| In the gardens of the White House |
| Obama invites beers to arrange racial problem |
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| The president Barack Obama thought about how to do the peaces with a beer gulp and calm a racial controversy arisen weeks behind, then that a white police officer will arrest for error the black teacher Henry Louis Gates Jr., who was confused like a thief. Obama invited to the White House on Thursday, the 30th of July the teacher Gates and the sergeant of police officer James Crowley, with whom along with vice-president Biden they shared a few beers. |
Washington Hispanic
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The president Barack Obama thought about how on Thursday, the 30th of July to calm a racial controversy inviting a beer glass in the gardens of the White House to the involved ones in a case considered racial discrimination and that attracted the attention in the last weeks. During the meeting Obama he admitted that it had chosen badly his way of expressing itself on the arrest of the black teacher Henry Louis Gates Jr on having said that “it might have calibrated these words of different way”. Obama said that it called the white police officer who arrested Gates and who this conversation confirmed to him that the sergeant is a good man and an outstanding official.
Later, the president said that also he had spoken with Gates.
The president caused a small stir days behind when he said in a press conference in stellar schedule that the police of Cambridge, Massachusetts, “acted in a stupid way” on having arrested for alteration of the public order Gates, academician of Harvard and his friend.
On Thursday, Obama appeared suddenly in the daily press conference of the White House in an attempt of calming the debate. He said that he kept on believing that both the sergeant James Crowley and Gates reacted in an excessive way during the incident, but that also their own declarations had something of fault.
“ This has been climbing and I obviously helped to make it climb”, he said. “I want to clarify that with my words election, I believe that regrettably I gave the impression of being insulting to the Department of Police officer of Cambridge and in particular to the Sergeant Crowley. And it might have calibrated these words of different way”.
The president tried to distend the situation on having said that he had invited the police officer and the teacher to be taken “a beer here in the White House”.
The Obama guests enjoyed the beer of his predilection; for example, Obama drank BudLight, the vice president Biden drank a Buckler, the teacher Gates savoured Samuel Adams and the police officer of Massachusetts freshened up with a Blue Moon.
The incident of last week began when the police came to Gates's house then that a passer-by called to denounce a possible robbery. But there was no intruder: Gates was trying to open by force his door, which had been united. The teacher protested for gesticulating of the police officers and he was arrested, although then the charges against him were rejected.
Before the Obama appearance, a group of police officers of Massachusetts of different races supported Crowley and asked that Obama and the governor of this state, Deval Patrick, should apologize for his comments about the case, which they considered to be insulting. Patrick, who is a black, had said that Gates's arrest is the “nightmare of every black man”.
Dennis O'Connor, president of the Association of Top officers of the Police of Cambridge, said that the Obama words were "mistaken" and that the police of Cambridge “are sorry deeply about the inference” of which the arrest was motivated by racial questions.
The sergeant Leon Lashley, a black official who was with Crowley during Gates's arrest, said that it was supporting gesticulating of his partner “to 100 %”.
Gates has said that it returned from a travel abroad and found his united door, therefore he and his driver tried to open it. Gates entered for behind and it was inside the house when the agents came.
The police say that the teacher began to shout when Crowley asked him for identification that should demonstrate that it could be there and that accused the racism sergeant, he did not want to calm down and it was brave.
58-year-old Gates, makes sure that it delivered his identity documents when they asked themselves for them and that Crowley arrested it when he continued it to ask him repeatedly for his name and number of badge.
| Day labourers: the most affected |
| They demand payment of unfulfilled wages |
Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic
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| José González, organizer of day labourers of Tenants and Close Workpeople sample the practical guide “do not give your work” photo: WH. |
As part of a national campaign to recover not full wages realized in Alexandria, Virginia the first forum of workpeople, victims of unscrupulous employers that they broke with the wages payment.
In general in this type of the most affected cases it is the day labourers, who for the nature of his work and the informality turn into easy preys for those contractors and employers to whom only it is interesting to find cheap labor.
This situation has worsened in the last months due to the fall of the sector construction and the economic crisis what has generated unemployment and a major need.
