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The California-Mexico Studies Center

Armando Vazquez-Ramos, President & CEO
1551 N. Studebaker Road, Long Beach, CA 90815
Phone: (562) 430-5541 Cell: (562) 972-0986
californiamexicocenter@gmail.com

Website: www.california-mexicocenter.org
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"El Magonista"
Vol. 6 No. 29
Sept. 27, 2018

Long Beach Latino

community study, CMSC
Continues Advance
Parole Campaign

Featured News:

Latinos in Long Beach report examines the

city's largest demographic
By Stephanie Rivera ~ LB Post ~ September 20, 2018
Latinos make up 44.5 percent of Long Beach's population, yet the city's
largest demographic is also one of the poorest, works mainly in the service
and manual labor sectors and many are without health insurance, according
to a preliminary report released Thursday.

This is the first report of its kind focusing specifically on Latinos in the city,
but it's only considered a snapshot with more data expected to be gathered
as community stakeholders examine the data. The report was released
during a roundtable at the Museum of Latin American Art with select
community members providing input.
"Even though a lot of Latinos are working, we're in jobs that don't pay very
much and don't offer good benefits," said Juan Benitez, executive director
of the Center for Community Engagement and professor at Cal State Long
Beach, and newly elected Long Beach Unified School District board
member.

What was most striking for Benitez was how educational outcomes connect
to other outcomes. "Higher pay leads to home ownership and healthcare
and higher pay is achieved through education," Benitez said.
The report's key findings on topics such as: population, education,
economics and health can be found here.

Advance Parole Voices: Karina Ruiz de Diaz

Sadly, Karina Ruiz de Diaz, one of our previous Dreamers Study

Abroad program participants, lost her paternal grandmother last
month, and is one more voice to advocate for the restoring of Advance
Parole for DACA recipients.

Karina who is a DACA recipient and the executive director of the

Arizona Dream Act Coalition (ADAC), shared her concerns for her
grandmother with the CMSC team in July, as presented on this
video. Her grandmother has passed away since this recording. She is
one more voice, one more person, one more reason for us to take
action and tell congress that the denial of Advance Parole is causing
irreparable harm.
Advance Parole Voices is a short documentary video series that educates
about, and advocates for the reinstatement of the Advance Parole
immigration provision for DACA recipients.

The series features stories, voices and testimonies from DACA-mented

individuals who traveled with Advance Parole, who participated in the
California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Programs, and also those
Dreamers who have been denied the travel authorization since the Trump
Administration suspended the provision on September 5, 2017.

Visit our campaign website: www.advanceparole.org

Follow the cause on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Support the CMSC Fund Drive to

continue to advocate for the restoration of
DACA's Advance Parole authorization
As you may already know, the CMSC is committed to educate about, and
advocate for the reinstatement of the Advance Parole provision for DACA
recipients. Thus, we plan to incorporate more stories, voices and
testimonies from DACA-mented individuals who traveled with Advance
Parole, who participated in our California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad
Program, and also those who have been denied since September 5, 2017.

The current version of the documentary features Mayra Garibo, a Senior at

CSU Dominguez Hills and a DACA recipient, who could not attend her dad's
funeral when he passed away in Mexico early this year. She applied for
humanitarian Advance Parole and was denied twice. Mayra was unable to
pay the last respects to her beloved father whom she had not seen in 17
years. Now one of her grandparents has cancer and she wants to see him
and take care of him before it is too late.

But given the administration's heartless decision to suspend Advance Parole

for Dreamers, Mayra must choose between her family in Mexico and her life
in the United States.

The original Advance Parole film follows Mayra Garibo's efforts and
leadership to challenge the system and pave the way not only for her to
reunite with her family in Mexico, but also to prevent Dreamers from
suffering a humanitarian and emotional crisis as she endured when her
father passed away early this year.

The Advance Parole extended version aims to build upon and share more
stories and voices from other Dreamers, who either benefited from Advance
Parole and those who have been unjustly denied.

But to move forward with this, we need your help!

Our Advance Parole Campaign Fund Drive has a goal

of raising $5,000 by September 30th, 2018
All volunteers, leadership and support initiatives, and community
engagement is welcomed!
Donations and financial backing will help us continue to advocate for
the reinstatement of Advance Parole, to cover our social media
campaign, film production, and marketing costs.

All support and campaign participation is greatly appreciated!

Please contact us to join this campaign, as an individual or an

organization at californiamexicocenter@gmail.com

MAKE YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TODAY!

