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    9 deportees arrested, DREAM Act protest moves to DeConcini

    VIDEO: 9 deportees arrested, DREAM Act protest moves to DeConcini

    Posted: Jul 22, 2013 2:25 PM by Brian White
    Updated: Jul 22, 2013 2:26 PM




    UPDATE: Nine people have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers after crossing the Morley pedestrian bridge at the Nogales port of entry.

    The crossing was a scheduled demonstration organized by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance to test the recently passed Immigration Reform Act.

    The deportees claim they should have legal status in the states based on elements from the DREAM Act, a stalled provision that defers deportation of some immigrants.

    Becuase they were not properly documented, they were detained, ICE officials said.

    NOGALES - News 4 reporter Nathan O'Neal is on assignment in Nogales, Arizona Monday where a demonstration/protest is happening to "test" federal immigration policy.

    Five deported DREAMers will attempt to return home by presenting themselves at the Nogales Port of Entry in order to "test the Obama Administration's policy on deported immigrants," a release from the National Immigrant Youth Alliance stated.

    Here's some video from O'Neal of the protest developing Monday morning:

    News 4 reporter Sam Salzwedel shot this package Sunday for the upcoming demonstration that was scheduled Monday:

    Here is some information regarding the five participants in the demonstration:

    • Claudia Amaro, 37, from Monterrey, Mexico moved to Colorado when she was thirteen years old. Her mother fled Mexico after her father was murdered and the family was threatened. In 2006, while living in Wichita, Kansas, Claudia's next husband was detained while driving to work. ICE detained Claudia while interpreting for her husband. Living in Mexico has been hard for Claudia and her thirteen-year-old US citizen son. Finally, her mother gained legal status last year and was able to visit her grandson for the first time in seven years. Claudia is coming home to put the family back together that deportation tore apart.


    • Adriana Diaz, 22, from Mexico City, first came to Phoenix, Arizona when she was just four months old. Adriana graduated from Crestview Preparatory high school in 2010 with many accolades, including the Citizenship Award. To this day, two of her murals decorate its walls. Adriana left Phoenix three months before DACA was announced. She left because she was tired of living in fear under Arpaio, not knowing each night if her mom was going to come home.


    • Once in Nogales, Adriana tried to go to school. Because she lived so long in the US, Mexico recognized her as a foreign student and would not accept her US degree. Instead of going to school, Adriana has been working with migrants at the Juan Bosco shelter in Sonora. Adriana is coming home because she has no memories in Mexico. Her entire life was in Phoenix-she has memories of school, birthdays, going to prom-even her partner of four years lives in Phoenix. Everyone deserves to come home.


    • Luis Gustavo, 20, from Michoacán, Mexico has lived in North Carolina since he was five years old. He graduated from McDowell High School. Luis left Marion, NC, in August 2011 with the hopes of being able to finally go to school in Mexico. Luis, not being able to stand being away from his family, tried to come home in June 2012 when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was announced.


    • Luis never made it; he was caught by border patrol. The responding agent sympathized with him, and filed for DACA on his behalf, but saw it rejected. Luis was subsequentlydeported. Desperate to come home, Luis attempted to re-enter three more times, and failed on each attempt. Luis is coming home to be with his mother, sister, and four brothers.


    • Maria Peniche, 22, from Mexico City first came to Boston when she was just ten years old. She graduated from Revere high school in 2010 and went on to attend Pine Manor College. By 2012, paying the high price of tuition became too difficult, and she dropped out. Three days before DACA was announced, Maria left for Mexico to continue her schooling. "Here in Mexico you can only do one thing, either work or go to school," she said. Maria has had to put off her studies and work in order to provide for her family. Maria is coming home to provide for herself and her family, and pursue her education.


