IMMIGRATION:

South Florida immigrant rights advocates to stage Miami rally - South Florida advocates have joined the reignited immigration debate, demanding a stop to county collaboration with federal authorities and denouncing the new Arizona law.

Miami Herald, The (FL) - Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Author: ALFONSO CHARDY AND JUAN CARLOS CHAVEZ, achardy@ElNuevoHerald.com

South Florida immigrant rights advocates on Tuesday denounced a new Arizona law that requires police officers to detain suspected undocumented immigrants and announced plans for a rally Saturday in Miami to support legalizing those who live and work illegally in the United States.

Fearful Miami may go the way of Arizona, they also demanded that South Florida authorities end their participation in a federal program that encourages local law enforcement to share fingerprint records of foreign nationals who are arrested and jailed. The program, say federal officials, seeks to identify and deport illegal immigrants who commit major crimes.

Advocates, in two separate news conferences in Miami-Dade, said they plan to hold a rally in downtown Miami Saturday to demand legalization for the nation's estimated 10.8 million undocumented immigrants , including 720,000 in Florida.

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Index Terms: Miami-Dade Corrections Department; Florida Immigrant Coalition
Location(s): South Florida; Arizona; Miami; United States; Florida; Washington, D.C; South Carolina
Personal Name(s): Lindsey Graham; Nicole Navas; Jonathan Fried
Record Number: 201004280100KNRIDDERFLMIAMIH_3157
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IMMIGRATION: South Florida immigrant rights advocates to stage Miami rally - South Florida advocates have joined the reignited immigration debate, demanding a stop to county collaboration with federal authorities and denouncing the new Arizona law.
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Letters to the Editor

Naples Daily News (FL) - Monday, April 26, 2010

{". Briefs Head/Story Label"/}'What I observed'

Editor, Daily News:

Like many others who get the Daily News, I have read many negative comments about those who attend tea party rallies.

Having never attended one, I refrained from making comments but decided to attend this recent rally to find out for myself. What I observed was a peaceful rally by thousands of people concerned only with the excessive spending by the federal government and a Congress that is out of control.

These were regular folks from all walks of life. I heard no vicious or hateful remarks and certainly nothing racist. (Some forget that disagreeing with the president on issues is not hate speech). None gave a tinker's darn what color our president is, have no quarrel with legal immigrants and most don't care which political party their representatives belong to as long as those representatives go about the country's business in an honest and open manner – that means adhering to constitutional principles, not inventing rights, and preventing government's intrusion into private businesses.

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Edition: Naples Daily News
Section: B
Page: 5
Record Number: 12F5590107C8D410
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Arizona's wrongheaded law - OUR OPINION: Now Congress must fix it

Miami Herald, The (FL) - Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Author: Miami Herald

Suddenly, immigration is back on the front burner thanks to a controversial new law that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed last week. It fundamentally changes the law by making illegal immigration a state crime requiring police to make arrests and check the status of anyone who looks suspicious.

The problems are glaringly apparent. In Arizona, 30 percent of the population of 6.6 million is Hispanic or of Hispanic origin. That's a huge target group. The criteria for determining what constitutes ''reasonable suspicion'' is so vague that critics fear anyone with the ''wrong'' color of skin or the ''wrong'' accent -- including legal immigrants , citizens and tourists -- will be fair game for over-eager law enforcement. Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles calls the new law unworkable, mean-spirited and probably unconstitutional.

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Page: A12
Provided By: The McClatchy Company
Index Terms: Justice Department
Location(s): Arizona; Los Angeles; Mexico
Personal Name(s): Jan Brewer; Roger Mahony
Record Number: 201004270100KNRIDDERFLMIAMIH_60817
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THE MARIEL BOATLIFT:

Mariel boatlift tested Miami's strength, then made it stronger - Thirty years later, South Florida government leaders and others recall the Mariel boatlift -- a life-changing experience.

Miami Herald, The (FL) - Sunday, April 25, 2010
Author: ALFONSO CHARDY, achardy@ElNuevoHerald.com


This is part of an occasional series that will run through September to mark the 30th anniversary of the Mariel boatlift.

Cesar Odio was at his office at Miami City Hall one morning in late April 1980 when his desk phone rang.

A top federal immigration official was on the line asking Odio's help in locating a big enough place to hold dozens of Cuban refugees who had just arrived in Key West aboard a crowded boat.

It was one of the first boats laden with refugees boarding vessels in large numbers from the Cuban port of Mariel, 20 miles west of Havana.

It was also the beginning of the Mariel boatlift, which brought more than 125,000 Cuban refugees to U.S. shores between April and September 1980.

Thirty years after the biggest refugee exodus from Cuba, local officials who played key roles in the crisis recalled the historic events in interviews with El Nuevo Herald.

