Immigration Enforcement Group Responds to Religious Leaders With Call for Justice

October 7, 2008

CONTACT: ALIPAC press@alipac.us, (919) 787-6009

A North Carolina based national organization that supports the enforcement of America's existing immigration laws sent out a call for justice for both immigrants and illegal aliens today and decried the anti-immigrant language being used at a press conference held in Durham by pro Amnesty religious leaders.

"We want justice for immigrants and illegal aliens alike," said William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC). "Justice for illegal aliens means they should face the consequences of violating our "current laws and be deported back to their home nations. Justice for immigrants means you are not all being falsely labeled as lawbreakers by politician priests."

While the pro-Amnesty religious leaders and supporting groups continue to insult legal immigrants and engage in anti-immigrant language by forcing an association between immigrants and illegals, ALIPAC called for justice for immigrants as well.

"We are pro-immigrant, pro-enforcement, and supported by legal immigrants," said William Gheen. "These religious leaders turned political showmen should stop insulting legal immigrants by smearing them as illegal aliens that intentionally many US Laws. Labeling illegal aliens as immigrants' is defamatory, derogatory, and as bigoted as labeling shop lifters as 'African American' or alcoholics as 'Methodists'. These religious leaders should stop engaging in this kind of anti-immigrant language and displays of bigotry."

Today's political display of religious leaders in support of the suspension or changing of our current laws to deprive American citizens of applied justice for illegal aliens is being arranged by the "North Carolina Religious Coalition for Justice for Immigrants". Speakers include Rev. William Barber, who is president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh; Iman Oliver Muhammad of the As Salaam Islamic Center of Raleigh; the Rev. Cookie Santiago of the N.C. Conference of the United Methodist Church; and Rabbi Eric Solomon of Beth Meyer Synagogue in Raleigh.

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