By: Matt Cobb
With Hurricane Ike steaming into the Gulf of Mexico, Texas emergency officials Tuesday stood ready to evacuate 1 million people from the impoverished Rio Grande Valley.
They put Lubbock on standby to provide refuge to what could be as many as 1,000 evacuees.
The Lubbock City Council appropriated $500,000 for emergency items to provide assistance and care to the evacuees, according to a statement made by the city. The state will reimburse all of the city's expenditures.
The Lubbock-based American Red Cross South Plains Regional Chapter is waiting to be notified by its national chapter before it begins to provide aid in response to the storm, said Megan Graham, fund development director of the chapter.
The chapter already is preparing to help with the evacuees and is waiting for proper notification, Graham said. It is planning to provide assistance both in Lubbock and wherever the storm makes landfall.
"We have a possibility of sending out an emergency response vehicle down to the coastline," Graham said. "It can feed up to 500 people at one time and could be down there for up to two weeks."
The City Bank Auditorium and Coliseum is set up to hold evacuees, Graham said, including 500 cots that were set up for evacuees expected to arrive after Hurricane Gustav. Necessary supplies also are in place.
The Texas Tech Police Department is preparing to provide security support to evacuees, said Gordon Hoffman, deputy chief of the department. They are planning to provide security to the coliseum and to aid with possible parking issues in any way they can if evacuees are brought to Lubbock.
"The word I've been given is that the city may get up to 1,000 evacuees," Hoffman said. "They could start arriving as soon as tomorrow, so we're preparing right now."
Emergency planning officials met all day Tuesday to decide if and when to announce a mandatory evacuation for coastal counties close to the Mexican border, according to the Associated Press.
With forecasts showing Hurricane Ike blowing ashore this weekend, authorities lined up nearly 1,000 buses in the region in case they are needed to move out the many poor and elderly people who have no cars.
Federal authorities gave assurances they would not check evacuees' immigration status at evacuation loading zones or inland checkpoints.
But residents were skeptical, according to the AP, and there were worries that many illegal immigrants would refuse to board buses and go to shelters for fear of getting arrested and deported.
"People are nervous," said the Rev. Michael Seifert, a Roman Catholic priest and immigrant advocate, according to the AP. "The message that was given to me was that it's going to be a real problem."
One reason for the skepticism: Back in May, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the U.S. Border Patrol would do nothing to impede an evacuation in the event of a hurricane. But when Hurricane Dolly struck the Rio Grande Valley in late July, no mandatory evacuation was ordered, and as a result the U.S. Border Patrol kept its checkpoints open. Agents soon caught a vanload of illegal immigrants.
It would be the first mandatory large-scale evacuation in South Texas history. State and county officials let people decide for themselves whether to leave a hurricane area until just before Hurricane Rita struck the Gulf Coast in 2005. Now county officials can order people out of harm's way.
Hidalgo County Judge J.D. Salinas said to the AP if an evacuation is ordered this time, county officials will visit immigrant neighborhoods and forcefully urge people to clear out.
After Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav, "There were a lot of immigrants who said, 'I'm not going to go,'" said Salinas, the county's top elected official. "It's going to be hard."
In Washington, Rear Adm. W. Craig Vanderwagen, assistant U.S. health secretary for preparedness and response, told reporters: "In storm events, if people are trapped it doesn't particularly matter to those of us in the humanitarian assistance world which side of that border they come from. We will do what we need to do to evacuate the people who need to be evacuated."
At 5 p.m. EDT, Ike was about 90 miles southwest of Havana, Cuba, moving northwest at 10 mph with sustained winds near 75 mph. It was expected to cross the Gulf of Mexico, strengthening to a Category 3 with winds of up to 130 mph.
Forecasters said that it could hit on Saturday morning almost anywhere along the Texas coast, with the most likely spot close to the Corpus Christi area.
Areas from Matagorda Bay to Corpus Christi and south to Brownsville - about 250 miles of coastline - were told to prepare for possible mandatory evacuation.
On Tuesday, Ike roared across Cuba, ravaging homes, killing at least four people and forcing 1.2 million to evacuate.
The Rio Grande Valley is still soggy from Dolly, which flooded the region, damaging hundreds of homes but killing no one. Many homes still have blue tarps on their roofs.
