GALEO Applauds Mayor Kasim Reed & City of Atlanta for Welcoming Atlanta Efforts
Jerry Gonzalez, GALEO Executive Director, welcomes the opportunity to continue to serve as part of the Advisory Committee

Press Statement
PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

Media Contact: Jerry González, GALEO Executive Director Tel.: (404) 745-2580 / Email: Jerry@2014old.galeo.org

September 17, 2014 (ATLANTA, GA)- Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of GALEO, released the following statement today in response to Mayor Kasim Reed & the City of Atlanta’s announcement of implementation of the Welcoming Atlanta’s Working Group recommendations.

“GALEO applauds the Mayor of Atlanta’s leadership and vision to make the City of Atlanta an international destination and place to call home for New Americans. With the implementation of 20 of the recommendations developed by the Welcoming Atlanta Working Group, it demonstrates a strong commitment to make Atlanta more diverse, more competitive and a great place to live for all residents.

Mayor Kasim Reed Announces Results of Welcoming Atlanta Working Group

Posted Date: 9/17/2014 3:00 PM

Mayor Kasim Reed

Mayor’s Office of Communications
55 Trinity Avenue, Suite 2500 • Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Anne Torres, Director
404-330-6423, office
404-904-2618, cell
amtorres@atlantaga.gov

Melissa Mullinax, Deputy Director
404-330-6756,office
404-825-2430, cell
mjmullinax@atlantaga.gov

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 09/17/2014

News Release

Mayor Kasim Reed Announces Results of Welcoming Atlanta Working Group

Mayor Reed announces city’s commitment to recommendations provided by the Working Group to ensure that Atlanta’s newly arrived communities are integrated and supported

America’s Voice Reacts to News of Executive Action Delay

Washington, DC – As news reports today confirm, President Obama will officially delay his announcement on executive action until after the 2014 elections. Following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice:

“We are bitterly disappointed in the President and we are bitterly disappointed in the Senate Democrats. We advocates didn’t make the reform promise; we just made the mistake of believing it. The President and Senate Democrats have chosen politics over people; the status quo over solving real problems. To paraphrase the revolutionary writer Thomas Paine, these politicians are simply sunshine opportunists, who expect Latino voters to support them in good times, but when the going gets tough, they abandon Latinos and their issues as fast as you can say piñata.

GALEO Very Disappointed with President Obama’s Delay on Immigration Relief
President Opted for Politics over Sound Policy

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

Media Contact: Jerry González, GALEO Executive Director Tel.: (404) 745-2580 / Email: Jerry@2014old.galeo.org

September 8, 2014 (ATLANTA, GA)- Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of GALEO, released the following statement today in response to President Obama’s decision to delay relief for immigrant families.

“GALEO is very disappointed with President Obama’s political decision to delay immigration relief to immigrant families and communities. Despite President Obama’s promise on June 30th that he would act on his own at the end of the summer because of the lack of leadership and inaction in the U.S. House of Representatives, the President has chosen to break yet another promise to the Latino and immigrant communities.

GALEO Commends Fulton County Commissioners for urging Sheriff to decline ICE hold requests

PRESS Statement: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

Media Contact: Jerry González, GALEO Executive Director Tel.: (404) 745-2580 / Email: Jerry@2014old.galeo.org

September 3, 2014 (ATLANTA, GA)- Fulton County Commission scheduled a vote today on a Resolution urging the Fulton County Sheriff to “implement a policy to decline detainer requests from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”

Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of GALEO, testified today before the Fulton County Commission urging them to adopt the proposed resolution which was co-sponsored by four County Commissioners and led by Commissioner Joan Gardner. The Fulton County Commission had heard from community members of SONG, GLAHR and 9 to 5, in previous weeks of public comment period educating the commissioners on the issue and why the immigration holds were bad public policy and bad for our communities.

Found in america.aljazeera.com
Written by Azadeh Shahshahani
Posted on 08/08/2014

In June 2011 while traveling on Lawrenceville Highway in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Bonnie Horton and her husband were stopped at a roadblock and surrounded by uniformed officers and police vehicles. Bonnie remembers seeing at least five cars pulled over on the side of the road and young children and babies in at least two of those cars.

Found in La Voz Latina (Savannah)
Written by John Newton
Posted on 2014-07-01

I interviewed Melissa Vargas four years ago in the spring of 2010. The Groves High School graduate had just been awarded a four-year congressional scholarship to attend the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York.

West Point has produced more than its share of military heroes as well as national business and political leaders so there was lots of prestige attached to Melissa’s appointment. The fact that she was both Latina and the first member of her family to attend college made her story even more interesting. A first-generation American citizen, both her parents are from Mexico (her father was born in Guadalajara and her mother in San Luis Potosi).

Found in theatlantic.com
Written by Major Garrett
Posted on 2014-07-07

More than a dozen center-left and hard-left immigration groups sent representatives to what sounded like another uninspiring strategy session in the White House’s Roosevelt Room with senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and Cecilia Munoz, head of the Domestic Policy Council.

It was early on the afternoon of June 30, and none of the participants seated around the long rectangular table had any inkling President Obama was pissed. They would soon find out. Moreover, they would discover, to their surprise, that Obama was no longer pissed at them, but with them.