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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
"El Magonista"

Vol. 6 No. 10

March 29th, 2018 Website: www.california-mexicocenter.org

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CMSC Advocates for Humanitarian


Advance Parole, CMSC Fund Drive,
March for Our Lives!

Featured News:

CMSC and San Diego Border Dreamers


Push Forward for Humanitarian Advance
Parole
CMSC Staff and San Diego border Dreamers meet with US Rep. Nanette Barragán to advocate for
Advance Parole for DACA recipients with extreme humanitarian cases.

On February 13th, just one month after DACA recipient Mayra


Garibo's father passed away in Mexico, and one week after her second
attempt to request humanitarian Advance Parole was denied; a New York
federal judge blocked Trump's termination of DACA for a second time.

Although the new court order does not mention the reactivation of Advance
Parole, which was arbitrarily suspended by USCIS, the CMSC continues to
advocate for DACA recipients such as Mayra Garibo and Luis Tinoco who
have extreme humanitarian cases in which the basic human right of family
unification in times of sickness and death is being overlooked.

Fortunately, USCIS has accepted Mayra's application filed through attorney


Naomi Cruz and with the advocacy of Reps. Alan Lowenthal and Nannette
Barragán, we are hopeful that her current application for humanitarian
Advance Parole will be approved.

Click on the link to watch a video interview of Mayra.

Beneficiario de DACA no logra permiso para


despedirse de su abuelo en México

Un beneficiario de la Acción Diferida solicitó sin éxito a las autoridades un


permiso para salir temporalmente del país y despedirse de su abuelo en
México, quien se encuentra gravemente enfermo.

Luis Fernando Tinoco, de 36 años, sabía que el Servicio de Ciudadanía e


Inmigración dejó de recibir ese tipo solicitudes tras la eliminación el año
pasado de este programa, por lo que su petición fue un llamado a la
compasión.

"Me quiebra el corazón pensar en que no puedo verlo, no puedo abrazarlo,


no puedo expresarle cuánto lo quiero", lamentó el inmigrante que vio a su
abuelo por última vez hace 30 años cuando emigró de México hacia
Estados Unidos siendo un menor de edad. Read More
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens:
Repeal the Second Amendment

A musket from the 18th century, when the Second Amendment was written,
and an assault rifle of today. Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of
civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in
Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past
Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the
broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of
schoolchildren and others in our society.

That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting


civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age
to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive
background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators
should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a
repeal of the Second Amendment.
Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of
the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides
that "a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Today
that concern is a relic of the 18th century.

For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was
uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state
authority to enact gun control legislation. In 1939 the Supreme
Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a
sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the
preservation or efficiency of a "well regulated militia." Read More

CMSC Marco Antonio Firebaugh Fund Drive

If you missed the Dreamers' play- 'Dreamers: Aquí y Allá',


you can view the recording here.

We need your help more than ever before in order to continue to fight
for Dreamers and Advance Parole!
As you may know, the Supreme Court has recently denied
President Trump's request for rescinding DACA. However, the appeals
court will rule in the near future, but for now DACA is still in place as before
September 5, 2017, but without Advance Parole, except for "deserving
cases" as in the case of CMSC Dreamer Mayra Garibo.

Thus, we are asking for your support as a beneficiary or supporter of our


program, and because without it, we will not be able to continue to advocate
for Dreamers' legalization, a path to citizenship and for our next projects: the
California-Mexico Dreamers book publication and full-length documentary.

To Donate via Check or Paypal, click here.

All donations are tax-deductible


INE Registration to vote for Mexico's 2018
Presidential and State elections
Exercise your right to vote from abroad. Register to vote by March 31.

Sin importar en dónde estés, haz valer tus derechos como


mexicano. Registro abierto hasta el 31 de Marzo.

Linda Brown Thompson, girl at center of Brown


v. Board of Education case, dies
Photo Credit: Associated Press

Linda Carol Brown was raised in Topeka, Kan., and all she wanted was to
go to the Sumner School. But she was black, and the elementary school four
blocks from her home was segregated, open only to white students.

The family received a registration form for the school in 1952, apparently by
mistake. The school's refusal to accept her led her father - Rev. Oliver L.
Brown, an assistant minister at St. Mark's African Methodist Episcopal
Church - to meet with the NAACP.