The Rio Grande Valley's residents are among those least equipped to handle hurricane flooding. It is one of the poorest parts of the country, with one-third of all families living below the poverty line, compared with 10 percent nationally.
Colonias, or ramshackle communities often lacking sewer systems and paved streets, dot the Valley. Even an ordinary rainstorm can fill yards with disease-ridden sewage from flooded septic tanks. Many of the poor lack health insurance.
Mexican officials said more than a dozen dams in the northern state of Chihuahua were at capacity or spilling over, heightening fears of flooding on the American side of the border.
Gov. Rick Perry declared 88 coastal counties disaster areas Monday to start the flow of state aid, and began preparing for an evacuation, lining up "buses rather than body bags."
The Dallas-Fort Worth area sheltered about 3,000 Hurricane Gustav evacuees last week and is prepared for up to about 20,000 people this time, said Steve Griggs, a county official, according to the AP. The downtown convention center would again serve as the main shelter.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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July 23, 2008
Lubbock Police Send Reminder To All Parents
7/23/08
Posted: July 23, 2008 09:05 PM CDT
The Lubbock Police Department is sending a strong reminder to parents after a 36-year-old man tried to sexually assault a teenage girl over the weekend.
The man, who police believe to be an illegal alien, is currently behind bars at the Lubbock County Jail. This alleged crime has prompted police to urge all parents with children living at home to discuss with your kids when to answer the door and when not to.
It was around 1:30 Sunday morning when Lubbock Police responded to an apartment complex just north of The Marsha Sharp Freeway construction project on Avenue U. When they arrived they learned of a 13-year-old girl locked in her bathroom and scared for her life.
"We're still trying to determine whether the parents were present, asleep or not and again, who called 911," said Lt. Greg Stevens with the Lubbock Police.
Lubbock Police say they are still working out the details, but say they do believe a 13-year-old girl was almost the victim of a sex crime. "According to the victim, he forced his way into the apartment, pushed her down in the apartment and attempted to sexually assault her. At some point he left the apartment and she locked herself inside a bathroom. He came back in the apartment to continue the assault however he was not able to get to her again and the police arrived and took the suspect into custody," described Stevens.
The suspect is 36-year-old Julian Vasquez. Vasquez is being held on $100,000 bond for the charge of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit aggravated sexual assault.
"To the extent that there was any kind of relationship there - let it be neighborhood friends or anything like that we're not sure at this time," said Stevens.
Police believe Vasquez does live in the neighborhood around 3rd and Avenue U and the victim told police she had seen Vasquez around but didn't know him. And that's prompting Lubbock Police to remind parents of the seriousness of leaving children home alone. "We always encourage families and parents to discuss with their children not to answer the door if they don't know who is at the door and not to answer the door if they don't expect any kind of company," said Stevens.
They also say folks should not to be afraid to dial 911. "What we really encourage people to do is if you're home and you feel anything suspicious whatsoever, if you feel nervous, just call 911 and let us send a police car out to check on things," added Stevens.
Vasquez is also being held until the border patrol determines whether or not he is an illegal alien. But whether he is or isn't, if found guilty of this crime he faces five to 99 years in prison.
Posted: July 23, 2008 09:05 PM CDT
The Lubbock Police Department is sending a strong reminder to parents after a 36-year-old man tried to sexually assault a teenage girl over the weekend.
The man, who police believe to be an illegal alien, is currently behind bars at the Lubbock County Jail. This alleged crime has prompted police to urge all parents with children living at home to discuss with your kids when to answer the door and when not to.
It was around 1:30 Sunday morning when Lubbock Police responded to an apartment complex just north of The Marsha Sharp Freeway construction project on Avenue U. When they arrived they learned of a 13-year-old girl locked in her bathroom and scared for her life.
"We're still trying to determine whether the parents were present, asleep or not and again, who called 911," said Lt. Greg Stevens with the Lubbock Police.
Lubbock Police say they are still working out the details, but say they do believe a 13-year-old girl was almost the victim of a sex crime. "According to the victim, he forced his way into the apartment, pushed her down in the apartment and attempted to sexually assault her. At some point he left the apartment and she locked herself inside a bathroom. He came back in the apartment to continue the assault however he was not able to get to her again and the police arrived and took the suspect into custody," described Stevens.
