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85 Dreamers challenge USCIS to approve their Advance Parole travel permits to study abroad
After almost 2 months since the CMSC petitioned for the approval of Advance Parole permits for all 85 participants accepted into our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program, USCIS has finally replied.
We share the response with the public to confirm that our program applications are being duly considered, as we enter the last month of the approval process before the program’s start on December 15, 2020. Please read our September 14, 2020 letter and the USCIS reply received on November 6, 2020
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The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) has launched a new fund drive initiative from November 1 to December 31, 2020 to solicit sponsors and grants in support of the Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program, which will allow 85 DACA recipients to travel to Mexico with DACA’s Advance Parole permit, immerse in a unique U.S.-Mexico national security study abroad program, and reconnect with their family and cultural roots.
All participants have a pending Advance Parole (I-131) application since August 31, 2020, subject to USCIS approval and the CMSC team is working diplomatically with Mexico’s government and the U.S. Homeland Security Administration to secure authorization for all 85 participants.
But we need to raise about $50,000 to cover the increased costs of the program and ensure the safety of all participants while traveling in Mexico during the pandemic. The additional costs are related to increased expenses due doubling the cost for single-room hotel accommodations and all transportation costs due to social-distancing, COVID-19 pre- and post-testing, and 24/7 medical attention and prevention protocols.
Thus, we urge our community, Dreamers’ supporters, corporate and business sponsors, community and church groups, and academic colleagues to help us raise $50,000 by the end of the year with donations of any amount, or by sponsoring at least one Dreamer participant at $500 each.
MAKE YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TODAY!
DONATE HERE
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ADVANCE PAROLE VOICES
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Please watch the following videos from our Advance Parole Voices video series, featuring current participants of our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program (click on the images to watch the videos).
- Teresa is a teacher from California. She wants to learn about her binational culture and heritage as an essential part of two countries. This program will also allow her to meet the family she has not met.
- Eduardo is a college senior from Texas. He wants to study in Mexico to learn about U.S.-Mexico national security issues, to learn about his birthplace and to visit family members he has never met.
- Alpharaoh is an actor, writer, solo performer and artivist from Los Angeles. He describes how DACA impacted his life to become a professional artist and provide for his family. He also shares how Advance Parole allowed him to meet his ailing grandfather in 2017 before he passed away shortly after.
- Alexia is a billing analyst from Texas. For her, Advance Parole means a unique opportunity to reunite with her family after 20 years of separation; it means to have an in-person and in-depth look at her heritage and birth-land’s history.
- Zenaida is a restaurant manager from Bakersfield, California. To her, securing an #AdvanceParole travel permit is a life-changing opportunity. It will allow her to reunite with family members she has not seen in over 20 years, and visit her grandfather’s graveyard, who passed away last year.
- Bianca is a business owner from Utah. She wants to take this opportunity to learn about humanitarian relationships between the U.S. and Mexico. She is also a mother who believes this unique opportunity will help her grow on a personal level, and to provide a better future for her children.
Please share these videos and donate to our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program Fund Drive Initiative.
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PRIMERA CÁTEDRA DE ESTUDIOS CHICANOS Y LA DIÁSPORA MEXICANA:
“El Impacto Histórico De La Revolución Mexicana Para El Pueblo Mexicano En Estados Unidos”
El viernes 20 de Noviembre de 2020 a partir de las 5 PM hora Estándar del Pacífico (PST), el Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez, Profesor Emérito y Líder Nacional del Movimiento Chicano, impartirá la primera Cátedra del Programa de Estudios Chicanos y la Diáspora Mexicana del Centro de Estudios California-México (CMSC).
El Dr. Gutiérrez presentará sobre "El impacto Histórico de la Revolución Mexicana para el Pueblo Mexicano en Estados Unidos", profundizando en la historia e impacto económico y sociocultural de los 40 millones de Mexicanos en Estados Unidos.
La presentación será transmitida en vivo en nuestra página de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/700881273879486
Una presentación organizada por el CMSC y el Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT).
