Posts Tagged ‘Deportations’
Nancy Pelosi’s Intervention Probably Not Enough to Keep Immigrant Student in the U.S.
10:25 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Secure Communities · 2 Comments
14 Nov 2010
20 year old San Francisco City College student Steve “Shing Ma” Li is scheduled to be deported to Peru tomorrow, Monday. In Peru he knows no one. That’s because Steve’s family is Chinese. He was born in Peru before being brought to the U.S. by his parents.
Li’s parents, who face their own removal order, immigrated to Peru from China in the 1980s, partially to help Li’s aging grandparents and partially to escape China’s one-child policy. And there Li was born, before his family immigrated again in 2002 to the U.S. to escape political instability in Peru. His family filed for political asylum in the U.S. but were denied. A judge put out a removal order for their family in 2004, which Li’s parents quietly tried to ignore, all unbeknownst to Li.
On September 15th, ICE arrested Li and placed him in a detention center in Arizona where he has been ever since.
Since the announcement of the final deportation order, there has been an outpouring of support including rallies and petitions. On Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s spokesman said that she was working with other members of Congress to “recommend that (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) grant deferred action in this case.” However on Friday afternoon, Li’s lawyer, Sin Yen Ling, received a fax that denied deferred action.
“The last paragraph said deportation is always hard on family and friends and the community but unfortunately the application for Steve does not rise to the level that warrants deferred action status,” she said.
It looks like California Sen. Barbara Boxer can step in to issue a private bill on Steve’s behalf.
Meanwhile, friends, supporters and organizations continue to fight on his behalf and wait if Li will turn into another person deported under the Obama administration and under a Congress that has refused to enact Comprehensive Immigration Reform or the move the DREAM Act or if Li and his parents will be able to stay in the U.S. as a family.
You can send a fax on behalf of Steve here gracias to America’s Voice.
Via / Immigration Prof Blog y Colorlines
Image Via / San Francisco Gate
DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Ivan Nikolov
3:06 pm By Maegan La Mala · DREAM Act|Immigration · 6 Comments
11 Aug 2010
The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act.
Earlier this week, I wrote to you about the latest DREAM Act student currently facing deportation. As part of the DREAM Now Series, here we print his letter to President Barack Obama to stop his deportation, which could happen at any moment.
The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act.
Dear Mr. President,
In May, my mother and I were picked up in an immigration raid in our home. I was told that in 2002, when I was just 12, I missed a court date at which I was ordered removed from this country. I’ve been in detention for three months, now, awaiting my deportation. My mother was deported on Friday, August 6th, and I’m set to be deported any day now.
I immigrated to the United States from Russia when I was just 11 years old. My mother married a U.S. citizen who is the only father I know. I do not remember much about the journey to America, nor did I even know I was undocumented until I was 15 and asked my parents about getting a driver’s permit. This is the only country I know as my home and I don’t know what I would do if I were deported, now.
I am a long-time resident of Michigan. I have a fiancée who has been with me for over three years. It would be a great loss to her and to my community if I were deported.
In Russia, it would be difficult for me to survive. I barely speak the language and I have very little family there. I dream of studying film or music. I love my pets and my many friends in the U.S. I want to be able to see them again. Please take action now to stop my deportation.
Sincerely,
Ivan Nikolov
You can fax DHS Secretary Napolitano here, asking her not to deport Ivan.
Secure Communities Deported Almost 50,000 People
8:11 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Secure Communities · 12 Comments
10 Aug 2010VivirLatino has often written about the enforcement first immigration policy that the Obama administration has chosen to take instead of passing comprehensive immigration reform and the DREAM Act. One of the programs that Department of Homeland Security has expanded on and is planning to spread throughout the country is Secure Communities, a program that has local jails sharing with ICE the fingerprints of anyone suspected of being undocumented so that ICE can take further action.
This morning we have some of the first stats on the impact that the fingerprint sharing program has had and who are the immigrants getting caught up in this unholy alliance between the criminal (in)justice system and the civil immigration system.
