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4 Women: “President of
Pastors’ Workshop
Sexually Harassed Us”
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Four Young Women Accuse Pastor Of Sexual Advances
President of the Paterson Pastors Workshop called himself “the Wolf” in sexually
explicit message to victim of his alleged sexual advances
PATERSON The NJ Pulse News and Christian
Heritage US president is investigating allegations
of sexual harassment against four Christian
women involving Paterson Pastors Workshop
President Michael McDuffie.
As a Christian-owned publication, the Pulse
president believes “we are all brothers to the
women and men in the faith and have an obligation to respond when these kinds of allegations
are made, especially when we also have a Christian
publication.”
Some time ago, three of the four women met
with the president of this publication and alleged
McDuffie made sexual advances toward them
while they were members of his church, which is
also his home, on Derrom Avenue in Paterson.
At first, this publication was very reluctant to
believe the young women, as there was no evidence to suggest the pastor is that kind of person,
knowing him as a public figure.
But during the meeting, the women showed
Facebook inbox messages, of private communications with the sexual connections and explicit conversations.
“As a Christian man, I was angry but I had to
hold my peace. This man is very clever and is
highly-connected to politicians and law enforcement. This was a serious 'trespass' against our
faith and my sisters,” the NJ Pulse and Christian
Heritage U.S. president told the women.
According to Christian law, he explained to
the women, the Bible teaches; "Moreover, if thy
brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him
his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall
hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he
will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two
more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word may be established. And if he shall
neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if
he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee
as an heathen man and a publican."
The matter must be dealt with privately first
the NJ Pulse and Christian Heritage news president, Sirrano Keith Baldeo stated.
The president reached out to McDuffie first
alone, according to Christian faith, through Facebook, - the very place he allegedly committed
some of the acts against one of the women. He
was then confronted lightly in an open forum. McDuffie was told there was an issue with the women
and “we need to talk.” When the Pulse president
asked McDuffie for a meeting, suspecting he could
be asked about his alleged advances towards the
woman, he blocked the NJ Pulse on Facebook, refusing to talk or respond.
The NJ Pulse president then, still following
Christian law, asked the Rev. Randall M. Lassiter
of Calvary Baptist Church to aid arranging a
meeting with McDuffie privately, and/or the
women, to see if they might have misunderstood
his actions as advances.
Lassiter stated the pastor was also reluctant to respond to him on the matter.
The Pulse president, again, following Christian law, sent a message to McDuffie asking he
meet with pastors of other churches and was told
that if he is in need of help or prayer on his struggle with the flesh, that they will be able to help and
not condemn him. McDuffie again refused to respond to the request.
During a follow-up call with the victims, they
stated McDuffie’s wife is aware of his advances towards women in his church. They also stated there
was a confrontation in the church with the family
of one of the girls and McDuffie’s assistant,
named Marcus, called the mother outside to fight.
Shortly after, Marcus saw one of our posts about
the church. He called the NJ Pulse president and
began making physical threats, to harm the newspaper’s president, threatening by saying he knows
people and that he is "a dangerous person. Don’t
F--- with him, etc.”
He warned that if the NJ Pulse or Christian
Heritage News published anything about McDuffie he would take physical action. That conversation was recorded as he called on the news line.
The young women who reported the incidents
stated that several families left the church after it
failed to address the issues They estimated about
24 people left. Even though they left McDuffie’s
church, some stated they did not leave the faith
and that they were not going to “turn from
Christ” because of him.
Several times, the president of this publication
crossed paths with the pastor at events. When
asked to speak, the pastor turned away and
avoided answering, just uttering softly, “Yeah,
yeah, sometime.”
Several times when he spoke at those meetings,
he tried rebuking anyone from asking and confronting him by saying;
"We all try to bring each other down, going after
one another." His language clearly seemed to try
bringing guilt upon anyone who might try publicly
calling him out, the pulse president stated.
But that did not prohibit the president of this
publication, who stated, “The last part of that law
is to go publicly,” if he fails to cease from his acts
against young Christian women, under his spiritual care.
Ironically, in the sexually explicit messages
McDuffie sent one alleged victim he called himself
“The Wolf” Allegedly, it is a character and nickname he gave himself to express his sexual side in
the messages. The messages were printed out by
the women, who turned it over to the NJ Pulse
president.
Also, ironically, the very Bible McDuffie
preaches speaks about wolves in the churches saying “Beware of false prophets, which come to you
Paterson Reverend Michael McDuffie posted this photo of him casting out the devil
from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, but who is casting out his sexual devils,
causing him to go after young women in his church
in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening
wolves.” Also; "Behold, I send you out as sheep in
the midst of wolves;” It is not clear from McDuffie’s privately explicit messages if he is identifying himself as these wolves.
Several community members told NJ Pulse,
most people who know McDuffie know he has a
problem but no one is willing to come out and say
it.
“He’s been doing that for a long time, that’s
not new,” a leader in the city's black community
stated. “And he is not the only one. Other
churches are doing the same thing as well, that's
why they can’t come together. Most of them have
their own secrets.”
This city leader also warned, “He’s just going
to attack you and turn other churches against you,
mostly Black churches. That's why people are
afraid. They know how those churches connected
to the Pastors Workshop are. These people grew
up together. Even if you caught him in the act,
they're just going to stick up for him and let him
keep doing it. That's why we all know but we don’t
say anything.”
In the next issue of NJ Pulse, the public will
have a chance to see what is supposed to be one of
the serious sexually explicit messages. The victim
will be identified, by her initials only, to protect
her identity.
The Paterson Pastors Workshop has had
many troubles and internal fighting throughout
the years. It is a group that has been beset completely by politics, we were told.
Some critics have accused it of serving the
needs of only a few churches with no community
involvement. McDuffie became president because
of the infighting involving some of the group's
top churches, we were told.
The Paterson Pastors Workshop also calls itself, “Clergy On Fire.” “They’re going to burn in
fire alright. This is exactly what’s going to happen
to the other churches as well, if they turn a blind
eye and keep covering up these things. Then the
name will truly fit them," the Pulse president
stated.
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a suspected victim of McDuffie, or any other pastor or church, and you have evidence to prove it,
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New Jersey Pulse In The News
NJ Pulse president is expected to file criminal and civil charges against 7
members of the Paterson City Council To Expose Political Corruption
PATERSON The New Jersey Pulse president is
asking the State Attorney General's Office, and
federal authorities, to clear the way for criminal
charges to be filed against at least seven City
Council members collectively - and two of
those council members individually.
During the past city election campaign, NJ
Pulse opposed re-electing most council members. The opposition was made on Facebook
and in person at the regular council meetings,
which are broadcast, to the public through local
cable television.
At council meetings, members can be seen
talking on their cellphones, distracted or in personal conversations, at times, leaving their
chairs, walking around and not paying attention to the meetings.
A Facebook posting on Paterson Pulse
asked, how much money the council members
make annually and if this (such activities) is
what taxpayers should be paying them for.
When the NJ Pulse president felt the council
was adopting laws for which the public was not
aware of the consequences, he would speak at
the mic to question the council about the laws,
as a citizen and member of the press, on their
questionable decisions.
The comments would be broadcast so the
public would have a better understanding about
the municipal laws being enacted.
But during the past election campaign,
things began heating up when the Pulse president questioned the performance of the council
and some of its decisions.
He also questioned the behavior of the
council, and, at one time, its decision to target
the mayor for alleged wrongdoing when its
members have done many things wrong for
which they did not expect to be held accountable.
After suspecting that one council member
was using a reporter from WNBC -TV to
specifically target the mayor, without also legitimately investigating the entire council, the Pulse
president approached the microphone at a public meeting and blasted the members for also
doing wrong, while accusing the mayor of improper actions, given they have their own alleged crimes to confront..
Shortly after that, the president of the NJ
Pulse was informed that a career criminal,
Ernest Rucker was hired to support the council
members and target anyone coming to the
meetings to speak against them. When the convict began targeting the Pulse president, information was posted on Facebook, and the NJ
Pulse news website, that the public should not
support the re-election of certain incumbent
candidates, specifically, because they have been
influential in helping raise taxes and part of the
reason the city has deteriorated
Among other things, the Pulse president
then created “Team Paterson” to unite opposition candidates as one - those who indicated
they were willing to make the hard choices Paterson needed and not play politics or use an
elected position just for a job.
As a result, the once-friendly relationship
between at least some of the council members
and the Pulse president became tense.
These members did not want their decisions
questioned or challenged, but that did not keep
the president of the NJ Pulse from returning to
the microphone at the public meetings, to question their actions.
After previously supporting First Ward
Councilman Mike Jackson, when it was learned
he owed $38,000 in city taxes he refused to pay
to Paterson, and obtained a $140,000 loan from
city taxpayers that, some say, he was never qualified to receive, the NJ Pulse president began
questioning his ability to lead the city out of its
own financial crisis.
He also questioned Council President Bill
McKoy about why the public is only allowed to
speak for three minutes to address the council,
instead of the state's recommended five minutes
for governing body meetings. McKoy, who
works in Jersey City and attend a council meeting held only one evening a week, replied, “I
don’t want to be here listening to people all
night.”
That reply, combined with council actions
that included raising property taxes and adopting some questionable ordinances, troubled and
prompted the Pulse president to consider and
endorse other candidates he concluded would
listen and care about the people first and the
laws being passed.
The city council then took action to censor and
bar the NJ Pulse president from the council
chamber and from speaking at the microphone
to question them and their ability to lead the
City of Paterson. Event though their actions
are bared by the constitution and State laws.
Official complaints have not yet been filed
and a request to the state for a special prosecutor was still awaiting a response as of this publication deadline. But here is at least a partial list
of the criminal charges being filed and the people they relate to:.
Jackson: giving false statements on a police
report, official misconduct, harassment and
others.
McKoy: criminal mischief, harassment, interfering with the administrative duties of an
official, obstruction, official misconduct, failing
to provide seating for people with restricted
abilities and others.
At least seven (of nine) council members including McKoy and Jackson - are all facing
official misconduct and other charges, but in
acting collectively as a single entity..
In terms of civil action, two notices of suit
have already been filed with the city. The demand for the constitutional right violation is
not public.
Years ago, a former Paterson police officer Jeffrey Hefferman - filed suit against thenMayor Joey Torres (during a prior term) based
on similar grounds arguing he was denied free
speech rights, The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled in his favor, granting his right to
sue the city after being demoted from detective
to patrolman when he was found picking up a
lawn sign for his mother endorsing a Torres
mayoral opponent.
In the current case against the council, being
pursued by NJ Pulse, two cameras, one from
the Pulse, and the city’s own camera, caught the
incident on record.
It showed the council members did not stop;
they continued creating a hostile environment
for the Pulse president to function as a press
member in the council chamber, and using the
setting as their own place to mete out punishment against him as the press, merely for expressing criticism. Even deny him the right to
speak at a public broadcast portion of the
meeting about them, when they allowed their
campaign members to speak about the Pulse
president to discredit him before the public, and
gain favor for their re-election.
Adding insult to injury, and purposely
showing a vindictive, behavior, council members, willingly lead by McKoy, intentionally removed all the names of all Pulse president’s
newspapers the city identifies for receiving mail,
- even a Christian newspaper from the city’s
agenda.
Along with the seven council members (two
members were absent), at least one police officer, the police director and police chief are also
facing charges for allegedly failing to perform
their duties in providing a safe environment for
all people attending the council meetings and
allegedly not protecting the safety of the NJ
Pulse president from council members' threats
and harassment.
