Portland Observer, M ay 6, 1982 Section II Page 3
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Pausing from their planning, the com m ittee for the annual Provi
dence M ontessori School W ine Tasting B en efit pose fo r a group
pho to g rap h . A ll parents of M o n tesso ri preschool stu d en ts, the
com m ittee members from left to right are: Kevin S tew art, M ichael
Benjamin, Ted Sharp (Com m ittee Chairmanl, Sharil Knutson, Sister
Barbara Schamber, S P (M ontessori Principal). Thersa Karafotias,
M arva Benjam in, Joann Stew ard, M arilyn Sharp (C o m m ittee Co-
chair), Gordon Knutson, and Shirley Gnagasegaram. Scheduled for
Saturday, M ay 15, the benefit includes a buffet supper, dancing and
door prizes. T ickets are $10 each. For m ore in fo rm a tio n , please
phone the Child Center at 234 9991.
A p re -M o th e r’ s Day Plant and
G ift Sale is scheduled for Friday and
S aturday, M ay 7 and 8, at P ro v i
dence C h ild Center, 830 N .E . 47th
Avenue. House plants, shrubs, bed
ding plants, vegetable starts, g ift
items and a bake sale w ill be o f
fered. Hours o f the sale w ill be from
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m . on Friday,
and from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on
Saturday.
The eighth annual fu n d -ra isin g
sale is sponsored by Dolores Circle
volunteers who are parents or
friends o f those in the C h ild re n ’ s
Nursing Center. Money raised at the
event w ill be added to a special fund
fo r handicapped ch ild re n in the
Children’s Nursing Center.
C h a irin g the event is Joanna
K irk; other committee members in
clude Ann Hartung, Betty Walklate,
Phyllis Hewett, and Janis Kinnear,
all Portland residents.
A ll plants and g ift items at the
sale have been donated by local mer
chants, nurseries, and florists. For
more in fo rm a tio n , phone 234-9991
during business hours.
Migrants face federal harassment
by Harris Levon McRae
’ ’ M exican and l a tin o w orkers,
w ith or w ith o u t docum ents, have
made this c o u n try econom ically
strong w ith their labor. In Oregon,
they form the backbone o f agricul
tural, reforestation and nursery in
dustries. In lim es o f econom ic
growth, they are welcomed, even re
cruited to work here. In limes o f re
cession, they, and immigrant w o rk
ers in general, are blamed for every
economic ill. Racist hysteria is re
generated; mass deportations be
come the order o f the day. We re
spond: im m igrant w orkers do not
‘ steal’ U.S. jobs, they create them .”
Ramon Ramiriz said in a press con
fcrencc in d o w n to w n P o rtla n d
yesterday.
Ramiriz was the key speaker for
the Coalition I or Immigrant Rights,
a group o f fourteen Oregon Hispan
ic organizations including the H is
panic Politican A ction Committee,
the Oregon C oalition for Immigrant
and Refugee Rights, and the Gover
n o r’ s Commission on Hispanic A f
fairs.
“ We arc here to denounce a pre
sent day offensive launched by the
Reagan adm inistration against the
basic human and legal rig h ts o f
Mexican im m igrants in the United
Stales. This offensive has taken at
least four forms: the proposal o f the
Im m ig ra tio n Reform and C o n tro l
Act, the Immigration and Naturaliz
a tion Service's (IN S ) "O p e ra tio n
J o b s,” the d e p o rta tio n o f Silva
letter holders and stepped-up INS
raids in the N O rth w e st,” R am iriz
said.
The Im m ig ra tio n R eform and
C o n tro l Act is a b ill sponsored by
Sen. A la n Sim pson (R -W yo ) and
Rep. Romano Mazzoli (D-Ky). C ur
rently the b ill is 78 pages long. Its
22 sections arc divided in to 3 “ t i
tles” — one on " C o n tr o l o f Illegal
Im m igration,” one on “ Reform o f
Legal Im m ig ra tio n ,” and one on
"L e g a liz a tio n ." The March 17 pre
sentation o f the b ill was an outline.
The details are supposed to be pre
sented to Congress in a few weeks in
another bill.
"W e believe the proposed nation
al identification card and employer
sanctions (in vo lvin g fines and ja il
sentences fo r hiring undocumented
workers) w ill only serve to increase
racism against non-whites seeking
employment. The legalization provi
sions w ill create a huge ’guest w ork
er' program denying workers bene
fits their tax dollars fund. Cutbacks
in due process p ro te c tio n s fo r
asylum applicants are unacceptable;
people who have fled to rtu re and
hardships deserve fu ll legal protec
tions. These cutbacks w ill most se
riously affect Latin Americans, es
p ecially H a itia n s and S alvadore
ans," Ramiriz commented.
The C oalition feels that the Rea
gan administration is hoping to gen-
erate su p p o rt fo r the proposals
among unemployed U.S. citizens so
they launched “ Operation Jobs.”
"N in e major U.S. cities were tar
geted. The IN S surrounded fa c
to rie s, accosting a ll H ispanic
w orkers and dem anding p ro o f o f
U.S. citizenship or non-citizen legal
status. N a tio n a lly, over 6,000 per
sons were detained, but a large per
centage were released. In Los A n
geles, fo r example, 330 o f 613 per
sons arrested in the first four days
o f O p e ra tio n Jobs were released.
M any were U.S. citizens or la w fu l
permanent residents. Detainees re
ported being threatened by INS with
in d e fin ite d e tentio n and physical
violence i f they requested legal
counsel or refused immediate ’ v o l
untary’ deportation,” Ramiriz said.
“ D u rin g any k in d o f econom ic
dow nturn there is a reaction from
the com m unity at large. There are
many acts o f violence th ro u g h o u t
the state that are race-related. It has
to do with competition fo r jobs and
resources. The Hispanic population
should not suffer fo r economic poli
cies in the U .S .," Gale C a stillo o f
the Hispanic Political Action Com
mittee added.
For Ramon R am iriz, Gale Cas
tillo , and the other representatives
o f the C o a litio n , yesterday was a
very special day.
R a m iriz com m ents, “ M ay 5th,
1982 marks the 120th anniversary o f
the M exican A rm y ’ s v ic to ry over
French occupation forces. Fot Mex
ican people throughout the w o rld ,
the F ilth o f May celebrates freedom
and reaffirm s the spirit o f resistance
against threats to freedom ."
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