For Immediate Release
March 10, 2016
Contact: Salvador G Sarmiento, sgsarmiento@ndlon.org
NDLON: If Dems Had to Make Immigration Policy in the Light of Day, We Would be Dealing with a Different Beast
Los Angeles, CA—In response to candidates’ commitments on immigration at the Democratic debate in Miami last night, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) staff attorney, Emilou MacLean, made the following statement:
“Last night’s debate makes clear that if Democrats had to make immigration policy in the light of day, in the public eye, we would be dealing with a different beast. Both candidates committed to limit deportations and reunify families broken up by our out-of-control deportation policy.
“The natural follow-up is why they have not denounced or endeavored to change the destructive deportation machine operating today? And will they embrace the position that those with a previous criminal conviction are worthy of a second chance, regardless of their immigration status? Distinguishing people with criminal convictions from those without is no less destructive of families and communities, and it must stop.”
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