Posts Tagged ‘Senator Charles Schumer’
Update on Those Starving for a DREAM in NYC
3:14 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|Education|Immigration|New York City|youth · 1 Comment
3 Jun 2010I went back to 47th Street and 3rd Avenue, in front of Senator Chuck Schumer’s office, to check up in how the 9 young people engaged in a hunger strike were doing as they entered Day 3 of their fast for a stand-alone DREAM Act.
All of the participants were in good spirits and were reading recent media coverage from the New York Times and the NY Daily News.
Senator Schumer’s office has yet to acknowledge that there are 9 young people outside his office demanding action. The fasters will be holding a vigil tomorrow night, at 7 pm, at 47th Street and 3rd Avenue.
Starving for a DREAM : Interview with DREAM Faster Gabriel Martinez
3:40 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|Education|Immigration|New York City|Politics|youth · 8 Comments
2 Jun 2010Earlier this morning, I wrote about a 72 hour fast that was being supported by some local non-profits and NYC politicos for comprehensive immigration reform and the DREAM Act.
But….
All my sources in D.C. tell me Comprehensive Immigration Reform is dead, so why all the fronting? Why the show for the media and why not support the students who have been risking deportation by putting their undocumented lives on the line through civil disobedience actions? Seems like there is a rift in the struggle. So today, instead of going downtown to where the politicians would be, I went to where the students were, 47th and 3rd Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. There 9 young people are camped out in front of Senator Biometric Chuck Schumer’s office on an indefinite fast demanding that he stop bs’ing and get to stepping on the DREAM Act.
One of the Starving for a DREAM activists, Gabriel Martinez, was nice enough to allow me to sit with him on the sidewalk and speak with me as traffic rushed past.
I will be adding a transcript after the video later.
Obama’s Real I.C.E.(y) Numbers Still Break Records and Familias
8:26 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Politics · 6 Comments
9 Mar 2010Yesterday was a big day in immigration “reform” news. President Barack Obama and Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) were supposed to meet to show a united front on moving the issue forward. Schumer has been facing pressure to produce something ever since he delayed pushing legislation back in September of last year in search of more supporters. Advocates have been told over that he’s been working on something but details have been hardly forthcoming since the NY Senator said that part of his proposal would include a biometric identity card.
Today’s meeting didn’t happen. The reason was a flight cancellation. What wasn’t canceled was the struggle of countless families whose lives have been damaged and disrupted by the Obama’s administration immigration enforcement policies. Some of those families gathered yesterday in Washington D.C. to say they were sick and tired of all the words of change and hope and seeing only criminalization and heartache.
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