Dear President Obama -
We know you are busy with a catastrophic economic downturn. We realize you have to be constantly calling the Republicans because they have decided to act so silly now that they should be serious regarding the economy.
Immigration is urgently needing your attention. You promised the DREAM Act would pass in the first 100 days. You said things would be different with U.S. immigration policy. Could you have a quick meeting with DHS Director, Janet Napolitano and tell her to go ahead and start changing immigration policy? Something has to be done with Arpaio in Arizona. ICE raids need to stop. The DREAM Act needs to pass (the U.S. economy needs the DREAMers).
Please have one of your staff watch (or attend) today's hearing on local immigration enforcement of the House Committee on Homeland Security - and have them send for Napolitano...
see "Report Questions Immigration Program That Uses Local Police," New York Times, March 4, 2009
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Editorial
Who’s Running Immigration?
New York Times
Published: March 3, 2009
...The country is not a safer or better place because one more business and two dozen more families are torn apart outside Seattle or because Sheriff Arpaio has much of Maricopa County terrified. The system under which illegal immigrants labor, without hope of assimilation, is not any less broken. A new report from the Government Accountability Office shows that federal oversight of the 287(g) program has been sorely lacking.
So, a question: Are Mr. Obama and Ms. Napolitano in charge or not? Let them show it by ending the raids and Sheriff Arpaio’s abuses. Something has to be done about immigration, but it has to be smarter than this....
2 comments:
President Obama, Please do something on immigration. Currently i am dating someone who is not a US Citizen and we have fallen in love and we are planning a wedding. I want to spend my life with him. Everything is perfect in our relationship, but there is only one thing that can keep us apart. Sadly, society can keep us apart. Every night i pray that a miracle can happen and i feel like you can help make the difference. You can help make our dream come true. Please help us and everyone else who wants you to make their dreams come true. I dont know what else to do, im just desperate. I never thought i would be in this situation but i feel like everything happens for a reason and everything will turn out the way it is supposed to be. Please help us. Please do something on immigration.
Dear Mr. Obama
We need you to pass the dream act...
Every night i got to sleep thing of how im going to pay my bills, how im going to pay for college(community), how am i going to get to school safely without getting pulled over, how im going to tell my girlfriend that im an illegal, how im going to make money to raise a family, how will i ever get out of this situation?
We need something done. And something done now. We cannot go like this much longer...its almost cruel and unusual punishment for us...
The bridges that are burnt, the things we cannot say or do, the money we cant earn, the humiliation we go through, the feeling of always being scared of one violation, that could be our last.
Please, pass the DREAM ACT. NOW!
-Student.
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