Thread: Undocumented Immigrants Line Up for Door Opened by Obama

Undocumented Immigrants Line Up for Door Opened by Obama

By JULIA PRESTONDEC. 14, 2014
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Thousands of people stood in line Sunday at an information session in Los Angeles offering assessments for undocumented immigrants hoping to establish legal status in the United States. Credit Monica Almeida/The New York Times LOS ANGELES — They pushed strollers, tugged toddlers and streamed into the convention center in the heart of this city on Sunday, thousands of immigrants here illegally and anxious to find out if they could gain protection from deportation under executive actions by President Obama.






The crowd, waiting in a long snaking line to check in, was drawn by an information session organized by advocacy groups offering people initial assessments to see if they meet the requirements to apply to stay in the country and work. The day became a kind of coming-out party for about 5,000 unauthorized immigrants, the largest gathering in the country of people who might qualify for temporary protection since the president’s announcement last month.

• Delfina Ibarra, 40, from Mexico, was taking in information while nursing a 17-month-old, Kimberly, the newest citizen in the family. Ms. Ibarra, who has lived in California for 23 years, said she also has a 21-year-old son who is a citizen. She said that without documents, she has been limited to cleaning houses and packing crates in industrial distribution centers. With a legal deferral document and a work permit, Ms. Ibarra said, she could get a driver’s license and go back to school.
  

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A member of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights handed out information about how to join the group and gain access to immigration lawyers. Credit Monica Almeida/The New York Times “It’s never too late to start again,” she said, laughing and holding up her baby.


Immigration advocates convened the information session in downtown Los Angeles not just to give out information but to galvanize their supporters as Republicans, angered by what they see as an illegal power grab by Mr. Obama, say they will seek to halt the programs when they gain control of both houses of Congress next year. Texas was joined by more than 20 other states, most led by Republicans, in filing a lawsuit to stop the president’s actions, arguing he exceeded his constitutional authority.


Hundreds of activist leaders also converged here for a three-day strategy conclave to plot how to enroll a maximum number of people in order to create momentum among immigrants and Latinos so they will defend the president’s actions and try to stop Republicans from canceling the programs before they get off the ground.


“We’re telling all our families to get ready to apply if they qualify, because the more families apply, the harder it is for Republicans to take it away,” said Angelica Salas, the executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, one of the main groups organizing the event.


Mr. Obama will offer three-year deportation deferrals and work permits to at least 3.5 million immigrants who have been living in the United States for five years, have no serious criminal records and have a child who is an American citizen or legal permanent resident. The president also expanded a 2012 program for young immigrants. The federal agency in charge, Citizenship and Immigration Services, will begin in mid-February to accept applications for the youth program. Applications by the parents will begin in mid-May.
Many who lined up beginning at 7 a.m. and flocked into a vast hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center said they would have no trouble proving their histories in this country. When organizers asked how many Mexicans were in the room, thousands of hands shot up. Two-thirds of the immigrants eligible nationwide will be from Mexico, according to Pew Research Center.

One of them, Rigoberto Esparza, 50, said that he had been in the United States for 22 years and that all three of his children were citizens born here.




Mr. Esparza said he worked in construction, employed by a framing and drywall company. He added that he was not worried about declaring his status at the meeting because he was confident he would qualify for the White House program.


“I have been so many years in this country, if they give us a chance to get right with the law, we have to take advantage of it,” Mr. Esparza said.


He was walking on crutches, after a fall on the job left him with a broken ankle. He said his employer helped him obtain workers’ compensation for his medical costs, but the accident reminded him that he remained vulnerable without documents.


The orientation slide show projected on big conference hall screens began with unflattering photographs of Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio and of Representative Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California who is also in the House leadership. It emphasized the message that Republicans were responsible for the failure in Congress to pass a broad overhaul of immigration policy that would have provided a permanent pathway to citizenship.


“These are the ones who keep getting in the way of immigration reform,” Ms. Salas said from the stage.
When a photograph appeared of Mr. Obama at his Oval Office desk, the crowd erupted in applause. It was an abrupt change for an immigrant community that has held countless protests criticizing the president for his record on deportations.


“Republicans have shown they are not on the side of the immigrant,” said Dany Santos, 35, an immigrant from Guatemala who came with a double stroller for his two American-born children, 3 and 4 years old. Still, he said he thought the program could have been better. “The news is fifty-fifty,” he said, “good for us but not good for so many people we know were left out” because they did not have children born in this country.


Mr. Santos’s wife, Virginia, who is also in the United States illegally, said she worked as a longtime babysitter for several Los Angeles families. She said she and her employers would be relieved if she had a legal work permit.


Republicans have said Mr. Obama ignored the results of the midterm elections, in which his party had large setbacks, taking sweeping executive actions instead of waiting for Congress to set its path on immigration. A spending bill that received final approval in the Senate late Saturday funds the Department of Homeland Security only to the end of February, so the Republican-led Congress can then revisit ways to defund or cancel Mr. Obama’s initiatives.


Joshua Hoyt, the executive director of the National Partnership for New Americans, said groups gathered here were laying plans to sign up at least 500,000 immigrants for the president’s program. Advocates also appealed to immigrants here illegally who cannot vote to contact people who can.


“All those children are going to be voters,” Ms. Salas said, “and those voters are going to remember who stood with their dad and their mom.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/us...bama.html?_r=0

I'm curious. Has anyone heard how much this is going to cost the illegals? Will they just cry I'm poor like they always do and get off scott free if this does go through?

