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CMSC to launch National Campaign for Presidential Pardon of all Undocumented
Immigrants and the Parents of 1 Million U.S.-citizen children exiled in Mexico & Central America
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We are publishing again our Open Letter and personal letters to President Biden and VP Harris, while we are waiting to receive a reply to our call upon them, to grant an unconditional Presidential Pardon to all Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S. as of January 20, 2022, and to the Parents of U.S.-citizen children exiled in Mexico and Central America due to their parents’ deportation under the Obama/Biden and Trump administrations.
Contingent upon their response or non-response, we will announce next week our National Campaign for a Presidential Pardon for all Undocumented Immigrants and Parents of U.S.-citizen children exiled in Mexico and Central America. This announcement will be a Declaration of Purpose, Benefits and Rationale for the Campaign, and the proposed activities until the November 2022 elections.
To begin this mobilization, we are endorsing, supporting, and promoting the Day Without Immigrants Boycott scheduled for Valentine’s Day on Monday February 14, 2022. Our campaign will call for a similar monthly mobilization, leading up to massive May Day and Labor Day protests and demonstrations involving community-based “good trouble” political actions and civil disobedience.
Please be sure to read the important articles that we have previously published to sustain our appeal for President Biden’s Presidential Pardon (i.e., “Pardoning Immigrants” by Peter Markowitz), and those publishing today from last year (“Groups urge President Biden to include immigration in the pardon process” and “Can Obama pardon millions of immigrants?”), amongst many others that have given us the confidence that this is a worthwhile initiative.
Stay safe and protected…Salud !!!
El profe Armando
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By Sirine Shebaya, Nana Gyamfi & Heidi Altman | Human Rights Watch | JUNE 2, 2021
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The following is a letter was sent last year to various Black and POC Cabinet officials in the Biden Administration from a cadre of Immigration Reform advocates. The letter, which is also signed by several dozen Immigration and Human Rights advocacy groups, highlights the call for a Presidential Pardon for Undocumented People living in the U.S. - a key tenet of CMSC's National Campaign for a Presidential Pardon for all Undocumented Immigrants and Parents of U.S.-citizen children exiled in Mexico and Central America.
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Opinion by Peter Markowitz | New York Times | July 16, 2016 | Photo credit: Smialowski for AFP
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Immigration Flashback: Cardoza Law School professor Peter L. Markowitz's analysis of the power of the Presidential Pardon and how Obama's missed opportunity left him a legacy as the Deporter-in-Chief.
WHEN the history of President Obama’s legacy on immigration is written, he will not go down as the president who boldly acted to protect millions of families from the brutality of our nation’s unforgiving immigration laws.
The Supreme Court made sure of that last month, when it deadlocked on the legality of his program to defer the deportation of parents of American citizens and residents.
Instead, he will be judged on what he actually did: deport more immigrants than any other president in American history, earning him... READ MORE
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A DAY WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS!
THIS MONDAY FEB. 14, 2022
NO WORK! NO SCHOOL! NO SPENDING $$
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Opinion by Jack Bernard | Caller Times | FEB. 4, 2022 | Photo credit: Annie Rice-Caller Times
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"Many of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, making the U.S. a nuclear power and ending the Second World War, were refugees..."
Rep. Cloud has voted against the DREAM Act, which provides a pathway to citizenship for undocumented men and women who came here as children and are now productive members of our nation. In the 117th session of Congress, Rep. Cloud has supported numerous anti-immigration bills (some with extreme measures) including House Bills 6223, 5831, 5294, 4199, 3484, 2729, 1901, 1707, 1629, 413 and so on. I think we all understand where... READ MORE
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By Miriam Jordan & Robert Gebeloff | NY Times | FEB 5, 2022 | Photo credit: Stefani Reynolds
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A declining birthrate and pandemic deaths helped drive U.S. population growth to historic lows. But immigration appears to be back on the rise.
Overall, 2021 will go down as the year with the slowest population growth in U.S. history.
New census data shows why: Both components of growth — gains from immigration, and the number of births in excess of the number of deaths — have fallen sharply in recent years. In 2021, the rate of population growth fell to an unprecedented 0.1 percent.
Yet within these sluggish figures a new pattern is emerging. Immigration, even at reduced levels, is for the first time making up a majority of population growth.
In part this is because Americans are dying at higher rates and having fewer babies, trends accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. But it’s also because there are signs that immigration is picking up again... READ MORE
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By REUTERS | NBC | FEB. 1, 2022 | Photo credit: Priscilla Coronado
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Priscila Coronado, 24, born and raised in California, is making history as she heads a law journal whose first Black president was Barack Obama in 1990.
The Harvard Law Review has named a California-born daughter of Mexican immigrants as its newest president, elevating a Latina to the top of one of the most prestigious U.S. law journals for the first time in its 135-year history.
Harvard Law School student Priscila Coronado, 24, said in an email Sunday that her experiences growing up as a Mexican American have informed her perspectives and that she wanted to “work hard to show how being a Latina is an important part of who I am..." READ MORE
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By Camilo Perez-Bustillo | TruthOut | FEB. 7, 2022 | Photo credit: John Moore
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Family Reunification task force created by Biden’s February 2021 executive order is a necessary but sorely insufficient step toward broader remedies that correspond to Trump-era cases of family separation. The administration’s duty to take these steps is being drastically undermined by its current policies.
Immigrant rights advocates led by Witness at the Border released anopen letter on January 17, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, urging the Biden administration to honor his memory by upholding the rights of migrant victims of family separation to full reparations and restorative justice. They argue these steps should include the creation of a truth commission to investigate and document serious human rights crimes on both sides of the border. This is especially appropriate, as well, amid ongoing observances of Black History Month.
The Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families created by President Joe Biden’s February 2021 executive order is a necessary but sorely insufficient step toward broader remedies that correspond to Trump-era cases of family separation. The administration’s duty to take these steps is being drastically undermined by its current policies... READ MORE
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CMSC WINTER 2022 DREAMERS STUDY ABROAD APPLICATION DEADLINE MARCH 1, 2022
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By Camilo Perez-Bustillo | TruthOut | FEB. 7, 2022 | Photo credit: John Moore
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Only one building remains standing as a reminder of the former site of the Blackwell segregated school for Mexican children in Marfa, Tx.
Hiding in plain sight on a dusty corner of this remote west Texas town, the Blackwell School stands as a lasting reminder of what Mexican American students endured during decades of segregation.
“I learned about racism here in Marfa,” said Jessi Silva, 73, who attended the school as a child in the 1950s and 1960s.
Sitting in the schoolhouse last month, Silva gestured to a wooden paddle she said teachers used to spank classmates for speaking Spanish.
Opened in 1909 as a three-room “Mexican school,” Blackwell expanded to half a dozen buildings, educating more than 4,000 children before it closed in 1965.
“Students were told to speak only English on campus,” reads a state historic marker outside the stucco and adobe school, which is now a museum. “Spanish words written on slips of paper were buried on the grounds in a mock funeral ceremony.” In 1954, Silva’s favorite English teacher, Mrs. Evelyn Davis, organized the mock funeral for “Mr. Spanish.” READ MORE
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