[liberationtech] Sad news

[Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes]

Actually, he was an amazing person and I think he even won a Facebook Grant  or Something like that as part of a team while he was in phx for the development of an “ICE RAID early warning” app, or maybe it was a “get Immigration legal or rescue help” one, not sure.. he moved to Houston and then he died 🙁 qepd

Regards / Saludos / Grato

Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes

> On Apr 17, 2020, at 12:19 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Maybe you knew already, but I just heard from the widow of our long-time subscriber and "dreamer" Celso Mireles. It was the 1st time I had heard that Celso had passed away... in 2017. May Celso rest in peace. We will remember him. -- YC
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> Celso Mireles, co-founder of Arizona Dream Act Coalition, dies at 30
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> by Laura Gómez, The Republic | azcentral.com
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> Published 8:28 p.m. MT Aug. 2, 2017 | Updated 12:12 p.m. MT Aug. 4, 2017
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> The death of Celso Mireles, a "dreamer" known as an innovator and artist, shook many in the Phoenix Latino community and those impressed by his kindness, insight and passion.
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> Mireles, 30, died on his way to work Tuesday morning after a pickup hit his motorcycle near 12th Street and Missouri Avenue in Phoenix, police said.
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> The truck driver was cited with running a red light and driving without a license, police said.
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> Mireles was born in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and grew up in Phoenix. He had a work permit and deferred deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
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> He was a self-taught Web developer and was the "guy behind the scenes" of local and national online campaigns to stop deportations, said his wife, Ileana Salinas.
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> "He believed in justice," Salinas said. "He always greeted me with a smile. We fell in love through music."
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> Innovating to stop deportations
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> Mireles co-founded the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, which advocates for immigration reform and for access to higher education for immigrant youths. He played the guitar, wrote songs and poems, and loved riding his motorcycle, Salinas said.
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> In 2011, Mireles started a tech-support company, Dude Services LLC. On his website, he described himself as a lifelong learner and said he was "Ni de aquí, Ni de allá" ― in Spanish, "Neither from here, nor from there."
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> His latest project involved developing a Web application to alert migrants nationwide of confirmed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.
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> Developing a tool to prevent deportations was his dream, Salinas said.
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> "He knew that through his work he would only plant a seed, ... but we would need to keep on fighting," Salinas said.
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> Celso Mireles, co-founder of Arizona Dream Act Coalition, dies at 30
> Phoenix community mourned the death of Celso Mireles, a Web developer who was working on an app to alert the public of ICE raids.
> AZCENTRAL.COM
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