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HB 33 passed its first vote in the House 64-53 yesterday. It's scheduled for a final vote TODAY Wednesday, March 30th. If the vote by the full membership of the House is favorable, the bill will pass the "third reading" and it will then be sent to the Senate for consideration.
Take Action: Please call & e-mail your representative* and ask him/her to vote NO for HB 33. *To know who your representative is visit: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/GIS/RandR07/Representation.html
If you have extra time, we also urge you to call & email:
Chuck McGrady, 919-733-5956, chuck.mcgrady@ncleg.net from Henderson County
Glen Bradley, 919-733-5860, glen.bradley@ncleg.net from Franklin, Halifax, Nash
The following Representatives voted against HB 33, call them to thank them and also to ask them to vote NO today too:
HB 33: "Consular Documents not Acceptable as ID", would limit the type of consulate or embassy documents that NC residents can use as a way of identification for government and law enforcement purposes. It will also prevent local government from establishing policies or ordinances accepting the Matricula Consular or other similar document issued by a consulate or embassy of another country. Any current local government policy or ordinance that contradicts this section would be automatically repealed.
Filed on: February 2nd, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Hager; Cleveland
Co-Sponsor(s): Bradley; L. Brown; Burr; Current; Dixon; Faircloth; Folwell; Frye; Hastings; Hurley; Iler; Ingle; Jones; Jordan; Justice; Langdon; McCormick; McGee; T. Moore; Randleman; Sager; Sanderson; Shepard; Starnes; Steen; Torbett; H. Warren
Where: Stony Brook Trailer Park, 3000 Stony Brook Dr. Raleigh 27604
When: Saturday April 2 / 5:00 pm to 7 :00 pm
For more information please contact:
Elide: (919) 278 8370
Julio (919) 264 7916
Nelly: (919) 931 2599
Did you know that a case of breast Cancer is diagnosed every 29 seconds? Comunidad Sana Program is helping to change this number in the Latino Community.
If you are 40 years old, it's time for a mammography test.
If you want more information about free mammograms please contact
Aida Taylor: aida@elpueblo.org
(919)835 1525 ext 227
Wake Co. Human Services' Fe, Amor y Esperanza, a support group for Latinas diagnosed with breast cancer. Some members of this group will be attending a retreat in FL in May, but there is no money for all 18 of them. Please help us get this group of luchadoras to FL!
To donate: make a check payable to El Pueblo, Inc. & put on memo line: "Survivor FL Retreat." & send to: 4 N. Blount St. Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27601.
Monday at 9:41am
La Ventanilla de Salud invites the community to participate this April, 3 at the health fair.
Hosted by: Triangle Dance Festival for AIDS The TRIANGLE DANCE FESTIVAL for AIDS
Friday, March 25th at 7:00 pm, Memorial Hall Cameron Avenue, UNC-Chapel Hill
Come one, come all, TDFA 2011: Together All Things Are Possible! HOST & GRIOT: "Baba" Chuck Davis of the Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble *
For more info please visit click here
La Ventanilla de Salud invites the community to participate this March, 25 at the Mexican Consulate (200 Yonkers Rd Raleigh NC, 27604) where we will provide free information in Spanish on how to prevent heart attacks. Through the support of Wake Med, bilingual nurses will be able to answer all sorts of questions about heart attacks, nutrition, exercise, treatment etc.
Also will be conducting free blood pressure tests.
*To view the Sponsors' profile of for each bill click on their name.
HB 11: "No Postsecondary Education/Illegal Aliens", a piece of legislation that would prohibit undocumented students from attending NC Community Colleges and Universities.
Filed on: January 27th, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Cleveland
Co-Sponsor(s): L. Brown; Current; Faircloth; Folwell; Frye; Guice; Hager; Horn; Iler; Ingle; Jones; Jordan; Langdon; McGee; Randleman; Sanderson; Setzer; Torbett; H. Warren
HB 28: "DHHS to Provide Law Enforcement Information". This bill would require the Department of Health and Human Services to provide law enforcement officers with any information requested for the purpose of locating individuals that are receiving any services from the department and for whom law enforcement has an active investigation or any outstanding criminal process issued by a judicial official.
Filed on: February 1st, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Burr; Guice; Ingle; Randleman
Co-Sponsor(s): Cleveland; Faircloth; Hilton; Hurley; Jones; Jordan; Sanderson; H. Warren
Note: This bill is not directly targeting the immigrant community; however, if passed it would have a big impact in our immigrant community.
HB 33: "State Law to Provide for Acceptable ID's", would limit the type of identifications NC residents can use as a way of identification for government and law enforcement purposes by only recognizing those identifications approved by the state.
