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Press Release
National Leaders Urge President
Bush To Mandate A Temporary Stoppage On Raids And Deportations.
“On a day when we celebrate love and family we
are asking President Bush to have a heart and
keep families together”.
February 14, 2007
Contact:
Juan Carlos Ruiz 414-758-0600 cell
Lizette Jenness Olmos 202-833-6130 ext.16/202-365-4553 cell
Alexandra Acosta 201-390-7129 cell
Washington D.C.- National and
local leaders from across the country convene to
call to action the ceasing of raids and to keep
families together. Over 30 states are
participating from coast to coast asking
president bush a temporary moratorium on
deportations.
In the recent weeks our
country’s laws and policy regarding immigrants’
inhumane treatment, have become more surreal.
Coalitions of community, civil rights and
immigrant right groups, have expressed outrage
about the detention of families and children
saying it’s immoral. The current immigration
legislation requires a reasonable and just
approach that goes beyond border and interior
enforcement.
“Recent raids have been
unprecedented in their lack of reasoning and
inhumanity. Children are being left behind, in
the care of good-hearted Samaritans oftentimes
not knowing whether they will see their parents
again,” stated, Dr. Gabriela Lemus, LCLAA
Executive Director.
Over the past decade U.S.
policies have been systematically and stealthily
enmeshing immigrants in the criminal system and
the war on terror, using detention and
deportation as a critical tool. Immigrants
detained in remote facilities, are enduring
problems with abuse, discrimination and
deplorable conditions. As a result, the raids do
nothing to improve our immigration laws, what
they do cause is fear among the workers, fear in
our communities and have ripped families apart
leaving children traumatized and alone.
“LULAC is asking for a
temporary moratorium on these raids,” said Rosa
Rosales, LULAC National President. “The process
is having a negative impact on the immigrants,
local communities and the economy. It is causing
psychological damage to the families who are
being arrested and separated from loved ones.”
“The fact that these raids are
occurring at a time when our Congress and
Administration are engaged in a dialogue about
how to fix our current immigration policies,
gives the appearance that these actions are
specifically aimed at thwarting the emerging
will of our country to address immigration
issues in a more productive and holistic way,”
said John R. Schol, Bishop of the Washington
Episcopal area of the United Methodist Church.
In response to the raids that
are breaking families apart, National leaders
and organizations proposed a national day of
press conferences across the country to demand a
stoppage on raids and deportations.
** Families of immigrants
facing deportation proceedings will be available
for interviews
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