Canal Alliance

DUI checkpoints are intended to get drunken drivers off the road. This is a worthy goal that most people support; however across the state the intention has changed with the addition of driver's license checks that directly or indirectly target immigrant communities.

It works like this: A large percentage of the population, 2.6 million people, are ineligible to get a driver's licenses in California.

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Our Executive Director, Tom Wilson, wrote an article for the Marin Independent Journal about Obama's approach to immigration.  Take a look:

SO-CALLED Secure Communities, the brainchild of the Bush administration, and continued by President Barack Obama, requires local law enforcement to share fingerprints with the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport tens of thousands of people each year.

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The purpose of the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act, also called the DREAM Act, is to help those individuals who meet certain requirements, have an opportunity to enlist in the military or go to college and have a path to citizenship which they otherwise would not have without this legislation. Supporters of the DREAM Act believe it is vital not only to the people who would benefit from it, but also the United States as a whole. It would give an opportunity to undocumented immigrant students who have been living in the U.S. since they were young, a chance to contribute back to the country that has given so much to them and a chance to utilize their hard earned education and talents.

Who would qualify?

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San Rafael, CA – January 7, 2010.  San Rafael Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two people who may be witnesses to the November homicide of a young man shot and killed outside his apartment.

On Monday, November 30th at 9:05 p.m. police responded to multiple reports of gunshots heard in the area of 100 Larkspur Street.  Arriving officers found a man down on the ground in the courtyard of the apartment complex.  The 22 year man had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim, later identified as Donald Espinoza-Ordonez, had just moved into the building that same day.

Investigators have learned that a man and woman seen in a nearby liquor store one hour prior to the shooting may be witnesses and have information vital to the case.  The surveillance photos were taken at 8:00 p.m. in Al’s Liquors at 36 Medway Road.  The store is about 2 blocks from the shooting scene.   

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