The forum was provided with the representatives' participation of community organizations and of the Department of the Work. “We are facing a problem of famine between the day labourers. Before the recession we could demand a minimum wage for 10 dollars the hour for day labourer assistant and now we have to bend up to 5 dollars and above so that they do not pay to us”, it expressed to Washington Hispanic, Roberto Villarroel, leader and coordinator of day labourers of Culmore.
The forum was provided with the representatives' participation of community organizations like the National Network of Day labourers, House of Maryland, trade union LIUNA, Tenants and Close Workpeople, as well as also authorities of the Department of Work, who listened with attention to the testimonies and recommendations to reinforce the laws that protect the workpeople.
During the forum a series of recommendations expressed itself to improve the conditions of the informal workpeople as they are: to investigate the complaints with more force, to make the process easier to initiate a complaint, to create database to identify an employer who refuses to pay, solve the barriers of the language, use administrative hardships like revoking the contractors' licenses that they do not pay and implementing actions criminals opposite to these abuses.
Also there presented before herself a practical guide prepared by the National Network of Day labourers where the workpeople must note down the name of his employer, telephone number and all fact or additional information that facilitates the just claim of his salary.
They ask for law
One of the principal targets of the forums that are realized in different regions of the country is to come with the problem to the ears of the authorities so that they decide to take concrete actions to protect the informal worker.
“ We want a specific law that protects the day labourers because the employers who do not pay know that under a civil action if they say that they do not have the money to pay they are protected and free of real punishment. This situation cannot continue”, said José González, organizer of day labourers of Tenants and Close Workpeople.
In less than six months, González told, that there came to his office more than 56 cases of workpeople to whom they owe him his salary for a whole for 150 thousand dollars and the problem that it affects at national level keeps on deteriorating.
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| According to formless developer |
| Migratory system is "monstrous" |
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| The situation of the immigrants who are arrested for having no roles is analyzed in a wide announced report this week. Foto:Casa of Representatives of Oklahoma / AP |
A report prepared for years, with more than 18.000 pages of documents, concludes that the jails of the country limit the access to the juridical materials of the undocumented immigrants who are arrested, and who transfer these without the due notification.
The document, named “A Broken System” (), was prepared For Broken System by the National Juridical Center of Immigration. His authors go so far as to qualify of “monstrous“ the system of immigration put under investigation.
The study was based on the minutes of examination of tens prisons on the part of the agency of immigration and customs (HOIST), the Bar of the United States and the Commissioned High place of the UNO for Refugees between 2001 and 2005.
The authors of the report recommend to the government to publish the examination reports and to facilitate to relatives and lawyers the knowledge of the whereabouts of the prisoners. Defenders of the rights of the undocumented persons make sure that the government has violated its own norms in the immigrants' detention without roles, on having made so much his defense difficult in the courts as his efforts to remain in the country.
The report “A Ruined System” (To Broken System) spread on Tuesday, the 28th of July supports that the arrested have little access to the phones, the mail and the juridical libraries, in violation of the federal rules.
The conclusions are based in more than 18.000 pages of documents, according to which the jails of the country limit the access of the arrested to the juridical materials and transfer them without the due notification.
“ Our fear derives from the deep confidence in that, inside the system of American justice, sooner or later will know the truth and the individuals who have meritorious cases will see beneficiaries”, affirmed Karen Tumlin, lawyer of the National Juridical Center of Immigration and coauthor of the report.
“ We cannot have faith in which this affirmation will happen in the monstrous immigration system”, he added.
The study was based on the minutes of examination of tens prisons on the part of the agency of immigration and customs (HOIST), the Bar of the United States and the Commissioned High place of the UNO for Refugees between 2001 and 2005.
Defense lawyers of the undocumented persons have denounced for years that the medical attention in the jails is deficient and that the frequent transference of his clients makes his defense difficult.
Dora Schriro, special assessor of the Secretary of Interior Safety on detention and transfer, thought that the study was exhaustive but that it is not updated considering the reform of the rules of detention and the procedures of examination of the government.
“ It is a forceful progress test in march, on having looked behind and to admit that these problems and the government are not static and that the things change”, told Schriro, who refused to think about facts previous to his management, initiated this year.
