Blogpost #13

         My community partnership, the Immigration Legal Resource center is a community based center. Although they do work with policy makers that does not mean they directly work with the governor. The center's main goal is immigration law and getting the word out, and having many join as well as having many peoples positive input into it. The governor does recognize that the Immigration legal resource center is there to help and provide those who need assistance in any immigration related matter. Although the governor can bring great influence on my community partnership, it does not mean that he has some kind of authority on the center. Like I mentioned before, the center works among themselves in order to provide the best service for the community, so therefore what the governor says can have little impact on it. What I am trying to make clear is that sure he can come and give the center a good name by working with them and letting people know about as well, but authority wise it does not have any kind of impact what so ever. The center primarily works with policy makers, lawyers, coalition partners, and of course other organizations in the same field.

Call To Action

           For Call to Action I attended the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos. The Hiller Aviation museum is basically a aircraft history museum. At the museum along with other students from NDNU, I chaperone kids from an elementary school in Redwood. The children there learned about the history of airplanes, and were able to even experience being inside an old airplane. I really enjoyed being there because I also got to learn about airplanes and got to see some of the first ones ever made, and got more of an insight of the history of it, something that I really did not know much of.

Blogpost #9

        My community partnership does have recourse to judicial processes as way of resolving problems, because my cp is a center that primarily works with immigration so therefore there are laws that always come up and that need to be compromise. Usually immigration result in lawsuits so it does deal with judicial processes.

Blogpost #8

        My community partnership interfaces with local governmental units by keeping it within the city and the community. At the moment there has not been a big or well known leader that has impacted my community partnership, of course there are local people involved that always has a positive impact in order for the center to be successful.

Blog Topic #7

                  My community partnership, Immigrant Legal Resource Center(ILCR) does once in a while get caught up in conflicts relating to its various local and state relationship. The police department and even driver license fall into some of the things of state and local government, with that being said because my  community partnership deals primarily with immigration, these are some of the things that are dealt with state and local. Immigration is a big deal, especially in California so it would not be rare that ILRC would not deal with local and state relationship.

Blog Topic #6

         The activity that I participated this week, which was Founders' Week was the event on Catholicism with Father Eddie Fernandez. This event was basically a conversation with Latino students  on the Catholic religion, faith, beliefs, and values. I really enjoyed this event because being a Latina and Catholic I felt like I could relate, and also got to learn a little a bit more of my faith in my culture. During Founders' Week, I learned that this week is to influence the mission and values of NDNU. Also how our community continues to thrive in the mission passed on from the sisters of NDNU.

Blog Topic # 5

                    As of now with the research I have done I can not find if they have actually made any legislative changes, but it can defenitely be stated that they encouraged legislative changes. For example, you have the Dream Act which is a big issue and most importantly seeks change.