    • Ceferino Santiago, 21, came to Lexington, Kentucky, at the age of thirteen in order to be with his older brother, Pedro. Ceferino is a permanent part of the Lexington community; he helped paint a mural at one of the local middle schools. During high-school, Ceferino ran for the school cross country team and was honored as one of the program's top student-athletes in 2010. After graduating from high school, Ceferino was forced to return to Oaxaca, Mexico because of an ear infection which required surgery that cost $21,000. Ceferino is coming home so he can be with his brother, his community, and to continue with his studies.


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    Illegal foreign nationals do not have the RIGHT to disobey our laws. It is total disrespect to this country and her citizens.

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    Nice bunch of folks, just what I would want living next door. They would't ask to borrow a cup of sugar, they would just come and take what they wanted. JMO
    DREAMer protest in Nogales


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    Border officials detain 8 activists who tried to re-enter US in immigration protest

    Border officials detain 8 activists who tried to re-enter US in immigration protest

    (Samantha Sais/ Associated Press ) - A “Dreamer” wearing a school graduation cap and gown to show his desire to finish school in the U.S., waits to be signaled through at the U.S. port of entry where he planned to request humanitarian parole, along with other “dreamers,” in Nogales, Mexico, Monday, July 22, 2013.

    U.S. border officials later detained him and his group who asked to be allowed to re-enter the United States from Mexico on humanitarian grounds in a protest against the country’s immigration policies.



    • By Associated Press, Published: July 22

      NOGALES, Ariz. — U.S. authorities have detained eight activists who asked to be allowed to re-enter the United States from Mexico on humanitarian grounds in a protest against American immigration policies.

      Customs and Border Protection officials detained the activists Monday after they filed applications for humanitarian parole at the Nogales border crossing to try to return to the United States.

      CBP officials said they could not comment on specific cases but under immigration law all applicants for admission bear the burden of proof to establish they are eligible to enter the country.
      Domenic Powell, a spokesman for the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, said the group hadn’t been taken to a detention center as of Monday afternoon.

      He said the alliance would continue to pressure federal authorities to let the eight activists “go back home” to the U.S.

      Margo Cowan, a lawyer for the group, says she will file asylum applications on behalf of the activists if they are denied humanitarian parole.

      On the U.S. side of the border, about 60 people waiting for the activists chanted in Spanish, “No papers, no fear.”

      Three activists left the U.S. and traveled to Mexico expressly to participate in the protest. The group wants to draw attention to the huge jump in deportations carried out under the Obama administration, and reaffirm their attachment to the country where they were raised.

      The first one to be detained was Claudia Amaro Escalera, 37, along with her U.S.-born son Yamil, 13. Amaro Escalera returned to Mexico six years ago after her husband was deported but lived more than 20 years in the U.S. and calls America home.

      Cowan said, “This will be a decision to be taken by the Obama administration, maybe not immediately, but I trust it will be the right decision.”

      Humanitarian parole means the activists can be released with the understanding that they are not a menace to society, she explained.

      Lizbeth Mateo, Lulu Martinez and Marco Saavedra were the three youths who recently left the U.S. to organize the protest from Mexico with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance. They were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and have no legal status there even though they grew up in America.

      “We cannot ask others to do something we ourselves are not willing to do,” Mateo said before getting to the border.

      She added the group hopes the Obama administration will create a process so all those who were deported from the U.S. can return.

      “We are giving President Obama a chance to do the right thing. They always say, ‘Why don’t you come here legally?’ Well this is his chance to create the legal process.”

      Members of NIYA such as Mateo have participated in other acts of civil disobedience, one of them in 2010 in the offices of U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. They have also entered detention centers to publicize cases where prisoners are about to be deported without having a criminal record or a legal recourse.

      The activists have said that if they were detained, they would do the same in detention centers in Arizona.

      Maria Peniche and Adriana Gil Diaz could have benefited from a deferred action program recently offered by the Obama administration that lets young immigrants live in the U.S. on renewable two-year stays, but they had both returned to Mexico City shortly before the measure was announced.

