Action Alert: Don't Deport Rigo

Jorge Mujica

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Nov 30, 2009, 1:39:53 PM11/30/09

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Action Alert: Don't Deport Rigo

Don't Deport Rigo

Issue

Stop the Deportation of Rigo Padilla

Background

Rigo is an outstanding student, community volunteer and a hard worker - now DHS wants to remove him from his home.

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, ICE Director John Morton, Senator Burris, and Senator Richard Durbin all have the power to stop Rigo's deportation and correct this onerous example of our broken immigration system.

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ICE Director John Morton
Secretary Janet Napolitano
cc: Senator Richard J. Durbin
cc: Senator Roland W. Burris

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Dear Senator Burris,

I am writing to you to request that you take action to immediately halt the deportation of Rigoberto Padilla (case #A089-275-910).  Rigo is an excellent student, a valued community leader, and a devoted son and brother.  Yet, due to one youthful indiscretion, he is in removal proceedings that would send him back to a country that has become a foreign place to him.
	 
Rigo's case merits administrative closure.  He has resided in the United States for 15 of his 21 years.  In view of his family's modest economic circumstances, his only hope for completing his college education and fulfilling his professional aspirations is here in the United States. For him to have to leave the United States at this time would be tragic given his potential for further academic and professional success. Administrative closure would enable Rigo to complete his education.  ICE could still reopen his case after Rigo finishes school if in the interim Congress fails to enact the DREAM Act or other legislation granting him the right to remain in the United States.
	 
Rigo exemplifies what it means to be an American.  He should be allowed to live the American dream.  I urge you to immediately take action to stop Rigo's deportation and the deportation of other DREAM students.
	 
Sincerely,

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Rosi Carrasco

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Dec 1, 2009, 2:38:51 PM12/1/09

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Stop Rigo's deportation
Stop the deportation of undocumented students
Fight for fair immigration reform!

The work to stop Rigo's deportation continues.

This student from the University of Illinois at Chicago is a good person, student, an asset to the community, a friend.
His set date for deportation is December 16th, 2009, and most legal options have been exhausted.

His deportation, and the deportation of other undocumented immigrant students illustrate what is wrong with current immigration laws. We need to demand that ICE immediately halt Rigo's deportation through an administrative closure or to defer his deportation proceedings, stop deporting immigrant students, and that our legislators work to quickly pass just and humane immigration reform.

Rigo and millions of others like him can not wait.

We have just 16 days to show ICE that we have had enough of seeing our youth deported. We have just 16 days to send thousands of faxes to DHS Secretary Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton. We have just 16 days to stop Rigo's deportation!

What you can do:

Show your solidarity on Friday December 4th to the Rally to Stop Deportations, 10:00 am at the First United Methodist Church, (77 W. Washington St) - Flier attached
Invite your friends, family, students, co-workers, loved ones, club members, to come be in solidarity to stop the Deportation of Rigo Padilla and Pass Immigration Reform, because we cannot let one more youth get deported. Use the facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=179828538299&ref=ts
Make sure you have sent a fax! We want to send 10,000 by the end of this week. It's free to you, and no need for a fax machine. It goes to ICE director John Morton, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and Senators Richard Durbin and Roland Burris. Together these faxes show that Rigo has support from his community, and CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Send your fax here: http://icirr.e-actionmax.com/takeaction.asp?aaid=184
Get your friends, family, students, co-workers, loved ones, club members to send a fax too! Bring a lap top to a class, a gathering, a school hallway, an after-school activity, and have people send faxes on the spot (you would need internet connection). Alternatively you can gather people's Name, E-mail, Address, Zip Code, and tell them you will submit the fax online for them (show them the text of the fax).
Volunteer to get arrested in December 12th. If Rigo's deportation has not been addressed, we are planning on organizing a civil disobedience action downtown Chicago. There would be trainings for the participants, and conversations with the police. Anyone who is interested must be a U.S. citizen, over the age of 18, and have no outstanding warrants.

Thank you for your continuing work and support.

Tania Unzueta
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Rosi Carrasco

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Dec 2, 2009, 1:30:15 AM12/2/09

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This Friday December 4th we will be rallying for an end to deportations, and pushing for comprehensive immigration reform. We need to let our government know that Chicago will not stand by while another youth gets deported. Please plan to attend this rally, to stop the deportation of Rigo Padilla, and to continue the fight for immigration reform.

What else you can do:

Send a fax to ICE: (just click the link below, yo do not need a fax machine)

http://icirr.e-actionmax.com/takeaction.asp?aaid=184

Invite your friends and family to come out on the 4th, AND to send a fax

As youth, immigrants, and a community who believes in human rights, we need to come together to defend any young person who is facing deportation. Rigo needs our support now. Please come on Dec. 4th, and send a fax.

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