Undocumented Youths Stopped Crossing Border Back To U.S. In Immigration Protest
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3636946.html
I wonder if this was staged to gain more traction for Dream act considering the hearing is tomorrow?
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Nine undocumented youths were stopped and held for questioning at the border Monday as they attempted to cross back into the United States from Mexico through a legal port of entry. In an audacious move even from a group known for pushing boundaries, the National Immigrant Youth Alliance organized the crossing at the Arizona border town of Nogales as a protest against President Barack Obama’s record-setting pace of deportations. “Millions of families like mine have been separated for far too long,” Lizbeth Mateo, an organizer with NIYA, wrote in a blog piece published by The Huffington Post on Monday. “I waited 15 years to see my grandfather again, and to meet the rest of my family.” As of Monday evening it remained unclear whether the activists would be set free or wind up in detention and deportation proceedings. The activists’ lawyer, Margo Cowan, told the Associated Press that they had requested humanitarian parole and would ask for asylum if that were denied. But by openly leaving United States with the intention to return -- an unthinkable act for most of the 11.1 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States -- the protest organizers are also testing the bounds of prosecutorial discretion and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama policy implemented in 2012 that exempts most immigrants brought here illegally as children from deportation. “The basic idea is pretty simple,” David Bennion, an immigration lawyer who works with NIYA, told HuffPost. “The government has the discretion to implement the immigration laws how they see fit.” Customs and Border Patrol said in a statement that the “applicants for admission must establish that they are legally eligible to enter the United States.” The statement said that DACA helped "ensure that resources are not spent pursuing the removal of low priority cases involving productive young people,” but did not say whether the policy would apply to the nine activists. Lizbeth Mateo, Lulú Martínez and Marcos Saavedra returned to Mexico earlier this month with the intention of crossing back into the United States. They met up there with four other young immigrants who had returned to Mexico for economic reasons and a fifth who had been deported from Kansas, according to the Los Angeles Times. They gathered in the Mexican city of Nogales, where they livestreamed a march on the Mexican side of the border to chants of “undocumented, unafraid” and “bring them home.” Then they walked across the border to Nogales' sister city in Arizona and presented themselves to U.S. CBP officials. Word spread. A ninth activist who left the city of Tucson two years ago, Rosie Rojas, joined the original group of eight at the border, Fronteras Desk reporter Michel Marizco tweeted. Others appeared spontaneously, according to NIYA’s media coordinator Domenic Powell. “When we were on the Sonora side this morning, there were three young people that showed up, some with paperwork in hand,” Powell told HuffPost. "That’s independent of us, but it’s what we wanted. We want more people to continue the fight after deportation.” The protest comes in the midst of congressional wrangling over comprehensive immigration reform. While the Senate passed its bill, the fate of reform awaits the majority-Republican House. Outspoken immigration reform advocate Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) expressed solidarity with the protesters in a Facebook post Monday. "I have heard about the DREAMers who attempted to return home to the United States today after deportation, including my constituent Lulu Martinez from Chicago," Gutierrez said. "I hope the Obama administration will do the right thing and let them back in." Undocumented youths have taken drastic action before to draw attention to the injustices of the immigration system and Obama’s deportation record. A group of five immigrants, including Mateo, staged a sit-in at Sen. John McCain’s office in 2010 to press the Arizona Republican to sponsor the Dream Act. This year, Claudia Muñoz, an undocumented organizer with NIYA, purposefully submitted to detention and the possibility of deportation in order gather information about conditions for detainees in Calhoun County Correctional Facility in Michigan. |
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i wish good luck to these people. So sad that these guys left the country right before DACA.
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Originally Posted by MIdreamer
It would be a shame if they are not allow to come back in. What they did was brave and the dreamer community should all stand behind them and give them support.
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Originally Posted by TodoBien
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Originally Posted by MIdreamer
It would be a shame if they are not allow to come back in. What they did was brave and the dreamer community should all stand behind them and give them support.
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They risked a lot to do what they did.
There are some people here who constantly berate these activists for their acts of protest. But really, though, sometimes provocative actions are necessary to draw attention to an injustice. Do I agree with everything they do? Not necessarily, but it takes a lot of balls to do this shit.
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Originally Posted by melpw
they are back inside the US!
"Wow, the "DREAM 9" were able to enter the U.S. Again, 3 of them left the country to join with 6 others in Mexico. They LEFT the country without a visa. They entered the country. Lawfully. Do you know what this means? They managed to use a complex and broken Immigration Law system in their favor. WOW. SUPER shout out to DreamACTivist.org & National Immigrant Youth Alliance and the rest of the community involved in this project. A lot of work ahead... #BringThemHome" |
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