Por fin liberan autoridades de inmigración a pequeña de tres años

EL PASO – Después de una campaña por organizaciones no-gubernamentales y más de un mes de estadía en un refugio para niños inmigrantes en Houston, la pequeña Heidy Frayre ha sido devuelta a su familia. Mientras huían de la violencia en Ciudad Juárez, la pequeña junto con su tío Juan Manuel Frayre, quien permanece detenido en Chaparral, fueron aprehendidos tras buscar asilo político en los Estados Unidos. La inocente de tres años fue puesta en custodia del albergue en Houston. Organizaciones no-gubernamentales, entre ellas Amigos de las Mujeres de Juárez, establecieron una campaña para que la pequeña fuese entregada por el gobierno de los Estados Unidos a sus familiares. Unidas, estas instituciones pidieron a los ciudadanos mexicanos que expresaran su inconformidad mediante cartas y correos electrónicos dirigidos a la embajada de Estados Unidos en México, exigiendo al presidente Felipe Calderón que interviniera ante las autoridades migratorias de los Estados Unidos para que Heidi fuera reunida con tu tío.

Listen up Ms. Napolitano: more enforcement doesn’t equal border safety

EL PASO—Two Hispanic students stood up in protest as the rest of the audience in the auditorium clapped during Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s recent speech at the University of Texas at El Paso. The female students held up signs that read “Education not Militarization” and “Security to Whom?” but only for a few seconds before they were escorted out of the auditorium. As this occurred, I wondered if their removal from a public forum is a violation of their freedom of speech.  So I asked the question during my next Communication Law class and found out that what had happened is like screaming fire in a crowded theater: “You can say anything you like as long as you don’t put anyone in danger; Napolitano could claim she was in danger,” said Dr. Barthy Byrd, associate professor in the Department of Communication and an expert on media law. Napolitano barely looked up from the paper she read during her speech to acknowledge what had just happened in the audience.  Afterward, she answered a few pre-selected questions that only demonstrated she really does think we owe her our gratitude for protecting the U.S. Southern border. “Some of the safest communities in America are right here on the border,” said Napolitano, claiming that she was not here doing a victory lap.

Napolitano promises an ‘overwhelming response’ to any spillover of drug-war violence

“We have strengthened the Southwest Border in ways that many did not think possible.”
– Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
EL PASO, Texas – The Obama administration has strengthened the U.S.-Mexico partnership along the southwest border, increasing security and safeguarding the U.S. against a spillover of drug-war violence, according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. On the second stop of a national tour designed to explain President Obama’s border security strategy, Napolitano told an audience at the University of Texas at El Paso Monday that their approach to border security is working. “We are almost two years into that strategy and the verdict is in,” said Napolitano. “We have strengthened the southwest border in ways that many did not think possible.”

Napolitano did mention that challenges still exist, such as dealing with the drug-cartel violence taking place in Mexico and remaining on guard against a possible spillover effect into the United States. Any incursion of drug-war violence into the U.S. will face an “overwhelming response,” she said.