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'San Francisco supervisors OK ID cards for undocumented immigrants'
By Javier Erik Olvera- Mercury News

San Francisco will begin issuing municipal identification cards to illegal immigrants next year, becoming the second city in the country to create such a program in the wake of stalled immigration reform efforts in Washington.

The board of supervisors Tuesday gave the final OK needed to create the ID card program, systematically legitimizing the city's estimated 40,000 illegal immigrants.

The cards will be available to anyone living in the city next August and used as proof of identity when it comes to most facets of city business, from library service to police stops. Although immigrants are the prime target for the ID program, the cards will available to anyone who wants them.

"This will recognize contributions of people who are part of the community," said Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who led the push for the cards.

"If people have to live in the shadows, it affects you, me and everyone," Ammiano said, adding leaders are also working with banks so the IDs could be used to open checking and savings accounts.

At the time, the city of roughly 127,000 was experiencing some growing pains as its illegal immigrant population grew to about 15,000.

Robbers called illegal immigrants, who routinely carry cash because they don't have bank accounts, "walking ATMs," said Kica Matos, New Haven's community services director.

New Haven began issuing cards July 24 with a $236,000 grant, expecting to hand out 5,000 cards during the first 12 months.

Ammiano said his plan doesn't only acknowledge illegal immigrants, but gives them a voice to speak up.

When it comes to basic human rights, he said, "it's not a good idea to keep your head in the sand."]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:41:00 EST http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/293513 http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/236655 It was more than 50 years ago, when the 'Braceros' came to the U.S., wave after wave of laborers were brought to work the fields under worker's guest programs that lasted years at a time. Many of them worked in the U.S. from contract to contract until they became old. So, we ask: what is the meaning of 'temporary labor'? If working constantly for little money for fifty years far from your family and ending without social security here or back at home makes you a social burden, then something is wrong with the system, something is making human kind just irrational.
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key bi-lingual resources to use as models for advocacy on immigration

]]> Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:03:00 EST http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/161345 http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/115887 who was first? who will be last? who deserves to be righteous? who gets to dictate? who owns the law? it doesn't matter / we are here and now, a nation of immigrants from all corners of the globe forced to move in search of work, peace, properity and life.

Lets remember Whitman when he said:

FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face;
Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face.

Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes! how curious you are to me!
On the ferry-boats, the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose;
And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence, are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
...

Others will enter the gates of the ferry, and cross from shore to shore;
Others will watch the run of the flood-tide;
Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east;
Others will see the islands large and small;
Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high;
A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.

It avails not, neither time or place—distance avails not;
I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence;
I project myself—also I return—I am with you, and know how it is.

Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt;
Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd;
Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh’d; 25
Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood, yet was hurried;
Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships, and the thick-stem’d pipes of steamboats, I look’d...
(fragments of "Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry-Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman - 1900)
]]> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:44:00 EST http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/115887 http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/79537 Let's notice how this aggressive economy is dragging them here.
They may work like machines, non stop and with minimum resources,
but at the end is the human who takes over
(Photo. Elena Robles)]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:53:00 EST http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/79537 http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/45377 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:12:00 EDT http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/45377 http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/36883 finding livelihood investing hard work
leaving their own land, friends and cultures
steping into the unknown with good will
before anarchy becomes an option]]> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:27:00 EST http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/36883 http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/168897 Tengo una soledad
tan concurrida
tan llena de nostalgias
y de rostros de vos
de adioses hace tiempo
y besos bienvenidos
de primeras de cambio
y de último vagón.
Tengo una soledad
tan concurrida
que puedo organizarla
como una procesión
por colores
tamaños y promesas
por época
por tacto
y por sabor.
Sin temblor de más
me abrazo a tus ausencias
que asisten y me asisten
con mi rostro de vos.
Estoy lleno de sombras
de noches y deseos
de risas y de alguna maldición.
Mis huéspedes concurren
concurren como sueños
con sus rencores nuevos
su falta de candor
yo les pongo una escoba
tras la puerta
porque quiero estar solo
con mi rostro de vos.
Pero el rostro de vos
mira a otra parte
con sus ojos de amor
que ya no aman
como víveres
que buscan su hambre
miran y miran
y apagan mi jornada.
Las paredes se van
queda la noche
las nostalgias se van
no queda nada.
Ya mi rostro de vos
cierra los ojos
y es una soledad
tan desolada.
(Mario Benedetti, Paso de Toros)]]> Fri, 01 Jul 2005 06:07:00 EDT http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/168897 http://Miltoncito.tigblog.org/post/168899 Yo me celebro y me canto, y de lo que me apropie te debes apropiar, pues cada átomo mío te pertenece.

Ando vagabundo y me tiendo a mis anchas a mirar un tallo de hierba estival.

Mi lengua, cada átomo de mi sangre, se formaron de este suelo, de este aire, nacido aquí, de padres cuyos padres aquí también nacieron, al igual que sus padres.

A mis treinta y siete años, con una salud perfecta, he empezado a vivir, y sólo espero no dejar ya de hacerlo hasta mi muerte.

Que se callen ahora las escuelas y los credos, me sirvieron y nunca he de olvidarlo, acojo el bien o el mal, dejo que todo hable sin importarme el riesgo...

(Walt Whitman, Manhattan)

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