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asylum seekers from Central America flee “gang violence” says CA attorney John Allured

 

seeking  asylum

An advocate for persons  seeking asylum  from Central America,    attorney John W. Allured (CA bar license #84770) spoke on Immigration and the Law   at Christ Lutheran Church  in Aptos, CA on Sunday, February 11, 2018.

Attorney Allured  was introduced by Pastor Dale Sollom-Brotherton.  See information on the church website about the speaker. 

Mr. Allured is a member of First  Lutheran church in Palo Alto, CA.  

Christ Lutheran Church in Aptos, CA supports  the AMMPARO program.  The church  currently provides  housing and other  support for a   family  from El Salvador.  The church  may assist  persons seeking refugee status via  advocacy in the legal process  as Guardian Angels.  

AMMPARO was envisioned to accompany children today and in the future who are forced to flee their communities because of complex and interrelated reasons, including chronic violence, poverty, environmental displacement and lack of opportunities in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

Some of  attorney  John Allured’s  remarks and some questions that were asked:

“Most  persons seeking asylum from the Triangle countries  (San Salvador, Guatamala &  Honduras) seek asylum due to “gang violence”.

“The rate of  those seeking asylum  from  Mexico has gone down and the rate from Central America has gone up.

Asylum seekers must show “credible fear”.   What is that?

“Migrants do not have right to legal representation.

If “credible fear” is found the case moves forward to “removal status”, the juvenille is then  “placed” and the case goes before a judge.

“In 2016, 50% of mothers with children lacked counsel;  of these, 90% were removed.

“The chances of defeating removal increased 5 times when migrant had counsel. So says Attorney Allured.

“How does ‘gang violence” fit into all this?  If only “gang violence” you have to do your homework to establish that your case fits within one of five categories.

“Asylum is discretionary.  You  must show “good character” via employment, church membership, credible witnesses and that you are a deserving  person.

There are two Hearings –  The first one which is on  the Master Calendar  is open to the public.

Asylum applicants  have no “right” to due process.  San Francisco judges (the one he observed) bend over backwards so applicants can establish their case.  In San Francisco (his experience),c ases are typically continued 5-6 times before moving on to”removal” status.  Which judge  hears the case — in what part of the US — matters significantly.

Church congregations can serve as “guardian angels”. There’s nothing to fear.  It’s an informal process. Judges do not wear robes.  The federal rules of evidence serve as a guide.

Questions asked during and after Mr. Allured’s  presentation at Christ Lutheran church in Aptos, CA   included:

  •  What about economics?  If a woman’s kids are starving is that a reason to establish asylum? Answer:  No.  You have to establish more than economic hardship.  You have to show harm, that you were threatened, a family member killed.
  •  What about domestic violence?  Terrorizing woman is very frightening one attendee asked.  Answer: There are avenues for women …
  •  A man who lived 15 years in the Netherlands asked, Where do most persons seeking asylum here  come from?  Answer:  Attorney Allurd  said that he did not know.  [There are 9 federal resettlement contractors one of the largest is the Lutheran church.]   The man  then asked a followup question, What would likely happen to those  seeking asylum in Mexico?  Mr. Allurd replied that he  did not know.   [Currently there is a backlog at the Mexico-US border.]
  • There are   reports that  persons who enter  illegally   do not show up for their first court appearance.  Know anything about that?  Attorney Allurd  replied  that he did not know about no shows for court appearances. [One report states that 135,000 go missing and do not show up.]

After the presentation persons attending were encouraged to meet each other.

Information concerning various resources was available including  Tell Me How it Ends, an essay in Forty Questions by Laleria Luiselli.

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Aptos Psychologist:    “I was a stranger and you offered me welcome …  “   That’s the message of Christ Lutheran Church in Aptos, CA

   Take Away message:   Per this presentation,  you better get an attorney  if you are from Central America  seeking asylum.  Persons seeking asylum in the U.S.  have no legal right to representation.

Concerning gang violence,  Monterey County (Salinas, CA  is the county seat) is ranked as  the youth homicide capital of California for four out of the past five years.  Gang violence is continually in the news. California has its own gang related problems.

People are not fleeing California for Central America because of ‘gang violence’.  That there is economic opportunity, freedom and rule by law here in the U.S. draws people  here.  Legally and illegally.  People who come need to follow the  U.S.A. immigration laws that are in place.

written by Cameron Jackson    drcameronjackson@gmail.com

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Trump Wall? Immigration control? Chain migration? The DACA / Dreamers? Time to speak up?

