A MESSAGE FROM CMSC FOUNDER,
PROFESSOR ARMANDO VAZQUEZ-RAMOS:
The CMSC marks today the beginning of our 12th year of existence and the 10th year of “El Magonista”, with a new logo and proud to announce our plans and initiatives for 2022 and beyond.
The CMSC Team is developing and will announce soon our plan to offer our Winter 2022 Dreamers’ Study Abroad Program for 100+ participants, as a special session during December 2022 and returning in January 2023 !!!...please subscribe to “El Magonista” to stay tuned and informed regarding the application process, requirements, and deadlines.
Also beginning today, the CMSC will initiate a national and international campaign to call upon the U.S. Congress for legislation and the Biden/Harris Administration for Executive Actions to grant all Dreamers Amnesty, the return of almost 1 million US-citizen Children Exiled in Mexico and Central America with their deported parents, and incentives to Promote for U.S. Colleges and Universities to provide Dreamers Study Abroad opportunities.
Having accomplished in 2021 the restoration of DACA’s Advance Parole after a 4-year battle with the U.S. government, the CMSC is poised to initiate a new phase of advocacy to Demand Amnesty for All Dreamers, including those deported.
We also want to re-start our 2015 Campaign to Protect our Families and Save the Children, which ceased upon Trump’s election along with his cancellation of DACA’s Advance Parole in 2017. Tragically, due to the massive deportation of almost 4-Million predominantly Latino immigrants during the 12-years of the Obama and Trump Administrations, almost 1 million US-citizen children were exiled in Mexico and Central America with their deported parents and we must demand their return to their birthplace and protect their U.S. citizenship rights.
May 2022 bring an end to the COVID Pandemic and the supremacist insurrection forces that equally threaten the future of our country and the world.
El Profe Armando
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Featured Column | JAN. 5, 2022 | Photo credit: Kent Nishimura for LATimes
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Jean Guerrero reflects on disturbing data about the insurrectionists.
One year ago, a mob of mostly white men stormed the Capitol to try to keep their race-baiting idol in power. The attack was not the “last gasp” of white supremacy or Trumpism, as many might have wanted to believe.
It was a national coming out party for the political right’s insurrectionist movement, whose roots were set decades ago and completely visible in California’s electoral politics and public battles in the 1990s... READ MORE
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By Linda Chavez | The Bulwark | JAN. 4, 2022 | Photo credit: Sandy Huffaker - Getty Images
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A general amnesty—or even the threat of one—could do right by the Dreamers and maybe force a legislative compromise.
For Dreamers, 2021 was the year that promised some permanent relief from their fragile immigration status—but failed to deliver. President Biden can ensure 2022 is different.
Candidate Joe Biden promised in his final debate with Donald Trump in October 2020 that if he was elected president, Dreamers, those brought to the U.S. without permission by their parents when they were children, would be “immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and be put on a path to citizenship.” But President Biden has not been able to deliver on that promise, and it is unclear that he ever will. As a result, Dreamers are in the most precarious position they have experienced since the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was initiated in 2012... READ MORE
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Editorial by Jimmy Carter | New York Times | JAN. 5, 2022 | Photo credit: Leni Sinclair for Getty Images
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Former U.S. President warns that America's democracy is at stake.
One year ago, a violent mob, guided by unscrupulous politicians, stormed the Capitol and almost succeeded in preventing the democratic transfer of power. All four of us former presidents condemned their actions and affirmed the legitimacy of the 2020 election. There followed a brief hope that the insurrection would shock the nation into addressing the toxic polarization that threatens our democracy.
However, one year on, promoters of the lie that the election was stolen have taken over one political party and stoked distrust in our... READ MORE
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By Sean Sullivan and Maria Sacchetti | Washington Post | JAN. 4, 2022 | Photo credit: Jahi Chikwendiu
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Beatriz was 3 years old when U.S. authorities separated her from her father, Jairo, shortly after they arrived from Guatemala at the U.S. border on Christmas Eve 2017. He was detained and developed pneumonia. She was sent to New York, where a woman who took her in hit her so hard with a belt that it left a scar, she told her dad.
Ana fled Guatemala a few months later with her sons Jaime, 8, and Mateo, 7, and she says U.S. officials separated them for seven weeks, adding that Mateo still cannot bathe alone, sleep by himself or stand to be apart from his mother.
These are two of the many allegations behind at least 19 lawsuits — and hundreds of administrative complaints — filed against the federal government by migrants who say their children were separated from them by the Trump administration. The plaintiffs, who use pseudonyms in their legal filings to protect their privacy, are seeking financial compensation after enduring what was widely regarded as one of Trump’s harshest policies... READ MORE
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By David Morgan | Reuters | JAN 4, 2022 | Photo credit: Jonathan Ernst
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'Maserati Manchin' has indicated his support for maintaining the filibuster is greater than his support for Americans' right to have their vote counted.
WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Democrats' efforts to pass voting rights legislation in Congress appeared in jeopardy on Tuesday, as a centrist Democratic senator said he had little interest in a strategy that would allow the party to bypass Republican opposition.
Senator Joe Manchin told reporters that it was his "preference" to line up Republican support for a rule change that would allow Democrats to pass a voting rights bill on a party-line vote. That could spell doom for the legislation, which Republicans oppose.
"For us to go it alone, no matter what side does it, it just ends up coming back at you pretty hard," Manchin told reporters.
His remarks came a day after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate would vote to change chamber's rule known as the filibuster by Jan. 17, the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, in order to enact voting rights legislation... READ MORE
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By Sam Peak | The Bulwark | JULY 9, 2021
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Kids who came to America legally are getting kicked out once they turn 21.
For most Americans, turning 21 might mean the freedom to rent a car, buy alcohol or cigarettes, or get into clubs and casinos. But for Pareen Mhatre, turning 21 meant filling out a stack of forms to convince a giant bureaucracy not to kick her out of the only country she knows.
Pareen was 4 months old when her parents, then international students, brought her to the United States. She was raised in Iowa City, where her mom now works as an instructional services manager for the University of Iowa’s College of Nursing and her father serves as a senior applications developer for the College of Medicine. The school sponsored them for green cards nine years ago, but due to crisis-level backlogs, they still have decades to wait. The type of visas that Pareen’s parents are working under were originally meant to last six years, but Congress waived this rule in 2000 so employers could retain their workers as they wait in line for permanent residency... READ MORE
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To be a sponsor contact Professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos at: armando@calmexcenter.org or 562-972-0986
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