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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Immigrant Murders a Loss to Cincinnati and Families
Posted by Media Release
NALACC urges authorities to thoroughly investigate murders and protect immigrant community—-
Los Angeles, CA – The National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC), the largest Latin American immigrant-led organization in the U.S., condemned the deaths of four Latino immigrant men in Cincinnati, one of the fastest growing immigrant hubs in the nation. NALACC urged authorities in the City of Sharonville (part of Butler and Hamilton Counties, Ohio), to investigate the case thoroughly and to assure the immigrant community that they can speak to police without risking arrest or deportation due to their immigration status.
“These men were working men with families and helping build Ohio’s infrastructure. When anyone suffers a death under these horrible, violent conditions we should all be very alarmed,” stated Oscar Chacón, NALACC Executive Director.
“We demand that the authorities thoroughly and promptly investigate the causes of these deaths and prosecute those responsible to the full extent of the law. While doing so, we ask that officials such as Sheriff Jones drop his anti-immigrant, anti-public safety stand and assure the immigrant community that they can come forward with any information they may have about the case without risking arrest or deportation due to their immigration status,” added Mr. Chacón.
No one has yet come forward with information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators. NALACC has worked for years urging federal legislators to approve just and humane immigration reform as a way to help bring undocumented immigrants out of the shadows.
Members of Cincinnati’s Coalition for Immigrant Rights and Dignity (CODEDI) reacted with concern to the news of the four murdered men: “If Sheriff Jones and other anti-immigrant extremists in the area would spend as much time finding real criminals as they do scaring off and intimidating vulnerable immigrant communities, people would not be so afraid to come forward when something like this happens. The anxiety and fear they create with their divisive actions ultimately places all communities in danger,” stated Sylvia Castellanos, member of CODEDI.
NALACC conducted its annual leadership gathering in Cincinnati this past November to celebrate the growing Latino immigrant presence in Ohio. Intolerance of immigrants, especially in Butler County, is not uncommon and efforts are under way to launch campaigns that foster a sense of unity and dialogue among all communities, especially African Americans and Latinos.
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19 Dec 2007 at 03:06 am | #
God Bless men who care enough about family to risk their freedom and very lives to put food on the table and roofs over their heads. God Bless these men - and forgive us for making them invisible .
19 Dec 2007 at 02:08 pm | #
I know just what the NALACC means. Our legal system would never think of looking the other way about a more petty crime (like breaking immigration laws) in order to solve a more serious crime like murder. Just ask all the petty criminals who get immunity to testify in murder trials. News flash: the huge base of the anti-open borders crowd opposses prosecuting any illegal who helps solve a murder. Anyone not sophisticated enough to grasp that probably wouldn’t make a good citizen.
19 Dec 2007 at 09:30 pm | #
Immigrant Latino fathers, generally, take fatherhood and being the family provider very seriously. They’d die for their families, and many do. Sleeping on the floor, living with the barest necessities in order to send money home to their families. Compare that to many American-born fathers that couldn’t care less if their multiple kids, by multiple mothers, have a home, food, clothing. They just dump them on the system, then blame the system, then wash their hands. Can you imagine American born fathers hitchhiking or walking across the country just to get a job for minimum wages? That’s a real man. A real father. A real husband. Immigrants, with or without papers, come to America with very different values. Very different values.
20 Dec 2007 at 12:29 am | #
Oh, this crime has mob/human trafficking/etc. written *all* over it! I’d worry a whole whole lot if I were a witness or knew anything. Deportation would probably be dead last on my list of worries.
20 Dec 2007 at 11:59 am | #
Suz, comparing Latino fatherhood to American fatherhood has nothing to do with the illegal nature of their presence here. If the values they bring with them include flaunting our laws then we are better off without them.
20 Dec 2007 at 07:21 pm | #
JFD - Blah. Blah. Blah. Since I am a Citizen of the World and don’t believe in artificial borders concocted by and for the benefit of rich people, I don’t recognize the laws that you hold so dear. Mexicans, Asians, Africans, South Americans, etc. are all my brothers and sisters and I welcome them.
20 Dec 2007 at 09:36 pm | #
Suz #6: “Since I am a Citizen of the World and don’t believe in artificial borders concocted by and for the benefit of rich people, I don’t recognize the laws that you hold so dear.”
Has the State Department received your renouncement of US citizenship yet? Do you own property here? If you do, you should give it to someone completely undeserving; as you only own it as long as the laws I hold so dear are in effect; that will save them the time and inconvenience of taking it from you.
21 Dec 2007 at 12:48 am | #
Why would welcoming other people as friends and neighbors negate my rights to own land. Don’t be ridiculous. I don’t believe that nobody should own land. I think everyone should that can earn the money to buy it. And have immigrants been lurking around your property trying to snatch it from you?
Being a Citizen of the World doesn’t renounce my U.S. citizenship. I am a citizen of here and everywhere. That makes you feel squeamish huh?
21 Dec 2007 at 02:43 am | #
When a law goes unenforced it no longer bears the strength of being a law - it is obscure, outdated, like a blue-law,...
21 Dec 2007 at 09:06 am | #
Suz #8 : “Why would welcoming other people as friends and neighbors negate my rights to own land. Don’t be ridiculous.”
The only thing that allows you to own anything, are laws you don’t believe in. Since those are the laws that protect your rights of ownership, then you should give up ownership of what those laws afford you. International borders are no different than the property line between you and your neighbors. So between your statements about your citizenship and non belief in US law; one can only infer your desire to live propertyless out there in the world some where else. Who knew you were a closet anarchist.
21 Dec 2007 at 09:08 pm | #
I threw off the shackles of nationalism decades ago. It frees the mind and the heart. There’s no point in arguing with me. It’s as ingrained as probably your religion is with you. I’ve never felt the feeling that people describe as patriotism in my life. Saluting flags, pledging allegiance, getting teary-eyed over lies perpetuated for centuries for the purpose of assuring that a disenfranchised population will still be willing to fight for the rich. (How many wealthy people fly into a patriotic frenzy and lay their lives on the line without question? I say none, though they occasionally participate as privileged officers).
A country is just a place to be. And this country has economic advantages that are appealing to non-Americans. Many of those advantages have been gained at the expense of the the countries those very people are fleeing. So my position makes perfect sense. If people (probably you) believe in the free market and capitalism and that everything will even out without regulations on business, why wouldn’t the same thing happen with borders or populations. People will come. There’s tons of rooms. Have you ever driven across country. It’s empty! Immigrants will generate jobs and opportunities. If allowed they will settle in and have families and live their lives. Some will be bad just like those that are born here and some will be good also.
23 Dec 2007 at 02:13 pm | #
#11 Suz: “I threw off the shackles of nationalism decades ago. It frees the mind and the heart.”
Should read “I threw off the shackles of logic decades ago”. You can’t even stay on topic with your position; the only correct thing you’ve said is, that there is no point in arguing with you.
23 Dec 2007 at 03:39 pm | #
JFD in #5 you said that we’re better off without them. I disagree. I told you why in each and every response. Like many of the Beacon tricksters, when you can’t come up with a solid rebuttal, you claim that I’m not logical.