Gregory Johnson:
"Apparently our business community no longer needs to do background checks on its employees, according to the May 5 Post Independent article, “Residents rally against local's deportation.”
Morality and legality do not coincide with each other. I thought the reason for the background checks was to decide if a person was good enough morally to work for the company. Apparently that is not the case. This can save businesses large sums of money for these background checks....."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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May 8, 2012
May 5, 2012
SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent "Basalt woman would be eligible in 3 years for immigration visa"
Heather McGregor:
"GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — About 40 people rallied at noon on Friday to protest the pending deportation of a Basalt woman, whose son recently won a prestigious scholarship to attend Duke University.
Norma Galindo, 39, also known by her married name, Norma Morales, was taken into custody on April 24 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on a removal order issued in 2005 and upheld in 2008. She is an undocumented Mexican citizen who has lived in the U.S. for the past 21 years.....
........Now the family is distraught that Galindo is in custody, facing deportation to Mexico, as her son is about to graduate from Basalt High School. The family's younger son, Oswaldo, is 12......
....The Morales family and the Association of Youth United in Action are asking ICE to reconsider Norma's deportation, allow her to stay with her family, attend her son's high school graduation, and “to be given a chance to legally be a part of the nation her family calls home,” according to a press release issued Friday morning......
......In 2006, Galindo was convicted in Garfield County Court of a misdemeanor charge after she tried to obtain a state ID card at the Glenwood Springs Department of Motor Vehicles office using another person's New Mexico birth certificate. Galindo served one year of unsupervised probation.
Hess argues that a policy issued by ICE in 2011, outlining conditions that would warrant discretion on the part of prosecutors in choosing whether to pursue deportation cases, would change the course of Galindo's case. Hess argues in his brief that Galindo meets many of those guidelines.....
....Her disadvantages are the state ID card conviction and her decision to stay in the U.S. despite the removal order.....
....Hess contends that these factors would have led a U.S. immigration judge to make a different decision when Galindo appeared in 2008 for a hearing to appeal the deportation order. At the time, the judge denied her appeal. Hess argues that under the 2011 guidelines, her deportation case would have been closed...... (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
"GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — About 40 people rallied at noon on Friday to protest the pending deportation of a Basalt woman, whose son recently won a prestigious scholarship to attend Duke University.
Norma Galindo, 39, also known by her married name, Norma Morales, was taken into custody on April 24 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on a removal order issued in 2005 and upheld in 2008. She is an undocumented Mexican citizen who has lived in the U.S. for the past 21 years.....
........Now the family is distraught that Galindo is in custody, facing deportation to Mexico, as her son is about to graduate from Basalt High School. The family's younger son, Oswaldo, is 12......
....The Morales family and the Association of Youth United in Action are asking ICE to reconsider Norma's deportation, allow her to stay with her family, attend her son's high school graduation, and “to be given a chance to legally be a part of the nation her family calls home,” according to a press release issued Friday morning......
......In 2006, Galindo was convicted in Garfield County Court of a misdemeanor charge after she tried to obtain a state ID card at the Glenwood Springs Department of Motor Vehicles office using another person's New Mexico birth certificate. Galindo served one year of unsupervised probation.
Hess argues that a policy issued by ICE in 2011, outlining conditions that would warrant discretion on the part of prosecutors in choosing whether to pursue deportation cases, would change the course of Galindo's case. Hess argues in his brief that Galindo meets many of those guidelines.....
....Her disadvantages are the state ID card conviction and her decision to stay in the U.S. despite the removal order.....
....Hess contends that these factors would have led a U.S. immigration judge to make a different decision when Galindo appeared in 2008 for a hearing to appeal the deportation order. At the time, the judge denied her appeal. Hess argues that under the 2011 guidelines, her deportation case would have been closed...... (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
April 5, 2012
SandBoxBlogs: Denver Post "Colorado lawmaker soon will air issue of school resource officers doubling as immigration police"
State Rep. Roger Wilson (D-Glenwood Springs) has not accomplished a single thing while in office.
Elected at mid-terms by a very small margin, he was the hope of liberals in the Glenwood Springs area who had just lost Tresi Houpt and Tom Dalessandri at mid-terms 2010.
The sudden interest from Rep. Wilson in the 'Strawberry Days Massacre' story, that led to the war being waged by CIRC and AYUA against regional law enforcement, is transparent at best.
Here's a news flash to Rep. Wilson:
Our SRO's are trusted by the majority of the latino population of the RE1 School District. Interestingly enough, they are mostly all legal immigrants.
Nancy Lofholm:"ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok said he views the issue as more of a local one that doesn't involve his agency.
"This issue exclusively belongs to individual school districts," Rusnok said. "These (school resource officers) are not ICE employees."