Posted By: Ayanna Spikes

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Index Terms: El Nuevo Herald; National Security Council; Carter Administration; University of Miami; State Department; Federal Emergency Management Agency
Location(s): Havana; Cuba; Miami; South Florida; United States; Florida; Opa-locka Airport
Personal Name(s): Maurice Ferre; Sergio Pereira; Fidel Castro; Jimmy Carter; Walter Mondale; Madeleine Albright; Del Castillo
Record Number: 201004250001KNRIDDERFLMIAMIH_44424
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ARIZONA DRAWS HARD LINE - NEW IMMIGRATION LAW STOKES FEARS OF RACIAL PROFILING

Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) - Saturday, April 24, 2010

Author: Nicholas Riccardi Tribune Newspapers ; Tribune Newspapers' Richard Serrano and Peter Nicholas in Washington contributed to this report.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed the toughest law against illegal immigration in the country, shrugging aside warnings from religious and civil rights leaders - and President Barack Obama - that it would lead to widespread racial profiling.

Hours after Obama denounced the measure as "misguided," Brewer signed the bill, which makes it a misdemeanor to not possess proper immigration paperwork and requires police to determine whether people are in the country illegally.

Obama signaled that a legal showdown might be possible, and Justice Department officials said they were reviewing the legislation. Immigrant rights groups have vowed a court fight, arguing that regulating immigration is a federal matter.

Posted By: Ayanna Spikes

Edition: Broward Metro
Section: News
Page: 3A
Index Terms: ARIZONA LAW IMMIGRATION
Record Number: 1004230314
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ARIZONA DRAWS HARD LINE - NEW IMMIGRATION LAW STOKES FEARS OF RACIAL PROFILING
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CRITICS: OBAMA DEPORTING MANY NO-THREAT IMMIGRANTS

Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) - Friday, April 23, 2010

Author: Ken Dilanian Tribune Washington Bureau

- When the Obama administration went before California's 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year seeking to deport a middle-class couple from Nevada, one judge criticized the government's case as "horrific." Another labeled it the "most senseless result possible." A third complained of "an extraordinarily bad use of government resources."

"These people have worked hard. They have paid their taxes," Judge William Fletcher said. "Why don't you go after the bad guys?"

The three-judge panel concluded it had to grant the government's request to expel the couple. Yet the panel's two Republicans and one Democrat each urged immigration authorities to drop the case against Ulises Martinez-Silver and Saturnina Martinez, a carpenter and a clerk.

It's one of many examples, immigrant rights advocates say, of how the Obama administration has continued a policy of tough enforcement against people who are no threat to the United States, even as the administration calls for a new immigration law designed to legalize many of them.

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Edition: Broward Metro
Section: News
Page: 3A
Dateline: WASHINGTON
Record Number: 1004220365
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CRITICS: OBAMA DEPORTING MANY NO-THREAT IMMIGRANTS
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SC's Bauer: Lazy people cause illegal immigration

JIM DAVENPORT

The Associated Press

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - South Carolina's lieutenant governor said Friday that lazy residents who don't want to take jobs harvesting the state's crops are the root of its problems with illegal immigration.

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer's remarks came at the opening of a debate of Republican gubernatorial hopefuls. The candidates were asked about Arizona's new tough illegal immigration law and whether South Carolina should do more to fight the problem.

"The real problem is the workforce," Bauer said. State relief programs leave people unwilling to work the jobs in fields and orchards now filled with migrant workers, he said.

"The problem is we have a give-away system in this country and in this state that is so strong that people would rather sit home and do nothing than do these jobs. Laziness is not a disability," Bauer said. "There are lot of people that are flat out lazy and they are using up the goods and services that we have in this state."

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/91986464.html

[Posted by Ida Micaily]

New Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski known as champion of immigrants

Miami Herald, The (FL) - Friday, April 23, 2010

Author: ANDRES VIGLUCCI, aviglucci@MiamiHerald.com

The tousled hair and scraggly mustache that once gave the Rev. Thomas Wenski a startling resemblance to one of his heroes, Polish anti-communist rebel Lech Walesa, are long gone, replaced by a severe clip, a smooth lip and bishop's vestments.

Come June, to that sober array will be added the pallium, a kind of scarf made by Trappist monks of white sheep's wool, bestowed by Roman popes upon holders of a high office in the Catholic Church, the metropolitan archbishop.

The earthy and personable Wenski, 59, a Florida native and champion of immigrants who can be perfectly blunt in any of three languages -- English, Spanish and Haitian Creole -- has made a fast ascendancy through the Catholic Church hierarchy, culminating Tuesday in his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI as Miami's new archbishop.

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Index Terms: Catholic Church; Catholic Charities; University of Notre Dame
Location(s): Florida; Miami; Orlando; Haiti; China
Personal Name(s): Thomas Wenski; Pope John Paul II; John Paul; Jean-Bertrand Aristide; Bill Clinton; Daniel Kubala
Record Number: 201004210100KNRIDDERFLMIAMIH_12194
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ELIAN GONZALEZ: 10 YEARS LATER:

I tried to reassure scared boy, photographer says - The photographer who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Elián González said he's still haunted by the events of
April 22, 2000.

Miami Herald, The (FL) - Thursday, April 22, 2010

Author: SERGIO R. BUSTOS, sbustos@MiamiHerald.com

Seconds before snapping the Pulitzer Prize winning photo of an armed federal agent confronting Elián González, Associated Press photographer Alan Diaz recalls trying to reassure the frightened boy that everything was going to be okay.

Diaz said the moment 10 years ago today ''forever'' haunts him.

