Carlos Gómez
Vicepresidente de MIGUA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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From: National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights <aga...@nnirr.org>
Subject: NNIRR requests your endorsement of Letter to Pres. Obama calling for end to 287G
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Date: Monday, July 27, 2009, 5:18 PM
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Please join us in signing letter
Calling on Pres. Obama to end the 287g Program Deadline is Friday, July 31 at 3:00 p.m. EST | |
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Dear NNIRR members, partners & friends,
We are inviting organizations and community groups to join NNIRR in endorsing the open letter drafted by a coalition of organizations (see below) that calls on President Barack Obama to end the 287(g) program.
Your group's endorsement is needed by 3:00 pm EST, Friday, July 31. SEE CALL BELOW
The letter responds to the recent DHS announcement of the expansion of 287(g) programs. NNIRR's HURRICANE
initiative will also soon release Guilty by Immigration Status, a report on 2008 abuses and violations, that will also show how immigration laws and enforcement are fueling racial, ethnic/nationality and religious profiling and undermining public safety and the rights of our communities.
Please read the request below, forward this email to your organizational partners and allies and endorse the letter to Pres. Obama. This is an important opportunity to send a clear message that the promise of a genuine immigration reform that protects the rights of immigrants requires immediate changes, such as ending 287(g).
For justice & human rights for all,
NNIRR
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Please Join Us to Demand An End to
Racial Profiling in Immigration Enforcement!
Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to ask that your organization sign on to a letter urging President Obama to terminate the
Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) widely criticized 287(g) program, which relinquishes the authority to enforce civil federal immigration law to local law enforcement and corrections officials.
Earlier this month, advocates, expecting a major overhaul of - or possibly an end to - this controversial program, were shocked to learn that DHS was expanding it to 11 new jurisdictions. While DHS claims to have standardized the agreements, close scrutiny has shown that these changes do nothing to prevent civil and human rights abuses, and in fact only further exacerbate the program's pervasive problems.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County, AZ has been the most public example of the egregious human rights abuses that have resulted from the program. However, despite an ongoing civil rights investigation into the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office by the Department of Justice, DHS has not terminated
its 287(g) agreement. Similarly, other law enforcement agencies around the country have aggressively targeted immigrants by using pretextual traffic stops or other racial profiling tactics.
Today marks the start of a five-day campaign aimed at gathering five hundred organizational signatures requesting that President Obama put an end to the 287(g) program.
Civil rights, criminal justice, community and immigrant rights organizations must stand in solidarity to send a clear
message to the President:
The 287(g) program, which has contributed to the pervasive racial profiling our communities face day after day, must come to end.
Click here to co-sign this letter to President Obama.
In the coming days, individuals also will have the option to send a message directly to the President, but this week, the letter campaign is limited to organizations.
The deadline for signatures is 3pm EST, Friday, July 31, 2009.
Calling on such a large number of organizations to sign on in five days will require extraordinary collective effort, but the time is exactly right. When Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested in his own home earlier this week, President Obama in response publicly recognized the "long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately". Now is the time to join together to highlight for the President the urgent need to safeguard against civil rights and human rights abuses occurring under the 287(g) program.
Please distribute this link widely. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/371/t/4527/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=2040
If you have organizations that you can personally reach out to, please do.
In solidarity,
All of Us or None
Center for Constitutional Rights
Detention Watch Network
Florida Immigrant Coalition
Grassroots Leadership
Homies Unidos
Immigration Law Clinic, UC Davis School of Law
Justice Strategies
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
National Day Laborer Organizing Network
National Immigration Law Center
Partnership for Safety and Justice
Southern Center for Human Rights
Youth Justice Coalition
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