Familia Primero™
An Association of Latinos for Over-Due Change Immigration Reform Petition
Summer 2008
Our current immigration system is in chaos. Outdated and unrealistic visa allocations, and rigid arbitrary caps preventing family reunification, have created an unjust environment which encourages illegal entry into the U.S. and endangers non-citizens and citizens alike. This enforcement-only system has generated a record number of deaths in our deserts, exploitation of workers, an extensive cottage industry for fake documents, and billions of dollars squandered in ineffective enforcement.
Ultimately, this enforcement-only strategy has led to an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., living in the shadows of our society, with no opportunity to earn legal status. We desperately need a new, realistic, balanced approach that recognizes the contributions of hard-working immigrants and rewards and encourages legality.
Click here to demand comprehensive immigration reform!
We demand comprehensive, positive, action on immigration reform legislation that honors the contribution (s) of hard-working Latino and other immigrants
• I oppose punishment only kinds of enforcement measures that lay blame hardworking on immigrants whose only ‘crime’ is struggling tom get here, work hard and send money to their families!
• I am further opposed to any rules, guidelines or laws criminalize and punish those who provide humanitarian assistance efforts.
• I support honest, complete, reform legislation that includes all of the following as a minimum:
1. Provide a specific path to earning citizenship for the over 14 million, ‘undocumented’ immigrants who are working here and contributing their necessary labors to our society.
2. Provide a highest priority, simple method for families to be reunited with loved ones, on a timely basis, by eliminating arbitrary, nonsensical, bureaucratic barriers.
3. Provide for sufficient numbers of visas for workers to come to the U.S., legally, as determined by our labor needs.
4. Provide visas for workers, already in the U.S. to invite their immediate family to joint them. This is to minimally include husbands, wives, children and parents.
5. Make immigrant worker wage discrimination a federal crime.
We are ready to demonstrate solidarity and our seriousness of purpose by:
A. Identifying any legislator who is opposed to our purpose and;
B. Organize with all who agree with us to defeat that legislator and;
C. Further to identify any legislator who speaks about the issue of immigration reform with equivocation or ‘fence straddling’ and;
D. To publicize and ridicule that legislator, organizing cause him / her forfeit their office at the earliest possible date.
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