…Days Before President Obama Holds Key Meeting on Immigration Reform
Hundreds of Immigrant Students from Across the Country to Hold "Dream" Graduation Ceremony at U.S. Capitol Steps
Mirroring Solidarity Events Across the U.S., Immigrant Students Clad in Caps and Gowns will be Joined by Key Legislators to Call for Swift Passage of the DREAM Act
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With the Capitol Dome behind them, hundreds of students/youth from all over the country, along with education, faith, business, immigrant and civil rights leaders and members of Congress will participate in a National DREAM Graduation ceremony, hosted by the United We Dream Coalition (UWD). Clad in caps and gowns, immigrant students from Texas, New York, California, Massachusetts, Florida, Illinois and beyond will call for swift passage of the DREAM Act-legislation that would correct a flaw in our immigration laws by providing a path to legal status for young people brought to this country at a young age.
Solidarity events are being held from coast to coast on the 23rd. A list of the events is available at http://www.dreamactivist.org/dream-graduations-coast-coast/
WHAT: DREAM Graduation Ceremony highlighting the achievements of our nation's undocumented youth and the vast support for passage of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.
WHEN: Tuesday, June 23, 2009; 12 p.m., ET
WHERE: Lower Senate Park
Louisiana Ave NW & D St NW, Washington, DC 20001
WHO: Youth, Education, Faith, Labor, Business, Immigrant and Civil Rights leader
VISUALS: Diverse group of immigrant youth in caps and gowns will hold an emotional ceremony steps away from the Capitol Dome.
CONTACT: Tolu Olubunmi 202-216-0261 ext.407(o); 240-505-5921(c)
Daniela Alulema (Spanish media) 646-472-9565 (c)
Sookyung Oh (Asian American and Pacific Islander media) 267-334-5918(c)
Additional Spanish-language, French-language, Korean-language and Mandarin-language spokespeople from around the country will be available for interviews at this event.
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Do Foreigners have any rights ??? - Do courts make Policy ??
Ius Peregrini, Ius Gentium, Ius Civile, Anglo Saxon "Habeas Corpus" - Consuetudinary Law
All courts in all countries make policy, even where the Law is not very consuetudinary, but very "Napoleonic" or "Roman" or "Law by a Book".
Wikipedia says :
""Consuetudinary (Medieval Latin consuetudinarius, from consuetudo, custom) is a term applied to law where the rule of law is determined by long-standing custom as opposed to case law or statute
Most laws of consuetudinary basis deal with standards of community that have been long-established in a given locale. However the term "consuetudinary" can also apply to areas of international law whre certain standards have been nearly universal in their acceptance as correct bases of action - in example, laws against piracy or slavery (see hostis humani generis). In many, though not all instances, consuetudinary laws will have supportive court rulings and case law that has evolved over time to give additional weight to their rule as law and also to demonstrate the trajectory of evolution (if any) in the interpretation of such law by relevant courts.""
The United States more than most countries is "Consuetudinary", law can evolve and change with any court ruling. This comes from England and the Anglo Saxon Law that entered into effect in England in the fifth century, after Christ.
I seem to perceive that the rest of the World is moving to consuetudinary and abandoning the books of Laws and Rules, or Religious Books that give recipes for everything.
It seems that some form of "Habbeas Corpus" was Anglo Saxon law ( before invasion of England ) and in Anciente Rome there was the Ius Peregrini for Italians, later Ius Gentium with some form of protection for foreigners.
More Wikipedia :
"Peregrini were accorded only the basic rights of the ius gentium ("law of peoples"), a sort of international law derived from the commercial law developed by Greek city-states, that was used by the Romans to regulate relations between citizens and non-citizens. But the ius gentium did not confer many of the rights and protections of the ius civile ("law of citizens" i.e. what we call Roman law).
In the sphere of criminal law, there was no law to prevent the torture of peregrini during official interrogations. Peregrini were subject to de plano (summary) justice, including execution, at the discretion of the legatus Augusti (provincial governor). In theory at least, Roman citizens could not be tortured and could insist on being tried by a full hearing of the governor's assize court i.e. court held in rotation at different locations."
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