'' Elián said to me, 'Qué está pasando, qué esté pasando?'' Diaz recalled in an interview this week with Miami Herald-WLRN News radio. ''I told the boy, in Spanish, that nothing's happening. It's going to be all right.''

Seconds later, the federal agent, wearing a helmet and riot gear, barged through the door and pointed a gun toward the boy, who was cowering with fear.

Diaz, who had spent months at the Miami home where Elián was being cared for by relatives, snapped nearly a dozen photos of the scene.

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Index Terms: Associated Press
Location(s): Miami
Personal Name(s): Alan Diaz
Record Number: 201004220100KNRIDDERFLMIAMIH_54364
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BUSTOS, SERGIO R.. "ELIAN GONZALEZ: 10 YEARS LATER: I tried to reassure scared boy, photographer says - The photographer who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Elián González said he's still haunted by the events of April 22, 2000.." Miami Herald, The (FL) 22 Apr. 2010,: B4. NewsBank. Web. 22 Apr. 2010.

Clinton ignored rule of law

Miami Herald, The (FL) - Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Author: Miami Herald

As one of the attorneys representing the Miami family of Elián González, I write in response to President Clinton's recent statement that he would not change the decision to send the boy back to his father in Cuba.

Framing the issue as simply one involving whether to send the boy back conveniently but unfairly avoids the issue that we tried to raise during litigation. That was whether the boy's fate should be decided by the courts -- particularly family court, where the standard is the best interests of the child -- or whether the boy's fate should be decided by politicians and political appointees.

Admittedly we lost the public-relations battle with Attorney General Janet Reno, who repeatedly stated that she ''had to enforce the law.'' There is no such law, and there never has been. Rather, the jurisdictional question was whether the attorney general rather than the courts should decide the issue. She decided, after an astonishing and largely unpublicized (even now) change of mind, that the boy should go back to a totalitarian system whose record on human rights continues to draw worldwide condemnation.

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Page: A14
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Location(s): Miami; Cuba
Personal Name(s): President Clinton; Janet Reno; Greg Craig; JOSE GARCIA-PEDROSA
Record Number: 201004210100KNRIDDERFLMIAMIH_11096
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PUERTO RICO - IDENTITY THEFT: Scams creating paper chase for S. Florida Puerto Ricans

April 20, 2010

Author: ALFONSO CHARDY, achardy@ElNuevoHerald.com

Puerto Ricans in South Florida and across the United States are scrambling to understand a new island law that requires renewal of birth certificates.

Miami resident Elvin González, a retired assistant chef, knows firsthand why the Puerto Rican government is requiring him and other island-born Puerto Ricans to renew their birth certificates.

A few years back, one of his relatives sold his birth certificate and Social Security number to a non-U.S. resident, who ran up $21,000 in debt. Creditors turned to the Gonzalez family to pay up.

''That created a lot of problems for us,'' said the 63-year-old González, who was born on the island but has lived much of his life in Miami.

Under a new law approved in December, González and all other island-born Puerto Ricans must replace their old birth certificates. Most old birth certificates become invalid on July 1.

Widespread fraud is to blame for the new requirement, say U.S. and Puerto Rican authorities, who said Puerto Rican birth certificates are being sold -- for up to $10,000 each -- to Spanish-speaking foreign nationals who then pose as Puerto Ricans to obtain a U.S. passport and illegally immigrate to the United States.

Posted By: Ayanna Spikes

Page: B1
Provided By: The McClatchy Company
Index Terms: State Department; Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce
Location(s): Miami; United States; Puerto Rico; Florida; Tampa; Orlando; South Florida; New York
Personal Name(s): Ryan Dooley; Adam Levin; Luis de Rosa; Rebeca Sosa; Sandra Rosa; Maritza Deliz
Record Number: 201004200100KNRIDDERFLMIAMIH_3839
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McCain, Kyl back bill, call for Guard on border

Erin Kelly - Apr. 19, 2010

WASHINGTON - Arizona Sens. John McCain
and Jon Kyl on Monday called for the
immediate deployment of 3,000 National
Guard troops to the Arizona-Mexico border.

The renewed call for Guard troops was part
of a 10-point border-security plan unveiled
by the two senators, who also voiced
support for a bill approved by state
lawmakers Monday that is considered the
toughest effort in the nation to crack down
on illegal immigrants.

Posted By: Ayanna Spikes

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2010/04/20/20100420az-border.html

Lottery provision struck from immigration bill

Posted by Lee Logan on April 18, 2010

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With little debate, the lottery provision was excised from an anti-illegal immigration bill in the House. The subject of a Steve Bousquet column, the measure would have barred illegal immigrants from winning the lottery. They could still play and contribute to education funding -- they just couldn't collect any prizes.

Sponsoring Rep. Sandy Adams removed the section with an amendment today. Neither the amendment nor the overall bill (which requires businesses to participate in a federal worker verification program known as E-Verify) garnered any discussion.

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Migrant workers in peril

By Edward Schumacher-Matos
Saturday, April 17, 2010; A13

Originally from: Florida Hispanic Immigration News

Blame Edward R. Murrow. The legendary broadcaster's last major report, "Harvest of Shame" in 1960, set the template for today's muckraking filmmakers. It also helped create today's illegal immigration quandary.