Important to note: the council recently doubled the police director Jerry Speziale's annual
salary, but based on the same time schedule he
has worked since his appointment and without
added assignments or work duties.
Speziale was also present, and supporting
the election campaigns of incumbent council
members running, for election and re-election,
who committed the act stated in this story.
Since the incidents in April, the Pulse president has not returned to council meetings for
safety reasons.
The NJ Pulse was told the purpose of the
council's alleged actions to bar the presence of
the Pulse president from speaking at the microphone during scheduled public meetings, was
because they feared he was going to object to
there re-electing while asking the public to support their endorsed opponents.
As we reported in another story, council
members, in many situations, are protected
from being prosecuted for engaging in alleged
political corruption and committing white-collar crimes by an alleged "political cartel," of
Passaic County Democrats. The alleged "cartel"
is capable of blocking complaints and employees of police agencies, prosecutors and the judi-
Seven Paterson council members voted to bar the press
from speaking at a public meeting because of its opposi
tion to some council members being re-elected.
Councilman Julio
Tavarez
Councilman Alex Mendez
Councilwoman Ruby
Cotton
Councilman Bill McKoy Councilman Mike Jackson
Councilwoman Maritza
Davila
Prosecutor Camelia Valdes is a close
friend of Jerry Speziale
Paterson’s city council also enjoys the
protection of the Passaic County Prosecutor, who has been accused of already favoring several cases against council
members. Valdes, the prosecutor, was
seen attending the same political party’s
event.
Councilman Andre
Sayegh
Councilman Ken Morris Councilman Mohammed
Akhtaruzzaman
Council members enjoy the protection
and favor of the police director Jerry
Speziale, after they doubled his salary
for the same job. The police director also
supported the council members against
their opponents for city council
ciary, from taking required and legitimate actions to seek punishment against politicians
caught committing these acts.
The alleged "political cartel" can accomplish
this by improperly exerting some form of control over such officials who rely on politicians,
who’s party appoints them to the positions which "the cartel" controls.
The framework creating this situation gives
politicians, at least in many situations, a level of
protection against being prosecuted - not enjoyed by the average citizen.
This alleged "(Democrat) political cartel" in
Passaic County depends on the 16,000-plus Democrat votes Paterson elected officials can bring
to it to keep it strong.
Because of this the NJ Pulse is first asking
Police Director Jerry Speziale
hugging and supporting one
candidate over others
President of the NJ Pulse
routinely speaks at the
microphone and question
the city councils action. This time
challenging thier re-election
federal law enforcement authorities to investigate this setup and monitor if any legitimate criminal complaints filed over
corruption charges are improperly being intercepted by this political connection, given
its undue influence over the county's legal
and court systems.
Once that communication is established
with federal authorities, the cases against
the seven council members collectively, and
McKoy and Jackson individually, will be
filed and detailed in NJ Pulse news' traditional print and online platforms.
June-July, 2016
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VILLAGE IDIOT, TAX CHEAT BOTH ELECTED TO PATERSON CITY COUNCIL
“Paterson brings out the worst residents and makes them officials”
Op/Ed; PATERSON City voters proved, once
again, their actions justify the negative rating
the city recently received from a bond rating
service and an online publication's ranking it
as one of America's three worst cities.
New Fifth Ward Councilman Luis Velez
had been making himself known around Democrat political bosses for more than nine
years, first hoping for a handout, a job, anything that would make him feel important, but
according to one Democratic leader, he is still
not qualified to be an elected official for the
state's third largest city.
“His best purpose for the party was initially to be in the community handing our flyers and trying to bring in votes,” the party
stated. Yet, Velez wanted more than he is qualified to offer.
In 2012, he first made a failed run for the
fifth ward council seat. Since then, he has remained unemployed and struggling to gain
employment, even as he now sits on the council. He stated he has a Multi-service company
but no one can tell how or where he is making
a living from it, some suggest it’s just a front,
as he has no real employment.
After helping the Democratic Party win
the county sheriff's election, sources say his
wife was given a clerical job in the sheriff's office, yet the party's handlers felt then that Velez
was not qualified to be a government representative.
For the next four years following his first
failed run, and with no real source of income,
Velez began walking around the ward, hoping
to gain the trust of mostly poor Latinos and
elderly voters we were told. When asked about
his employment by the NJ Pulse once, he
stated he does all kinds of work.
"Translation 'bum,'” a party official stated
derisively to the NJ Pulse president, as Velez
walked away after standing next to the official
at an event.
During efforts before his election, one elderly woman said Velez "brought us some sandwiches" and another person stated, “He’s
always coming around, we are not sure he has
a job.”
So with no real employment, Velez used his
free time and kept persisting upon the elderly
in the ward to vote for him in the future. Most
of the elderly live in apartment complexes,
where, residents observing Velez at various
times told us, he concentrated his efforts in ap-
pealing to voters.
Meanwhile, homeowners were reeling
from this year's city property tax hike, hoping
to find a candidate pledging fiscal responsibility. They did in Wendy Guzman, a former
Board of Education commissioner. Unfortunately for homeowners, Guzman is employed
and not free to constantly visit residents in the
ward, especially rental complexes - a luxury
the unemployed Velez had.
During this year's election, Velez launched
his plan to focus on renter and Section 8 (federal housing aid recipient) voters he previously
solicited throughout the years. The election results showed he received a large majority of
votes, not from homeowner taxpayers, but
from the apartment complexes in the ward.
Given, his free time, Velez was also able to
solicit more that 350 mail-in ballots, we were
told. When asked why they voted for him,
most voters speaking with NJ Pule stated it
was because "we always see him around."
Thus, there was no consideration over his
lack of experience or qualifications. The Democrat Party machine also put its weight
around Velez. When asked why, one official
replied, “It’s another vote we have on the City
Council,”
“So, instead of living off his second wife,
now Velez can live off of taxpayers,” a supporter of his opponent stated.
“He's a bum, the village idiot. He goes
around and pretends he knows what he is
doing and fools people into thinking he is
qualified to be a councilman, a law maker and
knows finances," this person complained.
"And that is why taxpayers suffer - because
people in apartments elect these village idiots.
They see you, they vote for you. They don’t
care if you are not qualified.”
City voters also elected First Ward Councilman Mike Jackson, of the failed "Jacksonville" restaurant.
Jackson tried capitalizing on his school
fame to run a business, but was accused of deceptive business practices and refusing to pay
his $38,000 in back taxes. He also borrowed
$140,000 from Paterson taxpayers, which was
used to get a bank loan of half a million dollars, we were told.
Jackson defaulted on the city loan, leaving
Paterson taxpayers to foot the bill for it. He
also defaulted on the bank he baited to get its
loan. NJ Pulse was informed that Jackson did
Attorneys At Law
Village Idiot
Tax Cheat
In this photo shared on Facebook, “village idiot,” Luis Valez (L) and
“tax cheat” Mike Jackson (R) are backed by the council president Bill
McKoy (C) who supported them to control the city council
not have the necessary papers to gain the
$140,000 in taxpayers money for Jacksonville
in the first place. But the city allegedly intentionally overlooked his paperwork to give him
access to Paterson’s money.
NJ Pulse made several state Open Public
Request Act (OPRA) requests to investigate
the files, but the city attorney has blocked our
requests to inspect loan-related records. If the
allegations are true, it would aid Sun Bank in
making its charges in damages from the city
for knowingly granting the bad loan that
caused Sun to invest in Jackson.
During the election Jackson denied he
owned any taxes and had bad loans.
The NJ Pulse president, during a public
event, called out the councilman and offered a
$500. reward to anyone who could disprove
the allegations. On the night of the election,
although the Jacksonville property is up for
auction, has no electricity or current food license and a tax lien, the city allowed the councilman to open it.
A former city inspector stated that a large
generator Jackson placed on the sidewalk and
connected to the wires cut by PSE&G, was illegal. He also stated that if the restaurant was
closed for six months, it needed to be re-inspected by all involved agencies for safety before being allowed to reopen for occupation
and serving food.
David Gilmore, with the city's Department
of Community Improvements, claimed it was
a private event, so there was nothing he could
do. Not so, replied the former inspector, who
insisted if it was any other place, it would have
been shut down that night but because the
event was "political," Jackson was given a free
pass, particularly given the council president
and others were in attendance.
The fire department was also notified and
visited the site, but an OPRA to obtain documents showed there was no report or action
taken against the councilman, that he could
not re-open. There was also no report on the
person who installed the generator to the
street wires, which requires a license.
Velez and Jackson, who are supposedly
unemployed and/or have little or no private income, are now earning $41,000 for their council service from Paterson taxpayers. The city
may also pays for their health insurance, billed
to taxpayers.
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Editorial: Paterson takes steps to control the press not favorable to them
Editorial: Response To The Actions Of The City Council Barring This Press
New Jersey's elected officials are sworn to “support the Constitution of the United States and
the Constitution of the State of New Jersey;"
There is as follows;
"I will bear true faith and allegiance to the
same and to the governments established in the
United States and in this state, under the authority of the people, so help me God, and that
I will faithfully, impartially and justly perform
all the duties of the office, according to the best
of my ability, so help me God.”
But that did not stop 7 of the Paterson council
members from violation it, in order to protect
their re-election and deprive another of their
guaranteed rights, they swore to respect.
For nine years, the New Jersey Pulse had a
good relationship with at least seven of the nine
Paterson City Council members, while criticizing two for bad job performance and seeking
personal gain with the use of their office.
But for the May 10 election, all that
changed, when I was not pleased with the performance of many on the council, mainly for
raising taxes, not paying taxes, not repaying a
personal loan to the city, not opening the public
portion of the meetings for five minutes to address the council, passing laws that add criminal
charges for the public, bonding money that
would increase the taxes in the long run, not
being able to curb crime, not being able to add
major ratables and other issues the council has
failed to address.
During one meeting, a reporter from
WNBC-TV, apparently friendly with Sixth
Ward Councilman Andre Sayegh, was present
at a council meeting, hinting of a story where
he allegedly was going to expose the mayor for
using city employees for doing work privately at
his home.
The council, which had just enacted a very
heavy tax increase on businesses and homeowners, indicated it was going to launch an internal
investigation on the mayor as a result of the
story. Even if the mayor used a few employees
at his home for the time the story alleged. It
would probably amount to about $50-$60 a day
per person, I felt that was nothing compared to
the $3,000 to $6,000 in tax increase per property, the council jacked up the community for,
so why are the council members targeting the
mayor?
Plus, the $38,000 First Ward Councilman
Michael Jackson owed in personal business
taxes to the city and the $140,000 publicly financed loan he took from taxpayers and then
forfeiting it.
Then there is Sixth Ward Councilman
Andre Sayegh, who took $2,500 in campaign
contributions from a trash company in his ward
and helped award it a $400,000 city contract,
plus the millions he helped award while on the
Board of Education and the city council to
NJCDC, where he was once given a $41,000-ayear job serving on the Paterson Alliance,
linked to the same NJCDC.
At a public council meeting last spring, I
approached the microphone and chastised the
council for its intended actions, saying some
members have engaged in wrongdoing worse
than the mayor, and I called out some members
individually, including Council President Bill
McKoy of the Third Ward. As I left the microphone, three of them began attacking me verbally, with support from the incumbent
candidates’ campaign supporters sitting in the
audience, who praised the council's attacks.
I was not afraid, or ashamed, to call them
out publically and like I saw it. These council
members have their own evil-doing against the
community, yet they targeted the mayor and
had people stalk and follow him around for
more than a year, but they don’t want the same
treatment for themselves.
Who the council members want investigated and judged they will do, but, for themselves, they want to be exempt from the same
scrutiny and questions.
