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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
californiamexicocenter@gmail.com
Website: www.california-mexicocenter.org
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"El Magonista"
Vol. 4 No. 34
October 18th, 2016
Short Film, How Trump Would
Deport the "Undocumented"
and The Return of Bilingual
Education

Featured News:

Elections to Define Immigration Reform,

Bilingual Education, and More: Vote!
Border Angels and Deportation Resistance
Present
How Trump Would Deport the
"Undocumented"

"In a society where undocumented citizens in the United

States were hunted down and taken away from their
families."
Watch this moving short film about the unsettling events that could take
place if Trump were to take office. This video was sponsored by
www.BorderAngels.org & www.DeportationResistance.com.
See more on our website.

The Return of Bilingual Education

Bilingual education has been absent from
California public schools for almost 20 years.
But Prop 58 may soon change that (LA Times)

Now on the Nov. 8 ballot, almost two decades later, is a measure that
seeks to overhaul that law. Proposition 58, the product of 2014
legislation written by Lara, would repeal English-only instruction in
public schools, giving local parents and teachers the control to develop
their own multilingual programs.
Read More

Californians, Having Curbed Bilingual

Education, May Now Expand It (NY Times)

Now, voters are being asked to overturn the measure in November,

allowing school districts to implement more programs like those at
Cahuenga, where students often learn in their native language. In a
state where immigrants now make up roughly 25 percent of the
population, the initiative is yet another test of how California's attitude
toward immigrants has changed over the past two decades.
Read More

Upcoming Events:

We Invite You to Attend COLEF-CMSC's

International Seminar on Migration and Public
Policy

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) and the California-Mexico

Studies Center (CMSC) will host an international seminar on November

17 and 18, 2016 at the COLEF campus in Tijuana, Mexico; to address
the prospects and policy agenda for the 60-million U.S. Latino population,
in the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election. The seminar will focus
upon issues pertaining to a comprehensive immigration reform, Dreamers
on both sides of the border, the role of higher education institutions
relative to policy studies and research, and other topics regarding
immigration between both nations such as U.S. citizen children exiled in
Mexico and Central America, and deported veterans and mothers of U.S.
citizens.
Goal of the Seminar:
Promote a post-election binational discussion between Mexico and U.S.
stakeholders on migration and immigration reform in the U.S., and the role
of Higher Education Institutions, through a dialogue involving immigrants,
academics and policymakers.
Hosted by COLEF and the CMSC, in collaboration with:

Hermandad Mexicana Humanitarian Foundation, Santa Ana,

California
Comunidad Interdisciplinaria de Estudios Migratorios (CIEM)
Programa de Estudios sobre Latinos en EEUU, Casa de las
Amricas
Centro Tlahuica de Lenguas e Intercambio Cultural (CETLALIC),
Mxico
Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos y de Fronteras
(SPECHF), INAH-DEAS
Coordinadora Nacional de Inmigracin 2016, Chicago, Illinois
Otros Dreams en Accin (ODA)
Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migracin, A.C. (IMUMI)
Border Angels - Angeles de la Frontera

Seminar Schedule Overview:

Day 1, Thursday Nov. 17, 2016: Full Seminar Program

Seminar program starts from 9 am to 4:40 pm at COLEF

Complimentary lunch will be provided

Day 2, Friday Nov. 18, 2016: Field Research and Guided visits
(optional)
Field research and guided visits to La Casa del Migrante en Tijuana, The
Bunker Center for Deported U.S. Military Veterans, and the U.S.-Mexico
border at playas de Tijuana.
Click here to Download the Seminar Program
to see full details of the program.
Hotel Accommodations:
There will be no complementary hotel accommodations, however, if you
are interested, COLEF will be able to secure a special discount rate if you
stay at Hotel Real del Rio. If you would like to know more information
about this special discount, please check the box "Yes, I want to reserve
hotel accommodations with Real del Rio at a discounted price" in the
registration form.

Sponsors:

For more information visit the CMSC website.

Remember: Opening the Door of Hope

"Abriendo la Puerta de la Esperanza"

At 12pm on Saturday November 19th--the day following the close of this

conference--an organization called Border Angels will be hosting an event
you will not want to miss! Border Angels will be making history once again
by bringing families together at Friendship Park for a World Children's Day
Celebration. For more information about the event, visit the event
information page.

Past Events:

The Marco Antonio Firebaugh Tribute Night

Was a Success!

Attendees at the event, including members of Marco A. Firebaugh's Family, and our very own
Professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos.

