Bosses Refuse To Call Ambulance For Worker Severely Burned On The Job, He Dies | The Center for Public Integrity
publicintegrity.orgCapitalism kills. Bosses are conditioned to see the worker as so much refuse to be sucked dry of profits and tossed aside. Health and safety is always secondary to the pursuit of maximum profits. (This goes double when the worker is “temporary” as well as when s/he is Latina/o).
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‘They were not thinking of him as a human being’
By the time Carlos Centeno arrived at the Loyola University Hospital Burn Center, more than 98 minutes had elapsed since his head, torso, arms and legs had been scalded by a 185-degree solution of water and citric acid inside a factory on this city’s southwestern edge.
The laborer, assigned to the plant that afternoon in November 2011 by a temporary staffing agency, was showered with the solution after it erupted from the open hatch of a 500-gallon chemical tank he was cleaning. Factory bosses, federal investigators would later contend, refused to call an ambulance as he awaited help, shirtless and screaming. He arrived at Loyola only after first being driven to a clinic by a co-worker.
At admission Centeno had burns over 80 percent of his body and suffered a pain level of 10 on a scale of 10, medical records show. Clad in a T-shirt, he wore no protective gear other than rubber boots and latex gloves in the factory, which makes household and personal-care products.
Centeno, 50, died three weeks later, on December 8, 2011.
Reminder that Obama banned undocumented youth from getting healthcare under ACA.
After the President granted work permits to immigrant youth, he quietly passed an amendment to the Affordable Care Act that prevents all those who benefit from receiving healthcare.
This means that DACAmented (this is what we call ourselves) young people who may be legally working at an engineering firm, Costco, gas station, or a Fortune 500 company— and paying taxes for American healthcare— cannot receive health benefits that coincide with the Affordable Care Act.
First Generation
I belong nowhere. I pledge allegiance to no flag and no land. I don’t smell home in the damp earth of my motherland or the rain slicked streets of this big city. I can’t see myself in posters, magazines, television screens, window panes, mirrors. I am innoculated and simultaneously vulnerable and asthmatic, utterly ethnic but a bland and watered down expression of my color. I was born in a neighborhood of exported souls and displaced humans, just like me, on a crossroads of livelihoods and new misplaced lives. A better life, a better life, a bitter life — a life with helter-skelter opaque identity, a life evaluated by material goods and the luxury of education — we want a house, and a car, and 2.5 kids and enough money to never be hungry — but we want the old world’s value, the mystery of that agape kind of love, that treasured close family dynamic, that language, that religion, that home away from home — an invisible house made of glass. The feeling of being surrounded by items and feeling completely empty and inarticulate. Why am I here? Do you think I want to be here? Do you think I’m here to steal your job? Do you think I like being asked where I’m “orginally” from, or if my marriage will be arranged, or how many arms my god has in comparison to your white washed messiah (who probably looked more like me than you if and when he existed)? I just want to be comfortable somewhere. I just want a home somewhere. But I am who I am. I am the child and grandchild of immigrants, and I have to fight every day to formulate my identity and evaluate my existence.
Undocumented Student Friendly Colleges/Universities
- Occidental, LMU, Santa Clara, Mt. St. Maryís., Pitzer
- California Colleges and Universities (UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, UCLA, UC Merced, UC Berkeley; CSU Long Beach & San Francisco)
- Claremont McKenna College
- Loyola Marymount University
- Mount St. Maryís College
- National Hispanic University
- Occidental College (2 per year-VERY competetive)
- Santa Clara University- (15-20 Hurtado scholarships specifically for undoc. That’s TOTAL, so 4 to 5 per year.)
- Fresno Pacific University
- Pomona (very competitive)
- Pitzer College (1 per year)
- Bryn Mawr College
- Harvard University
- University of Puget Sound
- Bryn Mawr College
- Dartmouth College
- North Western College
- George Mason University
- Whittier College in CA gives up to full tuition to high achieving students with their Greanleaf Scholarship-and it’s open to all students regardless of immigration status).
- Southern Catholic College
- Moravian College has a few undocumented students enrolled and normally they would fill out the CSS PROFILE.
- Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY
- Meredith College; Raleigh, NC; all women’s college).
- SUNY’s info on this issue: [ http://www.suny.edu/Student/paying_residence.cfm ]http://www.suny.edu/Student/paying_residence.cfm
- CUNY: [ http://web.cuny.edu/about/citizenship/info4undocumented/tuition.html ]http://web.c Marygrove College
- University of Michigan Dearborn
- University of Detroit-Mercy
- Wayne State University
-List compiled by Lorenzo Gamboa, Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions, Santa
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
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In April 2008, I was part of a Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings a year earlier. Lolo died a year earlier, so it was Lola who called me the day of the announcement. The first thing she said was, “Anong mangyari kung malaman nang tao?”
What will happen if people find out?
I couldn’t say anything. After we got off the phone, I rushed to the bathroom on the fourth floor of the newsroom, sat down on the toilet and cried.
Immigrant to Citizen
After you get your visa, you come to America for a maximum of six months. Now to get citizenship you can either marry a United States citizen, get sponsored by a united state citizen, get amnesty or get a working permit so you can reside in America.
Then you have to send in your application and wait two to five years for it to process. Once it processes, they will call you back and you have to take your citizenship test, once you pass you get sworn in as a citizen and then apply for a passport.
