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VOLUME 20, NO. 38
PASADENA PH.D. CANDIDATE FILES SUIT AGAINST TRUMP REGARDING DACA Story & Photo Terry MILLER
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n a 46-page Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief filed on Sept. 18, a Pasadena Ph.D. student, along with five other plaintiffs, filed a civil case against the Trump administration regarding the decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA as it has become known. Norma Ramirez is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology from the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. The suit states that: “Plaintiff Norma Ramirez (“Ms. Ramirez”) is a DACA recipient and a candidate fora Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Ms. Ramirez was brought to the United States from Mexico when she was five years old. The government’s decision to terminate the DACA program will deprive Ms. Ramirez of her DACA status and the numerous valuable benefits she is entitled to by virtue of that status. The termination of DACA also will frustrate Ms. Ramirez’s ability to realize her dream of opening a free multidisciplinary therapy clinic to immigrant youth and their families.” The additional plaintiffs in the complaint have similar stories which can be read on the document Pasadena Independent obtained. It can be accessed on our website.
At a recent protest in Pasadena, hundreds took to the streets to voice their objection to the Trump administration’s hardline on immigration and particularly DACA. One young student held a sign which read “Educators for Immigration.” - Photos by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
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Deer Slaughtered by Bow Hunter in Monrovia Neighborhood
DISTRICT-BASED ELECTIONS COMING SOON TO ARCADIA
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On Sept. 19, the Arcadia City Council held a public hearing to allow citizens to voice their concerns about the proposed maps for the inevitable district-based elections coming soon to Arcadia. This is the fourth public hearing that the city council held about the
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Monrovia neighborhood residents are irate about a hunter who shot and killed a deer in Monrovia last week. On Thursday Sept. 14, Chuck Tapert, a resident of Monrovia on Patrician Way discovered blood in his neighborhood. Checking the - Courtesy of Chuck Tapert, Facebook
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transition to district-based elections as the city council prepares citizens for the coming change. As per the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA), district-based elections are meant to give support to minority groups in order to ensure that their voices are heard and not drowned out in local elections. However, concern for the transition
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from at-large elections to district-based elections lies in the controversy of whether or not drawing district lines divides Arcadia and breaks up the community. City Manager Dominic Lazzaretto doesn’t think that “going to districts is actually the best case SEE PAGE 3
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