Sign-On Letter to President Obama:Dear President Obama, We write to urge you to reverse your decision to delay the Department of Homeland Security’s deportation policy review and instead immediately use your existing legal authority to provide relief to millions of undocumented immigrants living and working in the United States. Positive administrative action on immigration is a first step, not a last resort. It cannot be put on hold in order to see whether nativist House Republicans will succeed yet again in blocking long overdue legislative reforms that are supported by the vast majority of Americans. To the contrary, immediate administrative action is necessary to alleviate suffering, allow directly impacted individuals to make their voices heard, and show that the Democratic Party is not using immigration as a political football, but rather is committed to real, tangible change. According to news reports, you ordered this review three months ago to make deportation policy more humane. Implicit in your order was an important acknowledgement: deporting over one thousand people a day is inhumane. By delaying the review that you yourself ordered, you are perpetuating an immoral status quo. In the months since you ordered this review, the situation has only deteriorated. Most recently, DHS has responded to the decision of dozens of states and localities to limit participation in the dangerous and misguided Secure Communities deportation program by deploying new, equally misguided enforcement efforts, including expanding arrests of immigrants in homes, at courthouses, and in indiscriminate street sweep—all in an apparent effort to meet an arbitrary quota of 400,000 deportations per year endorsed by former and current members of your Administration. The justification offered for this most recent delay is that continued inaction by your Administration is necessary to give House Republicans “space” to consider legislation. This reflects a failed Democratic strategy, which, for years, has promised that immigration reform will be achieved only when Democrats prove their enforcement credentials to anti-immigrant Republicans. The logic was shaky to begin with, the equivalent of trying to pass climate change legislation by proving Democrats can pollute more than any anti-environmentalist. Indeed, it is impossible to imagine arguing for a delay of the recent EPA regulations on the ground that such a delay would yield legislative victory. After a decade of failure in Congress, the apparent strategy of political triangulation on immigration has become indefensible. We can no longer allow relief for our families—relief that is fully within your existing power to grant—to be held hostage to the demands of obstructionist Republicans or those within the Democratic Party who seek political advantage by preserving the status quo. We are aware that six national organizations put out a statement last week supporting a delay in relief. Those groups do not represent the immigrants’ rights movement as a whole. For the reasons described above, the under-signed organizations strongly oppose any delay and call for immediate administrative action, including—at a minimum—the expansion of deferred action to immigrant workers and families and all those who would qualify for legalization under Senate Bill 744. Current immigration policy constitutes a crisis for the country, and this crisis demands action from both the executive and legislative branches of government. We have reached a moment where your leadership is required to move things forward. Please act without delay. |
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Number | ORGANIZATION |
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1 | 99 Unite Civic Forum |
2 | ACCESS of Western New York |
3 | ACIJ |
4 | ACLU |
5 | Actors Equity – AFL-CIO |
6 | Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus |
7 | AF3IRM (Association of Filipinas, Feminists Fighting Imperialism, Re-feudalization & Marginalization) |
8 | Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice |
9 | Alianza de Mexico-Americanos de Connecticut |
10 | Alianza Mexicana |
11 | Alianza Para el Futuro |
12 | American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) |
13 | Amnesty International |
14 | Arab American Action Network |
15 | Arab American Association of New York |
16 | Arizona Community Health Worker Network |
17 | Arizona Dream Act Coalition (ADAC) |
18 | Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Chicago |
19 | Asian Americans Advancing Justice – LA |
20 | ASPIRE-Bay Area |
21 | ASPIRE-LA |
22 | Atlanta Jobs with Justice |
23 | Áztlan Media Kollective |
24 | Bare Face Productions |
25 | Barnet Academy |
26 | Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) |
27 | Cabrillo College |
28 | California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC) |
29 | California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance (CIYJA) |
30 | Casa Freehold |
31 | Casa Latina |
32 | Centro Autonomo |
33 | Centro de Ayuda |
34 | CENTRO DEL INMIGRANTE |
35 | Centro Laboral de Graton |
36 | Chadash Community UCC |
37 | Channing Church |
38 | Chicago Immigrant Defense Committee |
39 | Church of Our Saviour/La Iglesia de Nuestro Salvador Episcopal |
40 | Church World Service |
41 | Citizen Orange |
42 | CLEAN Carwash Campaign |
43 | CLILA |
44 | Coloradans For Immigrant Rights, of the AFSC |
45 | Commitee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador |
46 | Community to Community |
47 | Congress of Day Laborers New Orleans |
48 | CRECE |
49 | CSUN Young Democrats |
50 | D.C. Center for Immigrant Justice |
51 | Detention Watch Network |
52 | Dominican Development Center |
53 | Dominican Sisters of Houston |
54 | Dream Activist DC |
55 | DRM Action Coalition |
56 | Durango Unido en Chicago |
57 | Ecumenical Peace Institute |
58 | El Comite |
59 | El Pueblo, Inc. |
60 | El Reportero Newspaper |
61 | Enlace |
62 | Entre Hermanos |
63 | Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement |
64 | Farmworker Association of Florida |
65 | Fe y Justicia Worker Center |
