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Recently enjoying: Modern Family (hilarious :) ) A Song for Ourselves (I watched again for like...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:00 -0500

Recently enjoying:

Modern Family (hilarious :) )

A Song for Ourselves (I watched again for like the 6th time last night)

Miley Cyrus (sorry, but hey she’s a little country, a little pop, i like it)

the thought of school ending…

edit: Art Laboe jams Thai food w/ carlos in Pomona off of Indian Hill, we get chinese brocolli fried rice, pad kee mow, and wonton soup

The death of PFC Kham Xiong -- scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan next month -- on U.S. soil at the hands of a Fort Hood gunman compounds this family's grief.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:48:02 -0500

Chor Xiong pulled a worn black wallet from his back pocket Friday night and extracted two photographs. One showed his 18-year-old son, Nelson Xiong, stoic in a dress blue military uniform. The other showed his stern-faced oldest son, 23-year-old Kham Xiong, in camouflage fatigues.

Chor has been worried about Nelson, who is fighting in Afghanistan and due back in Minnesota on Nov. 28. So when the phone rang at his family’s home on St. Paul’s East Side at 3 a.m. Friday, Chor braced himself for bad news about Nelson.

rest of story:

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/69386657.html?page=1&c=y

Photo

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:53:22 -0500

Halloween (does my hair look darker? it should.) (carlos’...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:49:41 -0500

Halloween (does my hair look darker? it should.) (carlos’ “costume” was a big hit, mainly because his legs were exposed)

Photo

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:30:29 -0400

i put this together today, a jar full of Autumn, acorns and...

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:28:16 -0400

i put this together today, a jar full of Autumn, acorns and leaves from Claremont Graduate Univ. the leaves should change colors too.

edatrix: xenializ:via lh4.ggpht.com hey man that’s me...

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:31:46 -0400

edatrix:

xenializ:via lh4.ggpht.com

hey man that’s me and Smokey and an orange version of another one of my cats (this scenario used to happen a lot at home)

(via yearslater)

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:29:29 -0400

(via yearslater)

this week i’m watching my parents house in moreno valley, feeding the pets etc. it kinda sucks...

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:34:35 -0400

this week i’m watching my parents house in moreno valley, feeding the pets etc. it kinda sucks because i have school or day labor corner every day so i have to drive back and forth which is 45 minutes which is a lot of gas. so far momo had a dingleberry on her butt which i cut off, i did two loads of laundry, one whole load was underwear!

emilietherese: Cats having conversation. (Great translation...

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:20:53 -0400

emilietherese:

Cats having conversation.

(Great translation :)

hahaha

OMG this is hilarious i miss my kitties, watch it

edatrix: omg. AWWWWWWW

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:59:20 -0400

edatrix:

omg.

AWWWWWWW

I’m excited to read this book too: We ARE Americans:...

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:09:17 -0400

I’m excited to read this book too: We ARE Americans: Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream, author William Perez (my prof.)

I’m excited to read this book for my ethnography/field...

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:06:29 -0400

I’m excited to read this book for my ethnography/field methods class.

fall semester '09

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:58:00 -0400

Monday 1-3:30 Field Methods in Cultural Studies

Wednesday 7-9:50 Dissertation/Thesis

Thursday 4-6:50 Education of Immigrant Youth

no more quotas from ICE

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:26:49 -0400

Immigration official says agents will no longer
have quotas

August 17, 2009

L.A. Times

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced today that he has ended quotas on a controversial program designed to go after illegal immigrants who have ignored deportation orders and that he planned to make more changes to the program soon.

John Morton, who took over as head of the federal agency in May, said during a meeting with reporters in Los Angeles that the program needs to do what it was created to do — target absconders who have already had their day in court.

“The fugitive operations program needs to focus first and foremost on people who have knowingly flouted an immigration removal order and within that category obviously we will focus first on criminals,” he said.

Beginning in 2003, the agency dispatched teams around the country to arrest and deport immigrants with criminal records and outstanding deportation orders. During widely publicized sweeps, armed agents showed up at homes and apartment buildings and arrested tens of thousands of immigrants.

Immigrant rights groups criticized the early morning raids, saying they divided families and resulted in the arrests of many who had no criminal records or deportation orders.

A report by the Migration Policy Institute this year showed that 73% of the nearly 97,000 people arrested by those teams between 2003 and early 2008 did not have criminal records. The report also showed that in 2006, the agency stopped requiring that two-thirds of those arrested be criminals and allowed the teams to include nonfugitives in their tally.

That same year, the teams were expected to increase their annual arrests from 125 to 1,000, the report said.

Morton said Monday that there is nothing wrong with targets but that hard quotas don’t make sense.

“I just don’t think that a law enforcement program should be based on a hard number that must be met,” he said. “I just don’t think that’s a good way to go about it. So we don’t have quotas anymore.”

Morton said, however, that he would continue enforcing the law against immigrants who have fought their cases and lost.

“It is important that the system have integrity,” he said. “I am not signaling in any way that we are not going to enforce the law against noncriminal fugitives.”

There are 104 fugitive operation teams, up from 8 when the program started. The immigration agency received $226 million for the program this year, up from $9 million in 2003.

— Anna Gorman

a must see. my mom and cat dance it up in the garage.

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:10:58 -0400

a must see. my mom and cat dance it up in the garage.

more ‘up north’ pics

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:07:36 -0400

more ‘up north’ pics

hehe

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:49:00 -0400

hehe

I love this song and I love this video. heck I love this album...

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:23:08 -0400

I love this song and I love this video. heck I love this album too.

I’m finally done with my Spanish class, Espanol dos a...

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:32:37 -0400

I’m finally done with my Spanish class, Espanol dos a Chaffey. six weeks. at the beginning i really thought i wouldn’t learn much, but I think there has been a good improvement in my Spanish, especially with the help of me being on the day labor corner twice a week. the worst part about the class was definitely the group project. everything you would hate about a group project took place. but i did learn some stuff. or re-learned some stuff. My group did our project on Colombia. fact Ugly Betty is from Colombia. Fernandy Botero paints people and animals muy gordos.