Metro station interior. Photo FILED

Víctor Caycho
Washington Hispanic

The state and local authorities of the metropolitan region of Washington did called the population to use “to the possible minimum” the private motor vehicles and recommended to use only the system of massive transport (buses of public service and trains) next Tuesday, the 20th, day in which Barack Obama will assume the presidency of the nation.

The invocation went to the whole citizenship then that the safety Department Interns (DHS), the Agency of the Secret Service and the Agency of emergency Administration (FEMA) they were announcing on Wednesday, the 7th the relation of the bridges and highways that will be closed to the transport transit from 2:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. of the Inaugural Day, between other dispositions.

It is believed that about three million persons will be present at the events originated from all the limits of the nation and of the foreigner.

The drastic measurement was adopted for safety reasons, pointed out Dan Tangherlini, Manager of the City, during a press conference that it offered in the county of Arlington (Virginia) in company of the Secretary of Transports of Maryland, John D. Porcari; of colonel Steven Flaherty, of the State Police of Virginia, and other authorities of the metropolitan region.

They admitted that thousands of resident families in the North of Virginia (counties of Fairfax, Alexandria, Arlington and Prince William, especially), with tall percentage of Hispanics, will be most harmed, since most of them are employed at the District of Columbia (DC) or cross for this city to go to Maryland.

The problem will be very icy since the closing bridge includes the most strategic accesses and there use every day thousands of drivers, like Theodore Roosevelt, the Brief Bridge and the one that crosses always congested Street 14. The bridge Key, which many drivers use commonly across Georgetown, will only be allowed for the massive public transport.

To it 395 adds the closing of the transit towards DC from the Interstate one and of the Interstate one 66.

All the vehicles that go along along the I-95 from Richmond and the cities to the north of Virginia, will be turned away in Springfield towards the I-495.

Interviewed drivers predict with worry that this will provoke “the biggest bottling of the history”.
To enter DC from Maryland will be easier, but the authorities warned that the streets will be super congested because they will be closed the majority of them to allow the access to the stop for the Inaugural Day and to make the adjacent arteries free to the place where president of the United States will swear in Obama as 44.

“ To obtain a parking will be something like to gain him the biggest award of the lottery”, it charted Porcari.
The only bridges that will remain opened for the transit are the Sousa, Whitney Young and that of Benning Road, all of them on the river Anacostia.

“ The urgent thing is that the workpeople and in general all the resident families in the metropolitan area plan from now on how to be mobilized this day from his hearths to his centers of work”, said for his part Tangherlini.

On this matter, it was known that many labor centers – especially hotels and restaurants of the center of DC, which have days of three shifts - are pressing to his personnel to use the system of massive public transport, granting facility and extra time to come to the work. Others have agreed to happen the night from eve in his respective centers, as there announced clerks of the Museum Smithsonian.

Bridges closed to the transit of vehicles deprived towards DC
*Puente Theodore Roosevelt

*Puente of the Street 14

*Memorial Bridge

*Chain Bridge

*Puente of the Street 11

*Puente of the Street South Capitol
Highways towards DC closed in both directions

*Southeast-Southwest Freeway

*George Washington Brief Parkway, between the Capital Beltway (I-495) and the bridge of the Street 14.

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President Bush and ex-presidents Bush father, Carter and Clinton meet Obama

“We all want that you are successful”

The president George W. Bush (to the center), along with the elect president Barack Obama and the ex-presidents George H. W. Bush (father), Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, in the Egg-shaped Office of the White House. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP

Ben Feller
AP

The elect president Barack Obama returned on Wednesday, the 7th to the White House, where it had a meeting to alone with George W. Bush and it posed for a beyond the common photo in the Egg-shaped Office, accompanied by the projecting chief and three ex-presidents.

Obama qualified the meeting of extraordinary, while Bush offered to him his best desires and made sure that this office "comes out of the individual".

" I want only to be grateful to the president who has invited us", there declared the elect president flanked by the ex-president George H.W. Bush aside and his son to other.