66 | First Baptist Church Huntersville |
67 | First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta\’s Social Justice G |
68 | First Presbyterian Peace and Justice |
69 | Florida Immigrant Coalition |
70 | Flying Over Walls/Black and Pink |
71 | Foster First |
72 | Free Speech Radio |
73 | Frente de Mexicanos en el Exterior |
74 | Fresno Immigrant Youth In Action |
75 | Friends of Miami-Dade Detainees |
76 | Fuerza del Valle Workers’ Center |
77 | Georgetown University Hoyas for Immigrant Rights |
78 | Georgia Detention Watch |
79 | Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) |
80 | Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions (Georgia WAND) |
81 | Grassroots LEadership |
82 | Grupo Cajola |
83 | Grupo de Solidaridad-Arenal (GRUDESA) |
84 | Haziel Ministry “Vision of God” |
85 | High Flight Arts and Letters |
86 | HOPE |
87 | IDEAS at UCLA |
88 | Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights |
89 | Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC) |
90 | Immigration Reform For Nevada |
91 | Indigenous United |
92 | Integral Movement for AB540 Student Success |
93 | Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice |
94 | Iowa CCI |
95 | ISAAC (Immigrant Support And Assistance Center) |
96 | Jobs With Justice |
97 | Journey For Justice |
98 | Junta for Progressive Action |
99 | Juntos |
100 | Just Communities |
101 | Kern Coalition for Citizenship |
102 | La Union Brooklyn |
103 | La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) |
104 | Labor/Community Strategy Center |
105 | Latin@ Youth Action League (L@YAL) |
106 | Latino Advocacy |
107 | Latino Advocacy Foundation of Fairifield County |
108 | Latino Union of Chicago |
109 | Latinos United of Carroll County |
110 | Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition |
111 | Long Island Wins |
112 | Los Angeles Immigrant Youth Coalition (LA-IYC) |
113 | LULAC-Syracuse chapter |
114 | MACT/Phila. |
115 | Madre Tierra Collective |
116 | MAKAT |
117 | Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas |
118 | MEChA |
119 | Merced College |
120 | Mercy Students for Peace and Justice |
121 | Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) |
122 | Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA) |
123 | Mississippi NOW |
124 | MN Conference – UCC Immigration Team |
125 | Montana Immigrant Justice Alliance |
126 | MoveMaster EcoLines Inc. |
127 | Movement Strategy Center |
128 | National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) |
129 | National Guestworker Alliance (NGA) |
130 | National Latino Progressive VOTER Party U.S. |
131 | National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC) |
132 | NCJW, SouthEast Atlantic Section |
133 | Needham Area Immigration Justice Task Force |
134 | New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) |
135 | NIDIL-CGIL |
136 | NJDAC |
137 | No More Deaths Phoenix |
138 | Northern Illinois University Dream Action |
139 | NTEU |
140 | Occupy Greeley |
141 | Ohio Action Circle |
142 | Olneyville Neighborhood Association |
143 | One Horizon Institute |
144 | OneAmerica |
145 | Orange County Dream Team (OCDT) |
146 | Organized Communities Against Deportations |
147 | Out4Immigration |
148 | Pasadena Community Job Center |
149 | Peace & Justice Committee, First Churches, Northampton, MA |
150 | PeterCares House |
151 | Phoenix Proud |
152 | phoenix ventures |
153 | Phoenix Women Take Back the Night |
154 | PICO National Network |
155 | Pilgrim United Church of Christ, Carlsbad CA |
156 | Pittsburgh LCLAA |
157 | Porterville Immigrant Youth United |
158 | Portland Jobs with Justice |
159 | Progressive Democrats of America. – Arizona |
160 | Pueblo Sin fronteras |
161 | Puente Human Rights Movement |
162 | Racial Justice Action Center |
163 | Radical Women |
164 | RENASE BAY AREA |
165 | Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of W Mich. |
166 | Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network |
167 | San Diego Dream Team |
168 | SF Gray Panthers |
169 | Sisters of Mercy |
170 | Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia |
171 | SITES TRAILER COURT LLC |
172 | Sky Island UU Church |
173 | Society of Friends |
174 | somos tuskaloosa |
175 | Southeast Immigrant Rights Network |
176 | Southerners On New Ground (SONG) |
177 | Southwest Suburban Immigrant Project (SSIP) |
178 | St. Robert Bellarmine Church |
179 | Stateline Beekeepers Association |
180 | Student Action with Farmworkers |
181 | Student/Farmworker Alliance |
182 | Studio Revolt |
183 | Tahoma Unitarian-Universalist Congregation |
184 | Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church |
185 | Texas Civil Rights Project |
186 | The Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian) |
187 | The Real Cost of Prisons Project |
188 | Trabajadores Unidos de Washington DC |
189 | Trans(forming) |
190 | TRUST South LA |
191 | UCSB IDEAS |
192 | UFCW local 1473 |
193 | Undocumented Students and Allies |
194 | Unidad Latina en Acción – New Haven |
195 | UNIDAD LATINA EN ACCION NJ |
196 | Unidos Bridging Community |
197 | Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix |
198 | United Domestic Workers of America |
199 | United Farm Workers (UFW) |
200 | United for a Fair Economy |
201 | United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society |
202 | United We Dream (UWD) |
203 | Unity Housecleaners LLC |
204 | Vashon Unitarian Fellowship |
205 | Vellanoweth and Associates |
206 | Voces de la Frontera |
207 | Voz Workers Rights |
208 | WA State Labor Council, AFL-CIO |
209 | Waco Immigration Alliance |
210 | Washington Dream Act Coalition |
211 | Washington New Sanctuary Movement |
212 | we build |
213 | WeCount! |
214 | West Valley Neighborhoods Coalition |
215 | Western Mass. Jobs with Justice |
216 | White Rabbit Grove RDNA |
217 | WORKPLACE PROJECT |
218 | World Wide Enterprises |
219 | Yakima County Dream Team |
220 | Yaotlyaocihuatl Ameyal Asociación Civil. México |
221 | Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES) |
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