The article summarizes a panel discussion on immigration issues hosted by the Pitt County Coffee Party. Two panelists, Bryan Patonay and Javier Castillo, described how their families immigrated to the United States, facing difficulties obtaining visas and paperwork. The panel discussed how both documented and undocumented immigrants struggle to find their place in American society. The event aimed to help attendees better understand the complexities of U.S. immigration policies.

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Panel discusses issues of immigration
By GinGer LivinGston still has “an extra layer of
The Daily Reflector “I don’t know if paperwork” when dealing
with certain government
Whether undocumented immigration is entities that other Ameri-
or properly documented, a problem, but cans don’t face.
immigrants battle to find Castillo studied in the
their place in the American it is a complex United States as a child and
dream. system we have then in college.
A five-person panel He married a U.S. citi-
spoke about the nation’s to understand zen, but they lived in his
immigration policies better.” home country of Nicaragua
during a Thursday night until that nation became
forum sponsored by the dani Martinez Moore engulfed in civil war.
phoTo by SCoTT DavIS/ The DaIly RefleCToR
Pitt County Coffee Party, N.C. Justice Center Josh Mariaga, a native of
an organization dedi- a five-person paneL spoke about the nation’s immigration policies during a Thursday Honduras, first came to the
cated to discussing issues Bryan Patonay and Javier night forum sponsored by the pitt County Coffee party. United States on a student
facing the nation and Castillo started the event visa. However, when The
state, said organization by describing how their States when his father pur- sas to come to the United sary paperwork to return Memorial Baptist Church
Ray Sobel. families immigrated to the sued an advanced college States. to Hungary and then back sought a minister for an
“Immigration is a big United States. degree. Then his maternal to the United States. Hispanic congregation it
issue facing the United Patonay was born in He said he remembers grandfather became termi- Even today, Patonay, was sponsoring, Mariaga’s
States,” Sobel said. Communist-run Hungary the difficulties his family nally ill and his mother was who became a naturalized
Panelists Josh Mariaga, and came to the United faced trying to obtain vi- unable to obtain the neces- citizen in 1996, said he See POLIcy, B3
WeekLy Crime map: Jan. 12-19 Items detailed below offer a
sampling of the week’s crimes. Registered
aGGravated offender
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arson
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A registered sex offender
homiCide was arrested Friday on a
charge he lived too close
to Sadie
LarCeny Saulter
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theft records
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that Lee Boyd, 31, was ar-
interaCtive: rested at his residence at 202
Candlewood Drive, which
go to reflector. is in close proximity to the
com for an interac- school on Myrtle Street.
tive map of crime Boyd also was charged
reports from Regional with failing to report change
analysis and Infor- of address, assault with a
mation Data Sharing deadly weapon, assault on a
(RaIDS) and the City female and larceny charges.
of greenville. He is at the Pitt County
Detention Center under a
$25,500 bond.
Boyd was convicted in
RobbeRy buRgLARy LARCeny AssAuLT August 2007 of second-de-
gree kidnapping of a minor.
Crime: Robbery with dangerous Crime: Breaking/entering and Crime: Larceny by employee Crime: Assault with serious He served two years and
weapon larceny injury nine months in Maury Cor-
Date: Jan. 17 Time: 6:03 p.m.
Date: Jan. 14 Time: 3 a.m. Date: Jan. 14 Time: 4 p.m. Date: Jan. 15 Time: 7 p.m.
rectional Institution and
Location: Specialty store was released in July 2009.
Location: Parking lot/garage Location: Home of victim Address: East 14th Street Location: Other or unknown Boyd has not registered
Address: 3300 block Frontgate Address: 300 block Line Avenue Agency: Greenville Police Address: 2900 block Tammie with the state’s sex offender
Drive Agency: Greenville Police Department Trail registry since Jan. 27, 2011.
Agency: Greenville Police Department Agency: Greenville Police His last known regis-
tered address was at 1304
Myrtle Ave.
Count bananas, not calories, for a fast-track weight-loss plan
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man who lost 100 wanted weight Actually, scratch that. I’m not lose count anyway. a well-balanced meal prepared
pounds without ex- without having sure why people say oatmeal Now let’s talk about lunch. and something tasty for desert.
ercising or giving up ever counted sticks to your ribs when all it When someone asks how I’ve I’ll often wind further down be-
beer and fast food is the first calorie. really sticks to is the pan in managed to keep the extra fore bedtime with some cheese
now gaining cash from a book Unlike which it was cooked. You need a pounds off, I generally say I’ve and crackers.
he wrote about his weight-loss greedy calo- scouring pad to remove oatmeal stopped eating lunch. That’s not Maybe even a glass of red
system. rie counters residue from the pan, while the entirely true, but I have stopped wine.
The catch (there’s always a becoming part you ate acts as a scouring eating heavy lunches that are Mix that diet with two to
catch): Calorie counting is the MaRk wealthy from pad for the body. more apt to leave my diet plan three miles of jogging per day
key ingredient. RuTleDge the desires of As I write this an hour derailed, so to speak. and I guarantee the unwanted
When you’re eating what- those desperate after breakfast, my stomach is Most days my lunch consists pounds will peel off easier than
ever you want, according to to lose weight, I’ll gladly give sounding off like a choir of wor- of a banana, a pack of peanut a brown banana — or your
calorie counters, portion size away my secret: bananas. ried Rottweilers. butter crackers and a glass of money back.
means everything. Of course it That’s not the entire diet, of “Worrrrrr-Eeeeee … Ohh- water. One more tip: Never start
does, but if there were a mar- course, but it is a key ingredient. hhh-Worrrrrr-Eeeeeee…” Here’s a tip for selecting jogging in front of that pack of
ket for half Quarter Pounders, For breakfast, I have a hearty That’s a good sound because bananas: the greener the better. worried Rottweilers. No one
McDonald’s would have added bowl of oatmeal (from old-fash- it means breakfast is about to The stomach takes one look at wants to ride that train back
Eighth Pounders to the menu ioned oats, none of that mushy hightail it and be long gone green bananas and typically home.
long ago. instant stuff) add raisins, apples before lunchtime. Chart calories refuses to even allow those box-
I lost 15 pounds last year, and bananas. That’s a good, all you want, but when they’re cars to stop and unload. Contact Mark Rutledge at
and while that is not a dramatic healthy start to the day that will riding through on a high-speed At suppertime, things slow mrutledge@reflector.com or 252-
number, I’m keeping off the un- stick to your ribs. commuter, the body is going to down a bit. My wife usually has 329-9575.