Thread: Group Urging Brown to Work for Economic, Immigration Reform

Wasting little time: group urging Brown to work for economic, immigration reforms

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Posted by Bryan Bender
January 21, 2010 06:19 PM

Even before Senator-elect Scott P. Brown is sworn in, Massachusetts political groups are starting to call on him to back specific policies in Washington.

The Springfield-based Alliance to Develop Power, a community organization that advocates social and economic justice, will hold a press conference Friday to call on Brown to support immigration reform that offers a path to citizenship, to back an "emergency public jobs" program to put people back to work in Massachusetts, and other policies designed to assist the most needy.

The group, which plans a noon-time press conference at its 130 Union Street headquarters in Springfield, provided a preview today in announcement.

On immigration, Adrian Garcia, an ADP leader, said that "we are a nation of immigrants but our immigration system is broken. We need new laws that will enable our neighbors to come out of the shadows and be fully integrated into our communities."

On the economy, Keya Alvarez, the group's co-chair, said "massive job losses are causing racial and economic disparities to grow. Unemployment in the African American community is now double the official state unemployment rate and our cities are crumbling. We need an emergency public jobs program that will enable our friends and neighbors to work with dignity building our infrastructure, repairing our schools, and revitalizing our communities."

He specifically cited the "Put America to Work Act," cosponsored by Democratic Rep. John Olver, which proposes creating one million new jobs in the public sector nationwide.

Caroline Murray, the group's executive director, told Political Intelligence in an email that organizers will be urging Brown to "follow up on his promise of creating a 'big tent' by working collaboratively with those that are hurting the most."

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Yeah, a "path to citizenship" will just create more illegals to arrive, hoping for the next amnesty, and take the jobs from Americans, including the illegals that were previously amnestied. This is the same old, stupid claptrap that pro-illegals always spew.

This group is schizophrenic to be advocating for both amnesty for the illegals and the American Blacks they displaced from the job market.