Jonathan Carey "Champion for the Disabled" Born September 12,1993 Killed by caregivers on February 15,2007
While NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo attempts to protect an illegal immigrant from deportation, he refuses to protect 1,000,000 New Yorker’s with disabilities
Governor Cuomo has the direct responsibility to ensure the equal rights and equal protections of laws for all New Yorkers with disabilities living in facilities and group home under his jurisdiction. ”
— Michael Carey
DELMAR, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, June 26, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Governor Cuomo has the direct responsibility to ensure the equal rights and equal protections of laws for all New Yorkers with disabilities living in facilities and group home under his jurisdiction. Governor Cuomo does not have the direct responsibility to ensure equal rights for illegal immigrants. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/nyregion/cuomo-pardon-deportation-carlos-cardona.html. According to this New York Times story titled,” To Stave Off a Deportation, Cuomo Pardons a 9/11 Volunteer” written by Sarah Maslin Nir on June 21, 2017. On the very same day this news story came out, Governor Cuomo blocked the historic 911 Civil Rights Bill to protect the disabled and ensure their equal rights from being voted on. Here is a direct quote from this Times piece, “The man, Carlos Cardona, 48, entered the United States illegally by crossing the border with Mexico. He is a co-owner of a construction business in Queens, and he was a volunteer after the World Trade Center attacks, sifting through and clearing out the rubble at ground zero.” Later in this piece the governor is quoted, “Governor Cuomo said in an emailed statement. “It is my hope this action will not only reunite Mr. Cardona with his wife and daughter, but also sends a message about the values of fairness and equality that New York was founded upon.” What about the fairness and equality for 1,000,000 New Yorkers with disabilities being denied immediate 911 medical and police assistance? What about the many hundreds of New Yorkers, if not thousands, annually that have died specifically because this “specific group of people with disabilities or those struggling with mental illness in New York State” were denied 911 services? These people cannot be reunited with their families; they died because they were denied their equal rights here in New York State. Thirteen year old Jonathan Carey is one of the staggering numbers of innocent children and adults with disabilities that die in residential care facilities and group homes throughout New York State every year. Jonathan who was non-verbal and had autism and he was killed by his State caregivers, he was denied 911 medical and police services and it cost him his life. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/nyregion/boys-death-highlights-crisis-in-homes-for-disabled.html and https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000000849083/a-failure-to-protect.html
Gov. Cuomo quite obviously is doing everything he can to get national attention and be on a national stage which he does not belong, yet at the very same time he is ignoring the safety, health, lives and equal rights of an extremely large number of his most vulnerable State residents. All attempts to date to have the Governor take his responsibility to ensure that the disabled in these care facilities swiftly receive 911 emergency medical and police services when they are in medical need, have significant injuries, were a victims of a physical or sexual assault crimes or the ultimate medical emergency, they stopped breathing have gone ignored for years. There is a clear discriminatory and disturbing attitude that goes directly to the very top of New York State government, to Governor Cuomo himself, that people with disabilities are unequal, which is discrimination in civil rights, and that they are unworthy of being provided the same swift 911 first responder medical and police services that every other New York State resident are entitled to and receive.
Since Governor Cuomo has refused to end this horrific and deadly discrimination that should have ended as soon as the 911 emergency call systems were put in place decades ago, Michael Carey had create a 911 Civil Rights bill that would do the job. The 911 Civil rights bill that Governor Cuomo just ensured that it would be not brought to the floor of either the New York State Senate or Assembly had massive bi-partisan support, three quarters of the all New York State legislators signed on as co-sponsors (156 State legislators).
So instead of protecting 1,000,000 New Yorkers with disabilities and ensuring that finally they get the same immediate access to 911 first responder medical and police assistance and services Governor Cuomo pardons an illegal immigrant that worked at the 9/11 ground zero site in hopes that he would not be deported. Governor Cuomo went as far as creating a specific petition to have people sign onto if they agree, check it out https://www.governor.ny.gov/content/clemency-ground-zero-recovery-worker?elqTrackId=4cfd8a7198c54d4abf712330330a38a5&elq=b835b920f30b4d05a273d3f38c47b751&elqaid=208&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=92
Governor Cuomo is doing what Governor Cuomo wants to do to make himself look good, but he is negating the most basic equal rights, as well as constitutional rights to equal protection of laws for most vulnerable New York State residents with disabilities. Governor Cuomo’s attitude that “I am the government” and that I can do whatever I please for whatever group of people I so please and forget and at the same time basically say the hell with the disabled, is without question discrimination http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gov-andrew-cuomo-government-article-1.975258 . This unequal treatment of the disabled and the ignoring of their families as well when it comes to the purposeful bypassing of the 911 call systems extremely dangerous and deadly. The historic 911 Civil Rights Bill would simply require those that work with the disabled to call 911 if there is a medical emergency, including a death, significant injuries of a person with a disability or if there was a physical or sexual assault which are crimes. The 911 Civil Rights Bill really is that simple. The fact of the matter is, this 911 bill should not have to be fought for because the 911 emergency call systems were put in place for everyone decades ago. Tragically, people with disabilities have been treated unequally and denied in most circumstances immediately medical and police assistance costing many hundreds their lives in New York State every year. Between 11 and 13 deaths of people with disabilities are occurring every day on average throughout New York State’s extremely dangerous and deadly mental health care system and many are due to abuse or neglect http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/nyregion/abused-and-used-series-page.html?