After that meeting, members of the council
who did not even previously speak to each
other joined forces and plotted to remove NJ
Pulse from the council chamber and bar me
from speaking at the public microphone.
This, knowing at the time an election was
coming up and I could affect the incumbents’
chances of winning.
At one time angry at me for endorsing another candidate and not him, McKoy began removing my newspaper from City Hall - on the
very same tables he himself uses to advertise his
“Toys for Kids” events and places his campaign
materials. When that failed, he began calling in
the police department to remove me from the
chamber, if I had a camera on the ledge or any
tactic he felt he could use to intimidate me in
the council chamber.
Jackson, a black belt in karate, began lying
to the police department in saying that I assaulted him, and in expressing fears for his life
while sitting in the chamber. This happened
during the election, where I use the microphone
and their cameras to confront them. I cannot
go into the chamber because of this, false statement to the police department who supported
his campaign. I then began receiving physical
threats in the mail, which, I suspect, he is behind. In a written letter, I then asked the police
department to protect me at the meetings, but
when Police Director Jerry Speziale found out it
was the city council harassing me, led by a
council president who he was supporting for reelection, he refused to ask the officers working
below him, to intervene or keep the peace or me
protected.
Yet it is believed the Paterson Police Department has a policy prohibiting anyone from
being overtly involved in a political campaign.
It is not clear whether the police director is subjected to, or above, that policy.
It is also important to know the Paterson
Police PBA donated $1,100 to Mc Koy’s re-election and $500 to some of the council members
running for election. What that conflict does is
not only make for a hostile and dangerous environment for a member of the press to work
within, but if you are drawn into a confrontation by a council member, an officer stationed
in the chamber would likely be inclined to work
to protect them, leaving the journalist or anyone
else unprotected.
The press, speaking only for myself, must be
able to do its critically important job without
fear of intimidation, harassment, and violence.
So for my safety in the current climate of harassment and intimidation, I have not attended
council meetings, where I had been for almost
10 years, since April.
So in a place that I considered my office, my
view into the world of the alleged “political cartel,” which controls the people, who make laws
that could hurt the average taxpayer and who
control spending the taxpayer’s hard-earned
money. I have been prohibited from report
those things.
But the government has decided, at least in
Paterson, to now restrict me, led by the very
elected officials who place their hands on the
Bible upon their inauguration and promise “to
respect the rights of everyone, Impartially and
justly.”
Seven council members voted to block me
from speaking right after they let their campaign supporters on public camera ridicule me
for no legitimate reason, just for opposing their
re-election.
That night of the meeting as I stood there,
the council began voting to end the public portion, excluding me. I felt as if I was watching
my constitutional rights being raped by each of
the council members as they said “yes” to the
closing the public meeting where I asked had
the right to speak. Not one of them stop it or
said, I can’t be involved with a politically motivated action against someone rights, I am saying no. They all backed each other.
After the election, I thought it was over,
only to see that they continued in their vindictiveness to remove all my newspapers from the
city’s list of who should be recognized officially
Photo (L) shows the NJ Pulse being removed from City Hall by Council President Bill McKoy. Top row photos are council members responsible for leading
the removal of the newspaper from the agenda. Second row photos are their
campaign supporters attacking the NJ Pulse before its President was barred
from speaking.
Before
After
X
X
X
X
Publications in “X” are the ones removed in retaliation (all owned by the NJ Pulse)
by the city of Paterson. But that’s OK, I am a
strong believer “God does not like evil.”
This is a council president (Bill McKoy)
who claims to be a Christian. He is mad because I called him out. This “Christian” is seeking revenge to punish me, even after the election
is over and he won.
These are the bullies and tyrants in government, the law claims it will prosecute if they engage in civil and criminal misconduct, if they
violate the use of their authority and office to
harm the rights of a citizen, who disagrees with
them. So we’ll see what happens.
Some of them have even illegally gone after
my advertisers, and when I filed criminal
charges against them, they recently got judges
within their political party willing to fix the case
for them - after it was remanded out of Paterson to Passaic Municipal Court. Still. Which
encourages them to continue to violate the law
and the rights of others.
At that very council meeting, they boasted
how they have reduced my paper to nothing,
yet they’re wrong because I’m still here for the
public. My last hope as a member of the free
press was to question them on camera, and
that’s why they took the desperate steps to try
muzzling me, not even caring about violating
the constitutional rights they swore upon taking
their oaths not to violate.
They were scared. If I spoke on camera,
those incumbents running earlier this year
could have lost. They know many of their voters are the elderly and others my paper can’t
reach, so they depend on the camera to get
those votes.
But for those reading this. I promise not to
be influenced as a Christian first. Yes, they attacked my faith too, but I don’t care. My work
is to tell the truth, and I will not be pressured to
keep the secrets for those entrusted with the office, that have that kind of authority over the
people. I know a man who died for telling the
truth and refusing to keep their secrets and
that’s why I became a Christian.
Hopefully, the law will police itself when I
file complaints for what they did, or hopefully,
I’m at least going to get to expose them for who
and what they are - corrupt crooks, speaking
how well they do for you the public, when their
actions show something far different.
So if you watch the meetings now and no
longer see me, there, it’s not because of them
only. It’s because of the people you also entrust
with charging and prosecuting public officials
when those officials do wrong.
These are the people, in the ranks of our
law enforcement and judiciary who are supposed to be the real monitors of the people’s
business. Yet it seems many are hopelessly corrupt themselves, and if that’s the case, you really
lose because it seems you have already surren-
dered your rights to a system - dominated by
members of “a political class” - that really
seems designed to work for them and keep you,
the average law-abiding system, where you need
to be - a hopeless, silent follower serving their
greed for power and money.
They kiss you when they want your vote
and kick you when you turn and walk away.
There are two other “reporters” at the
council meetings, Joe, and Ray the blogger. Yet
they play their cards right. They report some
stories and then turn away purposely from
telling the truth, - a deliberate blindness, getting
favors and enabling them to make nice with the
politicians to get information when they need
for their publications to stay in business.
If the press have the hid politicians secrets
to stay in business, either the constitution is no
longer effective or the days of real journalism is
dead. The government is now unchecked. We
only publish what they want or we become their
enemies. And since their party selects the
judges, how far would our complaints of criminal and constitutional right violation go, since
they cover each other.
So the other “press” get to have the personal interviews I don’t get and the information
about shooting etc. and that’s why I must ask
my questions at the microphone.
I wish I could just walk up to these “reporters”
and ask them what the heck are they doing for
news? Stop candy-coating them! Stop interviewing felons and controversial people for
comments instead of good citizens. These are
the kind of members of the press or bloggers
reporting news in Paterson, who pat each other
on the back, and hang out together, I usually
stay to myself, independent, I am happy to
share information but don’t’ waste my time. If
they (public officials) are evil and corrupt, then
I say they are evil and corrupt. That ‘s our job
and responsibility to the public.
Serving in the press is a sacred and critical
job, without the real truth finders, the government will remain a powerful corrupted entity,
but with us the “truth tellers,” you get to vote to
bring that “corrupted temple” down.
And that’s what they are afraid of, not so
much of me, but you! To know the truth about
them.
I have asked those who follow me to keep
this information, and if anything should happen to me, it’s because I decided to take on the
corrupted line of officials that extends into the
courts the judges and prosecutors who are connected to the FBI and Homeland Security. It’s
all one big family, so when I file criminal
charges against these 7 councilmembers, we’ll
know how high the corruption runs. If I can’t
put them in jail at least I can expose the people
that protects them from it.
June-July, 2016
6
The Fairness Formula is the Future of Education Funding
Why The Property Taxes In Bergen and Passaic Counties Are So High
By Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi
Many people in New Jersey do not understand the archaic formulas which drive state
funding for our schools and the vastly different property tax results in our respective
municipalities. Under the New Jersey Constitution, it is mandated that students be
provided a thorough and efficient education. That phrase has been thrown around
conveniently in defense of an inequitable
formula that is too expensive to fund with
results that scream failure. New Jersey
needs a fair funding formula that fixes the
problem, and Bergen taxpayers need real
property tax relief.
A few weeks ago, Governor Christie
proposed a formula that would provide
equal funding on a per student basis. This
new formula, called the fairness formula, is
nearly identical to what I have introduced
since 2012. The majority in the legislature
wants to continue with a failed system,
which has disproportionately and negatively
impacted 69 out of 70 communities in
Bergen County. What the Governor and I
have proposed will fix the problem.
Under the proposed fairness formula, state
aid would be $6,599 per pupil with additional funding provided for students with
special needs. No student will be regarded
as worth more than another. The state has
thrown billions of dollars at underperforming districts for years and the situation
hasn’t improved. The time is now that we
face reality and provide fair funding for
every student in the state and stop strangling
taxpayers to fund failure.
One of those former Abbott districts is Passaic City. With only around 10,000 public
students, it receives more money than all 70
municipalities combined in Bergen, which
has approximately 250,000 students. Further, overfunded municipalities often use
that money to pay for things other than stu-
dents, such as Elizabeth which in 2015 spent
more per student on legal and consulting
fees ($237 per pupil) than on textbooks and
supplies.
In comparison, Pascack Valley Regional
High School District is rated the eighth best
school district in New Jersey with a graduation rate of 98 percent, while receiving only
$550 per student (a number only slightly
higher than what Elizabeth spent on legal
and consulting fees). The average property
tax in Bergen County is well over $11,000.
As a result of these increasingly high property taxes, Bergen County has found itself in
recent years with one of the highest rates of
foreclosures, pre-foreclosures and personal
bankruptcies. On the flip side, Camden
High School has only a 46 percent graduation rate and yet receives over $30,000 per
student. The average property tax in Camden County is only slightly over $6,000.
Other than a handful of exceptions, towns
in Bergen and Passaic counties have carried
the brunt of increasing property taxes, yet
they have received the least amount of funding in the entire state.
This lopsided school funding formula is indefensible. Bergen and Passaic
homeowners are paying sky high property
taxes to fund a school district on the opposite side of the state that can’t graduate half
of its students. What makes the students in
Camden worth sixty-times more than a student who goes to Pascack Valley or any
other school district in Bergen or Passaic?
What makes 10,000 school age children in
Passaic more valuable than every school district in Bergen County combined? The answer: court mandates on how the state
should spend its money.
The state Supreme Court ruled in
the Abbott v. Burke decisions that most
money should be distributed to districts that
have demonstrated an inability to provide
educational excellence. The consequence
has been diverting money from districts that
pay through the nose for education to districts that don’t; such as Bergen paying for
Camden. Diverting these funds has resulted
in higher property taxes for districts that
want to maintain the educational excellence
they have achieved. In some cases the towns
with diverted funds have large retiree populations, robbing senior citizens of their savings and the value of their homes.
The Corzine school funding formula
the court approved has resulted in failure.
The court ruled that nearly sixty percent of
school funding provided to only 5 percent of
school districts satisfies a constitutionally
thorough and efficient education. This unfair formula has increased property taxes
across the state and has failed to effectively
educate the students in districts that cost the
most taxpayer dollars. All the while, student
enrollment in the former Abbott districts
has decreased as funding has increased.
When schools are funded on a per
pupil basis, taxpayers benefit. School funding will increase nearly 500 percent in
Bergen and Passaic with the fairness formula, while average property taxes will be
reduced by over $2,000. When schools
aren’t funded on a per pupil basis, $5.1 billion goes to 31 districts and $4 billion goes
to 546 districts. The fairness formula will
equitably spend $9.1 billion across all 577
districts, without any property tax discrimination based on educational excellence. Any
legislator representing these counties who
does not support this fair and balanced approach is failing to represent their own constituents.
