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    Deportees Attempt Group Crossing at Otay Mesa

    Deportees Attempt Group Crossing at Otay Mesa


    By Diana Guevara and R. Stickney

    | Monday, Mar 10, 2014 | Updated 12:50 PM PDT

    Dozens of families are planning to cross into the U.S. en masse Monday and ask to be allowed back into the U.S.

    Organizers say the people participating have been sent back to their home countries for various reasons. Many have been deported.


    They will ask for asylum in the U.S., coming from Mexico, organizers said.


    Approximately 200 people gathered on the pedestrian bridge on the U.S. side of the border crossing to support their loved ones in the protest.


    On the Mexico side, women held babies and small toddlers as they marched and chanted.


    Some of the protestors wore their high school graduation robes and talked about being excited to return to different states in the U.S. including Washington, Texas, Arizona and North Carolina.


    “I’m going back home, that’s all I gotta say,” said one young man. “San Jose, California.”


    Another man stood at the turnstile and spoke into a video camera, pledging to return to his friends and family in New Jersey.


    U.S. Customs Border Protection officials and local law enforcement were on the scene and told NBC 7 that if any of the protestors gets out of hand, they will be detained.


    NBC 7 has a news crew at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry.


    Check back for updates on this developing story.


    In November, a large number of people launched a coordinated border crossing that led to violence between the participants and U.S. Border Patrol agents.


    More than 100 people pelted the agents with rocks and bottles.

    Even with backup assistance, the agents were outnumbered by the crowd.

    Despite potential for a much bigger disaster, in the end, most walked away from the chaos just wiping their eyes from the pepper spray.


    No one was seriously injured, and no one made it past border agents.


    Source: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...#ixzz2varBCqP2
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    Otay protest targets immigration policy

    By Roxana Popescu11:30 A.M.MARCH 10, 2014

    Protesters near the Otay Mesa border crossing call for immigration reform, and the reunion of families split due to deportation. The protest on the north side of the border mirrored a similar event at the same time in Tijuana. — Howard
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    After her mother was deported in 2011, Cynthia Diaz, then 15, became the family caretaker.

    "I grew up too fast," she said.


    Monday morning Diaz, who is a U.S. citizen, went to Mexico to bring her mother into the United States.


    "We're asking for humanitarian parole," Diaz said, tearing up.


    Diaz and her mother were part of a large group of people trying to
    enter the United States Monday morning seeking asylum, as part of a pro-Mexican immigration movement started by the DREAM Act.


    Federal legislation that was most recently passed by the House in 2010 would have given certain Mexican-born youths who were brought to the U.S. by their parents a reprieve from deportation and a pathway to permanent residency. It failed to clear the Senate.


    In 2012, the Obama administration implemented the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which directed immigration officials to practice prosecutorial discretion toward some individuals who immigrated illegally to the United States as children. Unlike the DREAM Act, it does not provide lawful status or a pathway to permanent residence or citizenship, but it does provide for employment authorizations and two-year reprieves from deportation.


    On Monday morning, 150 people who would have qualified for the DREAM Act and their families -- in total an estimated 250 people, the event's organizers said -- lined up at the Otay Mesa border crossing.


    Members of their families, as well as supporters of the DREAM Act from California and Arizona holding posters and drums, occupied a corner across from the Otay Mesa border crossing.


    Across the street, DREAM Act dissenters with a bullhorn shouted "You are illegals! You are criminals!"


    The pro-immigration activists replied, "No human is illegal!" and

    "We didn't cross the border! The border crossed us!" And "Undocumented! Unafraid!"


    It was the third and largest event of this type since 2013.

    In 2013, nine people asked for asylum in Nogales, Ariz., requesting humanitarian parole or asylum. A few months later, more than 30 people entered the United States at Laredo, Texas.

    Both cases were seen as a challenge to deportations and a test of U.S. immigration policy.


    Diaz, an 18-year-old college freshman from Tucson, Ariz., said Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents came to her house on a Saturday morning and took her mother by surprise.


    "She was still in her pajamas," she said.


    Diaz said her mother is by herself in Mexico and she should be with her family -- which has legal standing -- in the U.S., but she also wants to give courage to others in similar situations.


    The people trying to enter the United States include family members of youths who qualified for the Dream Act and people who would have or may have qualified but were in Mexico and were deported shortly before the Dream Act passed, or didn't complete their status for a variety of reasons, said Angie Loreto, one of the event's organizers.


