Thread: VA: Immigrants Rally To Stop Immigrant Status Legislation

Immigrants Rally To Stop Immigrant Status Legislation

WUSA9.com
February 7, 2011
FALLS CHURCH, Va.

A few leaders in the immigrant communities of Northern Virginia are alarmed.

They are worried about several pieces of legislation working through the General Assembly that they believe might discriminate against illegal immigrants.

"As a person of color, you don't feel welcome, you don't feel safe," says Lucero Beebe-Giudice with Tenants Workers United.

One bill would replicate Arizona's 287(G) law, which will require police to check the immigration status of people they pull over.

Beebe-Guidice says that would create distrust by undermining the hard work that's been achieved building bridges between this community and police.

"That law hasn't made anyone safe. People aren't reporting crimes in Arizona because they're afraid," says Jaime Contreras, area director of the Service Employees International Union.

"It's unacceptable. These are hardworking people. They come here for the American Dream," says Contreras.

Contreras is most worried about bills that would have schools keeping track of illegal immigrant children and those that would put up roadblocks to higher education.

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You have nothing to fear if you are in this Country legal... Lucero Beebe-Giudice.

I do not know of any group of people that have changed any laws in the State of Virginia, so why bother to protest. Persons have been arrested in this State for interfering with police work and duties.

Va needs to continue to pass stronger immigration laws and yes laws that involve allowing Local Law Enforcement to check documentation for citizenship status as well. Time the tide changes and where AMERICANS can demand our rights. Our rights to jobs, rights to have our children educated and where schools will have more openings once the illegals are removed from the student body. Illegals rights only include the right to be arrested and deported. They should not have any other rights and that includes rights to social services, medical aid, free schooling and jobs here in the USA!

Originally Posted by BillCunnane

Va needs to continue to pass stronger immigration laws and yes laws that involve allowing Local Law Enforcement to check documentation for citizenship status as well. Time the tide changes and where AMERICANS can demand our rights. Our rights to jobs, rights to have our children educated and where schools will have more openings once the illegals are removed from the student body. Illegals rights only include the right to be arrested and deported. They should not have any other rights and that includes rights to social services, medical aid, free schooling and jobs here in the USA!

No one could have stated any better!!

Nice post Bill.

Mon Feb 7, 10:47 am ET
Graham, McCain flirting with immigration reform support
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By Liz Goodwin liz Goodwin – Mon Feb 7, 10:47 am ET

Two Republican senators who took a hard right turn against immigration reform last spring are signaling they may be prepared to revisit comprehensive immigration reform in the new Congress.

Of course, the GOP-controlled House would most likely never pass an immigration bill erecting a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants. But GOP Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina are nonetheless hinting that the Senate may attempt reform anyway.

Graham told Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown he is again in talks with New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, though he said their plans are in the "infant stage." McCain said yesterday on CNN he would consider immigration reform once the border is secure. (A deadline that translates, in all likelihood, to Congress first passing the "10-point" border security bill that he and his home-state GOP senate colleague John Kyl have put forward to send 3,000 troops to the border). Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, said in an interview that McCain, once a champion of reform, told him "that there's a shot at this."

Southern Baptist Convention leader Rev. Richard Land, a conservative supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, says the move would be more effective if led by new faces. He suggested newly elected GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. Rubio's spokesman Alex Burgos tells The Lookout that the senator "doesn't belieeve that amnesty is the correct solution to this challenge," and would vote against comprehensive immigration reform.

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(McCain and Graham in 2008: AP)

Mon Feb 7, 10:47 am ET
Graham, McCain flirting with immigration reform support
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By Liz Goodwin liz Goodwin – Mon Feb 7, 10:47 am ET

Two Republican senators who took a hard right turn against immigration reform last spring are signaling they may be prepared to revisit comprehensive immigration reform in the new Congress.

Of course, the GOP-controlled House would most likely never pass an immigration bill erecting a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants. But GOP Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina are nonetheless hinting that the Senate may attempt reform anyway.

Graham told Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown he is again in talks with New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, though he said their plans are in the "infant stage." McCain said yesterday on CNN he would consider immigration reform once the border is secure. (A deadline that translates, in all likelihood, to Congress first passing the "10-point" border security bill that he and his home-state GOP senate colleague John Kyl have put forward to send 3,000 troops to the border). Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, said in an interview that McCain, once a champion of reform, told him "that there's a shot at this."

Southern Baptist Convention leader Rev. Richard Land, a conservative supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, says the move would be more effective if led by new faces. He suggested newly elected GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. Rubio's spokesman Alex Burgos tells The Lookout that the senator "doesn't belieeve that amnesty is the correct solution to this challenge," and would vote against comprehensive immigration reform.

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(McCain and Graham in 2008: AP)