Thread: NC: Group of Illegals on Hunger Strike Until Demands Are Met

Alberto's advocates said he's a young devoted father, college-educated, and motivated.

This statement conflicts the Illegal migration supporting INDY MEDIA, story below that says that he went to High School and worked illegally in a factory using a FAKE Social security number in addition to other "brushes" with the law that include:

At 18, his scrapes with the law began, although they were all misdemeanor convictions: speeding, DWI, driving with a revoked license, throwing fruit at a moving vehicle.

The standard anti-white racist slant is of course applied to the INDY story, as has been the norm of most of the propaganda.

Because a person has the ability to reproduce, does not entitle them to an exemption of the law. According to the below article he doesn't even live with the mother of his son. Please notice that I didn't say his wife. They live in Florida and it would be interesting to see if the tax payers of Florida are supporting his son.

The media is whitewashing his character, history and credentials and it seems to me that the writer of this piece is trying to embellish his accomplishments.



The story of Uriel Alberto: father, immigrant—and inmate

by Lisa Sorg @lisasorg




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• Viridiana Martinez of the NC DREAM Team talks to reporters after the legislative meeting where three protesters were arrested.

Two Capitol Police officers and the Lt. Sergeant-at-Arms whipped their walkie-talkies from their hip belts and scrambled to the front row of the public seating section.


"We will not have disruption between alternating sides," the Lt. Sergeant-at-Arms barked. "Anyone who says anything will be arrested."


The tension had been intensifying for nearly two hours in Room 643 of the Legislative Office Building. Here, on Feb. 29, the Republican-led House Select Committee on the State's Role in Immigration Policy had led a caustic, even hostile meeting, in a tone that was unmistakably anti-immigrant.


In the public section, a short wall by chance separated two groups: a dozen or so whites, including Ron Woodard, who heads a Cary-based anti-immigration group, NC Listen; tea party members and other assorted conservatives, who before the meeting griped that they "don't have rights anymore."


On the other side of the wall sat a predominantly Latino crowd of 50 (with a few whites sprinkled in), some wearing badges that read "Jesus Ministry" and underneath it, "I Vote." Others were decked out in orange T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Undocumented and Unafraid."


It was at the end of the meeting—after several legislators had pilloried an invited presenter and equated illegal immigration with violence, drugs and crime—that Uriel Alberto, Estephania Mijangos and Cynthia Martinez, three members of the NC DREAM Team, who were brought to the U.S. as children by their parents, rose from their seats and declared their status.

"My name is Uriel Alberto. I am undocumented and I am unafraid. I refuse to be bullied and intimidated by this committee and choose to empower my community," he said.


Police officers then escorted them from the meeting room, while less than 10 feet away and over the wall, several whites, some on their feet, bellowed:


"Go home! Arrest them, arrest them!"
A woman seated nearby added, "Get the **** out."
Six days later, on Tuesday afternoon, Alberto, one of three demonstrators arrested at the meeting, sat in a visiting room at the Wake County Jail. Alberto, who is naturally lean and sinewy, had been on a hunger strike since 6 a.m. the previous Friday, when he had two small pancakes and half a sausage at the jail. White gauze was taped to the inside of his arm where nurses earlier that day had taken blood to monitor his condition.

The other two protestors had been released on misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges, but because Alberto, 24, has a record—a string of misdemeanor convictions in Forsyth County—he is on a federal detainer issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

After he goes to court on the disorderly conduct charge—tentatively April 2—ICE will decide whether to deport him back to Mexico.

Mexico is a country that Alberto has not known for nearly 18 years. Born in a village in Oaxaca, he left the country at age 7. Years earlier, his parents, first his father and then his mother, had gone to California in search of a better life, leaving Alberto and his sister in the care of their grandparents.

It was a dangerous journey a mother could not chance alone with two small children. "My mother told us she would be gone for a few days, but I knew it was a lie because she was crying," Alberto says, he too, beginning to sob. "I remember comforting my sister, saying, 'She's going to come back soon.'"

Four years later, their parents sent for them. The Alberto children traveled by bus to Mexico City, where an aunt lived, and with her by plane to Tijuana, where a friend of their father drove them to Los Angeles. The family reunited. "For a child who didn't expect to see his parents again, it was a dream come true," Alberto says.
After a year, Alberto's parents lost their respective factory jobs. His father had friends in Winston-Salem who said life was easier there, so the family drove for three days and three nights in a red Nissan truck—Uriel rode in the cab—before arriving at their new home.