The suspect is 36-year-old Julian Vasquez. Vasquez is being held on $100,000 bond for the charge of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit aggravated sexual assault.
"To the extent that there was any kind of relationship there - let it be neighborhood friends or anything like that we're not sure at this time," said Stevens.
Police believe Vasquez does live in the neighborhood around 3rd and Avenue U and the victim told police she had seen Vasquez around but didn't know him. And that's prompting Lubbock Police to remind parents of the seriousness of leaving children home alone. "We always encourage families and parents to discuss with their children not to answer the door if they don't know who is at the door and not to answer the door if they don't expect any kind of company," said Stevens.
They also say folks should not to be afraid to dial 911. "What we really encourage people to do is if you're home and you feel anything suspicious whatsoever, if you feel nervous, just call 911 and let us send a police car out to check on things," added Stevens.
Vasquez is also being held until the border patrol determines whether or not he is an illegal alien. But whether he is or isn't, if found guilty of this crime he faces five to 99 years in prison.
June 9, 2008
Mother sues over removal of child
Mother sues over removal of child
By Denise Malan (Contact)
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Removal of child
CORPUS CHRISTI — Mother and daughter were reunited tearfully on a sidewalk in El Paso in December 2006, only three days before the girl's fourth birthday.
For Monica Castro, that moment represented the end of her three-year fight to regain custody of her daughter, whom U.S. Border Patrol agents allowed to accompany her father to Mexico when he was deported. The girl was born in Texas and is a U.S. citizen, as is Castro. The father, Omar Gallardo, was an undocumented immigrant.
For the little girl, the reunion was confusing and sad. Her mother was a stranger. She wanted to go back to Mexico to the only family she had known.
"I started crying as soon as I saw her," Castro, 23, said last week from her Corpus Christi home. "I was just waiting for her to run up to me, saying, 'Mama.' But that didn't happen."
The girl was still in diapers and sucking on a pacifier, Castro said. It took months for her to adjust to a new life -- a different home, her mother, grandparents and aunts. It took months before she stopped crying at night for her abuelita back in Mexico.
Though Castro has her daughter, her court battle against the federal government is continuing and has garnered statewide attention. She filed suit in February 2006 in U.S. District Court in Corpus Christi, alleging constitutional violations and that the federal government made a custody decision that is legally up to the states. She asked for $5 million in damages.
U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack dismissed the case last year under a federal statute that grants the government legal immunity for discretionary actions by agencies or employees, and Castro appealed. Each side presented brief oral arguments Wednesday at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
The case raises questions about Border Patrol authority and the custody procedures, though the appeals court is being asked only whether the government can claim immunity from the suit.
Susan Watson, Castro's attorney with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, argued that the government can't claim immunity because it didn't have the authority to make custody decisions.
"There is no protection when governmental agents exceed the scope of their authority by statute or constitution," Watson said on a recording of the arguments available on the court's Web site.
U.S. Attorney John Smith argued that the agents didn't make a custody decision. Taking the girl away from the father before his deportation would have constituted a decision because the father has equal custody rights under Texas law, Smith argued.
Smith also contended that the girl, identified in court papers as RMG, wasn't illegally deported as Castro's suit says. Case law states that minor children who are U.S. citizens aren't deported if a parent makes the decision for them to go, and they can also return freely to the United States.
Castro, who was born and raised in Corpus Christi, lived with Gallardo in Shallowater, near Lubbock. She left him in 2003, when their daughter was nearly 1. But he refused to give her their daughter.
Castro said she called the local police and Texas Child Protective Services for help retrieving her daughter, though each agency said they couldn't help her. Without a court-granted custody order, Castro and Gallardo had equal rights to the girl.
So, as a last resort, Castro went to Customs and Border Patrol agents in Lubbock in December 2003 and told them Gallardo was in the country illegally and had taken their daughter. An agent told her that Gallardo was wanted in connection with a murder investigation in Amarillo and assured her their daughter would be returned to her if he was arrested, according to the lawsuit.
Smith argued in court last week that Castro was using the federal agents to make a custody decision by turning in her boyfriend, knowing this would mean she could get custody of her daughter because he would be deported. Then she sued them for making a custody decision, Smith said.
