Saturday - April 15, 2006

Deported

She’s been in this country six years illegally. She owns a spanish language newspaper and a radio station right here in St. Louis. They finally got around to deporting her. A Republican Senator and two Democratic Congressmen tried to stop her from being deported. Read the article below and remember the names of these politicians when you go to vote in November ....

Missouri Hispanic Newspaper Publisher Deported
_{April 15, 2006, 3:22 PM EDT}

ST. LOUIS (AP)—The publisher of a Spanish-language newspaper said Saturday she will continue her work even though she has been deported after a five-year legal battle over her immigration status. Cecilia Velazquez was escorted into Mexico on Friday and will be barred from re-entering the United States for 10 years, said Carl Rusnok, spokesman for the Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency.

Velazquez, 36, is the publisher of Red Latina, meaning “Latin network.” She also is president of Radio CuCui, a group that brings performers and commentators to WEW-AM radio in St. Louis. Velazquez said by cell phone Saturday from Mexico City that Red Latina will carry on and she will continue as publisher, possibly from Cancun.

“We are the voice of my population. They need to know what’s going on,” she told The Associated Press. “I know we can do it. I have the Internet and my cell phone. I can make all the meetings. We need to tell the people `Don’t be afraid. Don’t be scared. I’ll be back.’” Her attorney, Raymond R. Bolourtchi, said her departure “can only hurt and damage the Hispanic community. She was their voice.”

Velazquez had entered the country on a visitors visa, but Rusnok said she was stopped in December 2000 in Houston by authorities who determined she was “actually an intending immigrant.” He said she was given two weeks to return to Mexico, but remained in this country and was arrested in 2003 in St. Louis.

She lost a series of appeals but had hoped letters of support written by politicians including U.S. Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO) and U.S. Reps. William Lacy Clay Jr. (D-MO) and Russ Carnahan (D-MO) would stave off her deportation. The newspaper has five people in St. Louis and 17 people working with the radio station.

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/15/2006 at 11:56 PM   
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