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Workers Upset Over Obama DHS Enforcement Policies

By immigrationprof

OPEN LETTER FROM THE WORKERS OF OVERHILL FARMS, AMERICAN APPAREL, AND FARMER JOHNS – we make a public appeal to all immigrants’ rights coalitions, unions, churches, community organizations, and worker/human rights activists to join us in organizing marches and rallies at this most distressing moment of mass terminations due to the Obama Administration’s policy of unprecedented enforcement of employer sanctions through I-9 audits of profiled companies that hire immigrants; and the broad use of e-Verify, the federal system of employment verification of legal status. We demand unity between all the organizations and coalitions that represent that they work on behalf of immigrants and in favor of fair and humane immigration reform.
We call on the Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC), CHIRLA, Latino Movement USA, MIWON, HERMANDADES, interested immigrant and human rights organizations, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Change To Win, the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese, all religious denominations, Dream Act students, MECHA, and other student organizations, Chambers of Commerce, and other interested parties to respond to this call and work tirelessly to support the workers of these and many other companies who are confronted with such terminations. This is clearly the fault of the Obama Administration and only he has the solution in his hands to stop the cheap scapegoating and racial profiling of immigrants that is now sweeping America. This is certainly not the change we voted for, and not the immigration reform promised by President Barack Obama.

We are planning a series of actions to demand an end to the anti-immigant Obama policies and call on you to unite with us. The workers united will never be defeated.

· Wednesday, July 29, 2009 March and Rally from American Apparel (7th and Alameda) to the Federal Building (Temple and Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles) – 4:00 p.m.

· Saturday, August 1, 2009 Rally at the Placita Olvera (Alameda and Cesar Chavez) – 1:00 p.m.

We are not activists but the very workers that you all refer to in your press communications, articles, advocacy, research and conferences. We are taking the lead in this struggle and will not wait for others to act.

Sincerely,
Worker’s Council of Overhill Farms
American Apparel Workers
Farmer Johns Workers

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