Murrow meant well. He catalogued shortchanged pay, scandalous living and working conditions, and other horrors suffered by foreign migrant farm workers in Florida. The documentary set off a public outcry and a congressional battle over the moral rot behind the nation's fruits and vegetables. In 1964, led by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and an alliance of churches and unions, Congress shut down the migrant worker program, called Bracero.

But in so doing, it also cut off millions of poor Mexicans who, by flowing back and forth across the border, were lifting themselves and their country out of poverty. They and their U.S. employers, many of them decent bosses in genuine need of workers, reverted to illegality.

Posted By: Ayanna Spikes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/16/AR2010041604054_pf.html

or

http://uspolitics.einnews.com/news/florida-hispanic-immigration

Students learn how to cook tasty and nutritious meals

April 8, 2010
BY ISADORA RANGEL
The Miami Herald

The program is aimed at low-income students who qualify for free or reduced lunches at their schools.

The majority of the students who attended the class were Hispanic, the ethnic group with the highest rates of obesity among American children, according to a 2008 study by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

``The Hispanic community has a high rate of cholesterol and obesity,'' said Rosa Maria Plasencia, executive director of Amigos for Kids. ``We don't usually cook using green and healthy ingredients. I thought this was a great opportunity to introduce healthier habits and understand other cultures.''

Common Threads encourages healthier eating by educating both children -- and their parents.

Posted By: Ayanna Spikes

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KKK focus shifts toward illegals

Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL) - Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Author: FRANK FERNANDEZ - STAFF WRITER

PALM COAST - When the Ku Klux Klan wants new recruits for its hooded robes, it likes to toss fliers on driveways, according to a researcher who tracks the group.

And finding the Klan's leaflets on driveways often means a member of the Klan doesn't live too far from the neighborhood, said Heidi Beirich, director of research with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

"They tend to do this residential stuff with some frequency, hate groups do, and it usually means that there's somebody in the hate group that lives near there," Beirich said.

Flagler County is crafting a condemnation of Klan fliers recently dropped on driveways in the R, U Z neighborhoods of Palm Coast, according to a sheriff's report.

While it's typical for hate groups to put the fliers in plastic bags, the Aryan Nation in Idaho got creative when it deposited its message on lawns this Easter, Beirich said.

"They stuffed their hate literature in Easter eggs," she said.

No one in Palm Coast reported any Klan eggs on Easter. But David Morris said he found the packet of three fliers on his driveway off Ulaturn Trail on Easter morning, according to a Flagler County Sheriff's Office report.

One page mentioned Jesus Christ and included the passage "Happy Easter and God bless!" Another page contained anti-illegal immigrant messages, including in all caps: "Any politician granting immunity to these criminals should be convicted of an act of treason. Time is running out." The flier urged people to call their politicians: "Don't let them vote to give these criminals and terrorists citizenship!!"

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KKK focus shifts toward illegals
- STAFF WRITER, FRANK FERNANDEZ. "KKK focus shifts toward illegals." Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL) 15 Apr. 2010, N-J Final, Section C: 01C. NewsBank. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

2010 CENSUS: South Florida groups aim to improve Census return rate

With time running out to return 2010 Census forms, community groups and government officials have been redoubling efforts to boost mail-back rates.

Miami Herald, The (FL) - Friday, April 16, 2010

Author: ANDRES VIGLUCCI, aviglucci@MiamiHerald.com

How hard is it to count everyone in South Florida, as the U.S. Census aims to do?

Just follow the canvassers from the community group Florida New Majority as they fan out across hard-to-count minority neighborhoods in Miami, engaged in one last push before Friday's mail-back deadline to get the recalcitrant and the procrastinating to return those all-important 2010 Census questionnaires.

Clad in yellow polos, lime-green ''Yes We Count'' bags slung over shoulders, the canvassers contended with snarling dogs and locked gates in Brownsville. In Allapattah, they had to spot the converted garage at the single-family home or the hidden unit in the rear where someone may be living. Doors lacked knockers or doorbells, and at many no one answered.

There was the Nicaraguan immigrant who confessed to canvasser Oswaldo Ramos she had ''no idea'' how to fill out the 10-question form. The head of a family of six who said theirs got accidentally thrown out. The Cuban-American man who said he was moving and had not received one.

Posted By: Ayanna Spikes

2010 CENSUS: South Florida groups aim to improve Census return rate - With time running out to return 2010 Census forms, community groups and government officials have been redoubling efforts to boost mail-back rates.
VIGLUCCI, ANDRES. "2010 CENSUS: South Florida groups aim to improve Census return rate - With time running out to return 2010 Census forms, community groups and government officials have been redoubling efforts to boost mail-back rates.." Miami Herald, The (FL) 16 Apr. 2010,: B1. NewsBank. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

DHS group finds 'a love of people' in Sotomayor

Ocala Star-Banner (FL) April 7, 2010
Author: Suevon Lee, Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — To these local high school students, Sonia Sotomayor was once just another face on the U.S. Supreme Court bench, except with a name that sounded like theirs.