Providing funding equally on a per pupil
basis will level out the playing field and decrease property taxes across the state. Extra
aid will only be provided to make sure we
take care of our special education students
who need the extra help to get by. Three out
of four school districts in the entire state
Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi
would see an increase in aid, 69 out of 70
municipalities in Bergen County would see
an increase in aid. That means 69 Bergen
County towns will see a reduction in property taxes, providing much needed relief.
The current school funding formula has
been a disaster that drives up property taxes
and does nothing to help failing school districts reverse the course. The fairness formula will provide fair funding. Opponents
to the idea will holler that it is unconstitutional. If that is their only concern, I have
sponsored a resolution since 2012 (ACR35)
amending the constitution to provide a
thorough and efficient education on a per
pupil basis. The current formula is an indefensible failure, if the constitution is the
only concern, then pass my resolution and
the fairness formula.
Report: More Whites Are Killed By Police, More Blacks Kill Blacks
Some cops are out of control but not out to gun down blacks, New York Post story says
University of Toledo criminologist Dr. Richard R.
Johnson examined the latest data from the FBI and
Centers for Disease Control, In an opinon piece to the
New York Post.
From 2003 through 2012, law-enforcement officers
killed an average of 429 people per year in “legal interventions.” These include a relatively small number of
innocent people killed by cops and many more who
died due to reasonable use of force.
When a bank robber thrusts a loaded Glock into a
teller’s neck, that’s a really good time for the police to
kill him.
Anti-police protesters chant the well-known
names of several black males who lately have died at
the hands of cops: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice and Walter Scott.
Some cops (such as Darren Wilson, who shot
Michael Brown) have been exonerated, even by
Obama’s Justice Department. Others face trial —
such as Officer Michael Slager, who shot Walter Scott
in the back in North Charleston, SC, and the three
white and three black Baltimore cops in whose custody Freddie Gray died.
What this controversy sorely needs is a strong dose
of facts. Actual crime data reveal that this movement
is based on mythology.
Thanks to the Ferguson Effect, blistering anti-lawenforcement rhetoric and sometimes fatal attacks on
police have made cops timid, if not terrified. The result? A murder explosion that, ironically, is killing the
very black people whom Black Lives Matter claims to
champion. Year to date, homicides are up 8.3 percent
in New York, 19.2 percent in Chicago, 51.5 percent in
St. Louis and 52.5 percent in Baltimore.
On average, 4,472 black men were killed by other
black men annually between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec.
31, 2012, according to the FBI’s Supplementary
Homicide Reports. Using FBI and CDC statistics,
Professor Johnson calculates that 112 black men, on
average, suffered both justified and unjustified policeinvolved deaths annually during this period.
This equals 2.5 percent of these 4,472 yearly
deaths. For every black man — criminal or innocent
— killed by a cop, 40 black men were murdered by
other black men. The, at most, 2.5 percent of the
problem generates relentless rage. And, yet, it is rudeto-racist to mention 97.5 percent of the problem.
As America’s largest police force, one would ex-
pect the NYPD to be a major player in this alleged
mass murder of innocent blacks. Wrong again!
The supposedly trigger-happy, bigoted NYPD
killed a whopping eight people last year, according to
its meticulous, 73-page “2014 Annual Firearms Discharge Report.” Of these, four were black. All of them
were armed with cutting instruments (scissors, a
hatchet, a boxcutter and a knife) and wielded them
when they fatally were shot.
Rather than NYPD gunfire, the high-profile Eric
Garner case involved a police chokehold that may
have given the overweight Garner a lethal coronary.
Still, these five deaths (at least four of them justified) total last year’s NYPD “genocide” against black
men. They equal 4.95 percent of Gotham’s 101 blackon-black murders in 2014. Other blacks are 20 times
deadlier to black New Yorkers than is the NYPD.
Yes, some police are overzealous, twitchy-fingered
and — surely — racist. NYPD Officer James Frascatore’s heavy-handed takedown of tennis player James
Blake outside a Manhattan hotel in September confirms that some cops need leashes.
Also, According to the Washington Post more
white citizens are killing in confrontation with police
officers than Blacks;
An analysis released last week shows that more
white people died at the hands of law enforcement
than those of any other race in the last two years, even
as the Justice Department, social-justice groups and
media coverage focus on black victims of police force.
The deaths of whites at the hands of law enforcement typically receive less attention, even when the
case is shrouded in controversy. For example, Gilbert
Collar, an 18-year-old white student at the University
of South Alabama, was shot and killed while naked,
unarmed and under the influence of drugs by a black
police officer. The story noted.
Police assigned to black communities with high
crime rates are more accustomed to dangerous situations and thus are more likely to be able to resolve
them without resort to lethal force.
“Yes, more whites than blacks die as a result of an
encounter with police, but whites also represent a
much bigger chunk of the total population,” PolitiFact said in its Aug. 21 post.
“The odds that a black man will be shot and killed by
a police officer is about 1 in 60,000. For a white man
those odds are 1 in 200,000.
killed by
police in
2016:
242 Whites,
129 Blacks,
80 Hispanics,
23 other,
48 unknown
killed by
police in
2015:
494 Whites,
258 Blacks,
127 Hispanics,
38 other,
28 unknown
June-July, 2016
7
FBI Find Major Conflict In Clinton Story But Won’t Convict
FBI Director: Hillary Clinton broke the law “but not intentionally” on the Investigation
of Clinton’s use of having top secret documents on her Personal E-Mail System
Remarks prepared for delivery at press briefing.
Good morning. I’m here to give you an update on
the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use
of a personal e-mail system during her time as
Secretary of State.
Our investigation looked at whether there is
evidence classified information was improperly
stored or transmitted on that personal system, in
violation of a federal statute making it a felony to
mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second
statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities.
Consistent with our counterintelligence responsibilities, we have also investigated to determine whether there is evidence of computer
intrusion in connection with the personal e-mail
server by any foreign power, or other hostile actors.
From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to
the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail
chains have been determined by the owning
agency to contain classified information at the
time they were sent or received. Eight of those
chains contained information that was Top Secret
at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained
Confidential information, which is the lowest level
of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000
additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make
them Confidential; the information in those had
not been classified at the time the e-mails were
sent.
The FBI also discovered several thousand
work-related e-mails that were not in the group of
30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to
State in 2014. We found those additional e-mails
in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over
the years and we found traces of them on devices
that supported or were connected to the private email domain.
With respect to the thousands of e-mails we
found that were not among those produced to
State, agencies have concluded that three of those
were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level.
Now let me tell you what we found:
Although we did not find clear evidence that
Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were
extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
For example, seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special
Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton
both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to support a conclusion that
any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about
these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.
In addition to this highly sensitive information, we
also found information that was properly classified as Secret by the U.S. Intelligence Community
at the time it was discussed on e-mail (that is, excluding the later “up-classified” e-mails).
None of these e-mails should have been on
any kind of unclassified system, but their presence
is especially concerning because all of these emails were housed on unclassified personal servers
not even supported by full-time security staff, like
those found at Departments and Agencies of the
U.S. Government—or even with a commercial
service like Gmail.
Separately, it is important to say something
about the marking of classified information. Only
a very small number of the e-mails containing
classified information bore markings indicating
the presence of classified information. But even if
information is not marked “classified” in an email, participants who know or should know that
the subject matter is classified are still obligated to
protect it.
With respect to potential computer intrusion
by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence
that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain,
in its various con
We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a
personal e-mail domain was both known by a
large number of people and readily apparent. She
also used her personal e-mail extensively while
outside the United States, including sending and
receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of
sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination
of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal
e-mail account.
So that’s what we found. Finally, with respect
to our recommendation to the Department of
Justice:
In our system, the prosecutors make the decisions about whether charges are appropriate
based on evidence the FBI has helped collect. Although we don’t normally make public our recommendations to the prosecutors, we frequently
make recommendations and engage in productive
conversations with prosecutors about what resolution may be appropriate, given the evidence. In
this case, given the importance of the matter, I
think unusual transparency is in order.
Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of
classified information, our judgment is that no
reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors
before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also
consider the context of a person’s actions, and
how similar situations have been handled in the
past.
In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we
cannot find a case that would support bringing
criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified
information; or vast quantities of materials ex-
posed in such a way as to support an inference of
intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.
To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar
circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to
security or administrative sanctions. But that is
not what we are deciding now.
And so we at this newspaper pause for a moment, to remember our brother is blue. Fiver officers in Dallas who
were trying to shield protesters from gun fire, not knowing the bullets were for them. Something that happened
in two States far away, they paid for.
The other three in Baton Rouge, also woke up that morning, said good bye to their family, not knowing it was
the last time,it was their last good bye.
Cursed are they that commit an Eye for an Eye and do justise and Judgement before the Lord; Matthew 5:38
Rest in peace my Christian brothers, you are now soldiers of the Lord
Officer Montrell Jackson did
not get to go home to his
son.
He will never know his father,
only that some coward,
gunned him down for
something he did not do.
June-July, 2016
8
Opinions - like it or not
These just won’t stop. Some one is getting paid
here, NBC reporter in Paterson with Councilman
Sayegh, the are the only 2 obsessed with the
mayor and who is at his home. I can’t tell you
what he’s done for the city. So if the makes the
mayor look bad, we’ll all run to him.
Where are they now!? Paterson vote for these
dummies. The took the vote and the money and
they ran. The city is in a deep crisis but you won’t
see them now. The got what they wanted, control
of the money and the power to run they county.
And Paterson will do it all over again.
Where are these people? the too come to
council meeting when they heard the taxes
were going up, it did, and when the election
come, they stayed home. The same council
that raised their taxes, they left them to be
re-elected. They’ll be back again.
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Paterson Kids Not Allowed On City Field for 30 Years
Paterson City Council sells out Pennington Park fields to outside
company for 30 years and limits access to Paterson kids
PATERSON The city has turned over some fields
in Pennington Park to a Bergen County-based
youth soccer academy for 30 years, after the city
spent public funds to help restore the park.
Under an agreement the City Council earlier
approved, the city will lease two field plots for 30
years to South Hackensack-based Cedar Stars
Academy USA Corp. The nonprofit operates several New Jersey youth soccer programs for boys
and girls, with ages generally ranging from early
elementary to high school.
The agreement enables Cedar Stars to expand
its operations into Passaic County, as its website www.cedarstars.com - shows it currently offers
programs in Bergen, Essex and Monmouth counties. The new fields are not expected to be fully operational until early 2017.
The park is situated in the Old Great Falls
Historic District. It features two other fields, including a baseball diamond.
But for 30 years, the two fields will primarily
be used by Cedar Stars. And Paterson kids not
enrolled in a special academy scholarship program are virtually shut out from using them, except for possibly a three-hour window on
weekdays during the summer, when examining
the contract's exact language.
In the agreement, Cedar Stars is expected to
finance constructing two artificial turf fields, to be
principally utilized for soccer activities: clinics,
camps, leagues, training sessions, games and tournaments.
The resolution states Cedar Stars will itself
spend only $1.6 million to $2 million over the 30
years it primarily controls the fields. Yet in a memorandum from the city, it was revealed that Cedar
Stars has received $5 million to $7 million in program donations.
A check of Cedar Stars' website shows expenses for certain academy camps, such as summer camps, can run as high as $200 per week for
each student, which show additional income to
Cedar Stars. There is nothing in the agreement
that Paterson would receive a percentage of the
fees Cedar Stars is charging or money it is making
of the fields, including any paid tournaments or
games. The city council also did not looking into
the income for Cedar Stars use of the park and if
part of that money could be used by the city, for
other repairs to Pennington park and or other
parks in the city of Paterson we were told.
