Check out the beta version of video Google. And to start it off, I put in the search word "deaf"...
Also, check out the latest likely deportation of this individual whose parents died. He interprets for deaf people. Dulalia, 39, has been in the United States since 1987, both as a student and an interpreter in Ohlone College's deaf studies department. He signs into the hands of students who are both blind and deaf, one of only a dozen or so such interpreters in the Bay Area.
>>And the attorney says the unexpected deaths ruined her client's chances of being a citizen.
>> When his father died and his mother died, the petition died with both parents.
>> Now he is scheduled to be deportd back to the Philippines. He is devastated.
>> There is no work for me there.
Same story here, and here, and here....
What cruel irony here.
His Filipino father fought with U.S. forces in World War II, under a promise of American citizenship from President Franklin Roosevelt. Congress revoked the promise in 1946 — an act that would take almost 45 years to be judged illegal. Dulalia's father was finally granted his citizenship in 1995. Had it been granted when promised, Gerry Dulalia would have been born an American.
Read this story. And pass it on to other deaf or hard of hearing bloggers. Doesn't matter if you're a Liberal, Republican, Democrat, Right Wing Nutjob, Green Party, or Libertarian. The power of bloggers can change this scenario for this one deaf guy who faces deportation to a country where deaf people do not have any opportunities at all. There are no deaf interactions. There are no deaf communities to be part of. There are no deaf supported services. He is that close to become a citizen in the United States. That...close...after living 18 years in the United States as a productive, legal immigrant who have helped deaf and deaf/blind people as an interpreter.
UPDATE: Seems like the deportation will go through but we can contact the Department of Homeland security to to drop the case on humanitarian grounds.
Several members of the Ohlone community, including McLaughlin and college President Doug Treadway, have written letters in support of Dulalia.
Perez said she has done everything she can. She contacted U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer several months ago, but neither offered to help. She said she received a reply from Rep. Pete Stark, but that was just asking for more information. And she received it only this week.
"It's too little, too late," she said.
Letters in support of Gerry Dulalia can be sent via e-mail to marciaiperez@cs.com. Perez will compile them and present them to government officials.
Barry Shatzman covers Ohlone College for The Argus. He can be reached at (510) 353-7003, or bshatzman@angnewspapers.com.
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