{"id":14816,"date":"2012-01-08T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T16:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14816"},"modified":"2012-01-08T08:37:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T16:37:24","slug":"sign-the-petition-to-stop-leslie-hernandezs-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14816","title":{"rendered":"Sign the petition to stop Leslie Hernandez&#8217;s deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of signal-boosting: If you&#8217;re willing, this certainly seems worth taking a couple of moments to sign. Might help, certainly won&#8217;t hurt. <a href=\"http:\/\/action.dreamactivist.org\/leslieh\/\">From DREAMactivist.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, John Morton and Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano:<\/p>\n<p>We, the undersigned, write to request that you take action to stop the deportation of DREAM eligible youth Leslie Hernandez-Hernandez and that she be released from St. Clair County Jail immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie has been detained in St. Clair County Jail, in Michigan, since October 24th. She has had to spend Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years, away from her three young children. Leslie was told that, when she was only 13 years old, she missed a court date and was given an \u201cin absentia\u201d removal. Leslie was not aware of this until ICE picked her up and detained her, separating her from her family and children.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie, now 25, was brought to the U.S. when she was only 11 years old. She is the single mother of three U.S. citizen children, ages 10, 5, and 3. Two of her children suffer from severe medical conditions. Leslie\u2019s 10 year old is disabled after being hit by an SUV two years ago and requires ongoing medical treatment including therapy, and her 5 year old daughter suffers from a respiratory condition. If deported, this family will be separated and the children won\u2019t receive proper medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DREAM_Act\">DREAM Act<\/a> eligible and, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/immigrationpolicy.org\/special-reports\/morton-memo-and-prosecutorial-discretion-overview\">the memo issued by John Morton<\/a>, is not a priority for deportation and should be granted favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion. Per President Obama\u2019s statements, Leslie shouldn\u2019t be detained and in the process of getting deported. Leslie should be released immediately so she can be reunited with her children.<\/p>\n<p>We, the undersigned, urge you to take action to stop the deportation of Leslie Hernandez-Hernandez and that she be released from St. Clair County Jail immediately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/action.dreamactivist.org\/leslieh\/\">Go here<\/a> to sign the petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of signal-boosting: If you&#8217;re willing, this certainly seems worth taking a couple of moments to sign. Might help, certainly won&#8217;t hurt. From DREAMactivist.org: To Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, John Morton and Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14816\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossposted-on-tada","category-immigration-migrant-rights-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14817,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions\/14817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}