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    They're Back, En Masse: Dozens Of 'Dreamers' Turn Themselves In At California Border

    By Elizabeth Llorente
    Published March 10, 2014 Fox News Latino



    'Dream 9' Released From Immigration Detention

    Nine activists arrested after attempting to cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. in protest of American immigration policy were released Wednesday from federal custody in Arizona.


    A national group known for its controversial demonstrations against U.S. immigration enforcement policies said it was helping roughly 160 people enter the United States from Mexico, without authorization, through San Diego.

    Mohammad Abdollahi, a leader of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, told Fox News Latino on Monday that his group, along with others assisting in California, had about 158 people ready to cross the border at the Tijuana-San Diego checkpoint and ask to remain in the United States.


    "We might have other people joining," he said.


    Some of the people participating in the protest were scheduled to speak about how their families had been torn apart by deportations, according to a press release about the event. NIYA is organizing the crossing with assistance from two California advocacy groups, Border Angels and "The Bring Them Home" projects.

    In a statement, NIYA said: “This will be the third time the #BringThemHome campaign has fought for immigrants who were deported or forced to leave their homes in the United States. On Monday, they will begin the long journey back to their loved ones across the country after crossing the border in San Diego.”


    Last year two previous crossings, which also originated in Mexico, involved smaller groups – nine the first time, and about 34 the second time. Those groups were called DREAM 9 and DREAM 34.


    Most of the people in both groups requested political asylum, saying they feared persecution if they returned to Mexico.

    They were detained for weeks by immigration officials; most passed an initial fear of persecution screening and are awaiting final decisions on their political asylum claims. A few in the second group were deported.


    The provocative move created divisions within advocates who want more lenient immigration policies and a dramatic reduction in deportations.


    Some supported the immigrants who approached the border, and the groups that coordinated their action, saying that other approaches to pushing for significant changes in U.S. immigration policies had failed. But others in the advocacy community frowned on the dramatic border crossings, characterizing them as publicity stunts and saying that would be a setback in the push for comprehensive immigration reform.


    This latest protest comes as frustration is reaching a new peak among critics of Obama’s record number of deportations. Nearly 2 million people have been deported since Obama became president. Last week, using a term that many advocates of more lenient immigration policies have used to refer to the president, Janet Murguia, head of the National Council of La Raza, called him “Deporter-in-Chief” in a speech about immigration at a gala event.


    After Murguia’s speech, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrats, delivered a blistering speech on the House floor about Obama’s deportation record, and repeated the term to refer to the president.


    A bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill passed in June in the Senate, but the House has addressed the issue in fits and starts. Conservative members in the House say they will not rubber-stamp the Senate bill, which both tightens border security and interior enforcement, and allows a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants who meet a strict set of criteria.


    Conservative Republicans in the House, however, vow not to pass any measure that would provide “amnesty” to people who are here illegally.


    Last year, NIYA vowed to continue the border crossings, saying each time the groups would be larger.


    “The participants in this third border-crossing were deported or forced to leave the United States because of programs supported by the Obama Administration like 287G and Secure Communities,” the NIYA statement said.


    “State laws denying immigrants access to a college education, jobs, or housing also made life incredibly difficult.

    Some were just tired of living in fear, and returned. However, upon leaving their homes, they found life even more difficult," it said.


    “No one should be forced to stay away from their children; no one should be forced to live in a country they barely remember. For many, the #BringThemHome campaign is their only chance of returning to the U.S.”


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    Oregon immigrants, allies at California border watch as undocumented group crosses

    By Andrea Castillo
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    on March 10, 2014 at 5:21 PM, updated March 10, 2014 at 6:54 PM


    Eight Oregon immigrants and allies were at the California border Monday as 34 undocumented deportees attempted to cross back into the United States. More than 150 undocumented immigrants are expected to make the attempt this week. (Courtesy of Eddie Bolaños)

    Liliana Luna stood about 30 feet from the United States border, watching as a group of 34 undocumented deportees attempted to cross back into the country from Mexico.

    Standing on a bridge at the Otay Mesa point of entry, Luna could still make out the caps and gowns many of the immigrants wore, a symbol of their past as students in the U.S.

