City of Cudahy Approves Stop Deportations Resolution
From Hermandad Mexicana Humanitarian Foundation:
Another local municipality approved a city council resolution to call on President Barack Obama to stop deportations and grant protected legal status to all eligible undocumented persons. The city of Cudahy, while small as a southeast city in the county of Los Angeles, sends a loud and powerful message to the president that it is time to stop wreaking havoc on our families that result from the unjust removals. In the absence of fair and humane immigration reform this year more and more political jurisdictions, political and civic leaders have called on President Obama to cease and desist in his unprecedented enforcement policies. By the first week of April the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under his administration will have deported 2 million of our family members. In addition, it is estimated that some 400,000 American citizen minors have been involuntarily returned to Mexico accompanying their deported parents. This is the new phenomena of the undocumented Americans in Mexico and throughout Central America who are denied access to education and health services due to lack of legal papers in the countries of origin of their parents. The Protect Our Families – Save the Children Campaign seeks to put an end to this historic infamy.
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