ILRC Press Conference
MEDIAADVISORY
Contact: Judith Golub
415-255-9499, ext. 465
Jgolub@ilrc.org
WHAT: PRESS CONFERENCE on “Comprehensive Immigration Reform: What’s Happening in DC – the Highlights and the Lowlights”
WHEN: April 28, 2006 at 10:00 am San Francisco
WHERE:
1663 Mission Street, Suite 602
San Francisco
SPEAKERS:
KatherineBrady, Staff Attorney (ILRC)
AngieJunck, New Voices Fellow (ILRC)
GuadalupeOrtiz, Coordinator (El Comite de Padres Unidos)
MODERATOR: Judith E.Golub, Executive Director (ILRC)
WHY:Immigration reform continues to top the agenda in Washington, DC
The Senate has beenspurred to action by the millions of immigrants, their families, friends andsupporters who have poured into the streets to demand that our government fixour broken system and who oppose H.R. 4437, the radical and punitive measurepassed by the House of Representatives.
Thenegative aspects of H.R. 4437 are well-known. However, while the positiveaspects of the Senate proposal have received coverage, the negative provisions,including some of the worst in H.R. 4437, have not. Neither has the fact thatany measure that passes the Senate must be reconciled with the very punitiveH.R. 4437.
The worst provisions in the Senate bill would take away due process rights foreveryone, as well as sabotage earned legalization, and would eliminateimportant rights of the “other 12 million” — the 12 million legal permanentresidents who reside in the U.S. — by making it easier to deport them andharder for many to become citizens. They also would turn policeinto immigration agents, increase deportation and detention, and allowthousands of people to be deported without ever seeing a judge. None ofthese provisions solve problems in our broken immigration system.
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