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by Van Le on 02/11/2015 at 4:18pm


Immigrant activists and allies call on Congress to stop the attacks and come up with a real solution for our broken immigration system


Today, hundreds of immigrants and their families are holding sit-ins inside dozens of Capitol Hill offices, protesting the fact that Republicans have done nothing on immigration since taking over both the House and the Senate other than holding multiple votes attempting to kill DACA.


So far, as least three offices — those belonging to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Cory Gardner (R-CO) — have called Capitol Hill police to arrest the advocates assigned to them, even though advocates have taken similar actions before without trouble.


The Congressional offices being targeted today are those of Republican 2016 hopefuls, GOP leadership, and outspoken anti-immigrant leaders. Each member being targeted has voted in favor of deporting DREAMers and immigrant parents, and in favor of holding up national security funding in order to push this goal. In contrast, today’s advocates called for the passing of a clean DHS funding bill, and for Congress to take up real immigration reform.


As CASA de Maryland President Gustavo Torres said in a press release:


Republicans have engaged in ceaseless attacks on hardworking immigrant families. When our children vote in 2016 they will not forget the party that sought to destroy their parents.


Activists came from a dozen states for today’s action. Among them were constituents from Sen. Mark Kirk’s state in Illinois, including Ruth Lopez from the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. As she said:


Sen. Kirk should be careful of voting with the extreme anti-immigrant wing in his party. The 2012 Deferred Action program for Dreamers has helped 35,000 immigrant youth in Illinois, and the new programs for immigrant workers and parents will help tens of thousands more in our state, yet Sen. Kirk keeps voting against our families. Does he know how vital immigrant workers are to our economy in Illinois? He better learn if he wants to get re-elected next year.


Offices being visited today:


Sen. Mark Kirk
Sen. Rand Paul
Rep. Lou Barletta
Rep. Kevin McCarthy
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Rep. Barbara Comstock
Rep. David Brat
Rep. Martha Roby
Rep. Ted Yoho
Speaker John Boehner
Rep. Scott Perry
Rep. Raul Labrador
Rep. Andy Harris
Rep. Greg Walden
Rep. Steve King
Rep. Louie Gohmert
Rep. Bob Goodlatte
Rep. Steve Scalise
Rep. Lamar Smith
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner
Sen. Marco Rubio
Rep. Rob Wittman
Sen. Kelly Ayotte
Sen. Mitch McConnell
Sen. Jeff Sessions
Sen. Rob Portman
Sen. Chuck Grassley
Sen. Mike Lee
Sen. Ron Johnson
Sen. John Cornyn
Rep. Michael McCaul
Rep. Trey Gowdy
Rep. John Carter
Sen. John Hoeven
Sen. John Thune
Sen. Roger Wicker
Sen. Ted Cruz


http://americasvoice.org/blog/hundre...2016-hopefuls/

Here are a few of their tweets from the link above:

@RI4A
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Breaking Update: 5 activists arrested for supporting #ImmigrationAction. Call 866-971-9623 to support! #GOPMoveOver
1:55 PM - 11 Feb 2015

PICC @PAimmigrant
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#stopattackingourfamilies @RepLouBarletta Karen is here for her family #wewillfight #GOPmoveover
1:51 PM - 11 Feb 2015

Eduardo García @itseddie
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.@Raul_Labrador doesn't stand with immigrant families. He had the police kick us out of his office. #GOPmoveover
1:42 PM - 11 Feb 2015
Alliance4Citizenship @Citizenship4All
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Why so many officers monitoring / escorting #Immigration Activist out of building? http://ow.ly/ITKeh #GOPMoveOver

Evelyn Servin @servinevelyn
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Gabriela from Hawaii speaks to @SenatorSessions staff about DACA #ImmigrationAction #GOPMoveOver #CIR
1:30 PM - 11 Feb 2015
CCCAction @CCCAction
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Update: at least 5 immigrant activists have been arrested speaking truth to power. CALL to tell #GOPmoveover on #Immigration! 866-971-9623
1:27 PM - 11 Feb 2015
@SteffytheKitten
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#GOPMoveOver
Can't move us
Because United you can't stop us


#StopSeparatingFamilies
1:21 PM - 11 Feb 2015



jose macias @josemacias8
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A last prayer as police waiting for us to escort us #keepfamiliestogether #GOPmoveover #cir #ImmigrationAction
1:10 PM - 11 Feb 2015

UFW Foundation @UFWF
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Next to his strong hardworking mom and little sister, he is standing in defense of his family's future. #GOPMoveOver
1:10 PM - 11 Feb 2015

Elizabeth J Pimentel @Thinkingjustice
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#GOPmoveover #ImmigrationAction #StopSeparatingFamilies Telling Congress that we will hold them accountable on their anti-immigrant votes
1:09 PM - 11 Feb 2015

Dawn A Le @DawnJetLe
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@SenatorKirk voted multiple times against immigrants, against Illinois. We will remember in November #GOPMoveOver
1:05 PM - 11 Feb 2015

NCDU @NCDU14
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@SenCoryGardner asks for police escorts of his constituents #GOPMoveover #ImmigrationAction #stopseparatingfamilies
1:04 PM - 11 Feb 2015

Gabe Ortíz @TUSK81
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You can hear immigrant families chanting outside the hearing room as #HJC discussing anti-immigrant legislation inside. #GOPMoveOver
1:03 PM - 11 Feb 2015

CCCAction @CCCAction
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We leave McConnell's office with a promise: no matter what, we're not going away -- we will return! #SiSePuede #GOPmoveover
1:03 PM - 11 Feb 2015

Maria Aguas @MdaaAguas
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@RepMcCaul you don't like #ImmigrationAction fine, tell your colleagues let to vote #ImmigrationReform #GOPMoveOver
1:03 PM - 11 Feb 2015 McAllen, TX, United States

jose macias @josemacias8
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Senator Cornyn office literally called a dozen of police to take us out #GOPmoveover #keepfamiliestogether
1:02 PM - 11 Feb 2015

UFW Foundation @UFWF
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BREAKING: @ChuckGrassley just called Capitol police on Hardworking mothers and their children #GOPmoveover
1:01 PM - 11 Feb 2015

The should ALL be arrested and removed. JMO

Originally Posted by Newmexican

The should ALL be arrested and removed. JMO

Absolutely. It's so depressing to see our country turned over to the Pope, Netanyahu and illegal aliens. What a disaster, the end of a once might, free and prosperous nation is a terrible thing to watch.