Last Thursday evening, Future Underrepresented Educational Leaders

(F.U.E.L.), in collaboration with the California-Mexico Studies Center,
hosted a Tribute for Marco Antonio Firebaugh in celebration of what would
be his 50th birthday.
Students who have benefitted from Firebaugh's legislative legacy,
prominent local leaders, administrators from Marco Antonio Firebaugh
High School, community members, and several members of Firebaugh's
family--including his mother, daughter, and his sisters' families--were all in
attendance. Through a documentary and a number of moving speeches
from people who knew and worked with Firebaugh, attendees enjoyed this
special opportunity to learn about his life and legacy. We even celebrated
with cake and Las Maanitas!
We look forward to continuing to honor the legacy of Marco Antonio

Firebaugh, both through annual tribute nights and through the work we do
everyday.
Enjoy some of the photos takes at the event, and to learn more about
Marco Antonio Firebaugh, read this article from the CMSC website.

F.U.E.L. Leaders presented Marco A. Firebaugh's

family with a certificate to honor his life and

Members of Firebaugh's family with administrators

and the mother of three students from the Marco

legacy.

Antonio Firebaugh High School.

South Gate Mayor Jorge Morales reflecting on the

impact Marco A. Firebaugh has had on his
personal life and on the lives of students across
California.

Latest News:

Marco A. Firebaugh's daughter, Ariana, speaking

about herself and her father's life and legacy.

The Day I Learned I Was Mexican And

Poor
When you grow up in a segregated community and poor,
often times, you're not aware of your ethnicity and class
status. Growing up in tight-knit Mexican communities, from
Tijuana, Mexico, to East Los Angeles, I didn't realize that I
was Mexican and poor until my first day of junior high
school.

Read More

The Nazi echoes in Trump's tweets

It goes without saying that Donald Trump is no Hitler - there
is only one Hitler - and the firebombing of a Trump
campaign office in Orange County, N.C., Saturday night
was no Reichstag fire. But nevertheless there were some
disturbing echoes of 1933 in Trump's immediate response.
He tweeted: "Animals representing Hillary Clinton and
Dems in North Carolina just firebombed our office in
Orange County because we are winning."

Read More

Shameful Silence on Donald Trump's Lies

About Vote-Rigging
It may be too late for the Republican Party to save itself
from the rolling disaster of Donald Trump, but the party's
top leaders still have the duty to speak out and help save
the country from his reckless rhetoric. The most frightening
example is Mr. Trump's frenzied claim that the presidential
election is being "rigged" against him - a claim he has
ramped up as his chances of winning the presidency have
gone down.

Read More

The G.O.P. After Donald Trump

In November, when Mr. Trump's meteor enters the
atmosphere of the voting booth, Americans will be treated
to a spectacular flameout as late-night comedians and
professional Twitter warriors rush to tweet, "You're fired!"
But when the Russians go home, the pastors repent and
riot police disperse white nationalist protests, the
Republicans will need fresh ideas.

Read More

This City Is 78% Latino, and the Face of a

New California
These days, Santa Ana stands as the face of a new
California, a state where Latinos have more influence in
everyday life - electorally, culturally and demographically than almost anywhere else in the country. There are limits
to the transformation here, both in economics, where
Latinos still lag far behind the state as a whole, and in
politics, where remarkable gains in Latino power have not yet translated to the most
powerful statewide offices. But the Latino progress in this state offers a glimpse of how
much of the country will probably look in coming decades.

Read More
In City Built by Immigrants, Immigration Is the
Defining Political Issue
But the city's economic evolution has left behind its
previous, non-Hispanic working class, and the
presidential election has crystallized its frustrations.
Many of those losing ground economically, including
lifelong Democrats, say they plan to vote for Donald J.
Trump, the Republican nominee. Many of those who are prospering, including
lifelong Republicans, say they will vote for the Democrat, Hillary Clinton.
Read More

Da de la Raza
Be that as it may, by whatever name we give it, however
way we cut it, it is the same cake - the date commemorates
the arrival of the Europeans to America (which for them
was a "new world"), not a visit but an invasion, a genocide,
a subjugation of the peoples of that "new world" ... What
the date marks is a continuous colonization, exploitation,
abuse, outrage of the indigenous peoples of the Americas
that has scarcely lessened, that has persisted these five-hundred and some years.

Read More

In downtown Santa Ana, some Latino

merchants try to surf wave of
gentrification
For generations, Santa Ana's downtown has been a
marketplace for primarily Spanish-speaking immigrants many of them new arrivals from Mexico who came to shop
for the kinds of goods and services they could find in their homeland. As on Broadway in
downtown Los Angeles, it was businesses catering to Latino immigrants that kept 4th
Street financially viable after the white population left decades before.

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