Some questioned why the council was blindsided
by the fields repair, which would benefit Cedar
Star anyway and not able to see the large income
Cedar Star is allegedly making, from Paterson
and add that to the deal.
The agreement also requires the city of Paterson to fully subsidize upkeep and maintenance at
the two fields - and for paying to provide full-time
police security - during the operational hours of
Pennington Park. Taxpayers must foot the bill,
for $200,000, for fencing in and securing the fields,
according to the agreement
The city has not yet calculated taxpayer costs
for maintenance and security, which is separate
from the agreement.
Requiring the city to entirely fund maintenance and security for the two new soccer fields
could come with a hefty price tag, based on its
own experiences, we were told.
During similar games and events at other locations, such as city-owned East Side Park, security and cleanup expenses - from the police
department and Department of Public Works can run into the tens of thousands for dollars per
event.
The agreement says, "Cedar Star shall be entitled to priority usage and non-priority usage for
the improvement of the property for a period of
30 years." That priority usage is defined as "a right
of first refusal to use the Paterson property."
While the organization deals itself the better
hand, Paterson kids are left with very few cards in
the game.
Cedar Stars stated it will give scholarships,
and other help, to some Paterson kids in exchange for controlling the park for its own use.
But that provision sounds more like throwing a
bone, than giving a fair shake to Paterson, a Paterson resident stated.
As an example, Cedar Stars will offer some
kind of initiative giving free soccer program scholarships to certain Paterson children - but only
provided they qualify under specific requirements.
For instance, Cedar Stars will provide an after
school recreational training program for about
100 city children on free scholarships for six hours
weekly, and a yearly summer soccer program for
three weeks for 200 city children on free scholarships.
In the agreement, only Cedar Stars will have
Paterson kid playing soccer in Clifton
since Cedar Stars will likely need some time to
wrap up its games and leave, and then, children
wishing to use the field at 1 p.m. might have to
hurry to meet a 4 p.m. restriction.
Cedar Stars could then resume activities through
10 p.m., under its agreement.
Even for the 100 Paterson children fortunate
enough to be picked for the non-summer scholarship program, a rough calculation from NJ Pulse
shows their field time would be severely limited.
For 100 children, at only six hours per week
during the times the program will be run:
full access to the fields.
The following are the times Cedar Stars will
control the two fields for the next 30 years - the
same times Paterson children unable to obtain the
special scholarships will be barred from using
them.
January – December - Mon.-Fri.: 4 to 10 p.m.
For the non-summer months, since Paterson children are expected to be in school on weekdays,
they will have no access to the leased fields during
this time for 30 years.
September 1 – November 21 = (24 hours a
month over three months).
January – December Sat.-Sun.: - 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
This means that, for 30 years, most Paterson children will be barred from using the field on weekends during the day. Local ordinance prohibits use
of the fields after 8 p.m.
Mon.-Fri.: June – August - 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
This means that, if most Paterson children want to
use the two leased fields weekdays in the summer.
they would have only between 1 and 4 p.m. to play
there.
The three-hour window might even be shorter,
April 1 – June 15 = (24 hours a month over three
months).
It should be noted that, after the council approved this agreement, all incumbent council
members running for re-election last May was reelected.
Council President Bill McKoy has publicly stated
that, regardless of how many of a council majority on the nine-member body approve a program,
all council members then assume responsibility for
working to support the program.
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Paterson Officially Awarded 3rd Worst City In The U.S.
City of Paterson, Newark and Camden on the list of worst city in the US
PATERSON According to a study by 24/7
Wall St., and published in USA Today, Paterson
city officials were handed their report card and it
is not good.
The City of Paterson is listed as the 3rd
worst city in the United States, a heartbeat behind Detroit, Mich. and Miami, Florida.
New Jersey has 250 boroughs, 52 cities, 15
towns, 245 townships, and four villages. What
makes the number more staggering is that The
United States Census reported there are 50,432
municipalities and townships combined in the
United States. Paterson officials were also
handed that piece of bad news.
Moody’s, a trusted credit rating agency, once
again downgraded Paterson’s outlook as "negative."
“Summary Rating" Rationale:
Moody's Investors Service has affirmed the
City of Paterson, New Jersey's general obligation rating at Ba1. The outlook was revised to
negative. Concurrently, Moody's has affirmed
the A3 enhanced rating on the city's Municipal
Qualified Bond Act (MQBA) enhanced bonds.
The outlook on the enhanced rating remains
negative.
The affirmation of the Ba1 is based the city's
very weak financial position after worse-thanexpected financial performance in fiscal 2015.
Fund balance and cash reserves will remain
weak through fiscal 2016 and could likely
worsen going forward. The rating reflects the
city's large, declining tax base, below-average income levels, high rates of poverty and unemployment, and above-average debt burden. It
also incorporates the city's considerable reliance
on state emergency aid and deficit financing to
support operations.
The A3 enhanced rating reflects the additional security provided by the state's Municipal
Qualified Bond Act (MQBA) pre-default state
intercept program. The A3 rating is one notch
below the State of New Jersey (A2 negative), reflecting strong 3.8 times debt service coverage
provided by qualified state aid revenues.
Rating Outlook:
The negative underlying outlook reflects our
expectation that city operations will be significantly pressured over the next 12 to 18 months
by the lack of budget consensus for fiscal 2016
(June 30).
The negative outlook assigned to the enhanced qualified bond ratings is directly linked
to the state's negative outlook,” Moody's report
concludes.
Moody’s also gave this city some advice,
which it has trouble comprehending or implementing, such as:
Factors that Could Lead to an Upgrade
Significant and sustained improvement in liquidity and current fund balance.
Material improvements in the city's socioeconomic profile.
Factors that Could Lead to a Downgrade
Further deterioration in current fund balance
and/or cash reserves.
Continued difficulty passing budgets in a timely
fashion.
Material declines in the tax base or socioeconomic profile.
Significant increase in debt or pension burden. Moody’s recently cited the City Council's
budget fight with the mayor as a major negative
for the city. The council's refusal to pass the
budget caused the city to be shut down, costing
employees a half-million dollars in pay, only to
pass the same budget later on.
This "worst list" is also bad news for the Democrat Party, which took control of Paterson 21
years ago and has controlled not just Paterson
but Passaic County itself.
The city has seen a major decline in services,
jobs, living conditions, streets; growth and investments. It also, on the other side, saw an increase in crime, unemployment, taxes,
foreclosures and loss of businesses.
Under Republican control in the 80s, the city
had been thriving. With the influx of minorities,
the city has shifted from being Republican to
one fully controlled by the Democrats.
For years, the Republicans have tried regaining control but been unsuccessful, with one Republican even saying, “Hey Paterson, you keep
voting Democratic. How is that working out for
you?”
Paterson was one of the richest cities in the
country. Detroit was also arguably the richest
city in the world. Today Detroit is broke with
crime spread across it land scape, Paterson is
one beat behind Detroit on the list.
Paterson officials have enjoyed the Democrat
party-line politics, which have repeatedly seen
these same officials win - despite the city's constant slide into deterioration.
Forbes explain it as; “increasing the relative
size of one’s political base through distortionary,
wealth-reducing policies.” Translation: A politician or a political party can achieve long-term
dominance by tipping the balance of votes in
their direction through the implementation of
policies that strangle and stifle economic
growth. Counterintuitively, making a city poorer
leads to political success for the engineers of that
impoverishment.
Here’s an example of how the Curley effect
works: Let’s say a mayor advocates and adopts
policies that redistribute wealth from the prosperous to the not-so-prosperous by bestowing
generous tax-financed favors on unions, the
public sector in general, and select corporations.
These beneficiaries become economically dependent on their political patrons, so they give
them their undivided electoral support—e.g.,
votes, campaign contributions, and get-out-thevote drives.
Meanwhile, the anti-rich rhetoric of these
clever demagogues, combined with higher taxes
to fund the political favors, triggers a flight of
tax refugees from the cities to the suburbs.
It also shrinks the tax base of the city, even
as the city’s budget swells.”
In Paterson there is also little consensus on
where funding should come from, or be cut, between the mayor and an inexperienced council,
most of whose members lack any background
in economic growth, fiscal training, the vision to
create an Urban Plan or legal knowledge.
The new members were elected based on
their popularity in the community, rather than
being vetted for experience and education in
government. Someone who may not have a job,
but who walks around being friendly with the
community will most likely be elected over
someone who is at work and does not have the
luxury of being constantly seen by the community. Homeowners also do not have a choice in
deciding who is better qualified to reduce their
taxes, as most of the votes are from renters in
large apartment complexes.
The report stated it considered a number of
factors when deciding where one should live, including the quality of schools, the strength of
the local economy and job market, the area’s
safety and culture, as well as its climate.
“Most, if not all, people do not control
where they are born, live, or move to, 24/7 Wall
St. states. "Millions of Americans find themselves in places that lack jobs, amenities, and security. While people love and hate cities for any
number of reasons, there are some objective
measures by which all cities can be compared.”
To determine America’s worst cities to live
in, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed data on the 550 U.S.
cities with populations of 65,000 or more as
Inside the Paterson council chamber where they are responsible for running
the cities business - some members see here are no longe with the council
measured by the U.S. Census Bureau. Based on
a range of variables, including crime rates, employment growth, access to restaurants and attractions, educational attainment, and housing
affordability, it identified America’s 50 worst
cities to live in.
"Income is highly associated with a range of
other social and economic factors. Because of
its importance, financial status was a major
component of the ranking. Low-income families tend to live in communities with less-stable
housing, worse health systems, greater exposure
to stressors such as violent crime, less secure employment, and higher exposure to poor air quality and environmental toxins. While prospering
under these conditions is certainly possible, these
factors dramatically lower the likelihood of
doing so.
Residents of the worst cities to live in tend to
have lower incomes and higher poverty rates. Of
the 50 worst cities, only eight have median incomes higher than the nationwide median
households income of $53,657 a year. In 29 of
the 50 cities, more than 25% of the population
lives in poverty, in contrast with the national
poverty rate of 15.5%," the report states.
"Violence is closely associated with a range
of negative social and economic outcomes for
all involved, including incarceration, unstable
employment, lower cognitive functioning
among children, and anxiety," the report further
maintains.
"The violent crime rates in almost all of the
worst cities to live is higher than the national
rate of 366 reported incidents per 100,000 people. Even compared to other cities, where. in
general, violence is more common, these cities
are not especially safe. In half of the 50, the violent crime rate exceeds 1,000 incidents per
100,000 people."
The following includes a summary of why
Paterson is third on the list of 50,432 ciites,
based on Wall St. 24/7's findings.
3. Paterson, New Jersey
> Population: 146,746
> Median home value: $239,300
> Poverty rate: 30.7%
> Pct. with at least a bachelor’s degree: 10.8%
"Paterson is home to the Great Falls of the
Passaic, which used to power the mills of the
city’s once vibrant textile manufacturing industry. According to the U.S. Department of the
Interior, Paterson’s textile industry was so productive in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
that the city became known as “Silk City.” Close
to 16% of the city’s workforce is employed in the
manufacturing sector, still well above the national proportion. Like many American industrial cities, Paterson’s economy is no longer
prospering as it once was. More than 30% of the
area’s residents live in poverty, nearly double the
national poverty rate."
