After publishing an Open Letter to President Joe Biden last week, the CMSC sent the following registered letter to formalize our request for him to exercise his Presidential Authority to Pardon all Undocumented Immigrants and Deported Parents of U.S. Citizen Children Forced into Exile, as of January 20, 2022.
The letter declares that “As a General Presidential Pardon for essential workers, Dreamers, TPS holders and U.S. citizen children victims of forced exile due to the deportation of their parents, President Biden could summarily protect and resolve the endemic immigration problem without risking the possibility of being reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court, or Congress, if the Republicans regain majority in the House of Representatives”.
Professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos stated: “This is not another critical opinion, and perhaps a viable idea for the President to reverse course and ‘check-mate’ the GOP.”
“We are respectfully calling upon you, President Biden, to consider this humanitarian request as “an alternative solution since you and the Vice President are facing declining poll numbers, a fractured Democratic Party, and the despicable betrayal of 2 Democratic senators that have blocked your most important policy agenda, protection of voting rights and the rule of law in our country”.
For questions or comments, please write to me at armando@calmexcenter.org
Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos, CMSC President and CEO
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| BY PETER L. MARKOWITZ & LINDSAY NASH | April 2018 |
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In the waning days of the Obama Administration, with Trump’s promised immi gration crackdown looming, over one hundred advocacy organizations joined forces to urge President Obama to permanently protect hundreds of thousands of immigrants from deportation by pardoning their breaches of civil immigration law. That pardon never materialized and, as expected, the Trump enforcement regime is sowing terror and devastation in immigrant communities nationwide.
While it seems unfathomable that the current President would use his pardon power to miti gate even the most extreme applications of our nation’s immigration laws, there is unfortunately no indication that the harshest aspects of the immigration laws are likely to be revised by the current political branches.
Accordingly, future Presidents will likely once again face the questions of how they may use prosecutorial discretion generally, and the pardon power specifically, to address the human toll of such laws. Since the Founding, the pardon power has been used primarily to forgive individual criminal convictions.
Thus the broad civil immigration pardon, which Obama declined to issue, would have raised novel questions regarding the appropriate boundaries of the presidential pardon power. Resolution of those previously unexplored questions is necessary to help future Presidents determine whether their pardon power can serve as a safety valve to alleviate the disproportionate penalties that our immigration laws have imposed on longtime members of our communities.
This Article explores the novel concept of a civil immigration pardon. Specifically, it closely examines the language and drafting history of the Pardon Clause, exhaustively reviews early and modern pardon practice and jurisprudence, and considers whether a President could, consistent with the Constitution, use that power to protect some of the largest categories of noncitizens currently at risk of deportation. Ultimately, it argues that the President possesses the constitutional authority to categorically pardon broad classes of immigrants for civil violations of the immigration laws and to thereby provide durable and permanent protections against deportation.
As millions of noncitizens and their families face a historically unprecedented wave of deportations and as traditional mechanisms for policymaking continue to fail, the immigration pardon offers an important tool for future Presidents to for give the civil offenses that result in some of the harshest penalties in our nation’s justice system. READ THE FULL ARTICLE |
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| By Dennis Wagner | USA Today | FEB. 2, 2021 | Photo credit: Mario Tema |
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Immigration Flashback: after one year in office, Biden must harness the mandate he was elected with to introduce bold action on Immigration reform.
In his first few days in office, President Joe Biden moved swiftly to deliver on promises to Hispanic voters, signing a directive to protect "Dreamers" from deportation and unveiling an outline for sweeping changes to immigration laws.
Tuesday afternoon, the president announced a task force to reunite families separated at the border and an executive order that reviews a Trump administration policy requiring migrants seeking asylum to wait in Mexico while they plead their case.
But executive actions are not permanent, and the White House already has begun tamping down hopes for passage of an omnibus reform measure.
That leaves some Latino advocacy groups looking at an untested fallback plan: a mass presidential pardon for at least some of the estimated... READ MORE
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| By Suzy Khimm | Washington Post | DEC. 6, 2011 | Getty Images |
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Throwback Thursday: Knowing Trump's racist views lay on the horizon, why didn't Obama pardon Dreamers during his Lame Duck period?
Over at the Monkey Cage, Gregory Koger suggests that President Obama could use his executive authority to help illegal immigrants become legal. Koger, a political scientist at the University of Miami, argues that Obama could use presidential pardons to “grant unconditional amnesty (permanent residency)” to all illegal immigrants, or a certain subset that meet certain qualifications.
Citing a report from the Congressional Research Service that describes pardon power as “essentially unfettered,” Koger concludes that the failure of Obama to enact immigration policy through this channel “strikes me as an... READ MORE
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| De Victor Hugo Rodriguez | Telemundo Arizona | JAN. 12, 2022 |
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El programa Advance Parole da la oportunidad a dreamers de ajustar estatus de un familiar, esposo, hijo ciudadano o residente.