      Peniche, who was raised in Boston, Mass., was hoping to continue her university studies in Mexico, because they were too expensive in the U.S.

      “I want to give a face and a voice to those who are undocumented immigrants like myself,” she said.

      Luis Gustavo Leon, 20, said he has been deported from the U.S. four times. He had gone to Mexico two years ago to continue his university studies but did not get used to the lifestyle there. His parents and brothers are all in North Carolina.

      “I will keep trying because my family is there, because even though I’m Mexican, my culture is the American culture,” he said.
      He added he was not afraid of being detained.

      “As long as there is hope, I will fight,” Leon said. “If they tell me I can’t do it, then I’ll give up temporarily, but not completely. I’ll go back to Mexico but later on I’ll find a way to return.”

      http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/border-officials-detain-8-activists-who-tried-to-re-enter-us-in-immigration-protest/2013/07/22/3e5bd16c-f319-11e2-8464-57e57af86290_story.html
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    Release Sought for 8 Protesters Detained at Border

    By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press
    PHOENIX July 24, 2013 (AP)

    A lawyer is seeking the release of eight protesters who were detained by U.S. authorities at a southern Arizona border crossing when they tried to re-enter the country from Mexico.

    The eight young people, who were born in Mexico but were brought to America illegally when they were children, tried to re-enter the U.S. at the Nogales port of entry in southern Arizona on Monday to protest immigration policies.

    Tucson attorney Margo Cowan said Tuesday that immigration officers in the U.S. turned down her clients' request for "humanitarian parole" that would temporarily allow them to come into the country, so she is now seeking asylum.

    Cowan said she would seek her clients' release from a Pinal County immigration detention center while their asylum applications are being litigated.

    "They certainly can't be considered a flight risk because they asked the U.S. to admit them," Cowan said.



    The group tried to re-enter the U.S. as a way to draw attention to the huge jump in deportations carried out under the Obama administration, and to reaffirm their attachment to the country where they were raised. They wore graduation caps and gowns to show they are productive members of society and want the country to open its doors to them.

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency responsible for determining whether immigrants at ports of entry can enter the country, declined to comment on the detentions Tuesday, citing privacy laws.

    Lenni B. Benson, a New York Law School professor who specializes in immigration, said people applying for asylum need to establish a fear of persecution based on race, religion, national origin or political opinions if they were to return to the country where they were born or the country where they last lived.

    People who have been granted asylum can apply to become permanent legal residents in the U.S., Benson said.

    Benson said she believes government lawyers would likely try to undercut the arguments for asylum for the eight people by pointing out that they voluntarily returned to Mexico. But Benson said their voluntarily trip to Mexico probably wouldn't be a deciding factor for an immigration judge.

    "It might be something that the judge might take into consideration in the totality of circumstances," Benson said.

    Cowan said the protesters' decision to go to Mexico wouldn't undercut their asylum application.

    "They have been out of Mexico their whole lives," Cowan said. "They have no idea what Mexico is like today for them, and now they know."

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/release-sought-protesters-detained-border-19754144
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    Dream 9 still awaiting deportation outcome

    by Jacquellena Carrero and Brian Latimer
    4:46 pm on 07/26/2013
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    Lulu Martinez, one of the Dream 9, crossed into Mexico voluntarily earlier this month to reunite with family members. She is pictured here at the border (Photo/ National Immigrant Youth Alliance)

    After four days in detention, the Dream 9 are still waiting to find out their future. But immigrant advocacy groups are stepping up the pressure.

    The National Immigrant Youth Alliance has collected signatures from 22 members of Congress in a letter urging President Obama to grant the Dreamers humanitarian parole and bring them home. The letter campaign will continue throughout the weekend with an announcement on Monday of the legislators who support bringing the Dream 9 home.

    Congressman Luis Gutierrez has already expressed his support of the Bring Them Home campaign on his Facebook page.