Filed on: February 2nd, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Hager; Cleveland
Co-Sponsor(s): Bradley; L. Brown; Burr; Current; Dixon; Faircloth; Folwell; Frye; Hastings; Hurley; Iler; Ingle; Jones; Jordan; Justice; Langdon; McCormick; McGee; T. Moore; Randleman; Sager; Sanderson; Shepard; Starnes; Steen; Torbett; H. Warren
HB 36: "Public Contracts/Illegal Immigrants". This Act would prohibit state and local governments sign contracts with contractors who employ undocumented immigrants. It would also require contractors to verify the immigration status of their employees using E-Verify, an Internet-based system that employers can use to determine the eligibility of their employees to work in the country, before entering into a contract with any State agency, department or institution.
Filed on: February 3rd, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): H. Warren; Cleveland; Folwell
Co-Sponsor(s): Bradley; L. Brown; R. Brown; Burr; Cook; Current; Dollar; Faircloth; Frye; Guice; Hager; Hastings; Horn; Howard; Hurley; Iler; Ingle; Johnson; Jones; Jordan; Justice; Langdon; McComas; McGee; T. Moore; Pridgen; Randleman; Sanderson; Shepard; Starnes; Steen; Stevens; Torbett
HB 198: "Alien Attendance Lapses/Reporting Required" would require the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina and the State Board of Community Colleges to report to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attendance lapses by students who were lawfully admitted to the U.S. with a student visa.
Filed on: March 1st, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Torbett
Co-Sponsor(s): Cook
HB 343: "Support Law Enforcement/Safe Neighborhoods". Among other things, section 2 of this bill prohibits policies that limit the enforcement of federal immigration law; it also states that if a law enforcement officer or agency has a "reasonable suspicion" that the person stopped or detained is an undocumented immigrant, the officer or agency should make a "reasonable" attempt to determine the immigration status of the individual. Furthermore, any person who is arrested shall have the person's immigration status determined before the person is released. It will be a misdemeanor to willfully fail to complete or carry any alien registration document. Moreover, it would make it a crime for a person to transport, move, conceal, harbor, or shield undocumented immigrants, as well as encouraging or induce an undocumented immigrant to come to or reside in NC. Section 4 requires State agencies, departments, institutions, Universities, community colleges, and local education agencies to register and participate in E-Verify to verify the work authorization of new employees. Section 5 enforces the verification of lawful presence in the U.S. of individuals to be eligible for federal public benefits that are administered by the State or a county, city, municipality. Section 6 denies the admission of undocumented students to community colleges and institutions of The University of North Carolina. If this bill were to pass, section 4 would become effective on January 1st, 2012; Section 6 would become effective when the bill becomes a law and the reminder of the act would become effective October 1st, 2011.
Filed on: March 14th, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Cleveland; Blust; Hilton;
Co-Sponsor(s): Cook; Justice; Randleman;
HB 396: "Public Safety Act". This bill would require identification card, learner permits or driver license applicants to speak or read/write in English with proficiency. Therefore, it would eliminate the option of obtaining a NC Driver's Handbook and taking the oral/written test(s) in Spanish.
Filed on: March 16th, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Brubaker; Howard; McComas; Hurley
Co-Sponsor(s): Cook; Iler; Ingle; Johnson; Jordan; Justice; Stone; Torbett; H. Warren
SB 113: "GED Classes & Tests Offered in English Only". This piece of legislation would require the Community College System to offer the GED program and GED testing in English Only.
Filed on: February 23rd, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Austin M. Allran;
Co-Sponsor(s): Andrew C. Brock; Jim Davis; Ralph Hise; Wesley Meredith
SB 132: "Interpreting Services in the Courts". A bill that would provide equal access to court services and fully fund interpreter needs in the courts.
Filed on: February 24th, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Daniel G. Clodfelter
Co-Sponsor(s): Ed Jones
Note: This is the first bill introduced in the NC Legislature that would have a positive impact in our community.
SB 179: "Failure to Carry or Complete Alien Reg. Docs". This bill would make it a crime to willfully fail to carry or complete an alien registration document. A person's immigration status may be determined by a law enforcement officer who is authorized by the federal government to verify or ascertain a person's immigration status; or by a federal agency.
Filed on: March 2th, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Don East
Co-Sponsor(s): Ralph Hise; Louis Pate; Jerry W. Tillman
SB 204: "Public Entities & Contractors/Use E-Verify" would require counties, cities, municipalities, and public contractors use the federal E-Verify program, an Internet-based system that employers can use to determine the eligibility of their employees to work in the country, to verify the work authorization of newly hired employees. If passed, this act would become effective October 1, 2011, and it would apply to contracts entered into or renewed on or after that date.