Alberto's parents found work. He quickly learned English, and, he says, the family "chased the American Dream."

A track star in high school, he dreamed of running for a Division I college. "I thought it was my way out," he says. "Long distance running is a painful sport. You have to recover from failure. You have to be strong. That's why track appealed to me. You have to defeat your mind that is sending signals to your body to quit."

But scholarship money would cover only so much. He couldn't get financial aid because he didn't have a Social Security number and his family couldn't afford the out-of-state tuition—undocumented immigrants are required to pay the higher tuition rate—for him to attend an in-state college. In 2005, he graduated from high school without prospects. His parents split up. "My life unraveled," he says. "I became extremely depressed."

At 18, his scrapes with the law began, although they were all misdemeanor convictions: speeding, DWI, driving with a revoked license, throwing fruit at a moving vehicle. Finally, he began getting back on course: He found a job—the factory didn't check his fake Social Security number—and two years ago, had a son, Julian, who is a U.S. citizen. Julian lives with his mother, who is Cuban, in Florida.

"He is such a joy," Alberto says. But he fears that if he is deported, he will not see his Julian again. The two will be separated, much like Alberto was from his father

Even traveling to see Julian on his second birthday was risky. "I tried to rent a car, but there were none left," Alberto says. "I was so desperate to see him that I took a plane. And there were so many moments when you're trying to get through the terminal. I prayed, 'God, let me get on that plane.' And I did."

Alberto says he will continue with his hunger strike. Jail policy states that inmates cannot be force-fed, but personnel can take "whatever medical means necessary."

If he could speak with legislators on the immigration committee, Alberto says he would tell them, "This is not an immigration issue, but a human issue. The fear, that we have to hide is unacceptable. We're trying to empower youth and our community by coming out of the shadows."

"If I'm deported at least I'll know I raised awareness. I'm holding on for my life. The U.S. is my life."

Indy Media



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Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Yea, last time they went on a "Hunger Strike" in Raleigh, NC someone caught them eating candy bars at night and the next day the strike was miraculously called off citing health concerns for one of the illegal alien girls lol.

This is all political theater. None of these chubby illegal aliens is going to go without food for more than a few days and if that!

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These candy bar eaters look like they're really doing the wrong version of a Nelson Mandella hunger strike.

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Immigrant on hunger strike will ask for release from jail


By: Bertrand M. Gutiérrez | Winston-Salem Journal
Published: March 12, 2012


Attorneys for Winston-Salem activist Uriel Alberto – who is on a hunger strike lasting more than a week – plan to file a bond motion Tuesday in immigration court to try to get him out of the Wake County Jail.

Alberto and two other protesters were charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct after they interrupted a special House committee on immigration in Raleigh on Feb. 29.

Alberto, 24, who was brought into the United States by his parents when he was 7, does not have legal permission to be in the country. Because of his residency status, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials could deport him to Mexico.

Alberto and thousands of young immigrants like him were raised in the U.S. and call it home, according to immigrant advocacy groups. These young people cannot apply for legal status while they are in the country.

Alberto went on a hunger strike shortly after he was put in jail and is losing significant weight, friends said, to raise awareness about this generation of immigrants, who say they want a chance to contribute to society rather than be deported to countries they hardly remember.

Beckie Moriello, one of Alberto’s attorneys, said Sunday she plans to file the bond motion through an immigration court in Charlotte and expects a hearing will happen Thursday. An immigration judge would then decide whether to grant a bond.

If that happens, Alberto would get out of jail while the case is pending as long as the bond is paid. The likely worst-case scenario for him is that he would be in the U.S. for about nine months, Moriello said. He could still be deported after that or could agree to leave the country voluntarily.

If the bond is not granted, he’ll likely be transferred to an immigration detention center, likely to the one in Stewart, Ga. From there, he would face deportation but could still fight for what is referred to as a cancellation of removal.

In such cases, the applicant must meet several requirements, including that he has been in the U.S. for at least 10 years, has a good moral character, has a U.S.-citizen child, and that the child would suffer an extreme hardship if the parent is deported.

“Those cases are difficult to win,” Moriello said.

Alberto has a son who is a U.S. citizen and lives in Florida with his mother, according to relatives and friends.

“He’s a person you can rely on, and a lot of this has to do with his son,” said Wooten Gough, a Winston-Salem resident who started El Cambio, an advocacy group for young immigrants. “He doesn’t want his son to think he never did anything important in life.”