But by mid-morning Thursday, Sotomayor was no longer the distant, impersonal public official they recalled from media reports and last year's televised confirmation hearing.

For 20 minutes in a private dining room at the U.S. Supreme Court, 10 Dunnellon High School students, two of their teachers and a parent chaperone sat with Sotomayor around a large table and were given the opportunity to ask questions and speak with her.

"Her warmth was so disarming," said John Quinones, the government teacher whose letter to the justice last October made the meeting possible.

"She was very motivational and inspirational," said Bianca Saqui, who asked the justice for words of advice to high school seniors like her about to embark on the next chapter of their lives.

"Don't give up," is how she said the justice responded.

The students, most of whom are recent immigrants to the United States from places like Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico and Haiti, are E.S.O.L students in Quinones' government class.

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DHS group finds 'a love of people' in Sotomayor
Lee, Suevon. "DHS group finds 'a love of people' in Sotomayor." Ocala Star-Banner (FL) 16 Apr. 2010, News: NewsBank. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

Pierson immigrants have leader on their side

Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL) April 6, 2010
Author: FRANK FERNANDEZ - STAFF WRITER

PIERSON - Marcos Crisanto was a teacher in Mexico before coming to the United States to work in fields and factories.

But he has made his way back to teaching. Not in a classroom before fresh-faced elementary, junior or senior high school kids, but rather in an office in Pierson before the often weary and tired faces of migrant farm workers.

Crisanto has been coordinator of the Farmworker Association of Florida's office in Pierson for six years. He wants to make sure the area's many Mexican immigrants know he and the association will battle so they can have a better life.

"They can see that this organization fights for workers' rights," Crisanto said in a recent interview, "to give them power so they can represent themselves."

Although Marcos has had difficulty filling the shoes of well-known campesino leader Alfredo Bahena, who died in a traffic accident six years ago, he has had success in getting community leaders to work with the agency's office in Pierson, said the association's state coordinator, Tirso Moreno.

"He still has some improvements to make but he has advanced and kept the issues affecting campesinos a priority," Moreno said.

During the week, Crisanto spends much of his time in the Pierson office, helping Mexican immigrants get answers to a variety of questions. The topic could be immigration, employment, health or any other number of things.

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Pierson immigrants have leader on their side
- STAFF WRITER, FRANK FERNANDEZ. "Pierson immigrants have leader on their side." Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL) 12 Apr. 2010, N-J Final, Section C: 01C. NewsBank. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

Ready to 'wow' Mexico - Michelle Obama's 1st solo trip abroad recalls excitement of 1962 Jackie Kennedy visit

Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - April 15, 2010
Author: Katherine Skiba, Tribune Newspapers

WASHINGTON -- Almost 50 years ago, a first lady seized Mexico City's heart: the beautiful Jackie Kennedy, to whom Michelle Obama draws comparisons.

Reporters judged her 1962 trip with President John F. Kennedy "a triumph."

It saw an estimated 1 million people line the route of their motorcade.

It saw people leap to their feet -- applauding -- after the first lady delivered, without notes, a short speech in Spanish.

That's just the kind of excitement Mexico's ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan, expects Obama's visit to generate.

She departs Tuesday for a three-day trip to the Mexican capital, her first official solo trip abroad. She will meet children, tour an anthropology museum and dine at Los Pinos, the president's residence.

"I think she will 'wow' Mexico and Mexicans ," Sarukhan said in an interview. "I think people will be bowled over. ...

"She is a very powerful example of the empowerment of African-Americans in this country, and a very powerful symbol to Latinos in this country and Mexicans in Mexico of what you can achieve in a country that is built on immigrants and is built on diversity and is built on the ability to advance because of hard work and merit."

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Ready to 'wow' Mexico - Michelle Obama's 1st solo trip abroad recalls excitement of 1962 Jackie Kennedy visit
Skiba, Katherine. "Ready to 'wow' Mexico - Michelle Obama's 1st solo trip abroad recalls excitement of 1962 Jackie Kennedy visit." Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) 12 Apr. 2010, FINAL, A SECTION: A11. NewsBank. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

COPS CAN'T WALK ILLEGALS BEAT

Palm Beach Post, The (FL) - April 4, 2010
Author: Dan Moffett

A key feature of the Bush administration's crackdown against illegal immigration was something called the 287(g) agreement.

The provision had been an obscure part of a major immigration reform bill that Congress passed in 1996. It allowed the federal government to form partnerships with local police agencies to enforce immigration laws. In effect, 287(g) agreements deputized city cops and county sheriffs as federal immigration agents. The program grew from nothing to partnerships with 66 agencies across the country. In Florida, the government signed up the Jacksonville, Bay County and Collier County sheriff's offices, as well as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Until this month, it was unclear just how well these partnerships were working. Then came a report from the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general. It turns out that they're not working very well.

Federal auditors found that 287(g) officers often were poorly trained, didn't understand immigration law or process and went after the wrong illegal immigrants . Nannies get busted for U-turns and deported, while drug dealers and violent offenders continue to exploit the system.