Filed on: March 3rd, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Austin M. Allran
Co-Sponsor(s): Tom Apodaca; Stan Bingham; Harris Blake; Andrew C. Brock; Harry Brown; Debbie A. Clary; Warren Daniel; Jim Davis; Don East; James Forrester; Thom Goolsby; Kathy Harrington; Ralph Hise; Neal Hunt; E. S. (Buck) Newton; Louis Pate; Jean Preston; Bill Rabon; Dan Soucek; Richard Stevens; Tommy Tucker
SB 205: "No Benefits for Illegal Aliens". This bill states that undocumented immigrants are not eligible for public benefits. People who apply for a public benefits that are administered by the State, a county or municipality must submit at least one document demonstrating lawful presence in the United States. These documents could be a NC Driver's license, a birth certificate issued in the U.S., a U.S. passport, among others. If a State, county or municipality employee that administers federal public benefits fails to report a violation of federal immigration law, it will be a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Filed on: March 3rd, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Austin M. Allran
Co-Sponsor(s): Harris Blake; Andrew C. Brock; Harry Brown; Debbie A. Clary; Warren Daniel; Jim Davis; Don East; James Forrester; Thom Goolsby; Kathy Harrington; Ralph Hise; Neal Hunt; Wesley Meredith; Louis Pate; Jean Preston; Dan Soucek; Tommy Tucker;
SB 303: "REAL ID Act Compliance Boarder Licenses". This bill would require a red border or background on licenses issued by the division of motor vehicles to individuals who are legally present in the United States for a limited duration of time to ensure compliance with the REAL ID act of 2005.
Filed on: March 9th, 2011
Primary Sponsor(s): Austin M. Allran
Co-Sponsor(s): Andrew C. Brock; Harry Brown; Jim Davis; Don East; Ralph Hise; Brent Jackson; Louis Pate; Bill Rabon; David Rouzer; Jerry W. Tillman;
Our Rights Have Not Borders, El Pueblo’s reproductive health program for Latino youth in NC was selected as one of the presentations of the North Carolina’s panel at the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. Four young female college students were giving presentations at the Woman’s Club of Raleigh as part of their WomenNC CSW . The presentations were about sex trafficking, access to reproductive health, violence prevention in higher education, and immigrant girl workers in NC. Kimmie Garner met with Carol Flores Hodgman, Our Rights Have not Borders Coordinator, to talk about the program and curriculum. Kimmie talked about this program and the access to reproductive health in NC.
Kimmie Garner is a senior Women's Studies and International Studies major and Social and Economic Justice minor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who is passionate about sexual and reproductive health and immigrants' rights. She is the Vice President of the APPLES Service-Learning Program, the Board Secretary of Benevolence Farm, a nonprofit that is seeking to create a rehabilitative farming community for formerly incarcerated women, and a doula through the UNC BirthPartners program. She also works with campus groups such as Alianza and Know Your Rights to raise awareness about and support farmworkers and immigrants and spent this past summer as a short-term student and researcher at a birth center and midwifery school in El Paso, Texas called Maternidad La Luz. Kimmie hopes to blend her passion for and commitment to women and the Latina/o community through nonprofit work and teaching and would like to work in the nonprofit sector for a few years before obtaining her graduate degree.
If you want to know more about this program please contact
Carol Flores
carol@elpueblo.org
In an effort to provide basic services and disseminate health related information the social justice ministry of St. Raphael Catholic Church would like to invite you to join us in our 2nd annual health fair to be held 3-19-2011 at the parish campus at 5801 Falls of Neuse Rd., Raleigh, NC 27609 from 9AM - 1PM.
El Pueblo, Inc. will be participating in the Health Fair. We will provide information about our programs and services. Some other volunteers include: Rex Mobile Mammography, Alliance AIDS Services, Downeast hearing, Senior Health Insurance Information, and others
If you want to know more about this event please click here:
http://www.saintraphael.org/MinistriesPage/SocialAction/social_justice.htm
The Consulate General of Mexico in Raleigh will open its doors on Saturday the 19th of March to provide all consular services. Interested people need to make appointment on the MEXITEL line which is in service again at 1877 639 4835.
For this event, the Health Window Program will be offering Free HIV testing as well as STD testing by the Chatam Social Health Council. Also there will be a presentation about HIV and AIDS held at 10:00 am by Dr. Mara Daltabuit. We hope you can join us for this event.
More Information:
Matilde Ferrer Kikaya
919-932-0069
email: matilde@elpueblo.org
Be sure to visit our booth at Feria del Tamal for information about our programs, events and services.
