Fwd: [North-NV-Greens] Forum on Post 9-11 Immigrants' Rights this Sat urday

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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>DATE: 3/31/05
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>FROM: American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada
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>CONTACT: Laura Mijanovich, 775/884-9089, mijanovich at powernet.net
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>SUBJECT: Forum on Post 9-11 Immigrants' Rights this Saturday
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>RENO, NV - A community forum on Post 9-11 Immigrants' Rights is 
>scheduled for this Saturday, April 2, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM, at the 
>Neil Road Recreational Center (3925 Neil Road). The event is 
>sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, Latinos 
>for Political Empowerment (LAPE), Nevada Hispanic Services, and the 
>UNR Latino Research Center.
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>The forum is designed to help immigrants understand how their rights 
>have changed since 9-11. Featured speakers will Mariana Bustamante, 
>National Education Coordinator for the ACLU Immigrants' Rights 
>Project, and Laura Mijanovich, Northern Coordinator for the ACLU of 
>Nevada. Two local immigration attorneys will also be present to 
>answer questions.
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>Participants in the forum will learn about local enforcement of 
>immigration laws and comprehensive immigration reform. They will 
>also have an opportunity to speak out against the proposed REAL ID 
>Act, which will drastically limit the rights of both U.S. immigrants 
>and citizens alike.
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>Already approved by the house the REAL ID Act will be considered in 
>the first week of April when the senate returns from recess. The 
>bill will make it more difficult to seek asylum and creates a 
>de-facto national ID card. It also eliminates judicial review for 
>many types of immigration cases, including challenges to government 
>error, incompetence, or misconduct.
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>"The right to appeal to an independent court if the government takes 
>away your liberty," said Mariana Bustamante of the ACLU's Immigrant 
>Rights Project, "is one of the fundamental human rights in the 
>Constitution and the REAL ID takes away that importance text on 
>government action."
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>"A lot of lawful permanent residents with ties to this country will 
>end up in detention or deportation with no legal recourse if REAL ID 
>becomes law because someone decided that lawful permanent residents 
>don't deserve the same constitutional protections as citizens," 
>Bustamante added.
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>The Immigrant Rights Project (IRP) is committed to defending the 
>civil and constitutional rights of immigrants through a 
>comprehensive program of impact litigation and public education. The 
>need to protect immigrants' rights has increased as immigrants have 
>become scapegoats for myriad social and economic woes, especially 
>since 9-11. The IRP works to protect the historic guarantee to 
>judicial review, enforce fair employment practices, and maintain 
>constitutional safeguards against detention practices and biased 
>asylum adjudication.
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>For more information on immigrant rights please visit: 
>http://tinyurl.com/44yrj & http://tinyurl.com/3zbwn.
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Paul Etxeberri

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