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Red Latina publisher deported

By Antonio D. French

Filed Sunday, April 16, 2006 at 8:06 PM

Cecilia Velazquez, the publisher of Red Latina, a local Spanish-language newspaper, has been deported.

The AP is reporting
that after a five-year legal battle over her immigration status, Velazquez was escorted into Mexico on Friday and will be barred from re-entering the United States for 10 years.

Velazquez said by cell phone Saturday from Mexico City that Red Latina will carry on and she will continue as publisher, possibly from Cancun.

"We are the voice of my population. They need to know what's going on," she told The Associated Press. "I know we can do it. I have the Internet and my cell phone. I can make all the meetings. We need to tell the people 'Don't be afraid. Don't be scared. I'll be back.'"

She lost a series of appeals but had hoped letters of support written by politicians including U.S. Sen. Jim Talent and U.S. Reps. William Lacy Clay Jr. and Russ Carnahan would stave off her deportation.

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