Please join us on March 1st at El Pueblo, Inc. at 6:30 PM for a community meeting; we will be discussing the different bills that have been introduced into the NC General Assembly (NCGA) and how can we collectively take action to educate our larger community on these issues and keep these bills from moving forward. Other community meetings will be held in Charlotte, Greensboro and Durham.
if you are interested in joining one of these community meetings please contact Nayely at 919-835-1525 or via e-mail at nayely@elpueblo.org.a
The Advocacy Program will take youth leaders from Raleigh, Greenville, Greensboro and High Point to the United We Dream Congress in Memphis, Tennessee. At this Congress we will: 1) Achieve a unified sense of direction for our movement going forward 2)Establish our own philosophy and principles 3) Gain concrete tools to help us organize in our states 4)Build on the courage, dedication and leadership of the past year to launch 2011-12 campaigns. El Pueblo’s youth group, D.R.E.A.M.S., became an active United We Dream member in 2010 and helped organize in NC around the DREAM Act.
Which allows local law enforcement agents to request and obtain records from county public health departments regarding services being received by people under investigation.
This law presents an infringement of privacy for all citizens and residents in the State of North Carolina. It will discourage people from getting services who are uncomfortable with law enforcement authorities knowing their medical treatment and condition. Not getting needed medical attention endangers the health of one and all, especially concerning communicable diseases. This law would also create a sense of trepidation on the part of the health agents who might refuse to provide equal care to people who appear Hispanic, thinking that all Hispanics are undocumented. This type of profiling is strictly prohibited under Title VI of the Civil Rights act. Also, this type of legislation makes immigration agents out of local law enforcement officers and public health workers, people who are neither trained nor prepared to handle what is a federal issue, not a local issue.
Which only allows certain type of ID's to be accepted by local law enforcement agencies, thereby prohibiting the use of the Matricula Consular:
The Matricula Consular is an ID card recognized internationally and by over 250 jurisdictions across the United States. The Matricula Consular is important for the public safety of the entire community. Authorities who encounter an individual carrying the Matricula Consular can rest assured of knowing who they are dealing with. Use of this instrument helps create a record of actual persons in the community. Secondly, people who might be victims or witnesses to crimes will be able to approach local authorities and be able to give evidence. This will build trust and help reduce crimes since criminals will stop preying on individuals whom they know will report them to the authorities. Prohibiting the use of the Matricula Consular will make communities less safe and destroy the trust between the immigrants and law enforcement. Again, this law does nothing to solve the immigration problem, which is a federal issue. An unintended consequence of this law is that people not carrying an ID will be assumed of being undocumented aliens. Does this mean then that the average citizen will need to prove his/her nationality and immigration status? And furthermore, will police officers suspect all Hispanics of being undocumented, thereby constantly asking them to show their immigration papers? This is another example of a law that will lead to profiling.
Which would prohibit undocumented students to attend North Carolina colleges and universities:
The legislation is punitive, punishing the children for the sins of their parents who brought them to the US. The students are totally acculturated to the US. It is unlikely that they will voluntarily return to their country of origin. Keeping these students from attending college does not solve the immigration problem. But for sure it creates one by taking hopes and dreams away from good, smart, ambitious and dedicated students. Forcibly deporting all these students would be a massive undertaking, prohibitively expensive and unenforceable. The students would find a way to return to their homes in North Carolina. The rule of law is important. However bad laws need to be changed: Our current immigration system is broken. The number of visas issued for low-wage workers is much smaller than the demand for those workers. 5% of the labor force in North Carolina is undocumented. This indicates an economic need being filled by immigrants. The current immigration system is making criminals out of honest people, employers and employees. People who only want a better life for their families are risking their lives entering this country. They are not thinking about sending their children to college. The contribution immigrants make to the economy (Johnson's study out of UNC-CH) outweighs the benefits they receive. The out-of-state tuition undocumented students are currently paying subsidizes in-state students. We should not give-up on our investment in students who received a K-12 public education. Immigrants have historically been a dynamic force in the economy. With a college education immigrants can make an even greater contribution to the economy by creating jobs and generating wealth.
That requires all state agencies to e-Verify the status of their contracted labor. E-Verify is unreliable. A report submitted to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security by Westat of Rockville, Maryland, showed an unacceptable number of false positives and false negatives, whereby undocumented people were showing up as documented and documented people were showing up as undocumented. See the study results at http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/E-Verify/E-Verify/Final%20E-Verify%20Report%2012-16-09_2.pdf . Such a law is also subject to be applied in a discriminatory fashion, whereby only people who appear Hispanic will be checked, allowing other potentially undocumented workers from being checked. It is also very demoralizing for a Hispanic US Citizen or legal resident to be constantly harassed with checking documents or being discriminated against by employers simply based on his/her appearance.
Pablo Escobar
pablo@elpueblo.org
Please send your checks to:
El Pueblo, Inc. P.O. Box 33672,Raleigh NC 27636
May, 2012