They probably got free T-shirts that say im-migrants or something just for showing up at this thing. When I was in PTO we had to have a freebie to get the parents there and I was told it was a cultural thing. When they helped with fund raisers they would always take(steal) something for themselves. GRRRR~

Thanks for posting this. We really need info on when and where they are going to tell the illegals to go for processing.

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Latin American Officials Advise Illegals with Criminal Records at Amnesty 'Coming-Out Party'



by Tony Lee 15 Dec 2014, 12:08 PM PDT

At the largest amnesty workshop to date in Los Angeles, government officials from Mexico and El Salvador advised illegal immigrants, some of whom had criminal records, on President Barack Obama's executive amnesty program.

Described as a "coming-out party" for nearly 5,000 illegal immigrants, "representatives from the consulates of Mexico and El Salvador" reportedly joined various pro-amnesty activists and organizations at the Los Angeles Convention Center for what will be a three-day immigrant rights event. The majority of the country's illegal immigrants are from Mexico while the vast majority of illegal immigrants who were apprehended this summer arrived from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Various amnesty workshops have been held from coast to coast as amnesty advocates try to inform nearly five million illegal immigrants that they can receive Obama's executive amnesty.

According to the Los Angeles Times, one illegal immigrant woman asked whether she could qualify for Obama's executive amnesty if she had a DUI. She was told, "apologetically," that she would not. Nearly 450,000 illegal immigrants in Los Angeles are expected to qualify for Obama's executive amnesty, but "major questions, including what kinds of criminal records might disqualify an applicant, still loom."

Echoing what Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) has emphasized, Angelica Salas, the executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, reportedly said, "We’re telling all our families to get ready to apply if they qualify, because the more families apply, the harder it is for Republicans to take it away."

Critics of Obama's executive amnesty have said Democrats just want more "undocumented Democrats" to ultimately be eligible to vote. And Salas also emphasized that point, saying that "all those children are going to be voters... and those voters are going to remember who stood with their dad and their mom.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ming-Out-Party

Joshua Hoyt, the executive director of the National Partnership for New Americans, said groups gathered here were laying plans to sign up at least 500,000 immigrants for the president’s program. Advocates also appealed to immigrants here illegally who cannot vote to contact people who can.

“All those children are going to be voters,” Ms. Salas said, “and those voters are going to remember who stood with their dad and their mom.”

This sounds very political, as if the purpose of this travesty is to get votes for Democrats in the future?

http://501c3lookup.org/national_part...new_americans/

Yep. This outfit is another political action organization posing as a 501 C 3 "charity" and as such is banned by the tax code to engage in political activity that impacts public policy or influences the outcome of elections. Our government has wrongly granted tax exempt status to these outfits allowing them to collect tax deductible money from private entities and qualify for publicly funded grants. The 501 C 3 program is a travesty that drains resources from the private and public sectors to promote and shield illegal and political activities. Our government has become a puppet government of foreign-led business and socialist organizations to end the United States as we know it and the greatest enabling vehicle to achieve that has been the illegal abuse of 501 C 3 income tax status.

If we really want to stop this, then we need to cut off their money. The FairTax is the best way to do that because without an income tax, there is no financial benefit to contributors, the money dries up, the activities against our country, citizens and coffers end, and our nation can return to the nation it was formed to be.

The Fair Tax Act: HR 25 in the US House of Representatives and S 122 in the US Senate.

www.fairtax.org

Originally Posted by Mayday

I'm curious. Has anyone heard how much this is going to cost the illegals? Will they just cry I'm poor like they always do and get off scott free if this does go through?

They probably got free T-shirts that say im-migrants or something just for showing up at this thing. When I was in PTO we had to have a freebie to get the parents there and I was told it was a cultural thing. When they helped with fund raisers they would always take(steal) something for themselves. GRRRR~

And in the case of all these phony 501 C 3 "charities", everything is paid for by taxpayers, either through direct grants from local, state or the federal government or tax-deductible contributions from private entities. Either way, under the present income tax system, we're paying for our own demise.

It's time to broaden our approach and stop it. Now.

“We’re telling all our families to get ready to apply if they qualify, because the more families apply, the harder it is for Republicans to take it away,” said Angelica Salas, the executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, one of the main groups organizing the event.

Lets see who they are. Oh ..... another 501 C 3 fraud, this one sponsored by the United Way, another 501 C 3.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) is an American political advocacy organization.

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 Organization
• 3 Activities
• 4 References

History

Following the passage of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, representatives from Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice, and Dolores Mission formed a steering committee to coordinate the efforts of charities, legal service organizations, and advocacy organizations.


With the sponsorship of United Way, CHIRLA was formed. In 1989, CHIRLA established the first day labor center in the United States.^{[citation needed]} In 1993, it was granted 501(c)(3) non-profit status. In the same year, faced with major changes to laws pertaining to unauthorized immigrants from California Proposition 187, CHIRLA spearheaded public awareness campaigns to dispel myths and inform the immigrant community. http://chirla.org/files/287g%20Factsheet%2011-24-08.pdf 287(g) Enforcement Applies to All Crimes: Officials working under 287(g) programs are allowed to refer people to ICE for any violation of the law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaliti...of_Los_Angeles

To all Americans: If you give your money or part of your paycheck to United Way, then you are part of the problem probably without even knowing it. STOP. DOING. THIS.