"It was an untenable situation for the Border Patrol because exactly what Monica Castro was asking them to do would have been in violation of the father's rights under Texas laws as we see them," Smith said.
Federal agents arrested Gallardo in the early morning of Dec. 3, 2003, and deported him back to Mexico less than 12 hours later along with the young girl, according to the suit.
Border Patrol officer Manuel Sanchez said in sworn testimony that he told Castro she could have the child if she came to the arrest. He admitted under questioning that he should not invite private citizens to arrests for safety reasons and could have called her immediately afterward to come get the child.
Castro said she was scared to go to the arrest but watched from her cousin's trailer nearby. She did not see her daughter being taken from their trailer.
When Castro arrived at the Border Patrol office two hours after the arrest, Sanchez told her Gallardo didn't want to give up the girl, and Castro would need a custody order, according to the suit. Castro found a lawyer, who agreed to take payment later, and raced the clock but was unable to get an order from a local court in time to stop the deportation. She later moved to Corpus Christi with her mother but without her daughter.
A Court of Appeals judge questioned Smith during his arguments about why Gallardo was deported so quickly, even though Border Patrol agents knew Castro was working on a custody order. Smith replied that only one bus per day comes through Lubbock to take undocumented immigrants back to Mexico. The Lubbock Border Patrol office is staffed only 12 hours a day. Detainees held overnight are taken to the local jail, which was not an option for the little girl, Smith said.
The judge also asked why the U.S. Border Patrol doesn't have procedures to follow in such custody-battle situations.
"I would hope that would be cured promptly now in light of this case," said the judge, who didn't identify himself on the recording.
Smith said agents called Child Protective Services, which in turn refused to step in unless the father was alleged to have abused or neglected the daughter, or there was a signed court order.
"They ought to be the agency to make sure the child is in the most beneficial custody where the parents cannot agree and one of the parents is about to be deported," the judge replied. "We may have an opportunity to educate them in that regard."
Gallardo and Castro, who were considered common-law husband and wife, officially were divorced in Nueces County in May 2005. Castro was appointed sole guardian of their daughter, though she didn't get the girl back for another year and a half through a series of events that started with a chance sighting.
Gallardo had re-entered the United States illegally, and some of Castro's relatives in the Lubbock area spotted him. They called Watson, Castro's attorney, who coordinated with U.S. attorneys and agents, who arrested Gallardo. Facing illegal re-entry charges, Gallardo struck a deal to hand over his daughter.
Castro and her daughter, now 5, have settled into a comfortable family life, and the girl starts school next year. Though the depositions, hearings and waiting for the court case haven't been easy, Castro said she wants her voice heard.
"I'm not the only one," Castro said. "It can happen to any mother, any father."
http://www.caller.com/news/2008/jun/08/mother-sues-over-removal-of-child/
By Denise Malan (Contact)
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Removal of child
CORPUS CHRISTI — Mother and daughter were reunited tearfully on a sidewalk in El Paso in December 2006, only three days before the girl's fourth birthday.
For Monica Castro, that moment represented the end of her three-year fight to regain custody of her daughter, whom U.S. Border Patrol agents allowed to accompany her father to Mexico when he was deported. The girl was born in Texas and is a U.S. citizen, as is Castro. The father, Omar Gallardo, was an undocumented immigrant.
For the little girl, the reunion was confusing and sad. Her mother was a stranger. She wanted to go back to Mexico to the only family she had known.
"I started crying as soon as I saw her," Castro, 23, said last week from her Corpus Christi home. "I was just waiting for her to run up to me, saying, 'Mama.' But that didn't happen."
The girl was still in diapers and sucking on a pacifier, Castro said. It took months for her to adjust to a new life -- a different home, her mother, grandparents and aunts. It took months before she stopped crying at night for her abuelita back in Mexico.
Though Castro has her daughter, her court battle against the federal government is continuing and has garnered statewide attention. She filed suit in February 2006 in U.S. District Court in Corpus Christi, alleging constitutional violations and that the federal government made a custody decision that is legally up to the states. She asked for $5 million in damages.