The authors of the report recommend that the detention rules must be of obligatory fulfillment. They exhort the government to publish the examination reports and facilitate to relatives and lawyers the knowledge of the whereabouts of the prisoners.
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| For the first time |
| Bolivians of the area enlist to vote |
Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic
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| Roxana Ybarnegaray, vowel of the CNE, visited Washington DC to start the process of electoral registration for the resident Bolivians in the exterior. Photo Alvaro Ortiz/Washington Hispanic. |
It is believed that 400.000 Bolivians who reside in the United States will be able to exercise his right to vote for the first time in his history for the next general elections of December 6.
To vote the Bolivian citizens who reside in the exterior will have to take part of a process of biometric registration that will be realized from September 1 until October 15. For ultimar details and to initiate the planning the vowel of the Electoral National Court, Roxana Ybarnegaray, he visited Washington DC and conversed with Washington Hispanic on how the process will be realized and guaranteed entire transparence not only in the voters' record but also in the count of votes. Next December 6 the Bolivians who reside in the metropolitan area must be prepared to take part of a historical experience that will allow them to exercise for the first time the right to vote in the exterior. For it the vowel of the Electoral National Court (CNE), Roxana Ybarnegaray visited Washington DC to throw to walk the gear assembly of what will be the process of biometric registration of voters and then to pass to the general elections to choose a new president.
This first vote experience will realize only in four countries in fulfillment to a law that it establishes that the number of registered in the exterior cannot represent any more than 6 per cent of the electoral electoral roll of the country, what in numbers is translated in that any more than 211 thousand resident Bolivians cannot vote in the exterior.
Also also he has than in none of the jurisdictions where the vote is realized in the exterior debit to congregate more than 50 per cent of the whole of voters allowed to exercise his right to vote.
“ In fact enough limits exist therefore we think that this first experience will be a pilot test. I am here precisely to organize the process and to identify where there congregates the biggest quantity of Bolivian population to be able to establish the centers of registration”, he tells to Washington Hispanic the vowel of the Electoral National Court, Roxana Ybarnegaray.
Four countries selected for congregating to the biggest number of Bolivian citizens are the United States, Spain, Argentina and Brazil. Only in the United States one hopes that there should take part of the process about 400.000 Bolivians who reside in the areas of Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland and New York. In Spain the number promotes 38.000, Brazil 23.000 and according to the vowel, in Argentina it is where the community congregates in major volume therefore a little more than 100.000 Bolivians hope to register.
“ We are in the logistic process and of organization. We are provided with a state budget for the process of biometric record for 43.7 million dollars. Also the machines will be coming from Bolivia to realize the biometric record of the biographical information of our compatriots how there are his photos, fingerprints and signature”, it points out the vowel.
Of equal way he declared that there will be delivered a certificate of the biometric record of a provisional way that in a future will turn into the only card of identification that will serve for other ends and not only for electoral ends.
It guarantees transparence
Opposite to the worries generated between some Bolivian residents in the area on the transparence of the process and the participation of the embassy and the consulate, the vowel Ibarnegaray expressed that the CNE is an autonomous institution and that the consulate and embassy simply support in what demands the electoral record.
It even clarified that the centers of registration will not be in the offices of the above mentioned dependencies.
On the transparence in the votes count it expressed that “the Bolivian norm authorizes the same citizens to take part like table jury and they have the responsibility of realizing the votes count and of overturning the results in the minutes what guarantees an absolute safety. Also one is provided with observers of the different political parties, as well as of international organisms”, it finished.
| His van collided with car in the I-66 |
| For handling intoxicated there resigns chief of the police of Alexandria |
Víctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic
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| David P. Baker, leaves the Chief's charge of the Police of Alexandria, in whose city fulfilled a magnificent work. Photo: Police officer of Alexandria |
The Chief of the Police of the City of Alexandria (Virginia), turned out to be forced to resign from the charge, after 40 years of services in the police. But the cause was unusual: David P. Baker had to leave the charge on Tuesday, the 28th, the three days after having covered his car with stars against other led by a woman, which must be hospitalized.
