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"El Magonista" | Vol. 7 No. 41 | November 7, 2019

Final Call to Support our National Campaign to Restore

DACA's Advance Parole advocacy trip to Wash., DC

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Our National Campaign to Restore DACA's

Advance Parole will be in Washington D.C.

From November 9-15, 2019, we will be taking our campaign to Washington

DC, where we will continue to advocate for the restoration of DACA's
Advance Parole. With a delegation of 50 DACA recipients from across the
country we will be meeting with legislators and sharing our stories about
the effects of not being able to travel internationally.
Our campaign will focus on securing more than 100 signatures from
senators and congressmembers on the letter that was issued by Reps. Zoe
Lofgren and Lucille Roybal-Allard which urges President Trump and DHS
to restore Advance Parole and to continue allowing Dreamers to travel for
humanitarian, educational, and employment reasons.
 Mayra Garibo's personal appeal due to the loss
of her father in a tragic accident

Dear Congressmembers,

My name is Mayra Garibo, I am one of 50 DACA recipients from across the

states who will be visiting the U.S. Capitol from November 9-15, 2019 as part of
the National Campaign to Restore DACA’s Advance Parole.

I would like to alert you about a “Dear Colleagues” letter led by Reps. Zoe
Lofgren and Lucille Roybal-Allard (see below) being circulated in support of our
campaign and I would like to respectfully request that you please sign-on to the
letter and support many DACA recipients, like myself, who are suffering due to
the administrative suspension of Advance Parole for Dreamers since
September 5, 2017 when DACA was rescinded.

I am one of those Dreamers who have been personally affected by this

inhumane and discriminatory denial of humanitarian Advance Parole. On
January 11, 2018 I lost my father due to an accident in Mexico. I gathered all
the documents required to apply for Advance Parole, including my father’s birth
and death certificates as proof that I needed to be there by his side for his
burial, and still I was denied.

Please help us restore DACA’s Advance Parole to prevent many other

Dreamers from going through the pain and suffering I had to endure. Losing a
loved one is never easy, but not being able to have closure and say goodbye to
them based on an arbitrary and discriminatory decision made by the current
administration is even more devastating.
Please consider signing the congressional letter and join our efforts to restore
DACA’s Advance Parole.

Thank you,

Mayra Garibo
 Watch the latest two-minute video on our
campaign

Only 2 days until the 3rd phase of our National Campaign to

Restore DACA’s Advance Parole when we will take 50+ Dreamers
to Washington, D.C. during November 9-15, 2019; including
30 Dreamers that have filed their humanitarian Advance Parole
applications as part of our Advance Parole Assistance Program, to
personally advocate for expedited approval of their Advance
Parole applications.

Read the CMSC's letter address to President Trump and DHS

regarding the dire need to restore DACA's Advance Parole

CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES

• To request expedited approval and advocacy for current Advance

Parole cases (from our AP Assistance Program)

• Secure additional signatures for a bicameral “Dear Colleagues”

letter requested from Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Lucille Roybal-Allard,
Alan Lowenthal, and Sen. Kamala Harris.

• To request meetings with the DHS Secretary and USCIS Director

• Ask for an oversight hearing on Advance Parole or at least include

AP on the agenda of an oversight hearing
 • Participate in a forum with CA delegation at their weekly lunch
meeting for a couple of Dreamers to share their personal suffering
and dire need for Advance Parole (on Wed. Nov. 13)

• Visit all congressional offices that pertain to the districts of

participating Dreamers, and those that we did not visit in the past
two advocacy trips.

But we need at least $5,000 more to cover our

advocacy trip expenses

Please donate to our campaign today!

This phase of our campaign is essential because the Dream and

Promise Act of 2019 is unlikely to be approved by the current
Senate, and the U.S. Supreme Court will not rule on the future of
DACA until next summer. Therefore, Dreamers remain in limbo and
their dire need for humanitarian travel will continue to be denied
Advance Parole authorization for an indefinite period.

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 The Supreme Court Confronts DACA

By: Linda Greenhouse ~ The New York Times ~ November 7,2019

In the four months since the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s
cynical effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the decision —
which the president came dangerously close to defying — has faded from view
under the weight of all that has happened since. The census will proceed next
spring in the usual way, without sorting the country’s population into citizen and
noncitizen. That’s that, it would seem.

But the decision’s work is not done. Next Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear
arguments on the validity of President Trump’s decision to terminate the program
that shields hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants — the
Dreamers — from deportation and allows them to live openly in American society.
Chief Justice John Roberts’s 5-to-4 majority opinion in the census
case, Department of Commerce v. New York, is playing an important although
largely unnoticed role in how advocates are framing their arguments about the
fate of the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

UPCOMING EVENTS

SAVE THE DATE – NOV. 21, 2019

CSULB Hall of Science Building, Room 102 (HSCI-102)
CMSC's Días de la Raza exhibition by Luis Garza
(October 12, 2019 – January 19, 2020) – Centro Cultural Tijuana
The exhibition Días de la Raza was originated by the California-Mexico
Studies Center (CMSC) and was inaugurated by Dr. Vianka R. Santana,
General Director of the Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT), on October
12, 2019 (Día de la Raza) as the final activity of the International
Conference Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of
Chicano Studies, celebrated at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF)
and CECUT from October 8-12, 2019, in collaboration with San Diego
State University, COLEF, CECUT and CMSC.

Días de la Raza will be exhibited until Sunday, January 19, 2020.

Download Exhibition Flyer

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