hancock County Sheriff's Office.

  The women were returning with a friend from a weekend trip when the accident occurred, friends said.

  Members of the UCLA community, as private citizens, are taking donations to assist the women's families with funeral expenses. Campus community members are also establishing a scholarship fund to assist other undocumented immigrant students.

  Both were instrumental in the founding of a student group known by the acronym IDEAS (Improving Dreams, Equality, Access, and Success), which is a support and advocacy group for undocumented immigrant students.

  "By all accounts, Tam Tran and Cinthya Felix Perez were outstanding students and beloved leaders who touched many lives with their courage, passion and intellect," said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block in a statement earlier today. "As undocumented immigrant students, they surmounted exceptional hurdles to earn their UCLA degrees, and together with others in a tight-knit community dedicated themselves to helping others in similar circumstances. In many ways, they embody the values that UCLA stands for. The campus community joins with their families and friends in mourning their deaths."  

  Under California's AB 540 legislation, enacted in 2001, undocumented immigrant students are eligible to pay student fees as California residents; however, they are not eligible to receive financial aid or any scholarship funds donated directly to UCLA. Most of the approximately 200 undocumented immigrant students at UCLA are from poor families.

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Photos from the UC Regents Meeting protest at UCLA, 11/28/11. For the rest of the photos, visit the Pacific Ties website.

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Dream State: Inside the life of an undocumented student

  Alejandro Jimenez was seven when he and his brother joined their mother in Los Angeles. He completed high school and community college in San Jose after his family moved there from the gang-riddled streets of South Central Los Angeles. Now a senior majoring in ethnic studies, Jimenez transferred to UC Berkeley in spring 2010 after three years at DeAnza Community College in Cupertino.

(Source: dreamstate.dailycal.org)