ARIZONA- Un grupo de 20 jóvenes beneficiarios de la Acción Diferida, conocida como DACA, que viajaron de Phoenix a México y pudieron regresar a Estados Unidos con un permiso especial que les podría ayudar a conseguir la residencia permanente.
El programa Advance Parole ha servido a muchos soñadores para ajustar su estatus migratorio, al lograr un ingreso legal al país, por lo que el gobierno de Estados Unidos permite salir por razones de trabajo, razón humanitaria o estudios.
El grupo de soñadores viajó para pasar la Navidad y Año Nuevo en México con el objetivo de realizar un curso y reconectar con los familiares que no han visto por años.
El regreso se realiza sin ningún obstáculo luego de presentar su autorización de viaje y su prueba negativa de COVID 19... READ MORE
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| By Maria Carrasco | Inside Higher Ed | JAN. 20, 2022 | Photo by CMSC Staff |
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Some students who lost out on studying abroad because of the pandemic are turning to alternative programs.
Andrea Boe had always planned to study abroad as part of her college experience. During her sophomore year at Tufts University, she began looking at programs in Spain for the following year.
Then, in March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic hit. Classes went remote, and many students who were already studying abroad came home early.
By the time Boe started her junior year in fall 2020, she realized her plan was doomed: Tufts canceled its study abroad programs for spring... READ MORE
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By Ted Hesson | Reuters | JAN. 20, 2022 | Photo credit: Jose Luis Gonzalez
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U.S. President continues to be dogged by policy failures in his first year.
WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Days after U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, two of his top immigration advisors outlined bold plans, including a major immigration reform bill, a 100-day deportation moratorium, and a strategy to restore protections for asylum seekers that were degraded under former President Donald Trump.
One year later, those goals remain unfulfilled after Biden officials spent much of his first year in office grappling with record-breaking border arrests, unfavorable court decisions on immigration, Republican opposition in Congress and internal divisions between liberals and moderates within his own administration.
Now, the two White House officials who touted the plans, Tyler Moran and Esther Olavarria, are preparing to leave the administration, a White House spokesperson confirmed to Reuters. Both previously worked for immigration advocacy groups and underscored Biden's move away from... READ MORE
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Opinion by Mark Morocco | LATimes | JAN. 15, 2022 | Photo credit: Irfan Khan
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As Omicron cases surge, hospitals are having to make unprecedented choices.
Days after U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, two of his top immigration advisors outlined bold plans, including a major immigration reform bill, a 100-day deportation moratorium, and a strategy to restore protections for asylum seekers that were degraded under former President Donald Trump.
One year later, those goals remain unfulfilled after Biden officials spent much of his first year in office grappling with record-breaking border arrests, unfavorable court decisions on immigration, Republican opposition in Congress and internal divisions between liberals and moderates within his own administration.
Now, the two White House officials who touted the plans, Tyler Moran and Esther Olavarria, are preparing to leave the administration, a White House spokesperson confirmed to Reuters. Both previously worked for immigration advocacy groups and underscored Biden's move away from... READ MORE
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By Mark Morocco | LATimes | JAN. 15, 2022 | Photo credit: Irfan Khan
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As Omicron cases surge, hospitals are having to make unprecedented choices.
I’ve been dodging COVID since March 2020. Back then, I would have been appalled at having asymptomatic doctors and nurses infected with COVID treating patients, which state officials now say is permissible.
Now I see this as a necessity.
We’re losing this war.
Omicron is surging in huge numbers, a wave bred in the unvaccinated, the uneducated and the uncaring. People are flooding our hospitals during the worst time of the year for ERs: winter, when flu and other respiratory diseases spike.
It’s a rock and a hard place numbers game as Omicron knocks healthcare workers out by the thousands — at a time when staffing is already a big problem. Combined with burnout, retirement and higher paying “travel” jobs to COVID hotspots, this wave has put us in a perfect storm.
Lately, we are seeing patients as if practicing for a disaster that has already arrived. In my hospital and so many others, sick patients clog the ER because there is nowhere to put them. The ER overflows into... READ MORE
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By Jacqueline Howard | CNN | JAN. 25, 2022 | Photo credit: Bebeto Matthews
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As Omicron cases surge, hospitals are having to make unprecedented choices.
The rollout of free N95 masks for the public began this week across the United States, with some pharmacies already handing out the masks and others expecting to do so in the coming days.
The program is part of the Biden administration's effort to distribute 400 million free N95 masks from the Strategic National Stockpile via pharmacies and community health centers. The program is expected to be fully up and running by early February. The masks are arriving at their destinations with accompanying flyers and signage from the US Department of Health and Human Services, which paid for the masks.
Here's what you need to know about getting a free N95 mask through this program:
Where Can I Find Free N95 Masks?
The masks will be available at a number of local pharmacies and community health centers, a White House official told CNN. Participating pharmacies include Hy-Vee, Meijer, CVS, Walgreens and Kroger... READ MORE
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