Contact: B Loewe 773-791-4668 NDLON: “Not One More Delay Suspending Deportations” (Los Angeles) In reaction to the readout from the President’s meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Pablo Alvarado issued the following statement: “Relief delayed is relief denied. The President has no excuse to continue his unjust deportation policy,…
Memo on Alternatives to Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Today, the President held a White House meeting on Immigration Reform In response, Pablo Alvarado, Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network said,
“While we appreciate the President’s effort to keep immigration reform on the national agenda, his actions belie his intent. We’re greatly disappointed that the meeting didn’t include more voices of immigrants at the table, including representatives of directly affected communities especially the people in the state of Arizona and Georgia where there is a modern day human rights crisis. If the President genuinely wanted to fix the broken immigration system, he would respond to the growing chorus of voices calling for the suspension of the se communities program and move to legalize instead of further criminalize our immigrant communities.”…