    Luna, an immigrant rights activist from Hillsboro, was brought to the country illegally at age 15. Now 23, she holds temporary permission under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

    With seven other immigrants and allies from Oregon, Luna has been at the California border since Thursday to support at least 150 deportees attempting to cross throughout this week. Many had "self-deported," meaning they voluntarily returned to their home countries because of challenging legal structures, such as not being able to get a driver's license or pay in-state tuition.



    The border crossing effort is part of the Bring Them Home project led by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance to unite families separated by record deportations under the Obama administration. Nearly 2 million immigrants have been deported since the president took office.

    Luna said around 200 supporters gathered at the border by 11:30 a.m., and the 34 undocumented immigrants crossed by 12:30 p.m. Supporters rallied and chanted phrases including "Bring them home" and "Déjenlos pasar," which means "Let them cross."

    After crossing, the immigrants turned themselves in to border patrol officers, Luna said. Agents detained them and their cases are now being processed, she said. Next, they could either be sent to different immigration holding centers or released, she said, depending on whether they can demonstrate a "credible fear" of persecution or torture if not granted asylum.

    The other 120 or so deportees remained in Tijuana, Luna said, waiting to cross either Tuesday or Wednesday.

    "Immigration reform starts here with these 150 people trying to come back," she said. "If President Obama can’t help 150, how can he help 11 million people in the United States?"

    Just one of the immigrants crossing this week is from Portland. But Oregon DreamActivist, the organization leading the state delegation, is supporting 15 or so immigrants hoping to reunite them with their families in Washington and Nevada.

    Elizabeth Lara, 21, of Yakima, Wash., participated in the rally with Luna's group. Her father, who was deported to Mexico in 2011, crossed the border Monday.

    "I have a lot of hope," she said. "I hope to see him soon."

    Hillsboro High School senior Eddie Bolaños, volunteered with the Oregon group as his senior project. He joined the rally holding a re-creation of the popular "Hope" poster from Obama presidential campaign, but with "-less" painted underneath.

    Bolaños said this was the first time he had participated in such an action. Watching the immigrants cross the border hit close to home, he said, as his own family emigrated from Mexico.

    "We’re so close to the border...but so far," he said. "We’re hoping they are released with the asylum they are asking for."

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    Deportees Attempt Group Crossing at Otay Mesa

    By Diana Guevara, R. Stickney and Andie Adams
    | Monday, Mar 10, 2014 | Updated 5:35 PM PDT

    Dozens of families tried to make a bold crossing into the U.S. from Mexico en masse Monday.

    The National Immigrant Youth Alliance planned the demonstration months ago in an effort to reunite families separated by an international border.

    Organizers say the people participating have been sent back to their home countries for various reasons. Many have been deported.

    Those trying to cross asked for asylum in the U.S. coming from Mexico, organizers said.

    Approximately 200 people gathered on the pedestrian bridge on the U.S. side of the Otay Mesa border crossing to support their loved ones in the protest.

    On the Mexico side, women held babies and small toddlers as they marched and chanted.

    One of the woman, Shirlene Rodriguez, has a son who was undocumented. He voluntarily returned to Mexico a year ago.

    "He definitely belongs in this country with the opportunities that we have here for him and with his family," said Rodriguez.

    Some of the protestors wore their high school graduation robes and talked about being excited to return to different states in the U.S., including Washington, Texas, Arizona and North Carolina.

    “I’m going back home, that’s all I gotta say,” said one young man. “San Jose, California.”

    Another man stood at the turnstile and spoke into a video camera, pledging to return to his friends and family in New Jersey.

    However, not all of the protesting was in favor those trying to cross over.

    "I consider illegal immigration to be an invasion against the sovereignty of the United States," said undocumented immigration opponent Gerry Nance.

    Alliance organizers claim around a dozen undocumented students -- or so called "dreamers" -- are being processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents. That means they were not detained, but the agents are discussing their immigration options with them.

    Meanwhile, organizers are contacting their parents to be on standby to come pick their children up.

    CBP officials could not confirm this because they told NBC 7 it's against their policy to discuss immigration cases.

    In November, a large number of people launched a coordinated border crossing that led to violence between the participants and U.S. Border Patrol agents.

    More than 100 people pelted the agents with rocks and bottles.

    Even with backup assistance, the agents were outnumbered by the crowd.

    Despite potential for a much bigger disaster, in the end, most walked away from the chaos just wiping their eyes from the pepper spray.

    No one was seriously injured, and no one made it past border agents.

    http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...249321051.html
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