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    CA: Mother detained at Oakland elementary school by immigrat

    Mother detained at Oakland elementary school by immigration
    By Katy Murphy, Staff Writer
    Article Last Updated: 12/18/2007 08:04:27 PM PST


    Immigration agents detained a pregnant mother Tuesday morning at an East Oakland elementary school. The woman's frightened 6-year-old daughter was told to go to class as her mother was led away for questioning, according to staff at Melrose Bridges Academy.
    ``She walked out, sobbing, down the hall,'' said Suki Mozenter, an English-language coach who witnessed the event.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said the agents wanted to talk with Maria Ramirez about her husband's small business. Her husband, Jose De Jesus Guzman-Baez, faces federal charges of knowingly employing illegal immigrants. He has been in custody since November and faces deportation.

    Ramirez was released before noon on Tuesday, but she could be ordered to return to Mexico as well. During questioning, Kice said, it became clear that she was in the country illegally.

    Kice _ who was originally told the agents detained Ramirez on her way out of Melrose Bridges after she had dropped off her daughter _ later said the officers accompanied her into the school.

    They did so for her child's sake, she said. ``The officers wanted to ensure that the child was not left unattended,'' Kice said.

    But on Tuesday afternoon after school, dozens of parents, teachers and students came together to decry the event.

    ``This is supposed to be a safe place,'' Noemi Contreras, whose children attend the nearby middle school, Melrose Leadership Academy, said in Spanish. ``They are scaring people with everything that is happening.''

    Moyra Contreras, principal of Melrose Leadership Academy, helped organize Tuesday's demonstration.

    Ramirez's son is an eighth-grader at her school, but he isn't the first student to fear the deportation of a mother or father. In the last month, Contreras said, three parents have been detained or placed in detention.

    ``The fact that parents and children don't know if they're going to see each other at the end of the day is very difficult, psychologically, for our kids,'' Contreras said. She added, ``We want our students and our families to come to the schools without fearing arrest.''

    Mozenter said she first saw the two immigration agents walking outside the school as she arrived in the morning. Minutes later, when she was picking up her keys in the main office, she saw them walk inside with Ramirez and her young daughter.

    The girl was crying, Mozenter recalled.

    Mozenter said the men explained that they needed to talk to Ramirez and that she was in the country illegally. When Ramirez asked to call her attorney before leaving the school, Mozenter said, the agents said they didn't want to have to take her away in handcuffs in front of the other parents.

    Ramirez left with them. When she returned, just before noon, she gave her daughter a hug and told her to go to lunch with her friends. Her daughter didn't want to let go, Mozenter said.

    Ramirez said to her in Spanish, ``They're not going to take me away.''

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    ``This is supposed to be a safe place,'' Noemi Contreras, whose children attend the nearby middle school, Melrose Leadership Academy, said in Spanish. ``They are scaring people with everything that is happening.''
    Not to be mean or anything but..if you are in the country illegally, NO PLACE in the US is supposed to be a "safe" place to avoid deportation!

    Aliens have no one to blame but themselves. They had absoultely NO problems marching in the streets of LA demandind rights they are NOT entitles to! Did they think we'd be asleep forever?
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    A safe place - yes - but not a sanctuary for law breakers - that's the long and short of it.

    All our schools will be safer, better funded, and less crowded if the Mexican people would just go home.

    If they go home and complain, march and demand half as much as they do here, Mexico would be a better country and so would America.
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    lets hope

    Let's just hope that deport husband and wife before she drops the other kid.

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    ". . This is supposed to be a safe place,'' Noemi Contreras, whose children attend the nearby middle school, Melrose Leadership Academy, said in Spanish. ``They are scaring people with everything that is happening.''
    The real focus needs to be on American schools being "a safe place" for Americans to be protected from infiltration by illegal aliens who are trying to impose their lawless culture on legitimate American citizens.
    [b] If we do not insist on Voter ID, how can we stop illegals from voting?

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    ``The fact that parents and children don't know if they're going to see each other at the end of the day is very difficult, psychologically, for our kids,''

    As a parent I feel this would be a deterrent to my breaking any laws.
    Hmmmm?
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    Sob, sob, sob............

    Sorry, I feel no sympathy for these lawbreakers. They should go back where they came from and take their kids with them.

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    ``The fact that parents and children don't know if they're going to see each other at the end of the day is very difficult, psychologically, for our kids,'' Contreras said. She added, ``We want our students and our families to come to the schools without fearing arrest.''
    There is a solution to the so-called fear factor. They should be encouraged to pack their bags and go back home. Do it for the kids.

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    Moyra Contreras, principal of Melrose Leadership Academy, helped organize Tuesday's demonstration.
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    I don't rob a bank, steal someone's identity, etc... because I want to come home at the end of the day to see my beautiful kids.

    I'm surprised at the school's reaction.
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