Para más información, favor de contactar al Profesor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, Presidente del CMSC: +1 (562) 430-5541 o email: armando@calmexcenter.org
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Improving the U.S. Immigration system in the 1st year of the Biden Administration
By: T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Donald Kerwin,
Center for Migration Studies - Nov. 10, 2020
The last four years have brought significant changes in federal policies—and the national discourse—on immigration. Presidential proclamations have denied entry to millions of non-citizens. Regulations and administrative practices have blocked and slowed the admission of legal immigrants. Processing delays, case backlogs and fee increases have made access to visas and immigration relief unattainable for countless immigrants and their families. U.S. businesses have been saddled with new bureaucratic requirements that diminish their productivity, competitiveness and ability to create jobs. The administration has attempted to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and to eviscerate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.
Refugee admissions have been dramatically reduced, and community-based infrastructures that sustain refugee resettlement have been decimated. The ability to seek asylum at the southwest border has all but ended, and legitimate asylum claims have been foreclosed by executive fiat. The COVID-19 pandemic has occasioned additional restrictions on refugee admissions and asylum... Read Full Report
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Lawyers can't find the parents of 666 migrant kids, a higher number than previously reported
By Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley, NBC News – Nov. 9, 2020
WASHINGTON — Lawyers working to reunite migrant families separated by the Trump administration before and during its "zero tolerance" policy at the border now believe the number of separated children for whom they have not been able to find parents is 666, higher than they told a federal judge last month, according to an email obtained by NBC News.
Nearly 20 percent, or 129, of those children were under 5 at the time of the separation, according to a source familiar with the data. In the email, Steven Herzog, the attorney leading efforts to reunite the families, explains that the number is higher because the new group includes those "for whom the government did not provide any phone number." Previously, the lawyers said they could not find the parents of 545 children after they had tried to make contact but had been unsuccessful... Read Full Article
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Biden plans immediate flurry of executive orders to reverse Trump policies
By Matt Viser, Seung Min Kim and Annie Linskey, Washington Post – November 7, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden is planning to quickly sign a series of executive orders after being sworn into office on Jan. 20, immediately forecasting that the country’s politics have shifted and that his presidency will be guided by radically different priorities.
He will rejoin the Paris climate accords, according to those close to his campaign and commitments he has made in recent months, and he will reverse President Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization. He will repeal the ban on almost all travel from some Muslim-majority countries, and he will reinstate the program allowing “dreamers,” who were brought to the United States illegally as children, to remain in the country, according to... Read Full Article
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From Covid-19 to climate, President-elect Joe Biden laid out a comprehensive agenda
By Alex Seitz-Wald and Sahil Kapur, NBC News – Nov. 8, 2020
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden offered voters an agenda that tried to balance his moderate inclinations and the clamor among his progressive base to implement big change.
The former vice president promised to "build back better" with large, sweeping programs and reforms designed to charge the economy and address problems like health care and racial inequality.
When he is sworn into office in January, he will have to grapple with the reality left by a split decision on Election Day — that while he won, his party failed to make enough gains in the Senate to ensure that he will have friendly cooperation in Congress to enact his proposals... Read Full Article
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President-elect Joe Biden addressed the nation with a message of unity: "Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now."
By Katie Glueck and Thomas Kaplan, New York Times – Nov. 7, 2020
WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. addressed the nation for the first time as president-elect on Saturday night, delivering a message of unity and trying to soothe the extraordinary divisions that defined the last four years in American politics.
“Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now,” he said.
In remarks before a drive-in audience in Wilmington brimming with longtime friends from Delaware, his home state, he directly appealed to the tens of millions of Americans who backed President Trump’s re-election, seeking to make good on his central campaign promise of bringing the country together.... Read Full Article
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The CMSC is in dire need of funding support !!!
Please support the CMSC's 2020 projects, initiatives, and campaigns, including our advocacy to provide and facilitate our Winter 2020 Dreamers Study Abroad Program, Immigrants' Mental Health Services, our National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole, to Help Mexico Abate COVID-19, the Ethnic Studies for All Campaign and the Chicano Studies in Mexico initiatives.
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