Baker finished abruptamente a long career qualified as copy for authorities and partners of the police force. First like commander for 16 years and then like chief from 2006, Baker differed in his talent of leadership that made it surround themselves with a very competitive “considered” team, to what was added his constant support to the community in general.
But the night of Saturday, the 25th, Baker – an official of impressive physicist, with his 6 ’1 of height and 210 pounds in weight - found “His Waterloo”. Shortly after 10:00 p.m., he went out of a social meeting not identified until now, with a few gulps the others. And in spite of know the rigid norms that prohíben to drive in these conditions, took the rudder of his Ford Explorer and entered the highway.
The bad fortune was waiting for it after enfilar for the street North Fairfax Drive and to bring in to the Interstate one 66. There it smashed against a motorcar that was led by a woman, whose identity keeps in reservation.
A police patrol of the county of Arlington came to the place of the accident and the agent who was leading it noticed a strong smell of alcohol. Also, as they indicate the documents of the court, the official realized that the conversation of Baker, of 58 years, was “repetitive and unsteady”.
Soon, the routine abstinence examinations were practised on him. They were, to travel nine steps of going and return; to raise a leg during 30 seconds, to tell numbers of major to minor and to say the alphabet. Baker did not spend any of them.
When they were missing a few minutes for the midnight examinations of the breath took to him, in order to determine his alcohol level in the blood, which indexes threw much over the authorized one.
The resignation of Baker like Chief of the Police happened across an emotive letter directed to the members of the police institution. “It is with a big humility sense and remorse that I announce my retirement of the Department of Police officer of Alexandria Estas words they cannot describe the pride that I feel for having had the opportunity to direct this big Department”, he wrote.
The mayor of Alexandria, the democrat William D. Euille, synthesized the feeling of the city for this resignation: "We entrust that this unfortunate incident will not eclipse the stellar service and the commitment that the chief Baker always showed with our city”.
The position is now in charge of Earl Cook, who was the Subchief of the local police. Born in Alexandria, Cook has 30 years in the Department, and on having assumed his new position, he said that “this is an only one change of leadership and not of direction, because we will keep on doing of Alexandria one of the surest cities to live, to work and to visit”.
| Commission of the Senate votes 13-6 in his favor |
| They give "ok" to Sotomayor |
Víctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic
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| Sonia Sotomayor must obtain 60 votes or more in the plenary one of the Senate to turn into the first jueza of Hispanic origin in the Supreme Court. Photo: AP |
For thirteen affirmative votes and six in against, the jueza Sonia Sotomayor achieved on Tuesday, the 28th the approval of the Commission of Juridical Matters of the Senate for his assertion in the Supreme Court, fact that will turn it into the Hispanic one first in coming to the maximum court of justice of the nation.
Sotomayor obtained the preferences of all the democrats of the judicial commission and only that of a republican, Lindsey Graham.
Immediately, the same commission sent the above mentioned postulation to the plenary one of the Senate, which 100 members will give his verdict in any moment between Monday, the 3rd and Tuesday, the 4th, as pointed out legislative sources.
Although the senatorial democratic work surface has the majority, a final approval is not yet assured entirely (to See box).
Firm support
The result of the voting of the judicial commission of the Senate there found the support of the leaders and Hispanic analysts, between them that of Vanessa Cárdenas, Director of Means of the Center for American Progress, of Washington DC.
“ There are a lot of possibilities that Sonia Sotomayor achieves a favorable voting in the plenary one of the Senate, unless slightly terrible pass in the next days”, it augured, in declarations to Washington Hispanic.
“ The fact of having the biggest experience of all the nominated ones to the Supreme Court in the last hundred years demonstrates what a Hispanic can reach, of his preparation”, it added.
Violet, who is provided with a Licentiate in Government and Politics and a Mastery in Public administration of the University George Mason, of Virginia, also answered the attacks thrown against Sotomayor, qualifying it like “hard and inflexible” in his decisions.
On this matter, it supported that “this is precisely what is needed from a jueza, which has to be inflexible in demanding that the empire of the law should be respected, and, on the contrary, it will help that so that the Supreme Court takes the best decisions”.
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