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[isn] Re: ALERT; YOUTUBE LINK HAS BEEN TAKEN OFF AND NOT BY THE OWNERS!!!!

On 5/24/08, Dr. Coach, Mama K, Lil' Q & Bella <arauzmoore@comcast.net> wrote:

HERE IS THE NEW LINK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR5AVtlZ7GM

We have footage of the ICE officials and when we were taking pictures/video they did the same. After posting the video, it came down and we don't know how! Another thing, our ICE raid came 2 days after our local principal testified in front of the U.S. Congress about the impact of these raids on our children.

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Subject: ALERT IMPORTANT: post ICE Raids net 17 illegal immigrants in Canal

On 5/22/08, Dr. J, Mama K., Lil' Q & Bella <arauzmoore@comcast.net> wrote:

We just got hit today by Ice officials. Not a good day lots of terror. We have the youtube link for you to pass on. Fuel to the fire

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Dr. Coach, Mama K, Lil' Q & Bella

From: 1world@peacexpiece.com [mailto:1world@peacexpiece.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:20 PM
To: arauzmoore@comcast.net
Cc: juancarlos@canalalliance.org
Subject: post ICE Raids. IMPORTANT

After a tragic and frightening day, there are those of us who are moving forward. 3 things:

1) There will be a vigil at 6am in the Canal to support the community as they wake up tomorrow. This is a great opportunity to share your support and collect more stories. Below is just one pass it on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTq-tn6nixA

2) We HAVE an important planning meeting next wed may 28th in oakland as the elders of civil rights wants to endorse and help plan the summer campaign. i will send more information. we still need help in:

-recruiting students for the 3 chapters (their email and their job list)

-facebook account

-website assistance

-internet traffic

-collection of stories of the community to send to our congress people

3) Youth action steps. Students will write an article from the information below and attempt to use all their connections to get to the national media, internet media, etc. Students at MA will make this announcement at assembly and continue to raise money of selling the cards. WE NEED YOUR HELP AND IDEASIf you don't know still what happened read below.

Out of 40 warrants, 17 people were taken from their homes in the Canal Neighborhood.Agents from Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched raids of Canal neighborhood homes at 5 am Thursday May 22, 2008, only two days after Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey held a hearing on the impact of immigration enforcement on children. It?s reported that 17 people were taken, including the father of a Bahia Vista student who was due to have cancer surgery today. His young son came in crying to school and said "my daddy was taken and now i won't see him and he is going to die"

ICE later informed that all but 4 of the detainees were released. That means 13 people did not have to be dragged out of their homes. The detainees being released include the woman who was detained and whose children had to be sent to a neighbor's house because no one else was home to watch them, and the man who recently had surgery for renal cancer. However, the 4 still detained have final deportation orders.

79 children at Bahia Vista did not go to school

65 children at San Pedro did not go to school

25 children from Venetia Valley did not go to school

53 children at Davidson Middle did not go to school

Bahia Vista Principal Juan Rodriguez saw ICE rounding up people on the children?s route to walk to school. Innocent, legal children witnessed their friends and families being hauled off in unmarked SUV?s. Children are terrified that their parents will be taken and that they too are being watched.

HOWEVER, DOZENS OF YOUTH BECAME HEROES. Youth text messaged friends and families to spread the news while others ran home. News traveled quickly. Many residents kept their doors closed to the intense pounding of ICE officials on their doors, following protocols learned at recent immigration trainings. Some witnesses reported that residents were driven off in SUVs, vans, and station wagons that were unmarked with no license plates. Officers were also seen in civilian clothing, though some did have on ICE/Police jackets. No members of San Rafael police were present however ICE had notified them in advance of the raid. These youth demonstrated courage early in the morning just before they went to school and as one young girl stated. "i would have stayed longer, but i was too scared that my teacher would get me in trouble for being late to school"

Why do our children have to become the armor of the community?

MARIN IJ STORY

ICE raids net 17 illegal immigrants in Canal

Nancy Isles Nation

Immigration authorities arrested 17 illegal immigrants in the Canal area of San Rafael in raids that began early Thursday morning.

Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement department, said enforcement teams removed 16 men and one woman. She did not have their nationalities but said she would supply that when it became available.

A Canal resident of 20 years, who asked to remain anonymous, said immigration officials have had a strong presence in the neighborhood in recent months.

"Everybody I know here is illegal and they are all scared," the woman said. "They've all lived here all their lives and they pay taxes."

Kice said the majority of immigrants arrested have had their day in court, have had due process of law and have chosen to ignore court orders.

"They don't have a right to be here," Kice said. "Our responsibility is to enforce the law."

ICE has arrested more than 1,600 illegal immigrants in Northern California since Oct. 1, Kice said. Of those, 1,000 had previously been ordered deported and more than 300 had criminal records.

The San Rafael Police Department did not participate in any of the arrests, said police spokeswoman Margo Rohrbacher. She said the department was notified at 5 a.m. that ICE agents would be attempting to serve federal deportation warrants in several areas of the city.

On Tuesday, San Pedro Elementary School principal, Kathryn Gibney, testified at a congressional hearing on the continuing emotional and social trauma of last year's federal immigration raids, calling the crackdown "devastating" to her students.

Gibney told the Workforce Protections Subcommittee that she is still seeing rising absenteeism and falling test scores as a result of the raids.

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