The ex-presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, both smiling extensively, posed standing with them.

" All the gentlemen here present understand the pressures and possibilities of this office", added Obama. "For me, to have the opportunity to receive help, good advices and companionship of these gentlemen is extraordinary", he added.

Bush made the most of the opportunity to say some initial words.

" A message that I have, and I believe that we share all, it is that we want that you are successful, without importing if we are democratic or republicans, this country worries us deeply", said Bush. "All that we have been employed at this office we understand that the proper office transciende to the individual", it added.

Previously, Bush and Obama met privately during approximately 30 minutes. Obama and Bush probably analyzed the situation in Middle East and the economic crisis. His previous meeting was November 11, days after the electoral Obama victory.

Later, the two posed for a photo that is not seen from 1981: the president and all the together ex-presidents in the White House.

After posing for the photo, five men left of the office for a private lunch.

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If there was lawyers' error

It will not be possible to appeal cases of immigration

Immigrants say goodbye of a relative. PHOTO: I FILE

 

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

In a measurement that has been catalogued like one of the last thrusts of the administration Bush against the immigrants, the general district attorney of the United States, Michael Mukasey decided to finish a constitutional protection that was allowing to those that had lost his cases for an error of the lawyer of immigration to re-open his records. This way they could request a new review of his cases and delay a deportation order.

According to the experts annually thousands of requests appear to re-open cases of immigration and now these persons remain exposed to an imminent deportation.

The measurement enters validity of an automatic way what one hopes that he should be the proper elect president Barack Obama, who annuls it across an executive order.

“ This decision will have a negative impact on many persons who will be deported simply for having no luck of being represented by the incorrect lawyer of immigration. This is a dangerous movement against the American tradition of realizing just processes and on time. To lose his case because his lawyer forgot a deadline or committed an error can never be considered to be a just process”, pointed out in a bulletin the vice Project Manager of rights of the American Union of Civil Freedoms of the Immigrants (ACLU, for his initials in English).

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For not paying overtime to his workpeople

They demand to laundry

Lawyer Daniel A. Katz does called the workpeople who think that also his rights have been violated by the industrial laundry Mayflower. Photo Alvaro Ortiz/Washington Hispanic.

 

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

For eight months Glenda Mancía of Honduran origin worked packing sheets during days of more than 12 hours for the industrial laundry Mayflower, located in Beltcamp in the Hardford county, to the north of Baltimore. For this task they were paying seven dollars to him the hour, but they were not recognizing the overtime payment after him on time and I come up as the law stipulates it. To this according to Mancía testimony and of other coworkers add ill-treatment and extreme pressure to increase the production. They even were forcing the personnel to work during the considered days of national holiday like the Day of Thanksgiving under threat than of not coming as of custom to the work they would be dismissed permanently. This was the case of missis Mancía, who after refusing to work during a holiday one was dismissed.

“ I said to them that I was tired of working from Monday until Saturday from seven of the morning to nine or 10 of the night and that I preferred to rest the holiday and they said to me that if it was not going to work they were dismissing me. All the employees complain about that do not want to pay the time and a half to us for worn out overhours and even threaten us to deduct 50 dollars of our check if we do not remain until evening working”, it tells Washington Hispanic, Glenda Mancía.

Before this situation Glenda Mancía he looked for help in House of Maryland for the labor injustices of which it had been an object and immediately they communicated it with lawyer Daniel A. Katz with who along with another 20 workers they decided to demand the company and to demand from them that they should expire with the payment of the overtime.
The industrial laundry operates from 2006 and it is provided with approximately 80 personnel in his majority of Hispanic origin.

The demand appeared officially in January, 2008 and at present they are in the process of the information exchange between both parts.

“ These workpeople whom we represent under what it is called a Collective Action are protected by the federal law Fair Labor Standard approved in 1938 that it establishes that if an employee works more than 40 hours in one week it is necessary to pay to him time and a half of the regular salary. The company Mayflower they deny to owe the money, but we have documents that prove the opposite”, he tells to Washington Hispanic lawyer Daniel Katz of the signature Andalman and Flynn.

