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For Immediate Release: November 20, 2014

For Information: Jan B. Tucker, CALLAC State Director (as above)
CALLAC Says Time For Executive Action on Immigration Action
Long Overdue
Reacting to the impending announcement that President Obama would issue an
executive order to address congressional inaction on immigration legislation, the
California League of Latin American Citizens (CALLAC) gave an initial single word
summary of its viewpoint: ORALE!
Jan Tucker, State Director of CALLAC, described the elements of the impending
executive order as gleaned from news reports as positive to the extent that law abiding
working families are protected and that the family reunification principals of the
Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1976 (INA)signed into law by
Republican President Gerald R. Fordare followed. We have long said that immigration
action must provide a pathway to citizenship and which takes into consideration
families, whether the families are here or not. This action would not even have been
made if not for the Latino and especially the growing Chicano vote and our decades of
grassroots action demanding changeactions which must continue with increased
vigor.
In President Ford's October 21, 1976 signing statement of the INA he told the world
that:
This legislation will also facilitate the reunification of
Mexican-American families by giving preference to Mexican
nationals who are close relatives of United States citizens or
lawful permanent residents, or who have needed job skills. I
am concerned, however, about one aspect of the legislation
which has the effect of reducing the legal immigration into
this country from Mexico. Currently about 40,000 natives of

Mexico legally immigrate to the United States each year.

This legislation would cut that number in half.
The United States has a very special and historic
relationship with our neighbor to the south. In view of this
special status we have with the Mexican Government and
the Mexican people, I will submit legislation to the Congress
in January to increase the immigration quotas for Mexicans
desiring to come to the United States.
Shortly after its formation, CALLAC adopted national goals proposed in a leaflet which
the group charged have yet to be addressed either by the bipartisan legislation that
passed the United States Senate and stalled in the House or by the President's
imminent executive order:
Recognition of the need to redress grievances of the special
status of Mexicans and people of Mexican origin in the
context of the conquest of Mexican territory in an unjust war,
the unlawful ethnic cleansing of 2 million people including
1.2 million United States citizens in the 1930s, and continual
US interference in the internal affairs of Mexico
Recognition and respect for the rights of indigenous Native
Americans in the context of their conquest, de facto
attempted genocide and negotiated peace treaties.
Far reaching proposals for immigration action have been put forth by CALLAC and its
sister organization PALLAC which they contend address the underlying systemic
economic, cultural, and international legal issues which an American unilateralist
approach to immigration continues to ignore.
Pennsylvania League of Latin American Citizens (PALLAC) State Director Ruben
Botello, has long proposed an American Union which would emulate the European
Union (EU). In a 2011 article on the subject, Botello wrote that:
Instead of band-aid approaches to the immigration problems
its sovereignties face, this region of the world needs an
American Union (AU) similar to the European Union (EU)
that helped end the serious conflicts and hostilities between
the EU's member nations that led to World War II.
CALLAC State Director Jan B. Tucker has pushed for invocation of Article XXI of the
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo as a means to legitimize the process of migration action
and to place it within the multilateral context of the legal relationship between the United
States of America, the United States of Mexico, and of the treaty rights of Native

American tribes, many of whom assert the sovereign authority to make their own
immigration rules for Mexican and other immigrants. According to Tucker, Article XXI
provides for a bilateral commission or third-nation neutral arbitration for issues between
the United States and Mexico.
It is a truth of history that the border crossed the indigenous peoples of the Western
Hemispherenot the other way aroundand unilateral efforts to block centuries old
patterns of migration are doomed to fail in the short and the long run, said Tucker, who
holds a double major B.A. cum laude in Political Science & Chicano Studies.
Consistent with the model proposed by my friend and colleague Ruben Botello,
however this process moves forward, it should also formalize U.S. [EEUU] recognition
of dual citizenship as a step towards Western Hemispheric integration.
In a related move, the Office of the Minister of Information of the National Brown Berets
de Aztlan (NBBDA), applauded the statements of CALLAC calling for the invocation of
Guadalupe Hidalgo Article XXI remedies.
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