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    S.C. man gets hearing in test of deportation guidelines- Gutierrez gets camera time

    S.C. man gets hearing in test of deportation guidelines


    By Carmen Cusido
    ccusido@charlotteobserver.com

    Posted: Tuesday, May. 15, 2012

    Gabino Sanchez with his son Roger Sanchez and wife Laura (right) march with a crowd to the stage at the start of Tuesday's immigration court rally. Hundreds attended a rally in support of Gabino Sanchez, a South Carolina man who is in the US illegally. On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL-4) was in Charlotte, NC to attend the hearing of Sanchez, the South Carolina man facing deportation. Sanchez, 27, of Ridgeland, SC, a husband and father of two U.S. citizen children, was due in the Executive Center Drive immigration court at 1:00 p.m. DIEDRA LAIRD - dlaird@charlotteobserver.com

    In a case advocates call a test of deportation guidelines announced by President Obama last year, a federal judge Tuesday granted a court hearing to a South Carolina man who is in the United States illegally.

    Gabino Sanchez faces deportation because of nine misdemeanor convictions in South Carolina and Georgia for driving without a license or driving an unregistered vehicle.

    Illegal immigrants sometimes don’t try to get a license for fear of exposing their status. Sanchez’s case has garnered support from U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat who’s become a leading advocate for undocumented immigrants.

    Marty Rosenbluth, executive director of the N.C. Immigrant Rights Project, who represents Sanchez, asked a federal immigration judge in Charlotte Tuesday – and was granted – an individual hearing based on the merits of Sanchez’ case.

    “Now he has a fighting chance,” Rosenbluth said. “He has the potential to be able to stay here.”

    Gutierrez said the intent of a new Obama administration policy on deportation is to target illegal immigrants who pose threats to public safety or commit serious crimes like rape and murder. Sanchez has no felonies on his record. But it’s those repeated traffic violations that appear to be the reason U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) refused Gutierrez’s request last year that it drop Sanchez’s case.

    “There are hundreds of Gabinos who are put into deportation proceedings that shouldn’t be there in the first place,” Rosenbluth said.

    Gutierrez has in the past cited a memorandum written by ICE Director John Morton that said the agency should consider several positive factors – including having been in the U.S. since childhood – in weighing whether to exercise “prosecutorial discretion,” legal lingo for dropping low-priority deportation cases.

    But ICE officials objected to applying “prosecutorial discretion” in this case, Rosenbluth said. While not commenting specifically on Sanchez’s case, an ICE spokesman in Atlanta said in an e-mail message that the federal enforcement agency’s previous statement will stand:

    “ICE has adopted common sense policies that ensure our immigration laws are enforced in a way that best enhances public safety, border security and the integrity of the immigration system. As part of this approach, ICE has adopted clear priorities that call for the agency’s enforcement resources to be focused on the identification and removal of those that have broken criminal laws, recently crossed our border, repeatedly violated immigration law or are fugitives from immigration court.”

    At the hearing, slated for Feb. 1, 2013, Rosenbluth said he expects to make the case that deporting Sanchez would be a hardship to his US-citizen children, ages 2 and 6.

    Sanchez, of rural Ridgeland, S.C., was brought illegally to the U.S. by his Mexican parents 13 years ago, when he was a teenager. Since then, he has worked as a construction and landscape worker, got married, bought a home and fathered his two children.

    Following Tuesday’s hearing, Sanchez, 28, said he felt more tranquil.

    “When immigration takes you, they don’t let go so easily unless you have help from someone,” Sanchez said in Spanish. “We are happy. Without the congressman’s help, it wouldn’t have been the same.”

    Roughly 250 men, women, children, activists and others in the faith community came out in support of Sanchez before his 1 p.m. hearing.

    Many outside the immigration court in east Charlotte shouted “Todos somos Gabino,” or “We are Gabino.” Others carried messages on posters that read, “We are human beings – No human being is illegal.”

    Gutierrez, the Illinois Democrat, spoke at the rally, saying Sanchez was representative of other undocumented immigrants in the United States.

    “Our immigration system is broken. … Everyone we lose (to deportation) is a permanent loss to the community,” Gutierrez said. “Gabino is a human being. We love his wife. His son is our son. … I cannot rest until he comes home to his wife.”

    Read more here: S.C. man gets hearing in test of deportation guidelines | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper


    About the reporter:

    She seems to be a one trick pony and only interested in putting forth an ethnic view instead of a legal one. Just another sob story written by yet another product of the American Association of Hispanic Journalists who in my opinion tend to propagandize rather than report immigration news.

    Gabino Sanchez faces deportation because of nine misdemeanor convictions in South Carolina and Georgia for driving without a license or driving an unregistered vehicle.

    Carmen Cusido,National Association of Hispanic Journalists

    Her Resume from the WEB


    Carmen E. Cusido

    cec2147@columbia.edu

    EDUCATION
    M.S., The Journalism School, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., May 2010 Concentration: print, with courses in digital media, including video and audio editing and photography.

    B.A., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., May 2005, with honors Major: Journalism and Media Studies. Minor: Political Science G.P.A. 3.6/4.0


    EXPERIENCE
    The Times of Trenton, Trenton, N.J.
    Suburban Reporter 04/2008 — Present
    •Report on stories about religion, education, municipal and county government and Latino issues for this daily newspaper with 52,000 circulation.

    LatinosNJ.com, Garfield, N.J.
    Blogger 08/2007 — 05/2008
    • Wrote monthly columns on Latino issues in N.J. for the new web start-up.

    Home News Tribune, East Brunswick, N.J.
    Reporter 08/2006 — 07/2007
    •Reported on three municipalities • Wrote feature articles and health stories, including Latinos and mental health stigma. • Contributed to the now-defunct Gannett-owned weekly Spanish newspaper, Nuestra Communidad and to the monthly DesiNJ, geared toward Middlesex County’s South Asian community.

    DiversityInc Magazine, Newark, N.J.
    Journalist 01/2005—07/2006
    • Wrote about disabilities, multicultural issues, race relations and immigration issues for the Web site, with an estimated daily readership of 300,000 • Wrote profiles and book reviews for DiversityInc magazine, estimated circulation 170,000.

    The Daily Targum, Targum Publishing Company New Brunswick, N.J.
    Assignment Editor, University Editor and Associate News Editor, 11/2002 –02/2005
    • Assigned, edited and wrote stories 30 hours a week for this daily, award-winning college newspaper.

    OTHER
    • Story on Hispanic Muslims featured in NJ Monthly magazine • Featured in the upcoming journalism documentary “Fit to Print” • Dean’s List, seven consecutive semesters • Membership, various honor societies at Rutgers •Chapter Secretary, National Association of Hispanic Journalists • Mastery of the Spanish language; basic knowledge of Italian. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and Adobe Photoshop, basic knowledge of HTML. • Freelancer, Morris County edition of The Star-Ledger.


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    “We are human beings – No human being is illegal.”
    No human being is illegal but any human being that enters a foreign land without permission becomes an Illegal Alien. Then when common vernacular shortens that phrase to simply the term Illegal a human being has actually become Illegal, so get over it!
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