LA Indymedia: AJLPP / CDIR Rejects New Immigration Proposals as Anti-Immigrant, Anti- Family

AJLPP / CDIR Rejects New Immigration Proposals as Anti-Immigrant, Anti- Family

by Coalition In Defense of Immigrant Rights Thursday, May. 17, 2007 at 4:12 PM
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The Alliance Philippines (AJLPP) and the Coalition in Defense of Immigrant Rights (CDIR) vehemently oppose the US Senate proposals that will turn 12 million immigrants into “guest workers” and scrap the family reunification laws that should unite and not separate families. The new US senate taunted proposals that constitutes a far-reaching change in the immigration system that would admit future arrivals seeking to put down roots in the U.S. based on their skills, education levels and job experience, limiting the importance of family ties.

CDIR Update No. 3
May 17, 2007

AJLPP / CDIR Rejects New Immigration Proposals as Anti-Immigrant, Anti- Family Reunification and Inhumane

Los Angeles—The Alliance Philippines (AJLPP) and the Coalition in Defense of Immigrant Rights (CDIR) vehemently oppose the US Senate proposals that will turn 12 million immigrants into “guest workers” and scrap the family reunification laws that should unite and not separate families.

The new US senate taunted proposals that constitutes a far-reaching change in the immigration system that would admit future arrivals seeking to put down roots in the U.S. based on their skills, education levels and job experience, limiting the importance of family ties.

The AJLPP and the CDIR exclaimed that a new class of guest workers would be allowed in temporarily, but only after borders were fortified and measures were in place to ensure the rules were followed.

The CDIR opposes the proposal not only because it is racist, exploitative and inhuman but also fosters anti-immigrant bias and separates families and individuals and fleece profits from exploited worker immigrants.

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