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COPS CAN'T WALK ILLEGALS BEAT
Moffett, Dan. "COPS CAN'T WALK ILLEGALS BEAT." Palm Beach Post, The (FL) 13 Apr. 2010, FINAL, A SECTION: 10A. NewsBank. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

SHOULD CITIZENSHIP BE HER BIRTHRIGHT?

Palm Beach Post, The (FL) - Saturday, April 10, 2010
Author: JOHN LANTIGUA, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Alfonso, a Mexican -born undocumented worker here, has never studied, browsed or even seen a copy of the U.S. Constitution. But that document contains the 14th Amendment, which will almost certainly have an enormous effect on him, his undocumented, Mexican -born wife and their three U.S.-born children.

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside," says the 1868 amendment.

In other words, neither Alfonso nor his wife, Angelica, is a citizen, but their children are. Strapping Samantha, 9; Concepcion, 8, who favors Miami Hurricanes jerseys; and gap-toothed Esly, 3, all have U.S. passports.

This fact outrages some opponents of the nation's immigration laws and policies.

President Obama has proposed passing an immigration overhaul in his first term. The overhaul could lead to legal residence and citizenship for millions of undocumented people in the U.S.

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SHOULD CITIZENSHIP BE HER BIRTHRIGHT?
LANTIGUA, JOHN. "SHOULD CITIZENSHIP BE HER BIRTHRIGHT?." Palm Beach Post, The (FL) 12 Apr. 2010, FINAL, A SECTION: 1A. NewsBank. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

More Mexicans get asylum approvals - Drug violence spurs requests by ex-cops, lawyers

Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - Friday, April 9, 2010
Author: Alfonso Chardy, McClatchy/tribune news

MIAMI -- Jose Jimenez, a Mexican mechanic, is doing odd jobs in an American town after escaping a violent northern Mexican city where drug traffickers threatened to kill him when he refused to build secret compartments in tractor-trailers to hide U.S.-bound drug shipments.

He's hoping the U.S. immigration system can keep him alive -- and he's not alone.

He is one of a growing number of Mexicans receiving asylum in the United States, where until recently most Mexican immigrants had sought work permits. But escalating drug war violence south of the border over the last four years has prompted immigration judges and federal asylum officers to approve more Mexican asylum petitions.

Posted By Ayanna Spikes

More Mexicans get asylum approvals - Drug violence spurs requests by ex-cops, lawyers
Chardy, Alfonso. "More Mexicans get asylum approvals - Drug violence spurs requests by ex-cops, lawyers." Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) 9 Apr. 2010, FINAL, A SECTION: A11. NewsBank. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

Delivering on the promise of immigration reform - OUR OPINION: Tackle immigration reform -- and get it passed

Miami Herald, The (FL) - Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Author: Miami Herald

Since taking office in January of 2009, President Obama has done little to fulfill an explicit campaign promise to reform immigration laws ''in my first year as president.'' Apparently, after 15 months of delay, it's on.

Over the weekend, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada told an immigration rally that Congress would get to work on immigration reform as soon as legislators come back from the Easter recess this week. The commitment, echoed by No. 2 Senate leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., suggests that Democratic lawmakers and the administration have decided to ignore the conventional wisdom that immigration reform is too controversial to tackle in an election year. They're right.

Mr. Obama spent most of his political capital in his first year in office on the urgent task of reviving the economy and the marathon fight over healthcare. The delay in tackling immigration reform is understandable -- but regrettable.

Nothing has taken place since President Bush tried and failed to fix immigration in 2007 to weaken the argument for reform. The nation sorely needs to bring some 12 million undocumented immigrants out of the shadows as part of a comprehensive overhaul that ensures border safety, guarantees future labor needs and promotes fair and legal hiring practices.

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Delivering on the promise of immigration reform - OUR OPINION: Tackle immigration reform -- and get it passed
Herald, Miami. "Delivering on the promise of immigration reform - OUR OPINION: Tackle immigration reform -- and get it passed." Miami Herald, The (FL) 13 Apr. 2010,: A10. NewsBank. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

IMMIGRATION REFORM RISES IN THE SENATE

Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) - Monday, April 12, 2010
Author: Posted by William Gibson on April 12, 2010 02:45 PM

Immigration reform, once written off as a dead issue this election year, appears to be on track for Senate action.

Pressured by Hispanic groups and thousands of immigrants at rallies in Florida and across the nation, Senate leaders vowed over the weekend to take up the issue as early as this month.

?We?re going to come back, we?re going to have comprehensive immigration reform now,? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told a crowd in Nevada during the congressional spring break.

?We need to do this this year,? Reid said. ?We cannot wait.?

Majority Whip Richard Durbin reinforced that message at a separate rally in Chicago.

It?s a smart strategy for Democrats, said Frank Sharry, executive director of America?s Voice, which is pushing for a reform package that would include a path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants .

?Advancing immigration reform this year would show the American people that Democrats are in charge and up to the challenge, and mobilize Latino voters who want campaign promises to be acted on,? Sharry said.

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IMMIGRATION REFORM RISES IN THE SENATE
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LA church's next leader follows line

Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - Sunday, April 11, 2010
Author: Scott Gold, Jessica Garrison and Louis Sahagun, Tribune Newspapers

LOS ANGELES -- When Archbishop Jose Gomez introduced himself to the faithful Tuesday morning, he described Los Angeles as "the global face of the Catholic Church." He might as well have been talking about himself.

