Go on Record Against Record-Deportations

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Jun 7, 2013, 3:45:39 PM6/7/13

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From: Pablo Alvarado, NDLON <in...@ndlon.org>
Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Subject: Go on Record Against Record-Deportations
To: phil....@gmail.com

Philip,

When the Senate starts the floor debate on immigration reform next week, we'll be in DC to turn in the organizational sign-on letter calling for the President to suspend deportations as the bill proceeds in Congress.

Since we launched that letter with United We Dream, AFL-CIO, and MALDEF, more than 300 organizations have added their names.

If you are part of an organization that hasn't signed yet , please add it before Monday.

As we have organizations go on record next week, the call for the President to pick up his pen and grant relief will only keep building among individuals and in our communities.

Add Your Organization to the list calling for a suspension of deportations.

Last week the President's trip to his hometown of Chicago was greeted with 12 people locking themselves down on Michigan Avenue and a banner unfurled on the nightly news with his title, "Deporter-in-Chief." It moved Arianna Huffington to raise the question on the Sunday news circuit. And when President Obama comes to Los Angeles tomorrow, the city that deports more people than anywhere else in the country, he'll be met with more protest urging him to act.

In addition to the organizational letter, individuals can also add their name to an open letter to the President here.

As we push forward for just and inclusive reform, we also have to address the immediate suffering deportations are causing in our community. And addressing that suffering helps push forward reform. The two are not mutually exclusive.

If we stop the deportation of Martin Rodriguez, a Pasadena day laborer and proud father of four whose on-going battle with alcoholism has him in trouble, we push against the stigma that nativists create to drag reform to the Right.

If Luciana, a grandmother who was raided by Sheriff Arpaio at the factory where she worked, is brought home to her family from the Eloy detention center instead of deported, we create space for more people to advocate for themselves in the debate.

The immigration reform debate is not just policy, it is our future in this country. These statistics: 1.7 million deportations since President Obama took office; 1,100 deportations a day. They are not just numbers. They are our families. And it is their voices, fully at the table, that will prevent the debate from becoming any more toxic.

As the Senate starts the debate, the President has the responsibility to stop deportations.

Please, add your organization before Monday, so we have every immigrant rights group on record next week as we continue to build the campaign to say "Not1More" in the coming months.

Thank you,
Pablo Alvarado, NDLON

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