On the same day the Dream 9 got out of Eloy, Jesus Magana, 24, posted a short video about his sister, Alejandra Pablos, 29, on the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) channel on Youtube.
Alejandra Pablos has been a prisoner for about two years, even though her mother is a citizen and her brother is a citizen and served four years in the Air Force (part of the time in a combat zone). Alejandre Pablos made her first mistake when she came to the U.S. when she was only two, accompanying her mother.
She never lived in Mexico after that. She went to school in Arizona and graduated from the University of Arizona with high honors and a business degree. She was planning on returning to school for her masters before the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security decided it needed to detain her and revoke her permanent residency status over two misdemeanor convictions.
The U.S. is trying to deport Alejandra Pablos. She is resting deportation because she has no ties to Mexico and is fearful about what would happen to her there. This is essentially the same situation each of the Dream 9 faces, and served as the basis of their argument for asylum in their home country, the U.S.
For whatever reason, Homeland Security has now decided that the Dream 9 have reasonable fear for their well being if they are sent back to Mexico and has released them, pending an immigration court hearing on their asylum requests. Why do security officials exercise such inconsistent standards? They don't say, even on those rare occasions when they're asked. Surely it's not only to protect CCA's profit margin.
Why Didn't The
President Respond To The Moral Challenge Of The Dream 9?
Stonewalling is the bedrock of American immigration enforcement. On July 30, Rep. Mike Honda, a Democrat from California, sent a letter to President Obama, also a Democrat, asking him to intervene on behalf of the Dream 9. More than 40 other members of Congress have signed the letter.
Rep. Honda spent four years of his early childhood in a Colorado internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II. In 1965, Honda joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in El Salvador, where he became fluent in Spanish. Rep Honda's letter began by reminding the President that:
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