– Records show that about 47,000 people have been removed or deported from the U.S. after the Homeland Security Department sifted through 3 million sets of fingerprints taken from bookings at local jails.
About one-quarter of those kicked out of the country did not have criminal records, according to government data obtained by immigration advocacy groups that have filed a lawsuit.
But Puerto Ricans Aren’t Immigrants Right? Rican in Chicago Almost Deported
12:03 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · chicago|Immigration|Puerto Rico · 8 Comments
28 May 2010This goes out to all of those Latinos comfortable in their privilege, all of those who say that the “legal” Latinos have nothing to worry about, all of those who are offended when they are called Mexican.
Girl questions Michelle Obama about immigration
9:19 am By la Macha · children|Family|Immigration|Obama · 14 Comments
20 May 2010Michelle Obama went to an elementary school classroom yesterday, and a girl in the classroom posed some heartbreaking questions:
The student shyly raised her hand and said, “My mom … she says that Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn’t have papers.”
Mrs. Obama replied: “Yeah, well that’s something that we have to work on, right? To make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers, right? That’s exactly right.”
The girl then said quietly, “But my mom doesn’t have any …” and trailed off.
Mrs. Obama replied: “Well, we have to work on that. We have to fix that, and everybody’s got to work together in Congress to make sure that happens. That’s right.”
Here is video of the exchange:
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go lay down and sob my brains out.
Department of Homeland Security Halts all Deportations to Haiti
9:58 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Haiti|Immigration · 2 Comments
14 Jan 2010You won’t find me praising the Department of Homeland Security often, but given the situation in Haiti, at least DHS is showing some heart. In a press release yesterday, DHS “halted all removals to Haiti for the time being in response to the devastation caused by yesterday’s earthquake. ICE continues to closely monitor the situation.”
I am not sure but I am assuming that this includes the case of activist Jean Montrevil, currently in an ICE detention center here in downtown NYC. I am however not assuming that Haitians in detention will be released.
Give Us your tired, your poor, Just Not Your Sick cuz We’ll Deport Them
7:39 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Health|Immigration|Obama · Comments Off
30 Jul 2009
Is it too radical to believe that hospitals should be like churches? That they should be safe spaces where people can get what they went their for, health care? Instead a court decision has legitimized hospitals acting as ICE agents and Homeland Security.
A hospital that sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala – over the objections of his family and legal guardian – did not act unreasonably, a jury found Monday…
Health care and immigration experts across the country have closely watched the court case in the sleepy, coastal town of Stuart. The hospital had cared for Jimenez, who was uninsured, for three years. But it was unable to find any nursing home to take him permanently because his immigration status meant the government would not reimburse his care.
600 Children Tell Obama : Don’t Deport Our Parents
10:53 am By Maegan La Mala · children|Immigration|Justice · 2 Comments
29 Jan 2009
600 children are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Obama administration demanding that the deportation of their parents be stopped. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the children, who are mostly Latino U.S. citizens, by Nora Sandigo CEO of American Fraternity, a pro immigrant organization based in Miami.
“Children continue to suffer by being separated from their parents because of deportations that the President may be able to suspend.” Sandigo asserted. She also explained that filing this law suit is not because she or these children are against him, but to use his authority and urge him to issue an executive order to stop the deportations, and adopt new immigration laws.
Detroit Metro Area a Fast Growing Deportation Center
12:44 pm By Maegan La Mala · Detriot|Immigration · 1 Comment
4 Dec 2008
The Detroit Metro area is fast becoming the epicenter for deportations. In the year ending on September 30th, The Office of Detention and Removal Operations in Detroit increased deportations about 45 percent — from 5,057 to more than 7,500. This is a new record and already for the new year are ahead of that pace deporting about one-fourth of that record number in October and November alone.
The Detroit Metro area has more than 400 ICE investigators and their presence and actions are making familias scared, even young children.
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