Immigrant Stories: How did you come to US?

twogentlemen:

According to this article, Sherlock Holmes will soon be arriving in the USA. Unfortunately, the article doesn’t provide any details about how this will happen: will Sherlock immigrate to America? Will it be a British Holmes temporarily re-located to New York? Or will it be an American…

dez-ray:

According to public record, Bunn attempted to tell the student that he could retrieve forms translated into Spanish from the main office, but the student continued to repeat “I’m Mexican.”

Bunn quickly responded, “[Then] go back to Mexico.”

The school board placed Bunn on paid leave following the incident, until an Independent Hearing Examiner could review the case.

Late Wednesday, the examiner, Jess Rickman III, recommended that the school board allow Bunn to return to her post. In his 23-page opinion, Rickman determined that the district did not provide sufficient grounds for termination.

“Under the circumstances when taken in the context of the moment and the lack of intent for ‘Go back to Mexico’ to be a racially or nationality-based pejorative remark, I find it was not a remark of an egregious nature,” Rickman said, Fox 4 reports.

Since Rickman’s opinion is just a recommendation, the school board could still reject it and permanently terminate Bunn, who has taught at Barnett since 1999.

“It was almost instantaneous. I thought, ‘God, I don’t believe that came out of my mouth,’” Bunn told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

via HuffPo

letheuspeopledecide:

An Arizona Sheriff had to part with Romney because he is gay. There should have been no issue with that, but the fact that this sheriff took such a hard stance on immigration is appalling. His boy-toy was Mexican. I love the Freudian psychology behind all this crap. It is usually those that are so against something, do it. Why take a hard stance on immigration when your partner is Mexican and an “illegal immigrant”. I love the term illegal immigrant as we are all illegal immigrants if the American Indians had written laws at the times.

politicalthinker:

So despite their sacrifice and service to this country, there are veterans out there that are even facing deportation! This is just wrong!!

Brothers Manuel and Valente Valenzuela still don their dress blue military uniforms with the ramrod-straight posture from their Vietnam War days. Manuel, a former Marine, carried out rescue missions. Valente, an Army soldier, was wounded and received a Bronze Star.

The brothers, both in their 60s, are now waging a legal battle against an unexpected foe: the U.S. government. They are trying to stop the country they served from deporting them to Mexico.

The brothers’ cases are the latest of several that highlight what some believe is a growing trend as U.S. immigration authorities, in casting a wide net to deport illegal immigrants, also snare non-citizen veterans who have committed crimes, including misdemeanors.

Immigration authorities said veterans who come under scrutiny, most of them green card holders, are treated differently, and potentially more leniently, than illegal immigrants.

But critics said few veterans are being spared because authorities have beefed up their deportation enforcement programs and expanded the category of crimes that make people eligible for deportations. The offenses can range from murder and weapons charges to nonviolent misdemeanor arrests such as drunk driving and shoplifting.

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

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I read this book while on a visit to Salt Lake City. Until it was done, I did not look up as we drove around town, and did not contribute to conversations with our friends there. I just sat and read, until it was done. Like “Morir en el intento”,…

nyatwork:

Through my daily Tumblr search, I learned of a labor dispute brewing at Pomona College. According to a New York Times article, seventeen undocumented dining hall workers were let go after failing to provide authorization papers. Education reporter Jennifer Medina, wrote on the issue in a…

Ana Jimenez and her husband were so terrified of being sent back to their native Mexico when Alabama’s tough crackdown on illegal immigrants took effect that they fled more than 2,000 miles to Los Angeles, cramming into a two-bedroom apartment with more than 20 other relatives.

Now they are among the families coming back to cities like Birmingham, as the mass deportations never materialized and courts blocked parts of the law. No one knows how many people initially left the state, so it’s impossible to say how many have returned. But some illegal immigrants are trickling back, unable to find work elsewhere and missing the place that had been home for years.