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POPSIs It Now a Crime to Be Poor? The City Council in Grand Junction, Colo., has been considering a ban on begging, and at the end of June, Tempe, Ariz., carried out a four-day crackdown on the indigent. How do you know when someone is indigent? As a Las Vegas statute puts it, “An indigent person is a person whom a reasonable ordinary person would believe to be entitled to apply for or receive” public assistance. By far the most reliable way to be criminalized by poverty is to have the wrong-color skin. There’s no minimum age for being sucked into what the Children’s Defense Fund calls “the cradle-to-prison pipeline.” Leonardo Vilchis of the Union de Vecinos, a community organization in Los Angeles, suspects that “poor people have become a source of revenue” for recession-starved cities, and that the police can always find a violation leading to a fine. The safety net, or what’s left of it, has been transformed into a dragnet.
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POPSMystic Dawn Salazar,6, MISSING
Six-year-old Mystic Salazar of Clifton was supposed to return from an eight-hour visit with her biological father at 5:30 p.m. Sunday so she’d have time to get ready for her first day of school. She never got to school. And her father, Enrique Arreola-Lopez of Centennial, never returned to the Clifton City Market parking lot, Grand Junction, where he was supposed to return Mystic to the family she’s lived with since she was a toddler. The girl has lived full-time with Amie Salazar and Jennifer Davis since December 2006. Mystic is believed to be in the company of Enrique Arreola-Lopez, who is Mystic’s biological father. With them, are his wife Melissa, her three sons and another boy. Arreola-Lopez met his daughter for the first time in April 2008 and has had periodic single-day court-ordered visits with Mystic since then. Mystic had not had any sense of family with these people and is now in there sole care, with nothing known about them. If you have any information on the whe
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POPSHappy Holidays May your holiday season be filled with warmth and Joy all over the world where ever you are and whoever you spend your holidays with. May peace enter your hearts and homes.
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POPSNew Pages Added to Debraford123's Google Pages The debraford123 google pages have been updated with several online games, the shred feed, a game catalogue for trials and demos,weather, news, spaceand science pages. Music pages will be added in January. There are also links to the various debraford123 pages on the web at neighboring social networks.
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