[GPSCC-chat] Immigrant Rights in Santa Clara County meeting with Cindy Chavez, Oct. 29, First Unitarian Church
Spencer Graves
spencer.graves at prodsyse.com
Tue Oct 22 05:42:03 PDT 2013
Hello, All:
The Forum for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment (FIRE) is
organizing a meeting with Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez for
oct 29 7pm at the First Unitarian church in San José to share with her
the desire of FIRE members to support the current Santa Clara County
policy to NOT participate in the "Secure Communities" program of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unless the US Federal
Government explicitly pays the County for incremental expenses.
This raises two questions:
1. Would any of you care to attend and / or share this
information with anyone interested? FIRE does not have an official
announcement yet; basic information appears below.
2. Could we please add an agenda item for the meeting
tomorrow evening to discuss whether the Green Party of Santa Clara
County wishes to be part of FIRE (which would include being listed as a
member FIRE for this event)? I'd estimate 5-10 minutes: This should be
a no-brainer. If it's not, we may not be able to get consensus.
RESOLVED: The Green Party of Santa Clara County wishes to be a member
of the Forum for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment (FIRE).
DISCUSSION:
1. Being a member would imply being listed as such in the
announcement for for the Oct. 29 event.
2. FIRE, you may know, is the successor organization to the
coalition that helped enact the current policy of not honoring requests
from ICE unless the federal government explicitly paid for incremental
expenses incurred by the county for doing this. The feds have refused
to do so, claiming they are already supplying money to help local law
enforcement. FIRE research notes that the alleged 2-day holds under
this "Secure Communities" program have averaged roughly 20 days in other
jurisdictions. Some people have been held for months and have
successfully sued the government over illegal detention.
3. The current policy is opposed by DA Rosen, Sheriff Smith,
City Councilmember Olivario, and others including the San José Mercury
News. They have cited the case of Martha Casillas murdered allegedly by
her estranged husband, Mario Chavez, while out on bail from threatening
his youngest son with a knife
(http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_24069740/san-jose-man-jailed-fatally-stabbing-estranged-wife).
The Mercury said this was NOT a Willie Horton issue. I agree, but the
Mercury has that upside down: I hated the 1988 Willie Horton ad that
helped win that election for GHW Bush. However, that ad was relevant to
that campaign, because Horton committed other crimes after having been
released under a program supported by Bush's opponent, presidential
candidate Dukakis. In the Casillas-Chavez case, Casillas would likely
have been killed anyway if Chavez had been a US citizen
(http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_24232857/oct-4-readers-letters-banning-lead-bullets-government).
Spencer
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Detainer Policy Action update
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:56:49 -0700
From: Donna Wallach <palestineis at dslextreme.com>
Reply-To: SCC_FIRE_CoreTeam at googlegroups.com
To: SCC_FIRE_CoreTeam at googlegroups.com
CC: charisse domingo <charissedomingo at gmail.com>
Jerry
Can you do one of those Doodle meeting scheduler for us to set up a
meeting so we can discuss strategy and updates. I am really hoping I can
make the next meeting.
All,
Those of you who have been attending the meetings, could you please
send some notes of what is going on.
Thank you,
Donna
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Betsy Wolf-Graves
<betsy237 at prodsyse.com <mailto:betsy237 at prodsyse.com>> wrote:
Yes. I support FIRE meeting to discuss strategy and update us. Betsy
On 10/18/2013 12:00 PM, Jill Malone wrote:
Does fire want to handle the research report section if the program?
Should fire have a meeting soon to discuss the overall strategy
and give an update about the public action?
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 18, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Jill Malone <jkmalone at me.com
<mailto:jkmalone at me.com>> wrote:
Yes, Oct 29 is the date for the action.
It would be great if you can come to the planning meeting
tonight.
All the planning meetings are PACT and FIRE meetings and we
really need active FIRE participation for these meetings and
for the action.
It would be great to have a co-chair from FIRE for the
action. Ernesto from PACT will be the other co-chair.
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 18, 2013, at 11:06 AM, charisse domingo
<charissedomingo at gmail.com
<mailto:charissedomingo at gmail.com>> wrote:
Is this a meeting with just PACT or an action (for the
29th?)
I ** might ** be able to stop by the 7pm mtg tonight
because I'm shooting a
wedding at the church. But no guarantees. Will see how
that goes.
:)
On 10/17/13 10:20 PM, "Jill Malone" <jkmalone at me.com
<mailto:jkmalone at me.com>> wrote:
Chavez is confirmed for oct 29 7pm at the First
Unitarian church. There is a
planning meeting Friday the 18th at 7pm at OLG
church. The media committee is
meeting Saturday at noon at a nearby library.
I apologize for the brief message but my computer is
getting fixed and I'm
doing everything with my phone.
Sent from my iPhone
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