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Madre de dos hijas en Virginia enfrenta deportación

Catia Paz, de 29 años está desesperada… ella enfrenta una deportación y tendría que dejar a sus dos hijas pequeñas que son nacidas en Estados Unidos en tan solo unos dias.

“Bien difícil, bien triste y que es una separación de familia completamente. Las niñas como puedes ver están pequeñas y creo que están en su etapa que ellas necesitan a sus padres juntos entonces es muy difícil, muy difícil.” CATIA PAZ, En proceso de deportación

Una de sus hijas de 5 años compartió un mensaje que le tiene al Presidente.

“No quiero que mi mami se vaya porque yo la quiero. Presidente, tu puedes hacer todo para mi mami?” GENESIS ALVAREZ, Hija de Catia

A pesar de ser una persona sin record criminal, las autoridades de Inmigración le han colocado ungrillete en el tobillo para poder vigilarla y rastrear todos sus movimientos.

“Digamos un animal, amarrado, encadenado, que no te puedes ir a ningún lado porque tienes que estar ahí conectado a eso. Es feo, si es feo porque no soy una criminal, no soy un animal.” CATIA PAZ, En proceso de deportación

De las más de dos millones de deportaciones durante la presidencia de Obama, la mayoría son personas como Catia, trabajadoras que no han cometido delitos graves. Apenas 2% de las personas deportadas son convictas de crímenes serios.

Lo que está pasando con Catia es nada más un ejemplo de todo lo que está pasando en este país, de todas las injusticias que se están dando con personas como Catia, como una madre de familia. LINDOLFO CARBALLO, Coordinador, Casa de Virginia

 

Los amigos y familiares de Catia se sienten igual de desesperados.

“Se siente atado de mano que ni sabe porque se le está acusando, es necesaria que tomen cuenta, que recapaciten y estudien el caso de mi  hija.” MARIBEL PAZ, Madre de Catia

Nosotros somos personas limpias en nuestro record, en nuestra manera de vivir, en nuestra manera de actuar y hemos venido a trabajar, a luchar por nuestra familia y no creo que sea justo que nos separen. Nuestra familia la verdad está sufriendo, desde la suegra, mi madre, mi esposa, mis hijas, porque la verdad no queremos separarnos. Germán Reyes, Esposo de Catia

© ZGS 2014

Madre inmigrante participará en marcha del 1 de mayo

David Santiago Távara | 4/29/2014, 6:00 a.m.
Mother immigrants participate in march May 1

Catia Paz, with his young daughters, with a case pending deportation, shows an electronic ankle bracelet. |  DAVID SANTIAGO Távara

Catia La Paz Alvarez Salvadoran immigrant, married with two young daughters born in the United States will participate in the march against deportations 1 May in Lafayette Park outside the White House, that drive various organizations.

Paz, 29, who has an ankle bracelet placed by immigration authorities to track their movements, faces deportation in May, just in the month of tribute to mothers.

“I need to be in place so that people look at what is happening,” Paz said in an interview with El Tiempo Latino on Friday April 25 at the premises of the community organization CASA of Virginia, in Arlington.

“I’m going to see that is not true what they’re saying” the immigration authorities, who have indicated that focus on cases of people with criminal records, noted the mother, who works at a store.

“Not much time, only faith in God,” said her husband meanwhile, Germán Reyes, a construction worker of 32 years old who arrived more than ten years ago to the country, as well as his wife, without documents .

Catia’s father made a request for political asylum and included, but the case was denied and the young immigrant mother lost her work permit. Nor qualify for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program or suspension of deportation for undocumented youth (DACA, for its acronym in English).

Peace has to carry immigration authorities ticket bought tickets to leave the country on 23 May but if not present, the time will be reduced and will leave on May 13.

The couple has nine years of marriage and integrate the worship ministry in a Christian church. “There are many people who suffer family separation, when you get married is to form a family, but are now dividing the family,” Reyes lamented.

Undocumented Immigrants Still Face Deportation, Criminal Record Or No

Undocumented Immigrants Still Face Deportation, Criminal Record Or No

Catia Paz Alvarez, left, with her husband and two U.S.-born children.
Armando Trull/WAMU
Catia Paz Alvarez, left, with her husband and two U.S.-born children.

Even as comprehensive immigration reform efforts appear to be dead in Congress, activists are pressuring the White House to take unilateral action to stop the deportation of undocumented immigrants with no criminal records.

Catia Paz Alvarez, 29, is an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador. She’s lived in Woodbridge, Virginia, for 12 years. She has no criminal record, pays her taxes, her parents and siblings live in America, and she’s married with two U.S.-born toddlers.

“Everything is here — my house, my family, my job, everything,” Paz Alvarez says.

Paz Alvarez’s appeal of her 2011 deportation order has been denied. She must leave by next month.

In a letter, Department of Homeland Security Field Office Director M. Yvonne Evans writes that she finds “no compelling reason to use her discretion” to stay that deportation.

“Just put yourself once in my shoes and think what this family going through, what this mother is going through, it’s really really hard,” says Paz Alvarez.

Immigration activists will be protesting in front of the White House on Thursday. They say deportation of undocumented immigrants such as Paz Alvarez continue even though President Obama has given DHS officers such as Evans the discretion to stay these types of deportations.

They want the president to order a stop to these deportations. Opponents say this rewards lawbreakers and will promote more undocumented immigration.

DHS Letter

Casa Virginia abre sus puertas a los latinos de ese estado

Virginia House opens its doors to Latinos in that state

WFDC News

4/11/2014 6:02 PM


(Entravision) Washington DC – These are the new facilities house virginia. That’s right, well listen, Virginia home. Creditable community organization with roots in Maryland extended its operations to this state, a state that has a number of barriers for undocumented immigrants.

“We have at this time that political representation that we could have for so many years, you know that Virginia has been a conservative state for many years, but northern virginia has changed a bit that movie,” Julio Cesar Idrobo of Virginia House.

That is precisely what Virginia House proposes. Change the attitude of legislators and achieve measures that benefit immigrants, such as driver’s licenses for those without documents. This mother of family lives in distress.

“Every day I leave my house cross myself, I believe in God, you’ll leave here and return to you not because I have to drive, but management is difficult not having a license because one always goes where is the slope police, “said Ana Machado, a resident of Virginia.

They say they fight in the legislature in Richmond for young Latinos also have access to higher education.

“The other problem is that young people do not have access to higher education such as the Dream Act,” he said Carballo Lindolfo Virginia House.

The center also provides legal and business counseling and training programs, such as English classes.

“We want to start the literacy campaign here in Virginia, also computer classes not only learn how to handle computers, but also repair computers, so we have a number of projects,” said Carballo.

Claudia, virginia volunteer house reiterates that unity is strength.

“The idea is to let people know that you have an organization that will support the rest of the organizations that are here in Virginia to handle different projects, different programs to their benefit,” Claudia Mantilla, volunteer at Virginia House.

Virginia House currently has 3-thousand new members, organizers hope to multiply in the coming years.