Gomez, 58, who will succeed Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, is a reflection of the future of American Catholicism. Born in northern Mexico, now an American citizen, he is one of the millions of Latinos who will make up the majority of U.S. Catholics within the next 10 years.

And like so many of those Latinos, he is at once a conservative and a progressive -- unyielding in his opposition to abortion and gay marriage, passionate in his advocacy for immigrants and the poor.

During his six-year tenure atop the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, Gomez emerged as a leading advocate for doctrinal conformity, determined to stave off what he saw as a creeping secularism.

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LA church's next leader follows line
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Secure Communities activated in more Virginia communities Now the criminal and immigration records of all local arrestees to be checked

Fairfax, Va. - Law enforcement agencies in four northern Virginia counties - Arlington, Fauquier, Loudoun and Stafford - and the city of Alexandria, Va., began employing a new information-sharing capability made available by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of the Secure Communities strategy. Secure Communities is ICE's comprehensive strategy to improve and modernize the identification and removal of criminal aliens from the United States.

Previously, local arrestees' fingerprints were taken and checked for criminal history information against the Department of Justice's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) maintained by the FBI. Now, as part of the Secure Communities strategy, fingerprint information submitted by state and local law enforcement agencies will now be simultaneously checked against both the FBI criminal history records in IAFIS and the biometrics-based immigration records in the Department of Homeland Security's Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT).

If fingerprints match those of someone in DHS's biometric system, the new automated process notifies ICE, enabling the agency to take appropriate action to ensure criminal aliens are not released back into the community. Top priority is given to individuals who pose the greatest threat to public safety, such as those with prior convictions for major drug offenses, murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping.

"The Secure Communities strategy provides local law enforcement with an effective tool to identify criminal aliens," said Secure Communities Executive Director David Venturella. "Enhancing public safety is at the core of ICE's mission. Our goal is to use biometric information sharing to prevent criminal aliens from being released back into the community, with little or no additional burden on our law enforcement partners."

With the expansion of the information-sharing capability to these five jurisdictions, now seven northern Virginia jurisdictions benefit from this tool, including Prince William and Fairfax counties. Across the country, 145 jurisdictions in 18 states have this capability. By 2013, ICE expects to make this capability available nationwide.

"Secure Communities is a great tool in helping us to enforce the law and send a message that there is a cost to coming into the country illegally," said U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride. "In most cases, we are targeting those with a criminal background. We are taking them off the streets and out of our communities, and we are potentially deterring them from returning to the United States and committing further crimes."

"We are pleased to have this program in Loudoun and appreciate the opportunity to continue our working relationship with ICE," said Loudoun County Sheriff Steve Simpson. "Secure Communities will only improve our local efforts in removing criminal aliens from the country who are involved in gang activity and other serious crimes in our community," Simpson added.

"Secure Communities is an automated program that will streamline the process to check residency status on every individual that comes into the Arlington County Detention Center. In addition, it helps us continue to partner at the local, state and federal level to ensure Arlington County is a safe place to live and work," said Arlington County Sheriff Beth Arthur.

Since ICE began using this information sharing capability in October 2008, it has identified more than 18,800 aliens charged with or convicted of Level 1 crimes, such as murder, rape and kidnapping-more than 4,000 of whom have already been removed from the United States. Most of the aliens who have been identified but not yet removed are currently in immigration proceedings or completing their sentences. Additionally, ICE has removed more than 24,700 aliens charged with or convicted of Level 2 and 3 crimes, including burglary and serious property crimes, which account for 90 percent of the crimes committed by aliens.

-- ICE --

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.

ICE comprises four integrated divisions that form a 21st century law enforcement agency with broad responsibilities for a number of key homeland security priorities. For more information, visit www.ICE.gov. To report suspicious activity, call 1-866-347-2423.

Last Modified: Tuesday, April 13, 2010

[Posted by Marwin Yeung]

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ICE and South Carolina company sign first-ever IMAGE agreement in the state Coastal Steel and Acoustics (CSA) partners with ICE to ensure legal status

LONGS, S.C. - The owners of a Longs' privately-owned construction company signed the state's first-ever agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today to strengthen hiring practices and to combat the unlawful employment of illegal aliens.

Jack Doyle and Jim Shealy, owners of Coastal Steel and Acoustics (CSA), signed an agreement in a public ceremony at the company's headquarters in Longs with ICE Special Agent in Charge of the Office of Investigations in Atlanta Kenneth A. Smith.

The agreement is part of a voluntary employer program known as IMAGE, or ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers, which is a joint initiative between government and the business community to restore integrity to the U.S immigration system. By voluntarily participating in the IMAGE program, companies can reduce unauthorized employment and the use of fraudulent identity documents.

"ICE recognizes that the highest level of employment integrity can only be achieved through close coordination with industry partners," said Smith. "CSA will join IMAGE business participants around the country who are committed to protect the integrity of their workforce by helping ensure that their employees are who they represent themselves to be."