U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack dismissed the case last year under a federal statute that grants the government legal immunity for discretionary actions by agencies or employees, and Castro appealed. Each side presented brief oral arguments Wednesday at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
The case raises questions about Border Patrol authority and the custody procedures, though the appeals court is being asked only whether the government can claim immunity from the suit.
Susan Watson, Castro's attorney with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, argued that the government can't claim immunity because it didn't have the authority to make custody decisions.
"There is no protection when governmental agents exceed the scope of their authority by statute or constitution," Watson said on a recording of the arguments available on the court's Web site.
U.S. Attorney John Smith argued that the agents didn't make a custody decision. Taking the girl away from the father before his deportation would have constituted a decision because the father has equal custody rights under Texas law, Smith argued.
Smith also contended that the girl, identified in court papers as RMG, wasn't illegally deported as Castro's suit says. Case law states that minor children who are U.S. citizens aren't deported if a parent makes the decision for them to go, and they can also return freely to the United States.
Castro, who was born and raised in Corpus Christi, lived with Gallardo in Shallowater, near Lubbock. She left him in 2003, when their daughter was nearly 1. But he refused to give her their daughter.
Castro said she called the local police and Texas Child Protective Services for help retrieving her daughter, though each agency said they couldn't help her. Without a court-granted custody order, Castro and Gallardo had equal rights to the girl.
So, as a last resort, Castro went to Customs and Border Patrol agents in Lubbock in December 2003 and told them Gallardo was in the country illegally and had taken their daughter. An agent told her that Gallardo was wanted in connection with a murder investigation in Amarillo and assured her their daughter would be returned to her if he was arrested, according to the lawsuit.
Smith argued in court last week that Castro was using the federal agents to make a custody decision by turning in her boyfriend, knowing this would mean she could get custody of her daughter because he would be deported. Then she sued them for making a custody decision, Smith said.
"It was an untenable situation for the Border Patrol because exactly what Monica Castro was asking them to do would have been in violation of the father's rights under Texas laws as we see them," Smith said.
Federal agents arrested Gallardo in the early morning of Dec. 3, 2003, and deported him back to Mexico less than 12 hours later along with the young girl, according to the suit.
Border Patrol officer Manuel Sanchez said in sworn testimony that he told Castro she could have the child if she came to the arrest. He admitted under questioning that he should not invite private citizens to arrests for safety reasons and could have called her immediately afterward to come get the child.
Castro said she was scared to go to the arrest but watched from her cousin's trailer nearby. She did not see her daughter being taken from their trailer.
When Castro arrived at the Border Patrol office two hours after the arrest, Sanchez told her Gallardo didn't want to give up the girl, and Castro would need a custody order, according to the suit. Castro found a lawyer, who agreed to take payment later, and raced the clock but was unable to get an order from a local court in time to stop the deportation. She later moved to Corpus Christi with her mother but without her daughter.
A Court of Appeals judge questioned Smith during his arguments about why Gallardo was deported so quickly, even though Border Patrol agents knew Castro was working on a custody order. Smith replied that only one bus per day comes through Lubbock to take undocumented immigrants back to Mexico. The Lubbock Border Patrol office is staffed only 12 hours a day. Detainees held overnight are taken to the local jail, which was not an option for the little girl, Smith said.
The judge also asked why the U.S. Border Patrol doesn't have procedures to follow in such custody-battle situations.
"I would hope that would be cured promptly now in light of this case," said the judge, who didn't identify himself on the recording.
Smith said agents called Child Protective Services, which in turn refused to step in unless the father was alleged to have abused or neglected the daughter, or there was a signed court order.
"They ought to be the agency to make sure the child is in the most beneficial custody where the parents cannot agree and one of the parents is about to be deported," the judge replied. "We may have an opportunity to educate them in that regard."
Gallardo and Castro, who were considered common-law husband and wife, officially were divorced in Nueces County in May 2005. Castro was appointed sole guardian of their daughter, though she didn't get the girl back for another year and a half through a series of events that started with a chance sighting.
Gallardo had re-entered the United States illegally, and some of Castro's relatives in the Lubbock area spotted him. They called Watson, Castro's attorney, who coordinated with U.S. attorneys and agents, who arrested Gallardo. Facing illegal re-entry charges, Gallardo struck a deal to hand over his daughter.
