Moratorium on Deportations Campaing Press Statement on DREAM Arrestees
Comite 10 de Marzo
Contact: Orlando Sepúlveda, orl...@yahoo.com, 773-387-8225
The Moratorium on Deportations Campaign will attend press conference
in Solidarity with the 21 immigrant youth arrested on Washington DC,
and for the occasion releases the following
PRESS STATEMENT:
The Moratorium on Deportations Campaign expresses solidarity and
support with all immigrant youth arrested yesterday, July 20th, in
Washington DC., while realizing a sit-in in various Senators’ offices,
in their struggle for the passage of the Dream Act, legislation that
would provide a path for the legalization of some of the 12 million
undocumented immigrants presently in the United States.
We call authorities to assure the families and communities affected
that no one of the brave youth will be deported as result of these
arrests. Their action highlights the desperation of immigrant
families, and their youth are standing up to make a political case
through direct action, because other political means of participation
are denied to them.
As Obama restated, the immigration system is broken, and these
students’ resolution accentuates the point. But their action exposes
how the political system is broken too. Are the politicians in
Washington wait for a whole generation to be arrested and deported
before deciding to do something about the millions of live living in
the shadow?
Yes, the system is broken, and before the undocumented can be part of
the debate to fix it, deportations and other forms of immigration
enforcement must be stopped, now. The state of injustice in which the
undocumented live gets only heightened by the fear of deportation for
taking political in their own behalf.
As the SB1070 anti-immigrant racist law in Arizona is scheduled to be
enacted in July 29th, we, in the Moratorium on Deportations Campaign,
take pride in the courageous youth and set to continue their fighting
example by calling in all immigrant rights advocates to a rally
outside of Cook County Jail.
As ICE deports one thousand plus people a day, on July 29th at 4 pm,
we will gather in that number or more to show the administration and
the public opinion how does a thousand people look like. Hidden to
sight of all by the deportations allies, that for many Chicagoans it
includes Cook County Jail, a thousand families are distressed every
day.
Free the Dream Act activists, without reprisal!
End Deportations Now!
No to SB 1070!