The 90th LULAC National Convention and Expo is expected to draw more then 20,000 visitors to Milwaukee.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
July 10, 2019
Milwaukee, WI - On Wednesday, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) will open their 90th Annual LULAC National Convention and Expo, which includes a three-day free expo for the public in the City of Milwaukee. The four-day event will held at the Wisconsin Center at the 400 block of W. Wisconsin Ave. According to a press release from LULAC, the organization will host a free three-day exposition from Thursday, July 11 to Saturday, July 13. The expo will kick off with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 10:00am CT on Thursday, July 11. This free event will take place during LULAC's 90th Annual National Convention & Exposition in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from July 10 to 13, 2019.
The expo will feature a Tech Lounge sponsored by AARP as well as free confidential HIV testing by the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM CT on July 11, 2019, and July 12, 2019. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a booth with HIV resources.
The event is free and open to the public. The expo's career fair will feature job opportunities with corporations, government agencies, colleges, universities, labor unions, the armed services, and non-profit organizations. The career fair is free of charge and provides opportunities for on-site interviews.
Led by LULAC President Domingo Garcia and CEO Sindy Benavides, LULAC's four-day convention will bring together over 20,000 Latino leaders from across the country for seminars and notable events, including a national stage featuring Second Lady of the United States Dr. Jill Biden (2009 – 2017), U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), U.S. Representative John Delaney, and a Presidential Town Hall with 2020 candidates: Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Julián Castro, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and former Representative Beto O'Rourke (D-TX).
Also Garcia, the National President of LULAC on July 4th announced that he is offering a $25,000 dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any U.S. Border Patrol agent or U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agent that has abused undocumented children, immigrants or refugees at a detention center and ICE facility. LULAC says a published report by ProPublica reveals thousands of border agents are members of a secret group on Facebook that for the past three years has been openly mocking refugees, undermining members of Congress with derogatory, sexually explicit content and even joking about migrants dying.
"I am angry and disgusted by what these agents of Customs and Border Protection who have been dehumanizing the deaths of refugees entrusted into their care," says Domingo Garcia, National President. "Those border agents who stained their badge and uniforms with racist and sexist abuse need to be fired now!" added Garcia.
The report issued by the nonprofit news organization exposed activities involving agents that included calling Latina lawmakers visiting detention facilities in South Texas "scum buckets" and "hoes". Also, ProPublica reports that Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of refugees, talked about throwing burritos at visiting members of Congress and posted an illustration depicting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a sexual act with a migrant detainee.
"This is additional proof that caging children and locking refugees in overcrowded concentration camps is turning what were once decent people into monsters in green, terrorizing women and children," says Garcia. "The actions, revealed in their own Facebook posts, shock our senses because they show how indifferent these agents are to their sworn duties and what little regard or respect they have for human suffering. These agents clearly could care less about the lives of desperate families traveling thousands of miles with just the clothes on their backs trying to reach safety," said Garcia.
LULAC demands that action be taken to get rid of the officers responsible and those who allowed it to happen. "Good, law abiding border patrol and ICE agents should speak out about the abuses and disclose them which is why I am announcing a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest, indictment and conviction of any border patrol or ICE agent who has abused children, migrants or refugees in detention centers and in ICE custody," stated Garcia.
"LULAC is also calling on the United Nations and the American Red Cross to be allowed to send doctors and refugee observers to inspect all immigrant concentration camps within the next seven days. In addition, LULAC is asking that charges be considered by local District Attorneys in counties where these centers are located, to look at bringing indictments of child abuse and neglect against the agents and their commanders who are involved in these criminal activities. LULAC calls on the Border Patrol National Council to encourage its members to help in these investigations, so those agents who serve honorably and in many cases have even saved lives of refugees do not see their own reputations tarnished by others in their ranks who fail to uphold the oaths they have taken," he concluded.
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