Alberto’s case is the latest test in the Obama administration’s handling of deportations.

President Barack Obama said last summer that immigration authorities would put a higher priority on deporting immigrants with serious criminal records. Being in the U.S. without legal permission is a civil offense, not a criminal offense.

The shift signaled that ICE would take into consideration a host of factors, such as when the person entered the U.S., how the entry happened and whether the person has been pursuing an education.

Hispanics disapprove of the way Obama has handled deportations by a ratio of more than 2 to 1, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group based in Washington, D.C. Deportations have risen to an annual average of nearly 400,000 since 2009, about 30 percent higher than during President George W. Bush's second term, according to the Pew center.

Last week, shortly after the two other protesters were arrested, they were released because they had clean records and public support, attorneys said, but Alberto’s case is more complicated.

Alberto has many traffic violations. He resolved most of them, but a lack of money led to some failures to appear in court, his attorney said. Still, Alberto has taken steps to resolve all of them. In addition, he was once brought up on domestic-violence charges, though they were dismissed. According to the victim, he never hit her but he did break her window, the attorney said.

Meanwhile, El Cambio and another immigrant advocacy group called N.C. Dream Team have organized a campaign to prevent Alberto from being deported. Online, they had more than 2,200 signatures on a petition directed at John Morton, the ICE director. Through social media, the two organizations have asked for the support of U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and U.S. Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C. Both have supported federal legislation to allow a legal path to residency for young immigrants brought as children to the U.S. if they meet certain criteria.

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Immigrant on hunger strike will ask for release from jail | JournalNow.com

Someone tell East Haven Mayor Joe Maturo to send him some tacos!

Alberto has a son who is a U.S. citizen and lives in Florida with his mother, according to relatives and friends.

Alberto’s case is more complicated.

Alberto has many traffic violations. He resolved most of them, but a lack of money led to some failures to appear in court, his attorney said. Still, Alberto has taken steps to resolve all of them. In addition, he was once brought up on domestic-violence charges, though they were dismissed. According to the victim, he never hit her but he did break her window, the attorney said.

Hmmm... so lets see he has a son, BUT the son resides with his mother in a different State.
He has racked up quite a criminal record for a young man.
He is proven to be violent ( bet that's why the mother is in another State!)
He's tried to pay for his tickets... can't do that unless he's got a job! Another strike against him.

Most Americans live their ENTIRE life trying to stay on the right side of the law. Illegal invaders don't give a crap about ANY law on the books. DEPORT, DEPORT, DEPORT!

March 14, 2012

Winston-Salem immigrant activist on hunger strike expected to be released today

By: BERTRAND M. GUTIERREZ | Winston-Salem Journal
Published: March 14, 2012
Updated: March 14, 2012 - 1:48 PM
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Uriel Alberto, a Winston-Salem immigration activist who has been in the Wake County Jail since Feb. 29, is expected to be released today after a $7,500 bond is posted.

Conditions of the bond were not immediately clear, but once it is paid, Alberto, 24, is free to go home. He was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct after he and two other activists interrupted a special state House committee meeting on immigration issues.

Alberto was brought to the U.S. from Mexico at the age of 7 by his parents and does not have legal permission to be in the country. The activists were protesting the lack of a path to legal residency for young immigrants who grew up mostly in the U.S.

The other arrested protesters were released. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to discuss Alberto's case, but he had previous charges on his record.

Martin Rodriguez, a member of El Cambio, an immigrant advocacy group based in Winston-Salem, said the group can help pay for Alberto's bond from its fundraising reserves.

The news came as a surprise this afternoon as Alberto's sister and mother were at an attorney's office in Winston-Salem. Out of the blue, Alberto called his sister, Alma Alberto, and told her his bond had been set.

Instantly, his mother, Samer Toledo, started crying and hugged the attorney, Jim Wilson.

"You must have been burning some candles," Wilson said, referring to prayer candles.

Alberto's friends and relatives are now scrambling to pay the bond and get him home to Winston-Salem.

It was not clear how the bond was set. Alberto had been scheduled for a bond hearing Thursday in Charlotte. He had been on a hunger strike while in jail, though he broke the fast briefly on Monday after 10 days, then resumed it.

Winston-Salem immigrant activist on hunger strike expected to be released today | JournalNow.com

WRONG does not even describe what's going on in this case. This absent father is an illegal alien who blatantly flaunts his status while using his child for pity, yet once again NOTHING will be done about it. Disgusting.