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Show DAILY HERALD Sunday, September 11 2004 13 Deportation victims seek redress for old wrongs Ben Fox THE ASSOCIATED PRESS climbers learn to accomplish five different tasks in a tree. Apprentices also learn bow to use a cherry picker truck, apply pesticide, grind stumps and more than a dozen other Challenge Continued from Bl -- physical ability to climb trees," he said. "Long before you do your actual work, you spend an awful lot of energy climbing the tree." Scott Bunker of Provo Power, who runs one of only four federally certified ing apprenticeship programs in the nation, said those who want to be certified tree climbers must attend the apprenticeship program for two years, meeting one Saturday each month for field and classroom train- skills. tree-car- e The apprenticeship costs $225 per semester. For the first time in its existence, the school has two female apprentices, set to graduate next year, Bunker six-ve- ar said. Saturday's event is one way of teaching people that there are ways to prune trees to make them durable urban , forests," Marett said. "If peoing. ple take shortcuts, they end up Apprentices learn belayed losing their trees to disease, speed climbing, in which a per- -' pests or even poor mainte- -' son on the ground holds the nance. And last year when the safety rope while the climber power went out in Salt Lake climbs; secured foot lock climbCity, that really exemplified the need for certified ing, mwhkh the climber uses their feet to push themselves up When the power goes an anchor rope which is seout; there is a hue and a cry cured to a top branch using a throughout the land for professional arborists." slingshot; aerial rescue, in which climbers must rescue a For more information about the tree climbing competition person from a tree in less than five minutes; throw-lin- e climbor the treeclimber apprenticeing, in which no slingshot is ship, call the Utah Community used to secure the anchor rope; Forest Council at 801484-300and work climbing, in which LOS ANGELES Ignack) Pina was 6 when immigration officers came to his Montana heme, held his family behind bars for a week, then herded them onto a train bound for Mexico a country he and his five siblings had never seen. They just kicked us art with .what we were wearing," the n Pina recalls more than 70 years later. It was 1931, the first year of a decade-lon- g effort to remove Mexicans to free up jobs in a U.S. economy mired in the Great Depression. Estimates of the number of people caught in the raids range from 50,000 to 2 million, with researchers agreeing that they included tens of thousands of legal immigrants, as well as children like Pina who were born in the United States. "Mexican Repatriation,'' authorized by President Hoover and carried out in cooperation with local authorities, targeted areas with large Hispanic populations, mostly in California, Texas and Michigan. It left festering emotional wounds that for many have still not healed. retired Pina, an railroad worker who lives in Bakersfield, still gets angry when he recalls how his family was uprooted and forced to struggle to survive in a foreign country. "It's a feeling I will have until I die," he said. Tlhis government did a very wrong thing." He and others have long sought an apology and official acknowledgment of their plight in U.S. history books. Now, there is a chance they may get their wish. ' The California Legislature has passed two bills addressing the issue: One would create a privately funded commission to investigate Mexican Repatriation; the second would open a two-yea- r window for victims to file damage claims since the statute of limitations has long .. since closed. Gov Arnold Schwarzeneg-gerwhdha- s until the end of the tnonth to sign the bills, has Opt disclosed his position but supporters-aroptimistic, given hjs recent appeal to fellow immigrants to join him in the Republican Party. "One would hope that the governor's immigrant background would make him more sympathetic," said Francisco Estrada, the director of public policy for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. -- U.S.-bor- six-fo- ot 4. " filed," he said. It was not immediately clear when the review would be completed. Bettridge said tips from the public are essential when it comes to finding poachers. "Most of the time we get our best information from tips because there are so few game wardens around the state and it is hard for us to be everywhere all time." he said. "It is vital, when people see things that don't look right to call and turn it in. We get hundreds and hundreds of calls on the Help Stop Poaching line and we investigate everyone." Those who may have information about a possible poaching incident are asked to call the state Help Stop Poaching hotline at or by dialing DEER on a cell phone. Poaching Continued from Bl DOVARGANESAssoCiated DAMIAN Press retired railroad worker, pictured in his Bakersfield, Calif., home Sept. 8, Ignado Pina, an was 6 years old when immigration officers came to his Montana home, held his family behind bars for a week, then herded them into a train bound for Mexico, a place they had never seen. Last year, former Gov. Gray Davis vetoed legislation that . would have reopened the statute