The two other New Jersey cities listed, with
summaries, are:
Newark, which came in 43rd place:
43. Newark, New Jersey
"New York is the most populous, economically
robust metropolitan area in the country. Not all
parts of the metro area are especially great
places to live. Located roughly 15 miles from
midtown Manhattan, goods and services are
pricey in Newark. As a whole, the cost of living
in Newark is 21.6% higher than it is across the
country as a whole. Housing is particularly expensive, costing about 50% more than housing
costs nationwide. Not only does a dollar not go
as far in the New Jersey city, the median household income in Newark is about $17,700 lower
than the national median income."
Camden also fair better that Paterson coming in 25th:
25. Camden, New Jersey
"Opportunities to socialize and the presence
of entertainment venues help increase the quality of life in a community. Camden has very few
social amenities. There are only 163.0 restaurants, cafes, or similar eateries for every 100,000
people in the city, far fewer than the national
concentration of 238.4 per 100,000 people nationwide. An increase in the number of such establishments would likely make the city a more
attractive place to live.
Camden has more serious economic problems than the lack of leisure time amenities, as
well as environmental problems. Only 7.8% of
area adults have a bachelor’s degree, far fewer
than the 30.1% of American adults. This likely
makes the area less attractive to businesses seeking highly-skilled workers. Low air quality can
greatly increase certain health risks, and the air
quality is hazardous 8.1% of days each year in
Camden, far more than the national 5.9% share
of low air quality days."
Paterson, near the top of the list, is one beat
away from Detroit, which made number two,
followed by Miami, which is number one.
15 worst cities starting with #1
1. Miami, Florida
2. Detroit, Michigan
3. Paterson, New Jersey
4. Hawthorne, California
5. Fall River, Massachusetts
6. Birmingham, Alabama
7. Memphis, Tennessee
8. Flint, Michigan
9. Cleveland, Ohio
10. Gary, Indiana
11. Westminster, California
12. Jackson, Mississippi
13. Dayton, Ohio
14. Buffalo, New York
15. St. Louis, Missouri
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One step forward, two steps back on NJ Pension and Health
Gov: $195,000 in and $2.6 Million out is not a good pension plan for taxpayers
TRANSCRIPT:
“If I had the money today, to make the full
pension payment I would. We don't, and I'm
not going to raise taxes on all the people of
New Jersey to benefit 625,000 residents in
New Jersey. The system is completely broken
and here's what you need to be telling the
people New Jersey - and I’m certainly going
to be telling them.
Let's take the average teacher in New Jersey who works 30 years - that average teacher
puts $84,000 into the pension system over
their 30-year career. Eighty-four thousand
dollars and they take out $1.1 million, over
their lifetime. The average teacher in New
Jersey who gets family health coverage, pays
$1 a hundred eleven thousand dollars over
their 30-year career for health coverage and
the cost to that health coverage is $1.5 million, so, we have an average teacher New Jer-
sey works 30 years to pay the $195,000 for
their pension and health care and gets out
$2.6 million in benefits. That is a broken system and it will go bankrupt no matter how
much money we put in and so the fact is I'm
not going to raise taxes on 8 million people
in New Jersey to benefits 625,000 people,
who are benefiting from bloated and broken
system.
I stand ready to go back to the negotiating table, any time, with the unions in this
state to fix this system. If they refuse to do
so, they will be the stewards of a bankrupt
system. Remember this - when we make our
$1.3 billion payment in fiscal year 16, with
the additional 212 we just put in, that means
we will put in, in this administration in six
years, $ 4.4 billion into the pension system,
which is double, double what any other governor has done in the history of the state.
So they can yell at me and pick on me
but I've given more money than any governor has and I've been the one that has told
the truth about what we need to reform it,
and when I hear the teachers union say, ‘We
make their payments,’ well, I would offer, to
any citizen in New Jersey, to put $195,000 in,
over 30 years, and get $2.6 million out.
The only reason it can be done is because
the taxpayers in New Jersey are shouldering
that cost. And so they can continue to make
their payments. I welcome them too but
don't equate your payments to the value
you’re getting out because it’s nowhere close.
Funding for the Transportation Trust
Fund, that prompted a week-long shutdown
of construction projects, is threatening a
proposed constitutional amendment, guaranteeing public worker pension contributions.”
CHRISTIE ON VP REJECTION “I’M DISAPPOINTED.”
Governor Christie not happy about VP snub
“Of course you’re disappointed (speaking
for himself) to NJ.com. I don’t ever get into
anything that I don’t want to win. And so
when you’re not picked of course you’re
going to get disappointed but I’ve been
through the parade before and I realize it’s
like getting hit by lightening you know.
It didn’t happen, that’s fine and like I
said in the interview that I gave on Thursday, before I knew what was going to happen, you get disappointed, you take a deep
breath and you get ready for tomorrow and
here I am, and I’ll be speaking Tuesday
night, (at the GOP convention) and I’m running the transition I’ve got more things to
do this week than I have time to do them so.
It’s just the way it goes and I would not
trade the experience for anything.”
At a breakfast for Michigan’s GOP delegates Christie – who was passed over for
the role as Trump’s vice president – also
praised the presumptive nominee’s choice of
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to join the ticket.
“I am really relieved that Donald Trump
picked a governor to be his running mate,”
said Christie, who didn’t mention his being
in contention for the role. According to the
Philadelphia Inquirer report.
Christie’s political future was of some
interest to the Michigan delegates. “When
asked, please say you’ll be the next attorney
general,” a woman told Christie during a
question-and-answer session. (“That’s very
nice, and very kind,” Christie said, adding
that “we’ll see what life brings.”)
Presuming that Christie would be selected as attorney general, Randy Bishop
asked the governor: “Will you announce
today, right here, that you will prosecute
Hillary Clinton?”
Christie said it would be wrong for him
to “prejudge” the matter, but joked: “Listen,
it is very tempting to give into what I know
would be an enormous applause line.”
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Estados Unidos aprueba $ 70 mil millones para reconstruir la deuda de Puerto Rico
Estados Unidos aprueba $ 70 mil millones para reconstruir la deuda de Puerto Rico.
El presidente Obama firmó S. 2328, un
proyecto de ley de alivio de deuda a Puerto Rico,
junto con S. 337, la FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Ley de Mejora de 2016.
El proyecto de ley aborda la deuda de Puerto
Rico mediante el establecimiento de una junta de
supervisión, un proceso de reestructuración de la
deuda, y los procedimientos acelerados para la
aprobación de proyectos de infraestructura crítica.
las responsabilidades del consejo incluyen:
• aprobar el plan fiscal del gobernador;
• aprobación de los presupuestos anuales;
• hacer cumplir los presupuestos y ordenar las reducciones de gastos necesarios; y
• revisar las leyes, contratos, normas, reglamentos u
órdenes ejecutivas para el cumplimiento del plan
fiscal.
El establecimiento de la junta funciona como
una suspensión automática de las acciones de los
acreedores para hacer cumplir las demandas contra el gobierno de Puerto Rico.
El proyecto de ley modifica la Ley de Normas
Razonables de Trabajo de 1938 para permitir que
el gobernador, sujeto a la aprobación de la junta,
para designar un periodo de tiempo de no más de
cuatro años durante los cuales los empleadores en
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Me gustaría dar la bienvenida a los lectores de
New Jersey Pulse a nuestro periódico hermano, el
Pulso Latino de Estados Unidos.
El US Latino Pulse se encuentra también en
línea en www.USLatinoPulse.com. Actualmente
se está introduciendo por este medio pero más
adelante será un periódico independiente.
Hace nueve años, creé el Paterson Pulse, que
se convirtió en el periódico PNJ Pulse. NJ Pulse
News es un portavoz para la comunidad negra.
Pero con una minoria latina con una gran
población, es lógico que nos convertamos también en portavoz para la comunidad latinal.
Por qué la comunidad latina? Por dos razones.
1. Al ser un inmigrante a los Estados Unidos,
entiendo los retos que encaran los inmigrantes y
Puerto Rico pueden pagar ciertos empleados
menos del salario mínimo nacional .
El proyecto de ley establece un Coordinador de
Revitalización para designar a los proyectos de infraestructura críticos que cumplan con los requisitos especificados. proyectos críticos aprobados por
la junta de supervisión son elegibles para un proceso de autorización acelerada.
La junta deberá dividir los acreedores en grupos en base a las características de la deuda, y cada
grupo puede votar un plan de reestructuración de
la deuda. Si al menos dos tercios de la cantidad
principal pendiente de un grupo está de acuerdo
con el plan, el grupo puede presentar una petición
en el tribunal para obligar a los tenedores de bonos
disidentes de la modificación.
En general.- Tan pronto como sea posible después de que todos los miembros y el Presidente
hayan sido nombrados miembro del Consejo de
Supervisión de conformidad con la sección 101 (e)
en el año fiscal en el que se establece la Junta de Supervisión, y en cada año fiscal posterior durante el
que la Junta de Supervisión está en funcionamiento, la Junta de Supervisión deberá entregar un aviso al gobernador para proporcionar un
calendario para el proceso de desarrollo, presentación, aprobación y certificación de los planes
fiscales. La notificación también puede establecer
un calendario para la revisión de cualquier plan
fiscal que ya haya sido certificado, qué revisiones
deben estar sujetas a la posterior aprobación y certificación por el Consejo de Supervisión.
El Consejo de Supervisión consultará con el
gobernador en el establecimiento de un calendario,
pero la Junta de Supervisión será el único criterio
para establecer o, mediante la entrega de una notificación posterior al gobernador, cambiar las fechas de tal horario de acuerdo a lo que se estime
conveniente y razonablemente factible.
El proyecto de ley prevé una estancia, o alto, a
cualquier litigio iniciado contra el gobierno de
Puerto Rico y sus organismos emisores de deuda
retroactivo al mes de diciembre. Esto proporciona
espacio para respirar a la junta para iniciar el proceso de reestructuración y supervisar un proceso
de presupuesto sostenible. informó Reuter.com.
Los partidarios dijeron que la intervención de
los legisladores de Washington era necesario para
ayudar a 3,5 millones de ciudadanos estadounidenses de la isla evitar una "caída en el caos",
según el secretario del Tesoro de EE.UU. Jack
Lew el martes.
Puerto Rico ha estado esperando durante
meses a que el Congreso actúe mientas su crisis
económica empeoró. Ya se ha incumplido en parte
de su deuda. El territorio de la isla del Caribe se
está recuperando de una tasa de pobreza del 45
por ciento, así como un flujo constante de migración a la parte continental de. que reduce su
base tributaria y fondo de servicios esenciales.
El Estado Libre Asociado acumuló la deuda
después de años de préstamos para cubrir los costos de operación. El plan prevé la mayor intervención federal en los asuntos fiscales de la isla, desde
que se convirtió en un territorio EE.UU. en 1898
después de la Guerra Española-Americana. informó Bloomberg.com.
"El proyecto de ley no resuelve ningún problema. Se le da un marco ", dijo otra persona involucrada en las negociaciones que hablaron bajo
la condición de anonimato para proteger a sus
relaciones de negocios. Las medidas de emergencia
informó el . Washington Post Apesar de que
Puerto Rico está en mora en el pago de deuda
aproximadamente de $ 1 mil millones de pagos de
la deuda que quedaron por pagar, en uno de los
mayores incumplimientos de bonos municipales
jamás visto.
La isla todavía se enfrenta cerca de $ 2 millones
de dólares en pagos de deudas vencidas y más en
los próximos meses, mientras que la junta de supervisión se pone en marcha y comienza a funcionar.
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sus familiares y el choque cultural al tratar de encajar en un nuevo mundo y una nueva vida. La
experiencia puede ser un reto y a veces puede ser
aterrador.