_r=0 . The number one known and documented trend leading to what are being called “untimely” deaths of people with developmental and intellectual disabilities is staff not calling 911. The number two and three known trends are choking deaths and bowel management or deaths because of a person being backed up and not receiving help and dying of sepsis. All these known trends all surround not calling 911 and are really negligent deaths in most cases because they are preventable, if only 911 was called and emergency medical personnel able to help them. Governor Cuomo influenced legislative leaders to not bring the massively supported 911 Civil Rights Bill to the floor for a vote because he knew the bill would have been sent to his desk for signing. Governor Cuomo simply does not want the reporting of medical emergencies, physical and sexual assault crimes and deaths to go to 911 where they should be going, but instead to be reported to an agency that he controls that has been exposed through investigative reporting by AP News and BuzzFeed News https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2017-03-06/audit-ny-agency-for-the-disabled-refused-to-release-records --- http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Justice-Center-New-York-Investigation-Deaths-Oversight-380120141.html and https://www.buzzfeed.com/benhattem/scathing-report-says-ny-agency-is-failing-people-with-disabi?utm_term=.pmxrkjNKB#.cjg5QoVLq . What Governor Cuomo just did will ensure that many hundreds of more innocent and extremely vulnerable people with disabilities will tragically die as a direct result of this negligence and gross discrimination if not turned around swiftly? This deadly discrimination and gross injustice and prejudice against people with disabilities must be stopped now.
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The incredible life and tragic preventable death of Jonathan Carey, who was disabled, had autism, was non-verbal & only 13 when he was killed by his caregivers
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IRC: Innocent, security-vetted refugees victims of Supreme Court decision
New York, NY, June 26, 2017 — David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), said today’s implementation of a partial stay by the Supreme Court on rulings against Trump Administration’s Travel Ban immediately impacts already vetted refugees scheduled to come to the United States.
“Too much time already has been spent litigating this misguided order,” said Miliband. “The approach of the Administration is bad policy. That is not changed by the legal arguments. The Court’s decision threatens damage to vulnerable people waiting to come to the US: people with urgent medical conditions blocked, innocent people left adrift, all of whom have been extensively vetted. We urge the Administration to begin its long-delayed review of the vetting process and restart a program which changes lives for the better,” said Miliband.
According to the IRC, refugees are vetted more intensively than any other group seeking to enter the United States:
Once those refugees most in need are registered by the U.N. refugee agency, the U.S. then hand-selects every person who is admitted. The U.S. resettlement program gives priority to refugees, usually vulnerable families, who have been targeted by violence. The U.S. does not recognize as refugees people who have committed violations of humanitarian and human rights law, including the crime of terrorism, as refugees. They are specifically excluded from the protection accorded to refugees.
Security screenings are intense and led by U.S. government authorities, including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and multiple security agencies. The process typically takes up to 36 months and is followed by further security checks after refugees arrive in the States.
Refugees undergo biographic and biometric checks, medical screenings, forensic document testing, and in-person interviews. Because of the complexity of the conflict in their country, Syrian refugees must go through extra review steps with intelligence agencies and Department of Homeland Security officers who have particular expertise and training in conditions in Syria and the Middle East. The IRC encourages the Administration to quickly engage with the real expertise in agencies to increase their knowledge of the current resettlement vetting process, and to better understand who refugees are.
Learn more about IRC's work resettling refugees in the United States.
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(Washington, D.C.)—In a 7-2 decision today, “the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a victory for the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom for religious schools,” said Jeanne Allen, Founder and CEO of Center for Education Reform.
Trinity Lutheran had been denied state funding for a playground surface solely because its school is a religious one. The court’s 7-2 decision in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer finds that “the exclusion of Trinity Lutheran from a public benefit for which it is otherwise qualified, solely because it is a church, is odious to our Constitution all the same, and cannot stand.”
The Supreme Court declared that Trinity Lutheran is a “clear infringement on free exercise,” and that Missouri’s denial of funding for the school was unconstitutional.
Like many states, Missouri added a “Blaine Amendment” to its constitution in the 19th Century. In its publication Mandate for Change, CER explained that “Blaine Amendments, adopted as a result of anti-Catholic fervor in the late 1800s, prohibit the use of state funds at ‘sectarian’ schools. The wording of many of the Blaine Amendments exceeds the language of the United States Constitution. The lingering impact of these amendments has been credited with stopping school choice from becoming a reality in many states.”
Although the Court did not take the opportunity to review the constitutionality of Missouri’s Blaine Amendment, it was firm and clear that “denying a generally available benefit solely on account of religious identity imposes a penalty on the free exercise of religion.”
Allen said that CER “will work to ensure that there will be other opportunities for the court to review the constitutionality of Blaine Amendments and pave the way for parents to decide the best educational opportunities for their children, be they private, religious or public in nature.”
