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Urgent
Action Alert to Immigrants
Submitted By Densy C
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
Stop HR10 Before Congress Expands the War on Immigrants!
Please call Congress TODAY! See below for phone numbers.
In the past two weeks, right-wing members of Congress have
tried to sneak horrible anti-immigrant measures past the
public. These are not just any bills: If passed, they will
be the biggest attack on immigrants in almost a decade.
Recently, both houses passed the "9/11 Commission Recommendations
Implementation Act". The version passed in the House
of Representatives (HR 10) includes immigration amendments
that were never part of the Commission's recommendations.
Now, without further debate, against the wishes of the Commission,
and with complete disregard for the rights of non citizen,
a group of 21 Senators and House members will conference
behind closed doors and decide whether to keep the anti-immigrant
amendments when it goes to President Bush to be signed into
law. HR 10 would strip the few rights that non citizens
enjoy under our Constitution, and tear millions more families
apart. It would write into law inhumane practices the Department
of Homeland Security has been using out of the public eye
and would reverse the few, hard-fought gains in immigrant
rights won over the last seven years. Specifically, the
proposed law would:
1- Deny immigrants the right to have a court review a deportationm
order in effect, suspending habeas corpus for the first
time since the Civil War (Section 3009)
2- Allow deportations to a country with no government (Section
3035) Allow deportations to a country where immigrants fear
persecution (Section 3009) or torture (Section 3032)
3- Allow more mandatory indefinite detentions (Section 3032)
4- Allows Homeland Security to deport immigrants before
federal courts have decided on their case (Section 3009)
5- Make it more difficult for people fleeing torture to
gain asylum (Section 3007)
6- Restrict access to driver's licenses and use of consular
ID cards (Section 3006)
TAKE ACTION: CALL CONGRESS TODAY!
The Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights urges
you to take action to stop this major escalation of the
war on immigrants! So far, House staffers have said that
they have received 5000 comments in support of HR 10 and
only 15 in opposition to it. If we act now, we can change
what they are hearing!
CALL the members of Congress below and tell them: "I
want you to remove ALL the immigration provisions of HR10
from the final 9/11 Commission bill. The immigration provisions
strip people of basic Constitutional rights, and will tear
countless families apart without increasing national security."
In order of importance, call:
1. Congresswoman Susan Collins from Maine (202-224-2523)
- She has the most influence over which version of the bills
pass.
2. Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut (202-224-4041)
- He is the ranking Democrat who needs to be told to stick
firmly to the Senate bill and reject the House's anti-immigrant
provisions.
3. Senator Mike DeWine (Ohio, 202-224-2315); Congressman
Sensenbrenner (Wisconsin, 202-225-5101); Senator Graham
(Florida, 202-224-3041); and Senator Voinovich (Ohio, 202-224-3353).
4. Your own Congressperson and Senators. You can call the
Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected.
Or look them up at http://www.house.gov and http://www.senate.gov
5. As many of the other members of the Conference Committee
as you can. These are the only people who will be deciding
what sections of the bills will stay and what will go from
the final bill:
Senate Members of the Conference Committee
Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey, 202-224-3224
Norm Coleman, Minnesota, 202-224-5641
John Sununu, NH, 202-224-2841
Pat Roberts, Kansas, 202-224-4774
Trent Lott, Mississippi, 202-224-6253
Carl Levin, Michigan, 202-224-6221
Richard Durbin, Illinois, 202-224-2152
John Rockefeller, West Virginia, 202-224-6472
House Members of the Conference Committee
Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., 2nd, 202-225-4401
Henry Hyde, R-Ill., 6th, 2020225-4561
David Dreier, R-Calif., 26th, 202-225-2305
Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., 52nd, 202-225-5672
Jane Harman, D-Calif., 36th, 202-225-8220
Ike Skelton, D-Mo., 4th, 202-225-2876
Robert Menendez, D-N.J., 13th, 202-225-7919
EMAIL or FAX
(Go to http://capwiz.com/aila2/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=6540936
and write your message in the boxes provided.) M (ME/DC/IM)
Moisés Escalante
Health and Benefits Access Education Coordinator Interfaith
Coalition for Immigrant Rights (ICIR) 309 S. Oxford Ave.,
Suite 201, Los Angeles, CA 90020 Telephone (213) 480-8800
Fax (213) 480-8926 moises_icir@yahoo.com
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