Monday, January 17, 2011

Chicago City Council Passed Resolution For Feds To Stop Mass Deportations

Photo: ICE file

Florida state legislators backing off from supporting similar Arizona anti-immigrant law

By H. Nelson Goodson
January 17, 2011

Chicago, Illinois - Last week Thursday, the Chicago City Council voted unanimously to approve a symbolic resolution for the federal government to halt mass deportations. Since President Barack H. Obama's election, more than several thousand of undocumented immigrants have been deported yearly from the City of Chicago.
The resolution says, family members of U.S. Citizens who are undocumented should not be deported and students who would have qualified under the stalled DREAM Act should also not be deported.
Chicago houses a major government deportation center run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which deports undocument immigrants from the tri-state area including Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.
Worth noting, the Mexican Counsul General Manuel Rodriguez Arriaga in Chicago has yet to publically oppose the massive deportations by ICE. Members and numerous organizations, including the Mexican Civic Society of Illinois in Chicago from the Mexican community have staged numerous protests against Arriaga in front of the Ashland Street Consulate for his inability to work, support or stand-by with the community on issues affecting Mexican nationals.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has named Consul Eduardo Arnal Palomera from Denver, Colorado to take over the Chicago troubled Mexican Consulate. Arriaga was also named the Mexican Embassador to Peru. Both Palomera and Arriaga would have to be approved by the Mexican Congress.
In other news, Florida State Senator Mike Bennett (R-Bradenton) is backing off from supporting his own similar Arizona SB 1070 law, now he says it would hurt state economy. Last week, former Florida Governor Jed Bush who co-chaired the Hispanic Leadership conference in a Republican gathering told attendees that the GOP should begin to find ways to tap into the Hispanic community support. He admitted that anti-immigrant rhetoric and laws would not gain support for the GOP.
Other state legislators in Florida are backing away from a similar Arizona SB 1070 law as well citing it would hurt the economy, tourism, construction and undocumented workers are an asset to Florida's agriculture economy and growth. Even, Governor Rick Scott admits that if E-Verify is used by farmers to verify the legal status of farmworkers, their work force will fall and crops would spoil. Farmers won't be likely to be replaced undocumented workers with unemployed Americans willing to do the harsh work they are not accustomed to do.

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