“The time has come for common sense, comprehensive immigration reform.. Now is the time…” -President Obama
You’re damn right Mr. President!
And we have lift off!
Guess who’s getting shots today!? Guess who’s gonna cry like a baby! If you guessed Mom, you’re a winner!!!
Semper Fi!
1 year ago - 
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4Number of deportation cases drops by nearly a third, report says
I’m glad to hear that the effects of this are starting to show! It only makes sense that they actively pursue REAL criminals for deportation and not those who are trying to make a better life for themselves and their family.
1 year ago - 1
1 LAPD Police Chief Beck backs driver's licenses for illegal immigrants Beck backs driver's licenses for illegal immigrants
Wow, I love it when someone comes up with a truly good idea. Send them back to Mexico isn’t working, hasn’t worked, and isn’t ever going to work. LAPD Police Chief Beck is a logical man and understands that. What’s his solution? Make them accountable to US traffic & insurance laws, and make them identifiable if they’re pulled over.
“The reality is that all the things that we’ve done — ‘we’ being the state of California — over the last 14, 16 years have not reduced the problem one iota, haven’t reduced undocumented aliens driving without licenses. So we have to look at what we’re doing. When something doesn’t work over and over and over again, my view is that you should reexamine it to see if there is another way that makes more sense.”
You sir, are my hero.
1 year ago - 8
8 Shirley Bunn: 'Teacher Of The Year' Suspended For Offensive Comment, Telling Hispanic Student To 'Go Back To Mexico'
This woman was a teacher?!? Ignorance breeds ignorance, and apparently teaches it too..
According to public record, Bunn attempted to tell the student that he could retrieve forms translated into Spanish from the main office, but the student continued to repeat “I’m Mexican.”
Bunn quickly responded, “[Then] go back to Mexico.”
The school board placed Bunn on paid leave following the incident, until an Independent Hearing Examiner could review the case.
Late Wednesday, the examiner, Jess Rickman III, recommended that the school board allow Bunn to return to her post. In his 23-page opinion, Rickman determined that the district did not provide sufficient grounds for termination.
“Under the circumstances when taken in the context of the moment and the lack of intent for ‘Go back to Mexico’ to be a racially or nationality-based pejorative remark, I find it was not a remark of an egregious nature,” Rickman said, Fox 4 reports.
Since Rickman’s opinion is just a recommendation, the school board could still reject it and permanently terminate Bunn, who has taught at Barnett since 1999.
“It was almost instantaneous. I thought, ‘God, I don’t believe that came out of my mouth,’” Bunn told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
via HuffPo
(via immigrantstories)
1 year ago - 4
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This is a powerful picture! Notice who the ones are hiding behind a mask.
“this picture is from a 1938 stand-off between the Klan and Black residents/locals of Lakeland, Florida. I found it in a special exhibition archive at the Lakeland city website, here. And here’s an article recounting historical and current racial tensions in Polk County and Lakeland in specific.
The article gives this chilling context for the image (which appears to be from Life magazine and shot by a local photographer named Dan Sanborn):
The rally on Aug. 30, 1938, wasn’t the first rally and cross-burning in Polk County, and it certainly wasn’t the last. According to news reports, more than 200 KKK members from Polk, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties descended on Lakeland and paraded through the northern section of town.
“The white robed and hooded marchers frequently herded groups of Negroes together and voiced a warning against further outbreaks,” the Polk County Record reported. “The parade climaxed with the burning of a wooden cross.””
(via immigrantstories)
We reject all positions or policies that are anti-immigrant, nativist, ethnocentric or racist. Such narrow and destructive views are profoundly anti-American.
Archbishop Robert Carlson (St. Louis)
I love this!
(Source: stlouisreview.com, via immigrantstories)
1 year ago - 10
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Why don’t you kick yourself out you’re an immigrant too.
Jack White; The White Stripes
1 year ago - 6
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Lucero: Illegal in my own home, citizenship a dream away
Illegal immigrant children are often unknowing and unwilling criminals in the United States. I know this because I am one.
I was illegally adopted by two U.S. citizens who were deceived the same way that I was. In 1984, my adoptive parents bought me from a corrupt adoption attorney in Tijuana, Mexico, who had me smuggled into the country illegally when I was 4 days old.
Between 2006 and 2010, I had a Social Security number, a work authorization card and a driver’s license, with a green card application being processed in hopes of becoming legal in the country that I grew up in believing I was a citizen.
Today, I am 26 years old and an illegal immigrant who has never had a home in Mexico and I can’t speak Spanish. By the end of 2010, I had received a rejection notice for my green card because as an infant, I illegally entered the country.
Because of this, I was forced to quit my job of three years, I had to stop driving and I re-entered an illegal immigrant’s existence. Thankfully, I have my parents, my friends and my girlfriend in my life to support me through this difficult state of limbo.
I graduated from a private Christian high school in Ventura, and I have attended several semesters at Moorpark College, working on a business administration degree. Someday I want to transfer to UCLA.
I am a pilot, an aspiring writer, and the only job in the world I want is to be in the U.S. Army. I want to serve my country, which has given me so much: a good life and an opportunity to do anything in the world I want, like my parents always said I could. But because of my immigration status, I am unable.
My biggest hope right now, and what I am counting on the most, is the Dream Act, which has been trying to make its way into law since 2001. I have been following progress on the Dream Act since I first heard about it as a junior in high school.
It is a piece of legislation that was most recently introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who right now is my biggest hero. If it passes, it will give me the ability to serve in the U.S. military or go to college and finish a degree to earn a green card and I will finally have a permanent and legal existence in the country that I love so much. If it doesn’t get passed into law by the time I turn 35, I don’t know what I will do as the United States currently won’t allow me to become legal since I initially entered the country illegally.
I believe that the Dream Act is the best approach to immigration reform that currently exists. It gives credit to children who were brought here by their parents, adoptive or biological, who unknowingly and unwillingly broke the law by coming to the United States with them.
Based on current law, there are many people who were once children who came to America with their parents who are considered illegal immigrants. Like me, they have grown up most of their life here, gone to school here, speak English and know nothing of where they were born.
I read an article about President Obama’s new policy on suspending deportation proceedings against those who aren’t a threat to national security, and for the first time in a long time it gave me hope — hope there is change on the horizon for immigration policy, which is very broken.
It is shining a light and giving an understanding that not every illegal immigrant in America should be deported. There are those of us who should be given special consideration and an opportunity to belong here just like everyone else even if we have to earn it. We want to earn it, because this is our home.
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- vcstar.com
1 year ago - 2
2 TOMS Shoes - Quite a conundrum
Toms are an interesting idea and all, but I wonder how many pairs of shoes could really be provided off of the profit of one sale of these?
When they’re made in places like China and Ethiopia and have a price tag starting at $44, I would think you could buy more than one pair.. I really can’t imagine a high production cost even with so called “fair trade manufacturing” that they employ.
I read an opinion that said you could spend half of the price for the same style shoe made by another company and donating the rest of the money to a genuine non-profit organization like Oxfam, Habitat for Humanity or Doctors Without Borders that might have a greater impact. I also read an opinion that said shoelessness isn’t the problem, poverty is..
Just got me thinking about it instead of jumping on the “one for one” gravy train blindly. In the end, I guess they’re at least trying to help even if it is for a profit.
John.
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