Castro and her daughter, now 5, have settled into a comfortable family life, and the girl starts school next year. Though the depositions, hearings and waiting for the court case haven't been easy, Castro said she wants her voice heard.
"I'm not the only one," Castro said. "It can happen to any mother, any father."
http://www.caller.com/news/2008/jun/08/mother-sues-over-removal-of-child/
April 22, 2008
'Catch the Illegal Immigrant' roils Tech campus
April 22, 2008
'Catch the Illegal Immigrant' roils Tech campus
By Marlena Hartz
Morris News Service
LUBBOCK - "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT" read the T-shirts' fronts. "CATCH ME IF YOU CAN" read the backs.
Students in the Texas Tech chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas wore the T-shirts on campus one day as part of a game, "Catch the Illegal Immigrant."
Although the game goes against the university's mission to build a diverse and welcoming atmosphere, the students have a right to play it, Tech President Jon Whitmore wrote in a response letter Wednesday to two students who were deeply offended by the game.
"All members of our university community have a right to express themselves, even when you and I or others disagree with them," his letter reads.
The version of hide-and-seek in which one student wears the T-shirt and others try to catch him or her, usually for a prize, has been causing uproars on college campuses since at least 2006.
The Young Conservatives at Tech played the game for the first time on Tech's campus March 31, members said.
Two students informed the university's president of the event in a protest letter dated April 11 and endorsed by 15 faculty members and six student organizations.
The game promotes violence toward not only illegal immigrants, but all foreigners, their letter reads.
"All this game is doing is creating this tension between students. ... It makes Texas Tech look like it does not welcome diversity. It makes all of us look bad," said Tomas Resendiz, a Tech junior and one of the two Hispanic students who drafted the letter to Whitmore, in which they urged university administrators to clarify their stance on the game.
The Young Conservatives at Tech played the game during their "Deportation Celebration." The event and game were staged to protest state legislation that gives illegal immigrants tuition breaks and to raise awareness of the illegal immigration issue in general, said the chapter's chairman, Cullin Davis.
Most of the students who participated in the "Deportation Celebration" are white, photos of the event show.
University officials have designated certain areas on the Tech campus "free speech zones," where students are permitted to have such demonstrations.
Resendiz said he wishes the president's admonishment of the game would have been stronger.
"This offends the Hispanic community as a whole," said Resendiz.
'Catch the Illegal Immigrant' roils Tech campus
By Marlena Hartz
Morris News Service
LUBBOCK - "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT" read the T-shirts' fronts. "CATCH ME IF YOU CAN" read the backs.
Students in the Texas Tech chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas wore the T-shirts on campus one day as part of a game, "Catch the Illegal Immigrant."
Although the game goes against the university's mission to build a diverse and welcoming atmosphere, the students have a right to play it, Tech President Jon Whitmore wrote in a response letter Wednesday to two students who were deeply offended by the game.
"All members of our university community have a right to express themselves, even when you and I or others disagree with them," his letter reads.
The version of hide-and-seek in which one student wears the T-shirt and others try to catch him or her, usually for a prize, has been causing uproars on college campuses since at least 2006.
The Young Conservatives at Tech played the game for the first time on Tech's campus March 31, members said.
Two students informed the university's president of the event in a protest letter dated April 11 and endorsed by 15 faculty members and six student organizations.
The game promotes violence toward not only illegal immigrants, but all foreigners, their letter reads.
"All this game is doing is creating this tension between students. ... It makes Texas Tech look like it does not welcome diversity. It makes all of us look bad," said Tomas Resendiz, a Tech junior and one of the two Hispanic students who drafted the letter to Whitmore, in which they urged university administrators to clarify their stance on the game.
The Young Conservatives at Tech played the game during their "Deportation Celebration." The event and game were staged to protest state legislation that gives illegal immigrants tuition breaks and to raise awareness of the illegal immigration issue in general, said the chapter's chairman, Cullin Davis.
Most of the students who participated in the "Deportation Celebration" are white, photos of the event show.
University officials have designated certain areas on the Tech campus "free speech zones," where students are permitted to have such demonstrations.
Resendiz said he wishes the president's admonishment of the game would have been stronger.
"This offends the Hispanic community as a whole," said Resendiz.
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