 

chain migration

Where are we?  A Trump Wall?   Control of chain migration?  Will the DACA/ the Dreamers get right to citizenship?

Immigration  — the control of  legal and illegal  immigration  –  which include “chain migration”  and “the lottery system”    — are right now  on the table for discussion by Congress and the President.

The House, which  is likely to support what comes from President Trump, probably   opposes chain migration and the  continuation of the Lottery System which allows anyone from anywhere to become an American citizen.

For 40 + years — from 1921 onward   the USA stopped all immigration.

Do we need to integrate those who have come so that they do speak English and have the necessary skills to be successful here in America?

Or do we simply open our doors to all refugees who suffer oppression i.e. “I was a stranger and you welcomed me…”?

What say you?

written by Cameron Jackson   drcameronjackson@gmail.com

 

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Firenze Sage: depends on whose ox is being gored [powerful Democrat woman accused of sexual misconduct with male staff]

Garcia (female) accused of sexual misconduct by Fierro (male staff)

Whose ox is being gored:   If something awful happens to someone you don’t know, or perhaps dislike, you are likely to ignore it in the first instance, or may even applaud it in the latter instance. If something awful happens to you or your loved ones, well, that’s a different story altogether.

Leading #MeToo California Assemblywoman Accused of Sexual Misconduct

 Daniel Fierro of Cerritos told POLITICO that in 2014, as a 25-year-old staffer to Assemblyman Ian Calderon, he was groped by Garcia, a powerful Democratic lawmaker who chairs the Legislative Women’s Caucus and the Natural Resources Committee.

He said she cornered him alone after the annual Assembly softball game in Sacramento as he attempted to clean up the dugout. Fierro, who said Garcia appeared inebriated, said she began stroking his back, then squeezed his buttocks and attempted to touch his crotch before he extricated himself and quickly left.

From The Sacramento Bee:

Garcia was “clearly inebriated,” Fierro said, and grabbed his arm. At first he thought she was just trying to steady herself, but then Garcia grabbed his back, he said, and began to stroke it.

“Her hand was there and it slipped down to my butt and she tried to squeeze,” Fierro said. He said he knew then that it had crossed a line and he spun away from her to leave. As he was walking past her, Fierro said, Garcia made a grab for his crotch.

“The entire encounter lasted 30-45 seconds,” he said. “I was in shock. I was embarrassed.”

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Firenze Sage:  Will she  [Garcia] resign or rather attend one of the many classes devoted to telling people that sexual assault is wrong .

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Collusion. Who? Hilary and Fusion GPS colluded? Or Russia with Trump? Facts now suggest Hillary …

 

Collusion

It all keeps rumbling along. Who colluded with who. Hilary or Trump?

Now we know that Hilary Clinton and the Democrat National Party paid $10 K  to create the ‘dossier’ on Trump which the Obama FBI people used to spy on Trump.  What’s happened to the Rule of Law?

Should the current Attorney General haul in all of the top  FBI guys and ask:  ‘Did you know personally that the dossier was created by the Clinton campaign?’  If they answer ‘yes’ then ….. fire them on the spot?    And prosecute them as criminals?

 

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Time to eat crow? Democrats sat on their hands at the State of the Union address by Trump

Democrats sat on their hands during the State of the Union address by Donald Trump

Time to eat crow?  Democrats sat on their hands when Donald Trump spoke about what’s happened during his first year in office.

No Democrat voted for the Tax Cuts.  Those tax cuts benefit many Americans.

No Democrat stood in unity with Republicans concerning the economy or foreign policy.

What do the Democrats stand for?  Seems like they simply stand against.  What say you?   DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

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Firenze Sage–Russians muffle Maxine [Walters Democrat from CA]

Maxine Waters [  https://waters.house.gov/]    now sees a Russian behind every mailbox and lamp post.

During an anti-Trump tirade at an urban housing event, the California congresswoman Maxine Walters  went on a stem winder about Russia and the Kremlin’s alleged love for the American president.

At one point,  Waters declared Trump has committed “obstruction of justice,” and made the case for impeachment, also citing “possible collusion” with Russia.

She theorized Russia wanted to elect Trump so he would lift sanctions to allow Russia to drill for oil.

Walters said, “RT, which is Russian television, absolutely interfered with a speech of mine on the floor of Congress and blocked me out for 10 minutes,” she bellowed, as a woman in the audience gasped, “What?!?”

“They don’t play. They mean business,” Waters declared.

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Firenze Sage:   Imagine that Putin actually cares what this lunatic [[Maxine Walters]  says.

