Wednesday, December 14, 2005
SWOP homepageHeather's Dilemma
Looks like some nasty anti-immigrant legislation will be before the House of Representatives in the next few days. (Fox News has already started propagating.)
Our friends over at El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos, a project of Enlace Communitario, are asking people to call Congresswoman Heather Wilson to urge her to continue to vote against anti-immigrant legislation.
The Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act (I was hoping for one of those cleverly antonymous acronyms, but all we got was BPATIICA) will likely be heard on the house floor on Thursday, December 15.
Wilson's local number is 505 346 6781 and the DC number is 202 225 6316.
Wilson has voted against anti-immigrant laws in the past. She must hear from you so she's able to tell her right wing friends she can't vote for it.
Our friends over at El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos, a project of Enlace Communitario, are asking people to call Congresswoman Heather Wilson to urge her to continue to vote against anti-immigrant legislation.
The Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act (I was hoping for one of those cleverly antonymous acronyms, but all we got was BPATIICA) will likely be heard on the house floor on Thursday, December 15.
Wilson's local number is 505 346 6781 and the DC number is 202 225 6316.
Wilson has voted against anti-immigrant laws in the past. She must hear from you so she's able to tell her right wing friends she can't vote for it.
VOTE NO on H.R. 4437 because:
- H.R. 4437 criminalizes millions of hard working immigrants in our country.
- H.R. 4437 is bad for public safety. H.R. 4437 would shift the burden of immigration enforcement to state and local police which would jeopardize community policing, would be a disincentive to victims of a crime to report that crime or serve as a witness, and would increase racial profiling. Local and state law enforcement need to be able to focus limited resources on those who are really putting our community in danger, not targeting hard-working immigrant families.