Hace algunos años, escribí un libro titulado,
"Cuando el Servicio de Inmigración le afecta,"
para ayudar y animar a otros a entender la vida
en los Estados Unidos y cómo deshacerse de los
miedos y malentendidos cuando se Interactúa con
el gobierno, sus leyes y los agentes de policía.
Estoy profundamente preocupado por las
personas que se hacen líderes en la comunidad
latina en su país prospectivo y lo único que hacen
es utilizar su liderazgo para obtener beneficios
para sí mismos -, mientras que las necesidades de
todos los latinos se dejan en abandono.
Estamos en los Estados Unidos de America;
no en nuestro pais de origen,, por lo cual las cosas
marchan de diferente manera aquí. Las personas
que utilizan la cultura de su país de origen para
explotar a sus propios conciudadanos deben ser
desafiados. Que es lo que ya se está haciendo.
Recuerdo haber ido a la corte para ayudar a
una madre latina, que fue detenida acusada de resistencia a un agente policíaco, simplemente
porque había hecho una parada de tráfico para
dejar su hija en una escuela diurna; no ví a los llamados "líderes latinos" luchando por sus derecho
en la corte. Ella pasó nueve horas en la cárcel, sin
agua ni comida, porque un policía quería golpear
a alguien sin motivo. Y me parece que la policía
arremetió contra ella debido a que no hablaba In-
glés.
2. La otra razón de Latino Pulse en Estados
Unidos es la visión que veo para los latinos como
cristianos.
En los Estados Unidos, la fe cristiana está
cayendose a pedazos. Hay algunas personas que
luchan por no perder la cabeza, pero hay más personas que luchan por romper la fe. Aunque no
voy a entrar en detalles, voy a decir lo siguiente: las
únicas personas que están actualmente siguiendo
a Jesucristo en gran número son personas que entran en los son los latinos - en trenes, aviones, automóviles y a pie.
Se dice que una cultura sólo puede sobrevivir
si
produce más de 2,5 hijos por familia, siempre y
cuando se le enseñe a los niños de esa cultura a
mantener su fe y otra cultura no alcance a reproducirse más que ella.
Pues bien, dada la actual tasa de crecimiento
de otras culturas y con el alejamiento de más y
más cristianos, la cultura cristiana no sobrevivirá
plenamente en América.
La única otra raza o cultura, mayor que la
blanca y la cultura negro, que cuenta con un gran
número de cristianos que creen en Cristo, y que se
reproduce sobrepasando la cantidad de niños
necesarios para reconstruir una nación, son los
latinos. Así de importante eres para los Estados
Unidos.
Pero si los latinos no están debidamente integrados en este país, con los cristianos que quedan,
entonces su propósito aquí se perderá. Tranquilamente, han llegado a estas tierras trayendo la
causa de Cristo.
Mi propósito para animar a los latinos a
adoptar un estilo de vida profesional y de élite integrar, no separar. Eso significa que la mentalidad desarrollada a partir de dónde viene, como
yo, debe cambiar para que sea igual a los que
vinieron aquí hace más de 240 años. Veo a muchos latinos que luchan por mirar hacia atrás a
donde proceden, pero eso rs la razón por la cual
vinimos aquí. No es por esa razón por la que Dios
hizo posible el cruzar fronteras y les trajo aquí.
Ustedes son el futuro de Cristo aquí, mirando
hacia adelante. Ustedes son el futuro de su reino.
Ustedes son un pueblo bendito. No lo arruines!
Si no nos unimos a los otros cristianos "verdaderos" que quedan aquí, y mantenemos en alto
el nombre de Cristo, en un futuro próximo,
habrán perdido su nombre y el reino por el que
murió. Por lo que debe saber, ya que los nuevos
cristianos que han emigrado a este país como yo,
por qué Dios te trajo aquí - no a vivir una vida de
pobreza y opresión a causa de nuestro origen sino
para ponernos de pie y cuestionar a aquellos que
vinieron antes que nosotros, "Por qué no has
guardado la fe?"
Y para aquellos que han ejercido su derecho
dado por Dios para venir aquí y están manteniendo la fe - si usted es blanco, negro o alguna
otra raza -esa es su labor para proteger, preservar
y propagar el Evangelio de Jesucristo.
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integrar mejor y más a los latinos a la comunidad.
Es por eso que el Latino Pulse se ha asociado con los hispanos estadounidenses, Cámaras de Comercio para promover, comercializar y promover
los negocios latinos y profesionales y para asegurar que los latinos están adecuadamente representados y recibir los servicios en la comunidad.
También creemos que los latinos son una parte muy importante del futuro de la fe cristiana en los Estados Unidos y su integración es crucial para la
supervivencia de la fe cristiana. Integración que debe estar en una profesión y nivel de elite para ser reconocidos como iguales en este país y tener
un asiento en la mesa de cualquier discusión y reconocimiento. Únase a nosotros para ayudar a avanzar en este medio de comunicación o simplemente ser parte de esta causa.
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Corte Suprema rechaza Orden de Inmigración de Obama
El Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos votó 4 a
4 sobre la política de inmigración del presidente
Obama haciendo que fuese rechazada y devuelta
a la corte de menor rango.l
El juez de distrito Andrew Hanen EE.UU. de
Brownsville dictaminó que la administración
Obama no "cumplió con la Ley de Procedimiento
Administrativo." La Ley de Procedimiento Administrativo regula la forma en se hacen las regulaciones y la cantidad de entrada que el público
tiene. informó The Texas Tribune.
La política de Obama procura concederle a
inmigrantes indocumentados - incluyendo algunos 1,46 millones en Texas - un permiso de trabajo y un alivio temporal de la
deportación.Abbott, ex fiscal general del estado,
presentó antes de ser juramentado como gobernador. Texas es parte de una coalición de 26 estados que desafió a la acción ejecutiva, que fue
anunciada en noviembre de 2014.
Abbott acusó al presidente de violar varias
disposiciones de la Constitución de EE.UU., incluyendo uno que da jurisdicción al Congreso
sobre las leyes de inmigración. Abbott también argumentó que Texas sería irreparablemente
dañado por la acción. Citó como prueba el aumento del verano pasado de los inmigrantes indocumentados de América Central que entraron
ilegalmente a Texas a través del Valle del Río
Bravo.
El programa fue bloqueado en febrero de 2015
por un juez federal con sede en Brownsville, Andrew Hanen, días antes de que fuera programada
para comenzar. El Tribunal de Circuito de Apelaciones 5ª EE.UU. confirmó que la medida caducaba en noviembre.
En una opinión de una sola frase en la división 4-4, el Tribunal Supremo declaró el 5 de
Circuito el juicio queda afirmado por una Corte
dividida por igual."
El caso ahora vuelve a la corte de distrito de
Hanen, donde el litigio sobre el fondo del plan podría continuar.
"La Constitución es clara," dijo el presidente de
la Cámara Paul Ryan en un comunicado. "El presidente no está tiene permisp para dictar leyes - sólo
el Congreso."
El punto muerto deja en su lugar la decisión de
un tribunal inferior que impide plan de inmigración de Obama tenga efecto, negar el alivio
temporal de la deportación a más de 4 millones de
padres inmigrantes de ciudadanos de Estados
Unidos bajo un programa denominado Acción
Diferida para los padres de los estadounidenses, o
DAPA. Fue modelado en un programa de 2012, la
Acción Diferida para la niñez llegadas, que ofrecía
un alivio similar a cerca de 600.000 jóvenes que se
habían criado en los EE.UU. ilegalmente.
Obama también había dirigido a la Seguridad
Nacional y otras agencias a centrar los esfuerzos
de expulsar delincuentes, pandilleros y personas
que cruzan repetidamente la frontera, en lugar de
los que no habían violado ninguna ley, fuera de
estar en el país ilegalmeante. informó Los Angeles
Times.
La decisión del Tribunal Supremo no afecta a
un programa separado 2012 destinado a proteger
a las personas traídas a Estados Unidos cuando
eran niños de expulsión, que Texas y los otros estados no desafiaron.que una
Obama tomó la acción después de republicanos
de la Cámara mataron legislación migratoria bipartidista, considerada como la mayor revisión de
las leyes estadounidenses sobre la materia en décadas y proporcionar un camino hacia la ciudadanía para los inmigrantes ilegales, que fue
aprobada por el Senado en 2013.
El caso de inmigración trató de dos programas
separados Obama. Uno podría permitir que los
inmigrantes indocumentados que son padres de
ciudadanos estadounidenses, ya sea o residentes
permanentes legales para vivir y trabajar en los
EE.UU. sin la amenaza de la deportación. La otra
sería ampliar un programa existente para proteger
de la expulsión a un grupo más numeroso de inmigrantes que fueron traídos a los EE.UU. ilegalmente cuando eran niños, diio Foxnews.
Después de que Obama sobrepasó el Congreso de Estados Unidos y firmó la orden ejecutiva, el estado de Texas fue rápidamente a los
tribunales para bloquear las iniciativas de Obama.
Su demanda fue inicialmente analizada por el
juez Andrew Hanen EE.UU. en Brownsville,
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Hanende ldejó wn mano de los estados, el bloqueo de los programas pE no surjan efecto. El Tribunal 5º EE.UU. Circuito de Apelaciones
también gobernados por los estados, y el Departamento de Justicia se lanzaron una apelación al
tribunal superior para que pueda ser escuchado
este término.
U.S Servicio de Inmigración y publicadas en
su página web una actualización y el efecto sobre
el fallo.
Actualización: Debido a una orden judicial
federal, el USCIS no comenzará a aceptar solicitudes para la expansión de las DACA el 18 de
febrero como el previsto inicialmente y se ha suspendido la ejecución de la Acción Diferida para
los padres de los estadounidenses y residentes
legales permanentes. orden temporal de la corte,
expedida el 16 de febrero no afecta a la DACA existente. Los individuos pueden continuar a presentarse y solicitar una subvención inicial de DACA
o renovación de DACA bajo las directrices originales. Por favor revise las actualizaciones.
El 20 de noviembre de 2014, el Presidente
anunció una serie de acciones ejecutivas para
combatir la inmigración ilegal en la frontera, a priorizar la deportación de criminales no las familias,
y requieren ciertos inmigrantes indocumentados
que pasar una verificación de antecedentes penales y pagar impuestos con el fin de permanecer
temporalmente en los EE.UU. sin temor a ser deportados.
Estas iniciativas incluyen:
• La expansión de la población elegible para la
acción diferida para la Infancia llegadas (DACA)
programa para personas de cualquier edad actual
que entraron a Estados Unidos antes de los 16
años y vivían en los Estados Unidos continuamente desde el 1 de enero del 2010, y que se extiende el período de DACA y autorización de
trabajo a partir de dos años a tres años.
• Permitir que los padres de ciudadanos estadounidenses y residentes permanentes legales para
solicitar acción diferida y autorización de empleo
durante tres años, en una nueva acción diferida
para los padres de los estadounidenses y residentes permanentes legales * del programa, siempre que hayan vivido en los Estados Unidos
continuamente desde el 1 de enero de de 2010, y
pasar la verificación de antecedentes requeridos.
• Ampliar el uso de dispensas provisionales de
presencia ilegal para incluir a los cónyuges e hijos
de residentes permanentes legales y los hijos e
hijas de los ciudadanos de Estados Unidos.
• La modernización, mejorar y aclarar los programas de inmigrantes y la visa de no inmigrante
para hacer crecer nuestra economía y crear
puestos de trabajo.
La promoción de la educación ciudadana y
sensibilización del público para los residentes permanentes legales y proporcionar una opción para
los solicitantes de naturalización para utilizar tarjetas de crédito para pagar la cuota de solicitud.