"Wilson said he views the underlying issue as one of trust and he thinks there needs to be "a firewall" between immigration enforcement and school resource officers.
"There is a general principle here and it has to do with the trust of school resource officers...They need to be trusted," Wilson said.
Wilson said the earliest he might propose any legislation would be next year. He has not yet set a date for Roaring Fork representatives to come to Denver to lay out their problems before legislators...."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
Elected at mid-terms by a very small margin, he was the hope of liberals in the Glenwood Springs area who had just lost Tresi Houpt and Tom Dalessandri at mid-terms 2010.
The sudden interest from Rep. Wilson in the 'Strawberry Days Massacre' story, that led to the war being waged by CIRC and AYUA against regional law enforcement, is transparent at best.
Here's a news flash to Rep. Wilson:
Our SRO's are trusted by the majority of the latino population of the RE1 School District. Interestingly enough, they are mostly all legal immigrants.
Nancy Lofholm:"ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok said he views the issue as more of a local one that doesn't involve his agency.
"This issue exclusively belongs to individual school districts," Rusnok said. "These (school resource officers) are not ICE employees."
"Wilson said he views the underlying issue as one of trust and he thinks there needs to be "a firewall" between immigration enforcement and school resource officers.
"There is a general principle here and it has to do with the trust of school resource officers...They need to be trusted," Wilson said.
Wilson said the earliest he might propose any legislation would be next year. He has not yet set a date for Roaring Fork representatives to come to Denver to lay out their problems before legislators...."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
February 10, 2012
SandBox Comments: Glenwood Springs Post Independent " Re-1 open to addressing SRO concerns"
Our police chiefs already dealt with this issue of AYUA and the majority of the public has already spoken out loud and clear that the RE-1 School District should have absolutely no involvement in this political issue.
AYUA and CIRC have still not come forward and discussed their concerns directly with law enforcement as is proper and within law.
For RE-1 to give these organizations the ability to push their political agenda at the expense of our SRO programs and our law enforcement community is outrageous at this point.
Here is where the real concern should be (in bold):
John Stroud:
"...Biggs advised students attending the Wednesday night school board meeting.
“I have talked to the police chiefs, and hopefully we can come up with an appropriate assignment [job] description for SROs that addresses some of your concerns,” Biggs said.
“I agree, we have a lot of students who are undocumented, and that does not make them a criminal,” he added. “I do not want our students to feel that way.”
While the school district participates in and partially funds the SRO programs in Glenwood Springs, Carbondale and Basalt schools, the officers themselves are employees of the local police departments. Among their many duties is to cooperate with other law enforcement agencies, Biggs said.
“I'm afraid that if we adopt a policy that restricts that collaboration, we will lose the opportunity to have SROs at all,” he said...." (Read more? Click title)
Technically, Mr. Biggs. There are two criminal issues present with undocumented (illegal foreign nationals) in our public schools. The illegal foreign alien themselves and the public school officials who are allowing falsified registration paperwork to be used to draw federal funding for those illegal bodies seated in our desks.
What happens to our children who are legal citizens if law enforcement does what they should do and that is pull the SRO program?
Our local police chiefs had the right take on this. Send those protesting youngsters down to have a chat with the cops instead of risking a school program that is in place for safety to all.
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
AYUA and CIRC have still not come forward and discussed their concerns directly with law enforcement as is proper and within law.
For RE-1 to give these organizations the ability to push their political agenda at the expense of our SRO programs and our law enforcement community is outrageous at this point.
Here is where the real concern should be (in bold):
John Stroud:
"...Biggs advised students attending the Wednesday night school board meeting.
“I have talked to the police chiefs, and hopefully we can come up with an appropriate assignment [job] description for SROs that addresses some of your concerns,” Biggs said.
“I agree, we have a lot of students who are undocumented, and that does not make them a criminal,” he added. “I do not want our students to feel that way.”
While the school district participates in and partially funds the SRO programs in Glenwood Springs, Carbondale and Basalt schools, the officers themselves are employees of the local police departments. Among their many duties is to cooperate with other law enforcement agencies, Biggs said.
“I'm afraid that if we adopt a policy that restricts that collaboration, we will lose the opportunity to have SROs at all,” he said...." (Read more? Click title)
Technically, Mr. Biggs. There are two criminal issues present with undocumented (illegal foreign nationals) in our public schools. The illegal foreign alien themselves and the public school officials who are allowing falsified registration paperwork to be used to draw federal funding for those illegal bodies seated in our desks.
What happens to our children who are legal citizens if law enforcement does what they should do and that is pull the SRO program?
Our local police chiefs had the right take on this. Send those protesting youngsters down to have a chat with the cops instead of risking a school program that is in place for safety to all.
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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