Juan Salgado
Summary (posts follow):
President of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
Member of the Mexican government's Institute for Mexicans Abroad advisory council.
See Juan Salgado letter to Vicente Fox for an example of his divided loyalties (if he has any loyalty to the U.S. at all).
According to Chicago Giant put rest of country on notice he delivered a speech at Los Pinos (the Mexican White House).
Appeared at the First Data Immigration Reform panel (FD is/was parent company of Western Union)
Last modified Feb 16, 2011
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Illinois Business Immigration Coalition: Republican gov. Jim Edgar joins with Mexico-linked ICIRR - 04/09/10
... far-left group whose president (Juan Salgado) clearly has divided loyalties, if he has any to the U.S. at all? Shouldn't Republicans oppose such groups rather than collaborating with them?
On the video at peekURL.com/v9nvlau (part of the longer version available here: peekURL.com/vviftrt )Edgar says among many other things:
“It is impractical to think that we can deport 12 million people. We...
Mexico-linked ICIRR conducting voter drive in Chicago - 10/09/08
... is a serious campaign," said Juan Salgado, president of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which is coordinating the effort. "We have an agenda that's about democracy and living the best ideals of what this country is about."
[They say they got 25,000 registrations...] The next phase will also feature nearly 350,000 live and automated phone calls, 172,000 pieces of mail...
Immigration march organizers have foreign links - 08/15/08
... of the latter organization is Juan Salgado; see the Juan Salgado letter to Vicente Fox. Scheduled speakers included U.S. Senator Barack Obama; U.S. Representatives Rahm Emanuel, Luis Gutierrez, and Jan Schakowsky; and Illinois state Senators Miguel del Valle and Martin Sandoval (Immigrants at crossroads, Barack Obama at May 1 Chicago march). All of those elected officials are members of the...
First Data Immigration Reform panel - 10/03/07
... Torres and the panelists were:
Juan Salgado, President of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Executive Director of the Instituto del Progreso Latino.
Lisa Duran, director of Rights for All People, Denver.
Robert de Posada, Executive Director, The Latino Coalition.
Raul Hinojosa, Director of Research, North American Integration and Development Center, University of...
ICIRR First Draft of Batavia September 1 march press release - 02/26/07
... become citizens and vote," said Juan Salgado, President of ICIRR...
Quoted:
Esther Wong, executive director of CASL; they're IDed as hosting the "kickoff" on September 1 in Chicago's Chinatown.
Rev. Willie T. Barrow of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Toure Mohammad from the Service Employees International Union
Artemio Arreola from the Chicago March 10 Movement
Jorge Mujica from the Chicago March...
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