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Posted on
07/09/2007 10:14 AM EST
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Senate fails American people
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CIRC
The Senate failed the American people last week when it voted to halt its work towards comprehensive immigration reform. While this vote ends prospects for S 1639, the movement for humane reform continues with more urgency than ever.
The Senate’s vote effectively defends the status quo, an enforcement-only immigration system that will continue to wreak havoc in Colorado communities and across the nation. Without reform, raids will continue to rip families apart, workers will continue to be exploited and millions will continue to toil in our country’s shadows. This outcome is a disgrace and a slap in the face to the very values on which this country was built.
Once again politics trumped humanity and productivity. We all lose when a broken immigration system serves to harm 12 million undocumented persons who work tirelessly everyday to provide for their families.
América needs to reform its immigration system, and no amount of anti-immigrant rhetoric will change this. The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) stands for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented persons living in the US, a future worker program with strong worker protections and a pathway to citizenship, an end to family immigration backlogs, and the protection of the basic due process guarantees and civil liberties enjoyed by all Americans.
We will not stop our fight to win a fair comprehensive immigration reform that will lift our brothers and sisters from the shadows and the terror in which they live thinking that at any moment they can be victims of deportation.
This country’s future is at stake. The frustration we feel today gives us fuel and energy to strengthen our efforts. Our elected officials are not off the hook. The Senate still has the moral obligation to address the nation’s broken immigration system, and now attention will shift to the House to bring up a genuinely humane and comprehensive bill that addresses the real needs of América’s immigrants, workers and communities.
The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC), is a statewide alliance of over eighty immigrant and ally organizations working to defend and advance immigrant justice.
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