of limitations for damage claims, saying it would be more efficient for the state to pay claims directly rather than through litigation. Other critics d governments say and businesses can't afford to compensate people for a long-ag- o but we do have other pressing problems that we have to attend to at said state Sea Bill Morrow, a Republican who voted against both repatriation bills in the Legislature. Supporters of the measures compare the survivors of the repatriation to the Japanese-Americaheld at internment camps during World War II who received an apology and $20,000 in reparations from the U.S. government, in 1988. U.S. Monte, Rep. Hilda Solis, D-plans to introduce a bill in Congress this year that would indevestigate the Depression-er-a and consider portations whether reparations would be appropriate. One challenge is that the number of survivors is un-- . known. Many who were deported never returned to the United States. Those who did are scattered. State Sea Joseph Dunn, a Democrat who au Utah County. In many cities, it is illegal to discharge a firearm within city limits. State law makes it illegal to fire a weapon from a vehicle, near any highway or in the direction of any person, building or vehicle. It is also illegal, according to state law, for anyone under 18 years old to possess a dangerous weapon without a parent's permission or direct supervision by a parent or guardian. Hunters also need written permission to be on private land, Root said. Without it, they can be cited for trespassing. Hunters can find out the rules by picking up an Upland Game Proclamation at any Division of Wildlife Resources office or license agent. And there are still places to hunt, Root said. In Utah County, pheasants are predominately found on private land, but chukar are predominately found on federal public land managed by the Bureau of injustice. This may sound insensitive, this-time,- " Hunters Continued from Bl Bufton estimated that 50 percent of the calls include some sort of property damage. "The first Saturday is absolutely the worst," Bufton said. "As the week progresses, it gets less and less." . It is a misdemeanor to shoot within 600 feet of a barn, residence or farm animals in the unincorporated areas of dozea Another question is how much to pay people forced to give up homes and businesses and make a new start in an impoverished country. There is no dollar amount that could compensate them for what they went through," said Francisco Balderrama, a professor and coauthor of "Decade of Betrayal," a book about the repatriation program. Still, Dunn argues that the United States has an obligation to address the issue, in part to prevent the future mass deportation of a single ethnic group. "This is a forgotten injustice that needs to be corrected," he said. Survivors, meanwhile, say they are eager to see official acknowledgment of their losses. But it needs to happen fast. One of Pina's brothers has died and he says three of his sisters, who live in Arizona, have health problems. Others tell of similar losses and favor dropping claims for reparations to save time. "If I were to get compensation, it wouldn't help me much because by the time I get it, IU cash-strappe- e be dead," said Jose Lopez, 77, a retired auto worker in Detroit. "Really, all I want to do is teD the public what happened because a lot of people don't know." It is a common refrain among the survivors, who say the public is largely unaware of their struggles. Pina, who was born in Carbon City, Utah, says he was unable to speak Spanish adequately when he arrived in Mexico and he and his siblings were very different culturally from thored the two state repatriation bills and has researched the topic for two years, estimates that perhaps 50,000 are still alive, although his office has compiled a list of barely two native-bor- n Mexicans. They looked at us like freaks," he recalls. "We didnt belong there." His father came to the United States around 1907 and, after working for years as a miner in Utah, eventually found work at ' a sugar beet farm near Hamilton, Mont., where immigration agents rounded up the family. When they returned to Mexico, his father died and he went to work as a shoeshine boy to help support his siblings, never attending school beyond sixth grade. In 1945, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City issued him an affidavit confirming his birth in the United States and he returned to' the country the following year, eventually settling in California's Central Valley, working for the railroad and raising four children with his wife. The memory of his famity's upheaval, he says, remains fresh Land Management. Grouse are predominately found on national forest land. There are also lands the Division of Wildlife Resources has purchased and set aside for wildlife management, including hunting, Root said "I want hunters to know there's plenty of opportunity out there," he said. charges," he said. "Class A misdemeanor charges are pending." Smith could face up to one year in jail and a $2,500 fine if convicted. Pleasant Grove police captain Cody Cullimore said the city would not seek additional charges against Smith for using an illegal .7 weapon inside city limits. . 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