We are asking you for your help in collecting signatures for a petition addressed to the Los Angeles City Council requesting they adopt a resolution in favor of the immigrant community.
Recent News About the Bill:
Our Next Struggle
January, 2006
Unfortunately,
despite strong protest from immigrant, human rights, labor and civil liberty
groups the U.S. House passed the disgraceful
anti-immigrant H.R. 4437 -- the "Border Protection, Antiterrorism,
and Illegal Immigration Control Act
of 2005" by House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James
Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) and House Homeland Security Committee
Chairman Peter T. King (R-N.Y.).
It's
clear that President Bush, along with the Congress, is again spinning rhetoric
to blame immigrants for causing all the world's problems.
It's
also clear that the President, right wing Republicans and even many Democrats
will use immigrants as scapegoats for the Nov 2006 mid-term elections. They will
use any possible means to secure conservative/right wing votes by focusing on
blaming people of color and immigrants, and by attacking abortion rights and the
rights of LGBT people.
Our
struggle will be long and hard, but that doesn't mean we should have no hope.
While the House vision of the Bill has passed, we still can mount a strong
opposition against the upcoming Senate version, which will be introduced and
debated sometime in February, 2006.
Now
that we have finished the holiday season, we should gear up our fighting spirit
to build multi-ethnic community actions against the final passage of the Senate
bill early next year.
Unity
is very important! This is NOT only about immigrant rights, it is also about
human rights for everyone. An injury to one is an injury to all!
Activists
and organizers have a particular responsibility to point out the links between
Katrina's impact, immigrant rights, civil liberties, labor rights and the
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