Posted on 01/09/2017 4:01:10 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
SAN JOSE, Calif. — When shoppers walk into Mi Pueblo Foods to pick up fresh produce in the next few weeks, they'll also get a lesson on their legal and civil rights.
The grocery retailer, which serves a heavily Latino clientele and supports a variety of community initiatives and educational programs, has partnered with the San Jose-based organization SIREN in an effort to inform the public — and in particular immigrants — of their constitutional rights in a variety of settings. During informational sessions at select stores, customers can learn about what to do if, for example, a law enforcement official asks for their immigration status during a routine traffic stop.
SIREN — which stands for Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network — joins dozens of organizations and government agencies nationwide that have rolled out "know your rights" campaigns ahead of President-Elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20. The campaigns _ which have played out on social media and in live streams, during town halls and community workshops, on websites and in one-on-one legal consultations — are part of a last-minute effort to mobilize vulnerable community members against a president who has vowed to crack down on illegal immigration and significantly reduce refugee resettlement and Muslim migration to the United States, sparking an unprecedented fear.
"Everybody has basic rights, whether you're documented or undocumented," said Maricela Gutierrez, SIREN's executive director, adding that the group's focus is to show people how they can protect themselves legally.
A spokeswoman for Mi Pueblo, which operates 15 stores throughout the Bay Area, the Central Valley and the Monterrey Bay peninsula, confirmed the partnership and said the campaign will launch at flagship stores later this month. Participating store locations and dates have yet to be confirmed, she said.
"We are always looking for ways to provide value to members, beyond traditional grocery services," Mi Pueblo said in a statement. "We know that immigration is a hot topic in our neighborhoods and that's why we have partnered with SIREN to offer clinics where experts will provide attendees with information on immigration rights, as well as hand out brochures and other material that can better inform our customers."
"Know your rights" campaigns have focused largely on immigrant communities, who fear workplace raids and mass deportations under Trump's administration. Many advocacy organizations have ramped up efforts to inform undocumented residents of what their protections are should they be tracked down by federal immigration officials. They've also addressed concerns about programs such as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, which they fear could give federal officials access to personal information.
Immigration formed a focal point of Trump's campaign, and the Republican business mogul has repeatedly promised mass deportations. Trump has said he also plans to repeal DACA, a controversial program issued under President Barack Obama that has granted temporary deportation relief to an estimated 750,000 young undocumented immigrants, allowing them to pursue higher education and legal employment.
Trump's supporters have said bolstering national security should be a priority in the years to come. National groups such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform have said undocumented residents do not belong in the country and should not be taking state and federal resources that could go to legal residents. Deportations are necessary, they say.
"For the past year or so, we've seen the immigrant community targeted and attacked by the rhetoric created by certain elected officials," said Samuel Molina, state director for the national civic engagement organization Mi Familia Vota, or My Family Votes.
"It's important that they know that in California and in other states they have advocates who are still on their side and that there are laws that can protect them," he said. "That's why it's important that the community get a hold of these resources and not go back into the shadows."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations of the Bay Area hosted a series of town halls following the election, after a growing number of Muslims alleged they were getting house visits from FBI officials. The group also plans to roll out "know your rights" workshops in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, with a focus on what to do in interactions with law enforcement, how to combat religious bullying at schools and how to protect themselves if Trump were to establish a Muslim registry.
Trump, who has been clear about his desire to create a Muslim registry and potentially banning Muslim immigrants from entering the U.S., reiterated this stance last month, saying, "You know my plans." His aides have since said Trump wouldn't establish a ban based solely on religion, but on countries associated with exporting terrorists.
"There are a lot of unknowns," said CAIR's executive director, Zahra Billoo. "But we want to make sure people have at least a baseline knowledge of their rights so that if worse comes to worse, they are not unprepared."
Only lawful citizens of the Untied States of America have Constitutional Rights in the United States of America!
Not if they're here legally.
Illegal aliens have no Constitutional rights whatsoever.
The concept of natural rights does not include the ‘right’ to infiltrate illegally into a sovereign nation and claim all the rights and privileges reserved for a citizen of that country.
Once Sessions is AG, they may find out they have been getting some bad advice....
Only lawful citizens of the Untied States of America have their rights stripped and removed in favor of illegals and muslims when Dems are in charge.
The group also plans to roll out "know your rights" workshops in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, with a focus on what to do in interactions with law enforcement, how to combat religious bullying at schools and how to protect themselves if Trump were to establish a Muslim registry.
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President Trump has been clear about his desire to create a Muslim registry and potentially banning Muslim immigrants from entering the US: Trump reiterated this stance last month. Trump aides said he would establish a ban based on countries associated with exporting terrorists.
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As of January 2016, the following countries listed were designated by ICE as "uncooperative" in accepting back their citizens the US wished to return----Third world refugees who committed crimes in the US: Afghanistan, Algeria, Burundi, Cape Verde, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe.
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One Muslim actually had a job as Executive Director in the Democratic Party but left to become a leader of a national Islamist terrorist group....exposing herself as a ‘fellow traveler’ and enemy of democracy – she used the tools of democracy to fool people into believing she was one of us.
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THIS IS THE MUSLIM DOCTRINE OF TAQIYYA UP CLOSE: LIE TO ALL CHRISTIANS (AND INFIDELS)
Taqiyya is practiced once they are allowed into a country (feigning refugee status).
