Saturday, June 13, 2009

White House postpones immigration meeting

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/13/White-House-postpones-immigration-meeting/UPI-77891244871638/

White House postpones immigration meeting

Published: June 13, 2009 at 1:40 AM

A White House meeting on U.S. immigration policy, already postponed once, has been put off again, with no new date set.

The meeting's purpose is to launch the Obama administration's push for immigration reform, The Hill reported Friday. It was to include congressional leaders.

After being scheduled for June 8, last Monday, it was rescheduled for June 17, next Wednesday. The indefinite delay suggests President Barack Obama and his staff are finding immigration more difficult than they expected, the report said.

Former President George W. Bush attempted a reform that would have combined increased border security with a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants who meet certain requirements. He was stymied by congressional Republicans.

Ann Navarro, a Florida Republican, said the continual delay could hurt Obama politically.

"It is no surprise that so many Republicans on the Hill don't think Obama is serious about leading on immigration and looking for cover," Navarro said. "If the Latino groups want to see this get done, they need to hold his feet to the fire."

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Comment: It is time to light the MECHA! Obama should invite knowledgeable
immigration experts of La Raza to an open forum on the whole immigration
issue and other related matters of importance to Chicanos-Latinos NOW.

In politics procrastination can be a serious shortcoming! There is a lot of growing
unrest in the country that needs to be recognized, addressed and resolved. The
natives are getting restless!

Education for Liberation!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka: Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Yahoo Email: peter..lopez51@yahoo.com
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A Move Back Toward Due Process: New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14sun2.html

June 14, 2009

Editorial

A Move Back Toward Due Process

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has served the cause of justice by reversing a noxious last-minute order by the Bush administration that diluted the promise of a fair hearing for immigrants facing deportation.

Just days before President Obama was elected, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey ruled that immigrants have no constitutional right to effective legal representation in their deportation hearings. The change scrapped a 20-year precedent in the handling of deportation hearings overseen by the Justice Department. It denied the right to a re-hearing to immigrants who lose their deportation proceedings because of the poor performance of an incompetent or unscrupulous lawyer.

Because the Sixth Amendment right to a lawyer applies only in criminal cases, and deportation is a civil action, the government is not required to provide a lawyer to assist an indigent immigrant. That denial of counsel regularly results in unfairness, and should be changed.

But the issue that confronted Mr. Holder was the tainting of removal proceedings by the mistakes of a privately retained attorney. Removal actions have a profound impact on an indivdual's liberty and suits for legal malpractice are not a practical or satisfying remedy.

In a three-page order negating Mr. Mukasey's decision, Mr. Holder suggested that it was improper to rush through such a major change in long-standing government policy without thoroughly considering the views of all interested parties. Mr. Holder also disagreed specifically with the notion of closing off one of the most common avenues for appealing deportation decisions.

"The integrity of immigration proceedings depends in part on the ability to assert claims of ineffective assistance of counsel," he said in a statement.

Mr. Holder has instructed immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals to apply the legal standards in effect prior to Mr. Mukasey's mischief. The Justice Department will review the law with an eye toward formalizing a permanent new rule..

There was one unsettling contradiction in Mr. Holder's order, which appears to leave Justice Department lawyers free to argue in deportation cases at the federal appeals court level that there is no constitutional right to effective lawyers for immigrants. The attorney general should correct that.

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Education for Liberation!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka: Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Yahoo Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

David S> Resoonse: On Chicano Identity from Peta-de-Aztlan

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6-11-2009 @11:45 PM ~ PST

Venceremos Companero David ~

Are we still debating what the hell to call ourselves? Let each
decide for him or her own self in good conscience and evolve
beyond ethnic labels in unity with all peoples yearning to breathe
free and in the bold collective quest for spiritual liberation.

I am first and foremost a humane being. I was raised with a
self-identity of being a Mexican, both my parents always referred
to themselves as Mexicans. Later I learned that I was of Spanish
stock on my Mom's side and Chiricahua -Apache and Sonoran Yaqui
from my Padre's bloodline. In essence I am indigenous to Aztlan!

Then the late 60's happened, for a short while I considered myself a
Mexican-American, was a member of the MAYA student group in high
school, then the Chicano Movement came into being. I helped with
the Grape Boycott and was in the Brown Berets for a few years, though
I also related to the Black Berets from San Jose. Later I helped build up
MECHA at Sac State then I got married and settled down for a few years.
Now it seems lifetimes ago and life goes on within us and without us.

I see the validity of identifying with the term Latinos because we do
not want to alienate others who claim to be Latinos the same way
that we alienated a lot of Mexicanos during the early Chicano days.

However, I find the term Hispanics a total government label in terms
of its usage and origin.

So I relate to them all though in different ways I most closely identity
with the Lost Tribe of Chicanos. We should see Chicanos as a generational
social phenomena, not a separate ethic group. How many of our lost barrio
youth relate to the term 'Chicano'?

The main actual race of people upon planet Earth is and always has been
the human race of two-legged homosapiens of possibly extraterrestrial origin.

I believe that more and more of us all over the globe are becoming more
and more humane beings in terms of having care, concern and compassion
for all living beings, regardless of one's subjective self-identity in terms of
any illusionary concept of race, nationality, ethnic group or tribe.

The right to label ourselves is a key part of being liberated. We must come
to the realization that we are all one on the quantum level and should strive
to be one on the cosmic level. There is a devil in divisions that splinter us and
separate us from each other. We are hungry and the first impulse is to eat.

When the shit hits the fan I just want to have the comrade next to me able
to shoot straight with a cold dead-eye on the target.

Sometimes in order to move forward we need to let go of the past.
All we really have to work on and to work with is here now. The past
is gone forever and the future never really arrives here now.

Seize the Time! Education for Liberation!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka: Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Yahoo Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com

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From: "davidsanchezphd@webtv.net" <davidsanchezphd@webtv.net>
To: DAVIDSANCHEZPHD@webtv.net; NetworkAztlan_News@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:13:53 AM
Subject: [NetworkAztlan_News] Fwd: On Chicano Identity

The erasing of Chicano identity continues as schools and institutions
continue to appease the system to hide a huge political force and
population. For example, at ELA College, they now call Chicano Studies:
Chicano Latino Studies eventhou, 90% of Raza in the U.S. is of
Chicano-Mexican decent. The Chicano is the core base of the Mexican
American population which consist of over 27 million. Latino does not
connect with Mexican and Azteca origins. For example, The Southwest and
Mexico is local history. "We were not brought here". Before the Indians
of the Southwest were American Indians, they were Mexican Indians
because this was once Mexico, and before that, they were natives of the
same and similar culture. For example, the native indians in Los Angeles
spoke Nahuatl which is the same language of the Aztecas. The Aztecas
were Mechicas or Mechicanos. The problem is that middle class education
continues to erase the theoretical history and framework which made
Chicano Studies. David Sanchez, Doctor of Philosophy