    “My staff met with Maria Martinez, the mother of Lulu Martinez, this morning. Lulu is one of the #DREAM9 detained at the border as they attempted to return to the United States,” he wrote. “I appreciate Mrs. Martinez sticking around my Chicago office as she waits for a copy of the letter I am sending to President Barack Obama in support of her daughter and the #DREAM9. I and my staff are working to #BringThemHome.”

    In the meantime, the Dreamers are engaged in a hunger strike to demand more flexible phone privileges and raise awareness for their plight behind bars.

    “The actual facility is preventing them from making phone calls,” said Mohammad Abdollahi, an organizer with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA).

    He said DREAM 9 has not been allowed to hold a conversation for more than 10 seconds. He said the phone numbers are also blocked so some family has not been able to call them back directly. DREAM 9 intends to continue the strike until they are permitted phone privileges.

    According to the Huffington Post, a representative for the detention center, a 1,600-bed facility owned and operated by the Corrections Corporation of America under contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, denied that they were blocking the activists’ phone calls.

    “I have had no reports that there have been any phone issues,” Eloy Detention Center spokesman Bryan Martin said. “So either they’re indigent or they aren’t following the instructions hanging on the wall by the phone.”

    The Dreamers attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico Border through a legal port of entry in order to start a movement and send a message on immigration and the need for reform. They have been detained in Nogales by U.S Customs and Border Protection officials since Monday evening. Abdollahi said those in DREAM 9 did have a plan in case they were detained.

    “If they were sent to a detention center, they would gather stories despite tight limitations,” he said. So far, DREAM 9 have interviewed 7 other detainees who have no committed a crime like theft or larceny that could warrant detention.

    “We continue to insist that the [Department of Homeland Security] to release these dreamers on humanitarian parole leave,” said Kiran Savage-Sangwan, a member of DREAM 9′s policy team. “That is our first application and the Department has not denied or approved it. Our second app is an asylum request and each has strong meritorious asylum claims.”

    Savage-Sangwan said because each of the DREAMers is more familiar with the U.S. than with Mexico, they will have a difficult time assimilating to the culture and will become targets for kidnappers and other criminals.

    “Each will be interviewed by an asylum officer to establish each has a credible fear of persecution if they are denied admittance to the U.S.,” she said. “These young people are certainly not at a threat of public danger, they are not going to flee. They knocked on the door of the U.S. to re-enter, so they should be released pending litigation of their asylum claims.”

    DREAM 9 is currently in detention at Eloy Detention Center in Arizona, where they have remained since Tuesday.

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    Dream 9 Pushed It Too Far, According To Immigration Lawyer
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    | By Griselda Nevarez Posted: 07/27/2013 9:55 am EDT










    A campaign calling for the release of nine Dreamers who left the United Sates and were arrested nearly a week ago when they tried to re-enter the country is gaining support from many people—but not from one immigration attorney who says the Dreamers pushed it too far.



    “I just don’t agree with this,” said David Leopold, an immigration attorney from Ohio. “I think all it does is draw attention away from the real issue, which is that we do have a broken immigration system and that we do need Congress to fix it.”
    Earlier this month, three Dreamers crossed the border into Mexico with the goal of coming back and bringing with them several other undocumented immigrants who either had to leave the U.S. or were deported recently. They say they did this as a way to protest the 1.7 million deportations that have occurred under the Obama administration.

    Now, a campaign dubbed “Bring Them Home” is asking the Department of Homeland Security to allow the nine Dreamers—who are referred to as “DREAM9” on social media—to stay in the country. The Dreamers are currently detained in the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona, where they’ve been on a hunger strike since Thursday after their phone use was restricted.

    Nine Dreamers seek release

    U.S. authorities have not responded to the Dreamers’ requests for release.
    Margo Cowan, the attorney representing the nine Dreamers, told the Associated Press she put in a request for humanitarian parole, which she said would allow them entrance to the U.S. because “their presence in America will serve an important public interest.”