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Firenze Sage: Boo louder! [Trump’s speech at Davos]

boo sound was ‘boosted” by German media

German public broadcaster ARD has been blasted after admitting it “boosted” the sound of booing at the speech given by U.S. President Donald Trump late last week.

President Trump gave his speech at Davos on Thursday, again delivering sharp criticism to the mainstream media. He stated: “it wasn’t until I became a politician that I realized how nasty, how mean, how vicious, and how fake the press can be.

ARD released a clip of the speech on the Twitter account for its popular news programme “Tagesschau” in which distinct boos could be heard directly after the President’s comments. A short time later the programme admitted it had booted the volume of the audio in order to showcase the booing. The show has since been accused of “manipulation”, Stern reports.

Those behind the programme wrote on Twitter, “We did actually make the sound a little louder at the end so that you can hear the booing. Only in this way can we reflect what our correspondents have reported.”

Editor-in-chief of the German tabloid newspaper Bild Julian Reichelt called out those involved saying it was, “hard to imagine that you would have done the same for applause.”

Kai Gniffke, the editor in chief of ARD defended the move saying that it proved the reporting of his journalists.

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Firenze Sage:  If you hate someone this badly, anything goes.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=four+more+obama+years

 

 

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Dreamers – are they productive, law abiding and speak English? What Arizona statistics show ….

 

Are the Dreamers productive, law abiding and speak English?  Look at the statistics ….

What do we know whether  the Dreamers  are productive, law abiding and speak English.

A majority (74 percent) of U.S. Protestants and Catholics support “Dreamers” receiving permanent legal status, according to a Pew Research Center report released on Jan. 19. Catholic Hispanics overwhelmingly support the Dreamers (92%).

“Dreamers” are persons brought to the U.S. as minors and who have only known the U.S. as their home.

In Arizona, the Dreamers are 4 times more likely to commit crimes than their numbers would suggest.

Younger illegal immigrants in Arizona make up a far larger percentage of the state’s prison inmates than their share of the population would suggest, according to a new analysis.

While illegal immigrants ages 18 to 35 — a group immigration activists call “Dreamers” — are about 2 percent of of the Arizona population, they are almost 8 percent of the prison population. The over-representation by a factor of four shows that younger illegal immigrants in Arizona are far more likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens or legal immigrants of a similar age, says John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.

Roughly half of the Dreamers are literate in English.  Persons who don’t speak English are not able to get jobs that will support themselves and their families.

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Aptos  Psychologist:   America stopped all immigration for 40 years  (1924-1965) which allowed for assimilation of all the millions who had come.  Perhaps it’s time again to stop immigration and again assimilate those who are here?   To be successful here immigrants need to learn English and learn skills so  they can be  productive members.  What say you?  Comments welcome.

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Firenze Sage:The fate of nations depends on an idiot’s memory? [Hawaii missile alert]

 

Hawaii’s Governor forgot his password

How come Hawaii took so long to defuse phony alert?    — More than a week after a false alarm claimed that a missile was headed towards Hawaii and sparked widespread panic, the governor of America’s 50th state made an embarrassing admission as to why it took officials so long to defuse the phony alert.

Although Governor David Ige reportedly knew the alert was a mistake two minutes after it was sent, Ige confessed he forgot what his Twitter password was and couldn’t tell the public as a result.

“I have to confess that I don’t know my Twitter account log-ons and the passwords, so certainly that’s one of the changes that I’ve made. I’ve been putting that on my phone so that we can access the social media directly,” Gov. Ige said, via the Honolulu Star Advertiser.

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Firenze Sage:  Isn’t there a “forgot password” icon for the esteemed governor to push?

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Firenze Sage: Trump put his money …. [ funded medical mission to Haiti]

Trump funded medical mission to Haiti

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that charges of bigotry against President Donald Trump remain unfounded because the president previously financed a 2014 medical mission to Haiti.

Paul said on Meet the Press, “I think it’s unfair to sort of paint him, ‘oh well, he’s a racist,’ when I know for a fact that he cares very deeply about the people of Haiti because he helped finance a trip where they would get vision back for 200 people in Haiti.”

Breitbart News wrote from Antigua, Guatemala in August 2014, “Paul raised tens of thousands of dollars through various donors, including real estate magnate Donald Trump, to help cover the Moran Eye Center’s trip costs,” which included a $10,000 donation from Donald Trump.

Sen. Paul’s communications team confirmed to Breitbart News that Sen. Paul solicited a donation from Trump for the Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah to fund the trip to Haiti and Guatemala.

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Firenze Sage:   And where were Durbin and the rest of the loudmouths. What did CNN contribute?

 

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