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Dear friends,
We invite organizations and community groups (please, no individual sign-ons at this time) to join us in endorsing an open letter drafted by a coalition of organizations (see below) that calls on the Obama administration to address the dangerous merger of the federal immigration enforcement system with state criminal justice systems.
Your group's endorsement is needed by Friday, September 3rd.
As a nation, we are finally starting to acknowledge how racial disparities in the criminal justice system are creating and perpetuating racial hierarchy in the United States. However, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) increasing reliance upon programs such as 287(g), Secure Communities and the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) to enforce federal immigration laws threatens to undo that progress. These programs have allowed arrests for minor charges, such as driving without a license and petty theft, to be the gateway to deportation, regardless of whether the criminal charge sticks, opening the door for racial profiling.
Please join us in endorsing the open letter.
We are asking organizations to support this effort. Please distribute this email widely.
Click here for a pdf of the letter with footnotes.
Direct Link to Sign-on page: http://bit.ly/9U1J4b
In solidarity,
All of Us or None
Border Action Network
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Media Justice
Detention Watch Network
Families for Freedom
Florida Immigrant Coalition
Grassroots Leadership
Immigrant Defense Project
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Justice Strategies
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)
National Immigration Law Center
Partnership for Safety and Justice
Rights Working Group
Sentencing Project
VOTE Nola