    She also told AP that the Dreamers’ long-standing ties to the U.S. and their lack of cultural connection to Mexico should make them eligible for humanitarian parole. If that request is denied, the Dreamers are prepared to file an asylum claim.

    But for Leopold, a former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, it appears unlikely that the Dreamers will be granted the parole or the asylum because he doesn’t think they qualify for any of the two petitions.

    He said humanitarian parole is usually granted to people with “compelling” cases, such as a person with a medical emergency. As for asylum, he said it is only granted to people who can people who can “prove well-founded fear of persecution” based on several traits such as gender, sexual orientation, political opinion, religion or nationality.

    “Humanitarian parole is something that is used very sparingly — it has to be used very sparingly — and none of them qualify for it or for asylum from what I can tell,” he told VOXXI of the nine Dreamers detained.

    Impact on immigration reform efforts

    In the case that DHS allows the Dreamers to stay in the country, Leopold said he is worried about what it could mean for the immigration reform debate in Congress, which he described as “very delicate.”

    He said allowing them to stay could give immigration hardliners “some ammunition” to say that pro-immigration reform advocates and the Obama administration are “for open borders … and for people who don’t care about our laws and don’t care about our rules.”

    “Bottom line, I think this is a publicity stunt that doesn’t do anything to move the ball forward in terms of immigration reform,” he told VOXXI about the action by the nine Dreamers.

    Leopold isn’t the only one who is expressing concerns. Several members of Congress have told the National Immigrant Youth Alliance — the group leading the “Bring Them Home” campaign — that their efforts could hurt the chances of passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill. They’ve also noted that the recently-approved Senate immigration bill would already allow some people who’ve been deported to come back to the U.S.

    But one member of Congress who is showing support for the nine Dreamers who are detained is Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (R-Ill.), who is part of a bipartisan House group working on an immigration reform bill. He sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Thursday, asking for the release of the nine Dreamers. Next week, he plans to deliver a speech on the House floor to call for their release. A post on his Facebook page on Friday said:

    Like many of you, Congressman Gutiérrez does not agree with the DREAM 9′s tactics, but he believes that they — like all those deported without criminal records — should be able to return to their homes and their families in the United States.

    Responding to criticism

    Mohammad Abdollahi, a Dreamer and a lead organizer of the campaign to release the nine Dreamers, was clear in his response to the criticism the nine Dreamers have received for their decision to leave and re-enter the country.

    He told VOXXI that rather than seeing the action by the nine Dreamers as something that could hurt the immigration reform debate — like Leopold and members of Congress argued — he said it is “a stepping stone” that could help propel the debate forward.

    “I think this action, if nothing else, just reiterates the need for immigration reform,” he told VOXXI.

    Responding to members of Congress who said the Senate immigration reform bill includes a provision to allow some deportees to come back, Abdollahi said, “Unfortunately, these people who have been deported can’t wait 10 years for legislation to pass.”

    He said the end goal right now is to get all the Dreamers released so that they can reunite with their families in the U.S. He expressed confidence in achieving that goal. He also responded specifically to Leopold’s criticism, saying:
    “He shouldn’t be speaking in the first place. Unfortunately, it’s not his place to say that this action goes too far because he is not undocumented.”

    Leopold said though he is not undocumented, he is no stranger to the plight of Dreamers and the fight for immigration reform. When he was president of AILA, he worked with various immigrant youth-led organizations to stop the deportations of Dreamers.

    “I don’t want to give the impression that I don’t support the Dreamers — I do, of course I do,” he told VOXXI. “What I don’t support is people being flippant about U.S. law and U.S. policy and putting their own personal interests ahead of millions and millions of others who are so desperately waiting for Congress to do something on immigration reform. That’s what bothers me here.”

    Originally published on VOXXI as Immigration attorney: The nine Dreamers pushed it too far

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/27/dream-9-imigration-lawyer_n_3663516.html
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