"We are committed to ensuring that those who work for us are lawfully present in the country," said Shealy. "We hope that other South Carolina businesses would follow our lead. Through programs like these, we can ensure that Americans and those lawfully in the country aren't competing with those unlawfully in the country who will work for fewer wages than what they're entitled to."

As part of IMAGE, ICE will provide CSA with education and training on proper hiring procedures, fraudulent document detection, use of the E-Verify employment eligibility verification program and the Social Security Number Verification Service, and anti-discrimination procedures.

All IMAGE participants gain membership to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) E-Verify employment eligibility verification program. Through this program, employers can verify that newly hired employees are eligible to work in the United States. This Internet-based system is available throughout the nation and is free to employers. It provides an automated link to the Social Security Administration database and DHS immigration records.

Upon enrollment in and commitment to DHS's Best Employment Practices, program participants will be deemed "IMAGE certified," a distinction DHS and ICE believe will become an industry standard.

CSA was formed in 2004 by Doyle and Shealy, with the purchase of a small drywall company. The company has two locations: a corporate headquarters in Longs, S.C. and an office in Lumberton, N.C. CSA does work in metal framing, drywall and acoustic ceiling installation, painting, stucco, and office and retail renovation.

-- ICE --

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.

ICE comprises four integrated divisions that form a 21st century law enforcement agency with broad responsibilities for a number of key homeland security priorities. For more information, visit www.ICE.gov. To report suspicious activity, call 1-866-347-2423.

Last Modified: Monday, April 5, 2010

[Posted by Marwin Yeung]

http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1004/100405longs.htm

Pursue an 'adjustment of status'

Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - Monday, April 5, 2010
Author: Allan Wernick, Immigration

Q Can my mother get permanent residence here though she came here using a phony document? I'm a 22-year-old U.S. citizen.

Georgia, Orlando

A If your mother has no other way to get permanent residence, she might try applying to interview here for permanent residence. That's the process called "adjustment of status." She will need a fighting spirit and a great legal advocate.

To interview here, your mother must prove that she was "inspected and admitted" at entry. Usually, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services wants to see some document (even a phony one, such as another person's passport) to prove that the person didn't sneak into the United States.

If the document shows a fraudulent entry, the USCIS should allow your mother to interview here, but she will need a fraud waiver. To get the waiver, your mother must prove that a permanent-resident parent or spouse will suffer extreme hardship if she has to leave the United States.

If your mother doesn't have a document to show that an immigration officer inspected her at entry, the USCIS may deny her adjustment-of-status application and send her to immigration court for removal (deportation) proceedings. There, an immigration judge will consider your mother's testimony and other evidence that she was inspected and admitted. The judge also should consider the waiver.

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Is worker legal? Internet tool can verify that

Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - Saturday, April 3, 2010
Author: Víctor Manuel Ramos, Orlando Sentinel

You might not realize it when you get a new job, but soon your name may be checked against a government database to answer the question: Are you an illegal immigrant?

Thousands of employers in Florida and tens of thousands nationwide have enrolled in a voluntary government program known as E-Verify, which allows them to find out whether their new hires are entitled to work in the U.S.

Hundreds of companies and institutions in Central Florida -- ranging from Westgate Resorts and Dunkin' Donuts shops to St. Cloud government and Orange County Public Schools -- have joined the program.

They include businesses in the hospitality, restaurant and construction industries, where many illegal immigrants have found employment.

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Students risk dreams -- and deportation -- in walk for recognition

(CNN) -- When he first arrived in the United States, 14-year-old Felipe Matos liked to go to the supermarket after school just to walk the aisles.
"There was so much food! I would just look at the milk -- there's like 50 types of milk!"
Miami, Florida, was a world apart from the poor neighborhood in Brazil where he was raised by a single mother and older sister. Now 24, he recalls "lacking everything" at home in Duque de Caxias, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
There was no running toilet, and most of the time not enough food to go around. "I would be the only one at home allowed to drink a cup of milk," he says.

Full Story: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/22/dream.act.education/index.html?iref=allsearch

[Posted by Marina Guastucci]

Asylum approval for Mexicans up

Posted on Fri, Apr. 02, 2010
BY ALFONSO CHARDY
achardy@ElNuevoHerald.com


José Jiménez, a Mexican mechanic, is now doing odd jobs in an American town after escaping a violent northern Mexican city where drug traffickers threatened to kill him when he refused to build secret compartments in tractor trailers to hide U.S.-bound drug shipments.

He's hoping the U.S. immigration system can keep him alive -- and he's not alone.

He is one of a growing number of Mexicans receiving asylum in the United States, where until recently most Mexican immigrants had sought work permits. But the escalating drug war violence south of the border over the last four years has prompted immigration judges and federal asylum officers to approve more Mexican asylum petitions.

Posted By: Ayanna Spikes

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Mexico asks more US cooperation on border violence Read more: http://www.miamiherald.coml

April 1, 2010
The Associated Press

Mexican officials are responding to the decision of New Mexico's governor to send more National Guard troops to the border by calling for more cooperation with the U.S. on border violence.

The Foreign Relations Department says Mexico respects the right of U.S. authorities to determine how to provide security along their side of the border, but adds that increased cooperation is the answer.

Posted By: Ayanna Spikes

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