Somos Un Pueblo Unido Protecting Immigrants' Rights in New Mexico

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Please take two minutes to call your representatives and senators in Washington today. The House will vote on Thursday on a package of bills that Somos does NOT support called “Border Security Now.” It would among other things give local law enforcement the inherent authority to enforce federal immigration laws (it pretty much looks like the CLEAR Act which was voted down a couple of years ago). The Senate will vote on the “Secure Fence Act of 2006,” which would build a 700 mile fence on the border.

These punitive, anti-immigrant bills do nothing to regularize the status of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US, reunite families, nor provide a save and legal way for future workers to come to this country. The bills, if enacted, would serve to terrorize our communities and continue to waste tax payers’ money on failed border enforcement policies. More information below from the National Immigration Law Center. Please call today.

From the National Immigration Law Center:

In recent days, there has been a serious deterioration of the position of pro-immigrant forces in Congress. Your participation is urgently needed to stop punitive, enforcement-only, and wildly misnamed immigration bills that have been introduced in the House of Representatives from becoming law within the next week or so. Votes on the House and Senate floors are expected starting Thursday!

It is critical to call your Representative and both of your Senators right away to object to these bills.

Please distribute this message widely to others who you think might also take action.

Message to your Representative (who will likely vote on Thursday):

Please vote against the anti-immigrant “Border Security Now” package of bills. Real security will only come from comprehensive immigration reform, not not this venomous anti-immigrant agenda.

(Note that the details of which provisions are in which bill have been shifting daily – most recently, just this evening, they reduced the total number of bills from 3 to 2 – but the anti-immigrant substance has remained exactly the same – if you urge a vote against the anti-immigrant “Border Security Now” package your Representative’s staff will know what you are talking about)

Message 1: Please vote against HR 6061, the “Secure Fence Act of 2006”, which has already been passed by the House. Also vote against any other anti-immigrant bills that come to the floor. This bill takes us in the wrong direction. We need comprehensive immigration reform.

Message 2: Please do what you can to prevent anti-immigrant provisions, such as the House package of anti-immigrant bills, from being attached to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill.