Our New Anahuac

November 5, 2008

The Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee

United States House Of Representatives

2435 Rayburn Building

Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Congresswoman Jackson Lee

Mrs. Jackson Lee. I had the good fortune to meet your husband in my college days when I was organizing a student group known as MEChA. He was extremely helpful to us in our attempts to secure MEChA’s national conference at the University of Houston. I later heard you speak at the Nation of Islam Mosque one of the last times that Houston was fortunate enough to have in its presence the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. I have had the pleasure of speaking on the same stage as you at some of the immigration events a few years back. Finally, as recently as November, 1st, my nine-year old daughter spotted you at the Compean Halloween party, as she was in attendance with my parents and my sister, who are part of the musical group Mariachi Juvenil Sol Y Luna.

I congratulate you on your recent electoral victory, yesterday, though I must admit that I have never had much of a doubt as to whether you would return to Washington as our representative!

I am writing to you in the hopes that you could lend an ear to a confidant of mine and my father’s, Ramiro “Ramsey” Muniz. Mr. Muniz was a gubernatorial candidate, years ago, under La Raza Unida Party. My father worked with him in this project years before he became an attorney. He is also in the process of helping me to edit a book that I am writing. In general, he has contributed a great deal to our community, and trying to list his contributions would only fail to illuminate the vast amount that he has done.

Unfortunately, he now finds himself incarcerated, and many people believe that he has been framed. He is actively working with attorneys to clear his name. The details around his case are readily available on the internet. I am writing today, however to plead for you to intervene on behalf of Ramsey so that he may be transferred to a unit in Texas. It is my belief that contact with one’s family is a basic human right, and he is being denied this right by being kept in a prison in Oklahoma.

Most recently, LULAC, has adopted a resolution supporting both the transfer of Ramsey to a Texas prison and a commutation of his sentence. Please see http://www.lulac.org/advocacy/resolutions/2007/civr12.html as reference or simply do a yahoo search for Ramsey Muniz LULAC.

Please consider intervening on behalf of Mr. Muniz or please advise me as to how I can help to bring Mr. Muniz back to Texas, while he works to prove his innocence. Thank you in advance.

Hector A. Chavana Jr.