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Old 07-14-2011, 02:42 PM
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Undocumented students arrested during protest
Several undocumented students were arrested on Tuesday for blocking traffic and disobeying police orders during a demonstration against immigration policies in front of San Bernardino Valley College.

Jesus Barrios, Martha Vasquez, Isaac Barrera, Jonathan Perez, Jorge Herrera, David Lemus, Ju Hong, Alma de Jesus and Estefania Lopez were arrested and charged with unlawful assembly and failure to disperse after defying authorities during a protest against San Bernardino County’s 287 (g) program, which cracks down on illegal immigrants.

The students also were speaking out against the school campus police for allegedly working with local police to detain undocumented students.

“We chose this campus because we keep hearing of (alleged) cases where the campus police are working directly with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in detaining and even deporting undocumented youth. We have had enough; our communities have been hiding for far too long and we need to show them they do not need to be afraid,” said Barrera, moments before his arrest at the intersection of South Mount Vernon Avenue and Esperanza Street in San Bernardino.



San Bernardino Valley College campus police did not return calls from the Herald News for comment.

All of the students were released early Wednesday but face court hearings for the misdemeanors; for the moment, they do not face deportation, organizer Javier Hernandez said.

Lemus, a Los Angeles resident and high school student, said people need to get out of the shadows, otherwise laws will continue affecting families.

“It is time people speak up, otherwise nothing will change,” said Lemus after being released. “I did it because I’m tired of being criminalized. My future is uncertain and my dream of becoming a history professor is in jeopardy ... we need to fight for what’s just.”

Lemus was one of almost 200 people who yelled and held signs that read “Undocumented and Unafraid,” “Down with 287 g,” and “Education not Deportation,” among others, during a short march around the campus.

For almost an hour, students blocked traffic while chanting the civil disobedience creed, “You have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

The crowd dispersed after students were taken into custody and transported to West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, said police spokeswoman Gwendolyn Waters.

Protesters spoke against immigration policies like the 287 (g) program, which allows authorities to check the immigration status of detained people in order to potentially deport them — a law that increases racial profiling, according to organizers.

“It’s not always for civil disobedience, but if you roll a stop sign you can be deported. That’s what these students were fighting against, these policies that are criminalizing our communities,” said Mohammad Abdollahi, co-founder of the Dream is Coming Project.

Fontana resident Cynthia Horta, 22, who came from Mexico at an early age, supported the movement and expressed anger toward the system, which she said criminalizes people that only want to work and look for a better life.

Perez, a mathematics student at Cal Poly Pomona, is an Ab540 student, meaning she can’t receive financial aid for college due to her immigration status. Despite the obstacle, she is in her final year and plans to continue studying to eventually become a math professor.

“I have no legal documents but that will not stop me from getting an education,” Perez said. “I pay $2,000 for school every 10 weeks with private scholarships I got for being a good student. I can do it, but others can’t. If we have immigration reform, everybody will be able to get an education.”


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Calif. students get arrested to test deport policy
Seven illegal immigrant students arrested in a Southern California street protest are now waiting to see whether they will be deported in a test of the Obama administration's immigration policy, students said Thursday.
The students were questioned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after they were arrested Tuesday for blocking street traffic during a street protest in San Bernardino, said Jonathan Perez, a 24-year-old communications student who was detained.
Perez, who will attend Pasadena City College this fall, said the students intentionally blocked the street in the hopes of getting arrested to prove that law enforcement agencies in San Bernardino are collaborating with immigration authorities _ and that students get no special treatment.
"We wanted to ... show that once we're in prison that ICE does get involved with undocumented youth, although Obama says they don't," said Perez, who came to the country from Colombia when he was 3.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials chose not to detain the students after questioning them but are still investigating, the agency said in a statement. ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley declined to state whether the students would be put into deportation proceedings.
The protest comes as the Obama administration has made clear that illegal immigrant students who were brought here as children are not a priority for deportation. Even so, students say some continue to be deported and have led similar demonstrations elsewhere in the country against stringent immigration laws and in an effort to push for a bill to grant them legal status.
Illegal immigrant student groups planned the demonstration for San Bernardino Valley College, where they say campus police have turned over students to local law enforcement agencies that collaborate with federal immigration authorities. At least one student detained by campus police in the past is now in deportation proceedings, said Javier Hernandez, a protest organizer and member of the Inland Empire Dream Team, an organization of illegal immigrant college students in the suburbs east of Los Angeles.
On Tuesday, students gathered at the campus to hear the seven students "come out" and reveal their immigration status. The group then led a march through the campus and later blocked a nearby street until police told them to leave, Hernandez said.
The seven students who refused to budge were arrested by San Bernardino police, held for 12 hours and are being charged with unlawful assembly and failure to disperse, he said.

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Old 07-14-2011, 02:46 PM
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Great now send them back home to their own country.
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