Check out our CrowdRise Campaign, or donate on the button below:

Learn more about Advance Parole the provision, and the CMSC's unique
study abroad program for DACA recipients, watch this 1-minute movie clip
from the documentary:
Also, in case you haven't, you can watch the 30-minute documentary here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSuujYzl5IA

Or check out the 2-minute trailer:

Advance Parole Promo Trailer

Visit our campaign website: www.advanceparole.org

Follow the cause on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Cerritos College lecture: The 1968 East LA

High School Walkouts

Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos, co-founder of the CSULB Chicano &

Latino Studies department and a participant in the 1968 East L.A. high
school walkouts, will lecture on "How the Chicano Student Movement
Created Chicano Studies." This lecture will chronicle how the founding of
the CSULB Chicano Studies department and many other Ethnic Studies
programs at numerous colleges and universities were established in 1969,
due to the leadership of Chicano and Black students.
 Cerritos College (Room LC 155)

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

11:00am-12:30pm

Latest News:
Trump's anti-immigration 'public charge' proposal
solves a problem that doesn't exist (LA Times)
In an effort to make it more difficult for legal immigrants to live
and work in the United States, the Trump
administration proposed new rules over the weekend giving
officials the right to withhold green cards from applicants who
take advantage of a wide range of government aid programs to which they are legally entitled,
including food assistance and housing vouchers.
And for prospective immigrants who apply for visas from overseas, government officials would
have broad power to reject people whom they believe might someday in the future tap
government programs for financial support. That change, experts say, will reduce the overall
flow of immigration and skew it toward people seeking to emigrate from more advanced
countries... Read More

ICE beat him to force him to be an informant, or be

deported. He wants $750,000 (SacBee)
One year ago this week, undocumented immigrant Carlos
Alfred Rueda Cruz said he was inside a holding room at the
downtown Sacramento Immigration and Customs
Enforcement office when federal agents physically attacked
him to force him to sign a voluntary deportation order.
Rueda said the assault came after his refusal to turn in other undocumented people in the
Sacramento area in exchange for being allowed to stay in the United States with his wife and
three children... Read More

Study finds undocumented immigrants have less

reported chronic disease than Americans (SacBee)
A new study challenges the political notion that undocumented
immigrants are a burden on the U.S. health care system - in
fact, they're much less likely to seek medical care at all, the
study found.
The four-year study, from Drexel University in Philadelphia and published in the journal Medical
Care, relies on a California health survey and finds undocumented immigrants are using health
care services at a lower rate than they did 15 years ago... Read More

Heartbreaking video shows immigrant mother afraid

that ICE will deport her family for seeking shelter
during Hurricane Florence (Daily Mail)
Iris is a mother-of-three and undocumented immigrant living in
a mandatory evacuation zone near Wilmington, North
Carolina. She was afraid to go to a public shelter believing that
ICE would be there and arrest her, separate her children and then deport the family. Her
daughter had told her she feared their home would be destroyed, but would rather face death
at home than possible separation. ICE had stated that it would not arrest people seeking
shelter during Florence earlier in the week, but a number of immigrants do not trust that
statement... Read More

ICE arrested undocumented immigrants who came

forward to take in undocumented children (CNN)
Washington- Federal officers have arrested dozens of
undocumented immigrants who came forward to take care of
undocumented immigrant children in government custody, and
the Trump administration is pledging to go after more.
The news will serve as confirmation of the worst fears of
immigrants and their advocates: that a recent move by
President Donald Trump's administration... Read More

Border Patrol Officer Considered a Serial

Killer (Washington Post)
The woman in the white pickup was feeling increasingly
uneasy about the driver, whom she knew only as "David." Two
fellow sex workers in Laredo, Tex., had been recently killed,
and one was her friend Melissa.
The man and the woman had already been at his house, where
she had discussed Melissa. He had reacted strangely, she later told authorities, and the
situation had grown so tense that she vomited in the front yard before they left for a gas station.
The woman's mind lingered on Melissa. She wanted to keep talking about her... Read More

A migrant boy rejoins his mother, but he's

not the same (LA Times)
Parents reunited with young children are reporting mental
health issues. One 5-year-old boy has started a new life with
his mother in Philadelphia, but signs of trauma remain.
Before they were separated at the southwest border, Ana
Carolina Fernandes' 5-year-old son loved playing with the yellow, impish Minion characters
from the "Despicable Me" movies. Now his favorite game is patting down and shackling
"migrants" with plastic cuffs.
After being separated from his mother for 50 days, Thiago isn't the same boy who was taken
away from her by Border Patrol agents when they arrived in the United States from Brazil, Ms.
Fernandes said last week... Read More

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