<><> (a) Muslim refugees have pretended to convert to Christianity;
<><>(b) an Islamic gunman gained entrance to a church by feigning interest in Christian prayers. Examples abound on a daily basis.
In Turkey, to get close enough to a Christian pastor to assassinate him, a group of Muslims including three women feigned interest in Christianity, attended his church for over a year, and even participated in baptism ceremonies.
Said the pastor: "These Muslim people had infiltrated our church and collected information about me, my family and the church and were preparing an attack against us. Two of the Muslims attended our church for over a year. They acted like family."
MIGRANTS kicked a one-year-old baby on a bus then attacked paramedics with BELTS as they tried to treat the infant. The shocking attack happened at approximately 9pm on Sunday night in Augsburg, one of Germany's oldest cities. Paramedics were called and arrived on the scene to help the injured but the men began attacking them with belts - not letting up until the police were called. (Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
A special commission in the northern German city of Braunschweig will investigate over 300 cases of fraud committed by asylum applicants, who gamed the welfare system by using multiple IDs to claim benefits – and that may just be the tip of the iceberg.
The estimated total loss of taxpayer money in the state of Lower Saxony alone has been put at three to five million euros ($3.2-5.3 million), Regional German broadcaster NDR reported.
In the majority of cases, the scheme was employed by Sudanese refugees who were applying for benefits within the social welfare system, the head of the newly established investigative commission, Joern Memenga, said, as cited by Deutsche Welle.
The scammers allegedly took advantage of the extreme workload the civil servants who were registering the applications were under in the summer of 2015, at the peak of the European migrant crisis.l
“At that point, we wanted to avoid one thing – homelessness,” Memenga said, adding that in some cases the same employees had registered more than one alias per applicant.
The welfare claimants would simply change their appearance to receive additional documents from unsuspecting social service workers. The not so sophisticated con met few road bumps, as the refugees did not have to give their fingerprints and, since they had no documents, were identified only from photographs.
“Sometimes just growing a beard, or putting on a pair of glasses, having shorter hair, but always different surnames,” Memenga said, as cited by DPA.
The system was also susceptible to rigging because the civil servants did not have time to sift through all of the applications processed at other municipalities in Lower Saxony, so the same asylum seeker could collect money from different places.
Eventually, one of the employees noticed that some of men in the photos look strikingly similar and sounded the alarm, reporting his suspicions to the police, regional broadcaster NRP, which broke the story, reported.
In one of the most extreme cases uncovered so far, one man was able to bamboozle the state to the tune of tens of thousands of euros using twelve fake identities. “Our crassest case has twelve alias-personalities. Damage: 45,000 euros, at least,” Memenga said, as cited by NRP.
Pursuant to the Asylum Seekers Act, every asylum seeker is entitled to €135 of so-called pocket money and €216 per month to cover basic needs, if the asylum seekers are not on complete state provision. “Excluding the cost of electricity, you reach about 320 to 350 euros per alias identity and person,” Memenga said. It is estimated that a ‘refugee’ with three to four identities could have drained an extra 5,000 to 10,000 euros from the state coffers.
Though the fraud has now been exposed, the suspects may not face charges due to legal difficulties, as in most cases they used fake names and addresses. “Without a place of residence, no legal hearing and no service of an accusation [is possible],” Julia Meyer of Braunschweig public prosecutor’s office told NRP. “By the time their cover is blown, they have mostly moved on already,” Meyaer added, as cited by DPA.
We would have a much better society when everyone not only knows their rights, but respects the rights of others as well as require all government agencies to do the same.
But as with all things liberal, even the truth can be called upon in the service of a greater lie. In this case, liberals hope to expand the rights of people who will serve the liberal agenda. The instant that any right (such as the Second Amendment) gets in the way of the agenda, it is a right that must be marginalized or nullified.
“Rights” are for citizens. Send them back to their own countries and let them petition their own governments for “rights.”
You built your business serving people who have INVADED this country-—
You might now have much business in about a year.
BTW- Does Western Union have stock? I would be selling any Western Union stock I had because when Trump places a large fee on every transaction that sends money out of this country,Western Union will suffer.
When the invading hordes are returned south & the wall keeps them out, what percentage of business will Western Union have then?
Money oing to Mexico represents the $2 item on Mexico’s GDP list. Selling their oil is #1. That alone is a fact that should make you all think.
Any leftist organization,foundation,or religious organization that advocates,encourages,assists,or provides aid,comfort or so called sanctuary to those illegally here should immediately have their tax exception revoked and be prosecuted under RICO for aiding and abetting in the violation of American law and sovereignty.
Bull$hit!
Preach it Brother!
Islam is an evil ideology and is NOT compatible with the US Constitution or the cultural values of a free western civilization.
First as in life there are always exceptions to the rule.
The exception is that practitioners of the ideology of Islam - whether they are citizens or not, by the very proof of the documents of Islam and Islamic violence & oppression of non-believers here and abroad - the practitioners of Islam demonstrate that they citizens or not are not eligible for protections under US Constitution. The Constitution was NOT written by the founders to protect an evil and abhorrent ideology & it’s practitioners.
Islam should be banned in the US, no further mosques allowed to be built. No more immigration allowed of islam’s practitioners into the US.
Any mosque that produces a radicalized practitioner from its worshippers who harms or kills non-muslim Americans should be closed.
That's not what the Supreme Court said in 1886.
Islamic terrorism – 2017 Body Count: 314 Dead, 489 Injured, 17 Countries
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