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08-10-2009, 07:24 AM #1
NJ-Illegals encouraged to boycott 2010 census
Illegals encouraged to boycott 2010 census
Monday, August 10, 2009
By JOE GREEN
jgreen@sjnewsco.com
BRIDGETON - A national immigrant rights leader on Saturday urged undocumented workers in South Jersey to boycott the 2010 national census.
Rev. Miguel Rivera, head of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders (CONLAMIC), made his case to roughly 45 to 50 attendees at a meeting of local migrant workers and sympathizers held at the Salvation Army facility on West Commerce Street.
The meeting was hosted by the Farmworkers Support Committee (CATA, or Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas).
The stated goal was to unite immigrant organizations and supporters behind a plan pushing Congress to pass legislation sympathetic in part to immigrants, including the estimated 12 million in the U.S. who are undocumented.
Organizers of the event also seek to meet with legislators in the coming months to lobby for the legislation.
CONLAMIC lobbies Congress and advocates various immigrant causes. The organization has been pushing the boycott campaign, "Legalization Before Enumeration," throughout the country.
"We realize that the census is very important in setting Congressional districts and determining the distribution of funds," Rivera said on Saturday.
"The problem is, there is no other alternative in applying pressure to Congress to achieve fair and comprehensive immigration reform."
Rivera and other CONLAMIC leaders feel that officials have used previous census figures to persecute undocumented aliens.
Being counted, they say, has done them no good.
He said he and his group want Congress to pass the reform legislation by the spring of 2010.
He said CONLAMIC is traveling about pushing its agenda hard this month, since Congress is in recess.
Rivera mentioned that other such forums were taking place at nearly the same time in Kentucky and Oklahoma.
CATA leaders feel current policy saddles immigrants with onerous, drawn-out paths to legal residence.
They also contend that officials unfairly brand immigrants as a threat to and a drain on the local economy.
Rivera addressed the issue for Bridgeton.
"Undocumented immigrants are a blessing for the economy of the town," he said. He argued that they provide a good chunk of revenue for local landlords.
"There is no good in going against the undocumented workers," he added.
"The identity of the American people and what they stand for are at a crossroads," said CATA Executive Director Nelson Carrasquillo.
Carrasquillo said he fears a violent backlash against the movement. He recalled the beating death last summer of 25-year-old Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez, in Shenandoah, Pa.
A Schuylkill County jury acquitted then-17-year-old Brandon Piekarsky of third degree murder in the attack but convicted him and then-19-year-old Derrick Donchak on lesser charges.
"Fear is a very strong thing keeping people from building dreams," Carrasquillo said. "The way to overcome fear is to have information, to understand our reality."
Opponents of the CONLAMIC and CATA agenda argue that illegals take jobs that otherwise would have been taken by natives.
They say undocumented immigrants provide a much cheaper labor alternative for business owners. Instead of paying good wages to native workers, they pay poor wages to a captive labor force, they say.
Some also argue that the Mexican government, for one, has the means to provide a better living for its people, but chooses to allow them to flood into the U.S. rather than helping them.
Ironically, CATA agrees that hiring illegals can have that effect.
But the group argues for allowing the immigrants to organize and demand better working conditions, wages and so forth.
CATA also contends that illegals have little or no recourse to abuse by employers.
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08-10-2009, 08:31 AM #2
Good
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08-10-2009, 08:31 AM #3
Good
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08-10-2009, 08:34 AM #4
Interesting. Good. These illegal are smart. I guess the government isn't.
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08-10-2009, 10:37 AM #5
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BRIDGETON - A national immigrant rights leader on Saturday urged undocumented workers in South Jersey to boycott the 2010 national census.
That means perhaps fewer seats will be allocated and ultimately held by those in Congress who are only there to pursue an ethnocentric agenda! It also might mean that fewer dollars are allocated to specific groups, who have been at the government trough far too long.
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08-10-2009, 09:38 PM #6
Good....too bad "pro-illegal alien" advocates aren't telling the illegals in TX, FL, and CA the same.
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