Linda Brown Thompson spoke on the anniversary of Brown v. Board of


Education in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Jan. 12, 2004. (The Washington Post)

He "felt that it was wrong for his child to have to go so far a distance to
receive a quality education," Ms. Brown said in "Eyes on the Prize."
Ms. Brown, a third-grader at the time, went on to become the symbolic
center of Brown v. Board of Education, the transformational 1954 Supreme
Court decision that bore her father's name and helped dismantle racial
segregation in the United States. Read More
Latest News:
Local Southern California Youth Leader, Edna Chavez
Speaks (Latin Rebels)

South Central LA Youth Leader, Edna Chavez speaks about ongoing


gun violence in her neighborhood... See Video

March for Our Lives was a powerful, galvanizing


moment. We can't let its momentum fade away

(LA Times)

It was heartening to see the outpouring of personal stories, anger and


resolve during the weekend March for Our Lives anti-gun violence protests and the ensuing social
media discussions, a long-running debate re-energized through the activism and resolve of
kids... Read More

They Push. They Protest. And Many Activists,


Privately, Suffer as a Result. (NY Times)

She lay curled in bed for days, paralyzed by the stresses of


a life that she felt had chosen her as much as she had
chosen it. About three years earlier, the police killing of
Michael Brown in Ferguson,... Read More

"March For Our Lives" -- Full Coverage

Full coverage of the March 24th- "March For Our


Lives"... See Video
Cops Broke the Law by Arresting Immigrant
Who Called 911, Lawsuit Says (Daily Beast)

A Washington state police department is being sued for


turning a man into immigration officials after he called the
cops on a trespasser. The Northwest Immigrant Rights
Project filed a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court on Wednesday against the Tukwila Police
Department on behalf of Wilson Rodriguez Macareno... Read More

He Begged ICE To Let Him See His Daughter


Graduate. But He's An Easy Target For
Removal. (Huffington Post)

Felix Garcia wants to stay in the U.S. at least until his


daughter finishes medical school. Felix Garcia pleaded
with the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer to
give him just a little more time. The 51-year-old father of three had been regularly
checking in with the agency for seven years without a problem... Read More

ICE Used Private Facebook Data to Find and


Track Criminal Suspect, Internal Emails
Show (The Intercept)

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA May have had access to the


personal information of tens of millions of unwitting Americans, but a genuine debate
has emerged about whether the company had the sophistication to put that data
effectively to use on behalf of Donald Trump's presidential campaign... Read More

In Oregon, one college tries to make a home


for 'Dreamers' (LA Times)

You could say Ana Maldonado goes out of her way to get
to Portland Community College's new DREAM
Center. First she walks, then takes light rail, then a bus.
That brings her to the PCC campus closest to her house. There she meets another
student, Ignacio Garcia, and they carpool to another PCC campus one more hour
away... Read More
Indiana governor signs bill letting 'Dreamers'
get licenses (Associated Press)

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed legislation to lift a


prohibition on immigrants who were brought to the country
illegally as children from obtaining state professional
licenses. Holcomb's office says the Republican signed the measure Wednesday
affecting people often... Read More

Campaña pro "soñadores" abocada a perder


impulso y visibilidad (San Diego Tribune)

Tras quedarse por fuera del acuerdo presupuestario que


lograron hoy republicanos y demócratas, el movimiento
para alcanzar la legalización de los "soñadores" está
abocado a perder el impulso y la visibilidad ganada en los últimos meses, según
algunos expertos... Read More

10 Steps to impeachment (Facebook)

How do you impeach a president?.... See Video

Arts & Culture:


CETLALIC Update and Jorge Torres' Legacy

Over 35-years-ago, Jorge Torres Viveros set to create a


school, an environment where people can come together
and exchange culture, language and ideas of Latin
American Solidarity. In Cuernavaca, Morelos, the
CETLALIC Institute was established... Read More

Photographers Harry Gamboa Jr. and Luis


Garza on pushing back against 'bad
hombre' Chicano stereotypes (LA Times)

March has been a bit of an unofficial Chicano history


month in Los Angeles. It began with the 50th
anniversary of the East Los Angeles "blowouts," the
school walkouts led by Mexican American students that helped ignite the Chicano
movement... Read More

How 'brown buffalo' Oscar Acosta, best


known as Hunter Thompson's Dr. Gonzo,
inspired his own TV doc (LA Times)

There was his size: a substantial 6 feet, 225 pounds,


according to his FBI file. There was his style: a Chicano
attorney who materialized in Los Angeles courtrooms in loud ties, bearing business
cards embossed with the Aztec god of war and, on at least one occasion, a gun... Read
More

De visita a la Cumbre Tajín, vocalista de Cafe


Tacvba documenta daños del fracking en el
norte de Veracruz (Periodistas Liberales)

Ciudad de México.- Con motivo de la presentación de Café


Tacvba en el Festival Cumbre Tajín 2018, viajé al norte de
Veracruz, área geográfica llamada el Totonacapan... Leer Mas

New Exhibition Explores Lost And Censured


Murals Of Los Angeles That Exposed Unequal
Treatment Of Mexicans And Mexican
Americans (NY Times)

Murals became an essential form of artist response and


public voice during the Chicana/o Movement of the 1960s
and 1970s. They were a means of challenging the status
quo and expressing both pride and frustration at a time when other channels of
communication were limited for... Read More

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