<ChicagoMayDay> Faith, Labor and Immigrant Rights Groups are Holding Prayer Vigil Outside of Immigration Detention Center
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Apr 16, 2010, 3:05:51 AM4/16/10
to Jose Landaverde
Press Advisory
For Immediate Release
Media Contacts:
Ray Quintanilla 312-505-7862
Father Jose Landaverde: 773-968-4258
April 16, 2010
Faith, Labor and Immigrant Rights Groups are Holding Prayer Vigil
Outside of Immigration Detention Center
SEIU, UFCW, ARISE Chicago, Jobs with Justice, Centros Sin Fronteras
and Our Lady of Guadalupe Anglican Catholic Mission are Calling on DHS
and ICE to Get its House in Order
CHICAGO– Today, dozens are gathering from faith, labor and immigrant
rights groups for a prayer vigil outside of the Broadview Immigration
Detention Center to protest recent immigration enforcement outrages
and call on the agency to get its house in order. Rather than wasting
limited funds to chase hard-working, tax-paying janitors, home-care
providers and nannies, the groups will call on President Obama and
Secretary Janet Napolitano to re-focus ICE enforcement on its original
goals of targeting crooked employers and criminals.
“Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, families will
continue to suffer as they are torn apart by our unjust laws which
allow mothers and fathers to be "kidnapped" and deported away from
their families,” says Rev. C.J. Hawking of ARISE Chicago. “As
religious leaders, we want the suffering to end and we will not rest
until it does.”
Despite promises made by the Obama Administration to clean up ICE,
recent reports show that ICE has perpetuated and in some case
exacerbated the misguided immigration enforcement policies of the Bush
years—all while operating with little oversight or accountability.
The vigil is an effort to illustrate the ongoing, human cost of this
agency’s misguided, out-of-control immigration enforcement
strategy—which only serves to waste taxpayer resources, hurt
hardworking people, and devastate local communities. ICE’s “strategy”
of sewing misery in workplaces and communities not only fails to
tackle the underlying issue of our broken immigration system, it also
contradicts efforts to improve wages and working conditions of all
U.S. workers.
What: Prayer Vigil
Where: outside of Broadview ICE Detention Center, 1930 Beach St. Broadview IL
When: TODAY, Friday @ 11:00 AM
Who: Faith, Labor and Immigrant rights Groups
SEIU’s Immigration Enforcement and Reform Principles.
SEIU believes that America deserves a professional and well-managed
immigration enforcement agency that sticks to the constructive mission
of punishing criminals and the most abusive employers. DHS and ICE
must be able to distinguish between bad-actor-employers and those who
are merely caught in a broken system. They should focus scarce
resources on the bad actors who intentionally take advantage of our
dysfunctional immigration system to exploit workers and push down
wages for everyone.
SEIU also believes that over the long-term, the only real solution to
our broken system is comprehensive immigration reform. As the largest
union of immigrant workers, and also a union that represents more than
a million workers who are not immigrants, we hope and expect that our
nation’s leaders will enact workable solutions to our immigration
problems and that they will recognize that punitive, anti-immigrant
measures are neither realistic nor workable. Read more about SEIU’s
Immigration Reform Principles and about Change to Win and AFL-CIO’s
joint labor framework for immigration reform.
###
Service Employees International Union Local 1 unites more than 50,000
workers in Texas and throughout Mid-America. SEIU security officers,
food service workers, and janitors are working with community leaders
to advocate for the quality services the public deserves and the good
jobs our communities need.
--
Jorge Mujica
--
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For Immediate Release
Media Contacts:
Ray Quintanilla 312-505-7862
Father Jose Landaverde: 773-968-4258
April 16, 2010
Faith, Labor and Immigrant Rights Groups are Holding Prayer Vigil
Outside of Immigration Detention Center
SEIU, UFCW, ARISE Chicago, Jobs with Justice, Centros Sin Fronteras
and Our Lady of Guadalupe Anglican Catholic Mission are Calling on DHS
and ICE to Get its House in Order
CHICAGO– Today, dozens are gathering from faith, labor and immigrant
rights groups for a prayer vigil outside of the Broadview Immigration
Detention Center to protest recent immigration enforcement outrages
and call on the agency to get its house in order. Rather than wasting
limited funds to chase hard-working, tax-paying janitors, home-care
providers and nannies, the groups will call on President Obama and
Secretary Janet Napolitano to re-focus ICE enforcement on its original
goals of targeting crooked employers and criminals.
“Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, families will
continue to suffer as they are torn apart by our unjust laws which
allow mothers and fathers to be "kidnapped" and deported away from
their families,” says Rev. C.J. Hawking of ARISE Chicago. “As
religious leaders, we want the suffering to end and we will not rest
until it does.”
Despite promises made by the Obama Administration to clean up ICE,
recent reports show that ICE has perpetuated and in some case
exacerbated the misguided immigration enforcement policies of the Bush
years—all while operating with little oversight or accountability.
The vigil is an effort to illustrate the ongoing, human cost of this
agency’s misguided, out-of-control immigration enforcement
strategy—which only serves to waste taxpayer resources, hurt
hardworking people, and devastate local communities. ICE’s “strategy”
of sewing misery in workplaces and communities not only fails to
tackle the underlying issue of our broken immigration system, it also
contradicts efforts to improve wages and working conditions of all
U.S. workers.
What: Prayer Vigil
Where: outside of Broadview ICE Detention Center, 1930 Beach St. Broadview IL
When: TODAY, Friday @ 11:00 AM
Who: Faith, Labor and Immigrant rights Groups
SEIU’s Immigration Enforcement and Reform Principles.
SEIU believes that America deserves a professional and well-managed
immigration enforcement agency that sticks to the constructive mission
of punishing criminals and the most abusive employers. DHS and ICE
must be able to distinguish between bad-actor-employers and those who
are merely caught in a broken system. They should focus scarce
resources on the bad actors who intentionally take advantage of our
dysfunctional immigration system to exploit workers and push down
wages for everyone.
SEIU also believes that over the long-term, the only real solution to
our broken system is comprehensive immigration reform. As the largest
union of immigrant workers, and also a union that represents more than
a million workers who are not immigrants, we hope and expect that our
nation’s leaders will enact workable solutions to our immigration
problems and that they will recognize that punitive, anti-immigrant
measures are neither realistic nor workable. Read more about SEIU’s
Immigration Reform Principles and about Change to Win and AFL-CIO’s
joint labor framework for immigration reform.
###
Service Employees International Union Local 1 unites more than 50,000
workers in Texas and throughout Mid-America. SEIU security officers,
food service workers, and janitors are working with community leaders
to advocate for the quality services the public deserves and the good
jobs our communities need.
--
Jorge Mujica
--
Internet group address: http://groups.google.com/group/ChicagoMayDay
To send e-mail: Chicag...@googlegroups.com
To unsuscribe: ChicagoMayDa...@googlegroups.com
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