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"El Magonista"
Vol. 4 No. 44
December 29th, 2016
Happy New Year from the
California-Mexico Studies Center
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The California-Mexico Studies Center
Armando Vazquez-Ramos, President & CEO
1551 N. Studebaker Road, Long Beach, CA 90815
Phone: (562) 430-5541 Cell: (562) 972-0986
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The
California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) team wishes
you a happy and prosperous new year. This year has been a memorable year for the CMSC full of accomplishments, new collaborations and projects, events, and challenges that have helped us grow as an organization and as professionals.
Furthermore, the CMSC stands committed to continue to work with binational communities, and to research, develop, promote, and establish policies and programs between higher educational institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching, mobility and exchange of faculty, students, and professionals between California and the U.S. with Mexico and other nations in the Western Hemisphere, despite the new challenges 2017 may bring us.
We thank you for your continuous support and readership.
The CMSC Team,
Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos, President & CEO
Lidieth Arevalo, CEO Executive Assistant & Multimedia Director
Sheila Salinas, Administrative Director
Luz Vazquez-Ramos, Special Programs Director
Sandra Lopez, Fund Development & Evaluation Coordinator
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COSTA MESA - Concerned their legal status in the United States could be upended by Donald Trump, 25 college students and recent graduates who initially arrived here illegally left John Wayne Airport for Mexico on Thursday December 22, 2016 and will return 5 days before he becomes president.
The students, most from California, saw the study-travel trip as a way to reconnect with their cultures and their families before Trump takes office and possibly eliminates the program that allows them to travel.
"There's so much uncertainty," said Raquel Zamora Gonzalez, 25, a Cal State Fullerton student. "I'm going to grab this opportunity while I can."
Under a little-known provision of the law, these "DACAmented" individuals - as they call themselves - can get the U.S. government's permission to travel abroad and return.
A huge added bonus: The legal re-entry into the U.S. can boost the chance to win permanent legal status.
"I didn't realize it would change my status until I was already in the process of applying," said the Garden Grove resident whose parents brought her to Orange County when she was 1 year old. She raised $5,000 for the trip with the help of others. "It was a plus, but not the main reason I wanted to go.
"I want to go back and meet my family and where I came from," she said.
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Raquel Zamora (right), a student from Cal State Fullerton says goodbye to her mother Martha Zamora (left) as Raquel Zamora joins a group of 25 undocumented students heading to Mexico City at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana on December 22, 2016. (Photo by:
Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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The students and recent graduates are participating in an intense three-week program designed by Cal State Long Beach professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, who began arranging language and cultural travel-study programs with DACA students two years ago.
What began as an experiment with two Cal State Long Beach students has grown to trips with as many as 35. In all, he's taken 107 young to visit their homeland.
"This is the last one that we can plan on, because right now, with the election of the unmentionable president-elect, it's unforeseeable what's going to happen," Vazquez-Ramos said.
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Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos gives instructions to the group before going through TSA at the John Wayne Airport. (Photo by, Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register, SCNG)
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During his campaign, Trump pledged to deport all 11-plus million immigrants living in the country illegally and abolish DACA. He has since appeared to have softened his stand on DACA recipients, but it's unclear what he intends to do.
The president-elect's words have moved leaders at universities across the country to urge their students in study-abroad programs to return to the U.S. before Jan. 20, when Trump becomes president...
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Check out this news report from Estrella TV about our California-Mexico Dreamers Winter 2016 Program:
Follow the California-Mexico Dreamers Winter 2016 group on Social Media, search for the following hashtags on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter:
#DreamersStudyAbroad
#CMDWinter2016
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Quick Facts About DACA:
1.3 million: Undocumented people ages 15 and older are eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, in 2016.
713,300: Granted DACA by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as of December 2015.
22,340: DACA immigrants granted Advance Parole as of December 2015.
5,068:
Of those granted advance parole, applied to adjust their immigration status.
2,994:
Of those who applied to adjust their immigration status, were granted adjusted status as of December 21, 2015.
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Un grupo de 25 estudiantes indocumentados protegidos por la Acción Diferida (DACA) desoyó las advertencias de no salir del país y viajaron hoy a México en medio de las amenazas del presidente electo, Donald Trump, de eliminar este programa...
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"What if I were undocumented?" asked Carmelita, a 22-year-old Kansas City woman, who wanted to be identified only by her first name.
"But you're not," the people around her answered.
They thought they knew her. They were young adults at a summer Catholic church retreat, reuniting friendships from previous retreats.
Carmelita listened to their frustrations with people who some thought of as illegal residents in America. Some cheered Trump's calls for walling the border
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Dreamers, the children of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, are preparing to stand up for themselves and for their parents. Dreamers say they want a path towards citizenship and they are gearing up before Inauguration Day. "We are a force to be reckoned with," Karina Solano Suarez told CNN. "I think he should be preparing himself for this sort of fight, for us trying to stay together with our parents and our community members..."
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La escuela Arkansas State University desarrolla el primer campus de una universidad estadounidense en México. La construcción de sus instalaciones avanza en el municipio de Colón, en Querétaro, con una inversión de 75 millones de dólares (mdd), donde esperan aprovechar el crecimiento del sector automotriz, aeronáutico y biotecnológico para impartir licenciaturas relacionadas con esas ramas...
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The five most significant events of 2016 from an immigration perspective: 1)
The election of Donald Trump was significant for the direction it signaled U.S. immigration policy would be taking in the foreseeable future...
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We have complied a selection of 12 photographs that represent events hosted by the CMSC and/or in collaboration with other groups and institutions.
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