Aviso importante: Estas iniciativas aún no se
han aplicado, y el USCIS no está aceptando las
peticiones o solicitudes en este momento. Cuidado
con cualquier persona que se ofrece a ayudarle a
presentar una demanda o una solicitud de
cualquiera de estas acciones antes de que estén
disponibles. Usted podría ser víctima de un fraude
de inmigración. Suscríbete para recibir actualizaciones por correo electrónico cuando se publica
nueva información.
Aunque USCIS no está aceptando solicitudes
o aplicaciones en este momento, si cree que puede
ser elegible para una de las iniciativas mencionadas anteriormente, se puede preparar mediante la recopilación de los documentos que
establecen factores tales como su:
• Identidad;
• Relación con el ciudadano de EE.UU. o residente legal permanente, si es necesario; y
residencia continua en los Estados Unidos durante los últimos cinco años o más.
1. ¿Quién es elegible; Las personas sin estatus
legal de inmigración que buscan acción inicial o
de renovación DACA.Deferred para Llegados en
la Infancia. Se extiende el período de acción
diferida y la autorización de empleo de tres años a
partir de dos años, y le permite ser considerado
para DACA si:
Entrado en los Estados Unidos antes de los 16
años;
Han vivido en los Estados Unidos continuamente desde al menos el 1 de enero de 2010 en
lugar de la exigencia antes del 15 de junio de 2007;
Son de cualquier edad (elimina el requisito de
haber nacido desde junio 15, 1981); y
Cumplir con todos los demás directrices
DACA.
2. ¿Qué va a hacer la iniciativa; La acción
diferida para los padres de ciudadanos estadounidenses y residentes permanentes legales. Un
individuo que vive indocumentado en los Estados
Unidos que es el padre de un ciudadano de
EE.UU. o residente legal permanente y que
cumpla con las directrices que figuran a continuación. Permite a los padres para solicitar la acción diferida y permiso de trabajo si:
• Haber vivido en los Estados Unidos continuamente desde 1 de enero de 2010;
Tenido, el 20 de noviembre de 2014, un hijo o
una hija que es un ciudadano de EE.UU. o residente legal permanente; y no son una prioridad de
la fuerza para la expulsión de los Estados
3. Cuando se puede empezar a hacer una solicitud; exenciones provisionales de presencia ilegal. Las personas indocumentadas que han
residido ilegalmente en los Estados Unidos durante al menos 180 días y que son:
Los hijos e hijas de los ciudadanos de Estados
Unidos; o
El cónyuge y los hijos o hijas de residentes permanentes legales.
Se expande el programa de exención provisional anunciada en 2013 al permitir que los
cónyuges, hijos e hijas de residentes permanentes
legales y los hijos e hijas de los ciudadanos de Estados Unidos para obtener una exención si la visa
está disponible. Puede haber ocasiones cuando el
pariente calificado no es el peticionario.
Aclara el significado de la norma "extrema dificultad" que se deben cumplir para obtener una
exención.
A pesar de esto las deportaciones de inmigrantes de Estados Unidos tiene un alcance máximo histórico bajo la Administración Obama
De acuerdo con el Pew Research, el gobierno
de Obama deportó un récord de 438,421 inmigrantes no autorizados en el año fiscal 2013, continuando con una racha de intensificado la
aplicación que se ha traducido en más de 2 millones de deportaciones desde que Obama asumió
el cargo, recientemente publicado Departamento
de datos muestran Seguridad Nacional.
El número récord de deportaciones viene incluso as580,946 jóvenes inmigrantes no autorizados han recibido alivio de la deportación y
permisos de trabajo desde 2012 en virtud de una
política llamada Acción Diferida para la Infancia
llegadas.
En Pew Research Center encuestas, los hispanos han expresado su desaprobación del creciente número de deportaciones durante la
administración de Obama. Seis de cada diez adultos hispanos en febrero del 2014, dijo que el aumento del número de deportaciones de
inmigrantes no autorizados es una "cosa mala",
mientras que el público en general EE.UU. fue dividido en el tema. Y mientras que el 89% de los
hispanos en 2013, dijo que apoyan una vía hacia
la ciudadanía para los inmigrantes no autorizados
que cumplan con ciertos requisitos, la mayoría
(55%) dijo que la deportación reliefis más importante que un camino a la ciudadanía para esta
población
July-August, 2016
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Corte Suprema rechaza Orden de Inmigración de Obama
The US Supreme court voted 4 for 4 against President Obama’s immigration policy causing it to be
rejected and return to the lower court.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen of
Brownsville ruled that the Obama administration
did not "comply with the Administrative Procedure Act." The Administrative Procedure Act governs the way regulations are made and how much
input the public has. The Texas Tribune reported.
Obama's policy seeks to give as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants — including some
1.46 million in Texas — a work permit and temporary relief from deportation.
Abbott, the state's former attorney general, filed
the before being sworn in as governor. Texas is part
of a 26-state coalition that challenged the executive
action, which was announced in November of
2014.
Abbott accused the president of violating several provisions of the U.S. Constitution, including
one that gives Congress jurisdiction over immigration laws. Abbott also argued that Texas would be
irreparably harmed by the action. He cited as
proof last summer’s surge of undocumented immigrants from Central America who entered Texas illegally through the Rio Grande Valley.
The program was blocked in February 2015 by
a Brownsville-based federal judge, Andrew Hanen,
days before it was scheduled to begin. The U.S. 5th
Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that injunction in
November.
In a one-sentence opinion on the 4-4 split, the
Supreme Court declared the 5th Circuit's "judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court."
The case now returns to Hanen's district court,
where litigation on the merits of the plan could
continue.
“The Constitution is clear,” House Speaker
Paul Ryan said in a statement. “The president is
not permitted to write laws — only Congress is."
The deadlock leaves in place the lower-court
decision that prevents Obama's immigration plan
from taking effect, denying temporary relief from
deportation to more than 4 million immigrant parents of U.S. citizens under a program called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, or DAPA.
It was modeled on a 2012 program, Deferred Ac-
tion for Childhood Arrivals, which offered similar
relief to about 600,000 young people who had
been brought into the U.S. illegally.
Obama had also directed Homeland Security
and other agencies to focus deportation efforts on
criminals, gang members and people who repeatedly cross the border, rather than those who had
broken no laws besides living in the country illegally. The La Times reported.
The Supreme Court decision does not affect a
separate 2012 program aimed at protecting people
brought to the United States as children from deportation, which Texas and the other states did not
challenge. Reuters.com published.
Obama took the action after House Republicans
killed bipartisan immigration legislation, billed as
the biggest overhaul of U.S. laws on the matter in
decades and providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, that was passed by the Senate in
2013.
The immigration case dealt with two separate
Obama programs. One would allow undocumented immigrants who are parents of either U.S.
citizens or legal permanent residents to live and
work in the U.S. without the threat of deportation.
The other would expand an existing program to
protect from deportation a larger population of
immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally
as children. Said Foxnews.
After Obama bypassed the US Congress and
signed the executive order, the states of Texas
quickly went to court to block the Obama initiatives.
Their lawsuit was heard initially by U.S. District
Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas.
Hanen previously had criticized the administration
for lax immigration enforcement. Hanen sided
with the states, blocking the programs from taking
effect. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also
ruled for the states, and the Justice Department
rushed an appeal to the high court so that it could
be heard this term.
U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services
published on it’s website an update and effect on
the ruling.
Update: Due to a federal court order, USCIS
will not begin accepting requests for the expansion
of DACA on February 18 as originally planned
and has suspended implementation of Deferred
Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents. The court's temporary injunction, issued February 16, does not affect the
existing DACA. Individuals may continue to come
forward and request an initial grant of DACA or
renewal of DACA under the original guidelines.
Please check back for updates.
On November 20, 2014, the President announced a series of executive actions to crack
down on illegal immigration at the border, prioritize deporting felons not families, and require certain undocumented immigrants to pass a criminal
background check and pay taxes in order to temporarily stay in the U.S. without fear of deportation.
These initiatives include:
Expanding the population eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
program to people of any current age who entered
the United States before the age of 16 and lived in
the United States continuously since January 1,
2010, and extending the period of DACA and
work authorization from two years to three years.
• Allowing parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to request deferred action and
employment authorization for three years, in a new
Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and
Lawful Permanent Residents* program, provided
they have lived in the United States continuously
since January 1, 2010, and pass required background checks.
• Expanding the use of provisional waivers of
unlawful presence to include the spouses and sons
and daughters of lawful permanent residents and
the sons and daughters of U.S. citizens.
• Modernizing, improving and clarifying immigrant and nonimmigrant visa programs to grow
our economy and create jobs.
Promoting citizenship education and public awareness for lawful permanent residents and providing
an option for naturalization applicants to use
credit cards to pay the application fee.
Important notice: These initiatives have not yet
been implemented, and USCIS is not accepting
any requests or applications at this time. Beware of
anyone who offers to help you submit an application or a request for any of these actions before
they are available. You could become a victim of
an immigration scam. Subscribe to get updates by
email when new information is posted.
While USCIS is not accepting requests or applications at this time, if you believe you may be eligible for one of the initiatives listed above, you can
prepare by gathering documents that establish factors such as your:
• Identity;
• Relationship to a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, if necessary; and
Continuous residence in the United States over the
last five years or more.
1. Who is eligible; Individuals with no lawful
immigration status who are seeking initial or renewal DACA. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Extends the deferred action period and
employment authorization to three years from two
years, and allows you to be considered for DACA
if you:
Entered the United States before the age of 16;
Have lived in the United States continuously since
at least January 1, 2010, rather than the prior requirement of June 15, 2007;
Are of any age (removes the requirement to have
been born since June 15, 1981); and
Meet all the other DACA guidelines.
2. What the initiative will do; Deferred action
for parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent
residents. An undocumented individual living in
the United States who is the parent of a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident and who meets
the guidelines listed below. Allows parents to request deferred action and employment authorization if they:
• Have lived in the United States continuously
since January 1, 2010;
Had, on November 20, 2014, a son or daughter
who is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident;
and
Are not an enforcement priority for removal from
the United
3. When you can begin to make a request;
Provisional waivers of unlawful presence. Undocumented individuals who have resided unlawfully
in the United States for at least 180 days and who
are:
The sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; or
The spouse and sons or daughters of lawful permanent residents.
Expands the provisional waiver program announced in 2013 by allowing the spouses, sons and
daughters of lawful permanent residents and the
sons and daughters of U.S. citizens to get a waiver
if a visa is available. There may be instances when
the qualifying relative is not the petitioner.
Clarifies the meaning of the “extreme hardship”
standard that must be met to obtain a waiver.
Despite this the U.S. deportations of immigrants has reach record high under the Obama
Administration
According to the Pew Research, the Obama
administration deported a record 438,421 unauthorized immigrants in fiscal year 2013, continuing
a streak of stepped up enforcement that has resulted in more than 2 million deportations since
Obama took office, newly released Department of
Homeland Security data show.
The record number of deportations comes
even as 580,946 young unauthorized immigrants
have received relief from deportation and work
permits since 2012 under a policy called Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals.
In Pew Research Center surveys, Hispanics
have expressed disapproval of the growing number
of deportations during the Obama administration.
Six-in-ten Hispanic adults in February of 2014,
said the increased number of deportations of
unauthorized immigrants is a “bad thing,” while
the U.S. general public was divided on the issue.
And while 89% of Hispanics in 2013 said they support a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants who meet certain requirements, a
majority (55%) said deportation relief is more important than a pathway to citizenship for this population. [email protected] [email protected]
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