For lawyer Daniel A talks each other of a demand of Collective Action. Katz does the called one to all those employees who have worked or are employed for the factory at mention from 2005 from now on so that they join the demand.

“ I have confidence of which we are going to gain the judgment because there exist labor laws that must be respected. This way the workpeople will be able to receive the money that they owe to them for his working time that in some cases can exceed 5.000 dollars”, pointed out the lawyer.
The interested persons in joining this collective demand can communicate with lawyer Daniel A. Katz to (301 563-6685 ó with the lawyer Jane Flanagan of the signature Brown, Goldstein and Levy to (410 962-1030 ".

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Academy IMA serves to the Latin community in MD and GOES

In 2009: I want to learn English

Yhamel Catacora, director of IMA makes sure that to learn English opens the door for two worlds and access to more opportunities. Photo courteousness IMA

This is the resolution of hundreds of Latin Americans that they take as a goal for 2009, to dominate the English language. One of the most requested options is the Academy IMA that operates for more than 15 years, serving to the Latin community in Maryland and Virginia. Thousands are already the students who have happened for the IMA lounges and who could have come to the goal and to communicate in English.

With the arrival of a new year, IMA prepares himself to receive hundreds of students who will initiate classes 12 and on January 19. With this motive we move to his facilities to report with the director of the Academy Yhamel Catacora, Bachelor of Arts, of the University of George Mason, who commented to us more about IMA.

Because you consider important to learn English in these times?

The most obvious account that pushes to hundreds of students to give the first step to learn English it is to gain more money. It is demonstrated that a bilingual one wins more. In these difficult times of our economy, and since it is demonstrated historically, the person or the employee who has more skills, or as is said in English "skills", he is who probably will win more than others or, will retain his work. To learn English increases our labor possibilities and offers to us access to two worlds; this is what duplicates our opportunities. In addition to the financial thing it is the most important that the parents and family mothers learn English not to lose the communication with his children. The children adapt themselves with more facility, perhaps they learn more rapid and that tends to leave in the darkness the parents who little by little understand less his children since they do not speak English. I do not believe that coincidence is all the problems that our Hispanic youth faces. And the fact is that often, the young people and the children have to take important decisions because his parents do not speak English. The absence of the language tends to annul like parents in his teachers' role and that is very dangerous. In summed up accounts it is impossible to have a healthy adaptation to a new system without dominating the language in which this one develops. After Englishman does not learn we relegate ourselves to a condition of the second class, denying to us itself an endless number of daily advantages that touch all the aspects of our lives, the health, the work, the family and inclusive the social circles. Another big reason is to think that if today we are here and tomorrow we go away to another continent, English is the first thing that we must pack in the suitcase, which clearly, is popular and useful in the whole world.

What are the benefits of learning in IMA?

IMA drinks to the student first of all instructors qualified to dictate English as foreign language or English like the second language. Our singular methodology does that each of the instructors could apply different skills that facilitate learning despite the educational or cultural differences. Learning a language bears more that to learn structures and vocabulary, is a cultural process. Our constant support in the investigations of academic entities in the field of the linguistics is one of the elements that every day harden our education. Clearly, to teach we must cultivate ourselves every day, not only investigating in the academic thing, also understanding the needs of our pupils. That's why in IMA we learn all every day. Finally, in IMA we begin the day repeating “You can” it is the phrase that eliminates all the frustrations, and the one that invites to hundreds to discover a route entertained in the direction of learning of English.

What are the classes schedules?

The first class of IMA is given at 7:30 a.m.; and the last one at 7:30 p.m. We have classes in the morning, much early, in the evening and in the night. Also on Saturday or Sunday of 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. We are opened 7 days of the week.

How to register?

The first thing to take the phone and to mark (703 671-0838 in Virginia and (301 929-4313 in Maryland, to visit any of our localities in Maryland and Virginia. A representative will be ready to offer to him all the details.
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