Facing Deportation – Stand with Julio and Denis
I recently posted about the impending deportation of Julio Maldonado and Denis Calderon after being falsely prosecuted for defending themselves against a racially-motivated attack. I recently received the below email from Dave Bennion of Citizen Orange which he received from the families. Join me tomorrow at a community meeting and rally for Julio and Denis! [...]
Act Now!! Justice for Julio Maldonado and Denis Calderon
Julio Maldanado and Denis Calderon were victims of a vicious racially-motivated hate crime in 1996. They ended up sending 13 years in prison for defending themselves. And now they are on the verge of being deported. Seth Williams, then a prosecutor with the City of Philadelphia, tried the case which ultimately landed Julio and Denis [...]
Citizenship Weekend April 18, 2009
My mother and I are immigrants. We received our Permanent Resident Card (“Green Card”) upon first entering the U.S. When I say “received” I mean just that. It was simple, painless, inexpensive, and only minutely time consuming. My father (her husband) is a natural born U.S. citizen (and at the time U.S. Army soldier). We [...]
Obama, Mixedchicks and Community Action
I often forget that I am an immigrant. While I have lived in the U.S. for a little more than a decade and had considerable contact with U.S. (military) culture growing up, I still feel quite foreign. I have a hard time viewing myself as American. However, when I am in Germany, I feel more [...]
