I didn't post all of this article because it's too long. I'm only posting the section on illegal immigration. You can read the rest of their demands at the link.


JANUARY 21, 2009
Boise Weekly's Obama Wishlist
Welcome to Washington, Mr. President, Now Let's Do This Thing


Bienvenidos a Washington

Within your first year, see to it that the millions of immigrants who managed to get into the country without permission slips are made right: green cards, citizenship, amnesty, whatever it takes.

The undocumented population of this country is already part of our national fabric, and millions of naturalized citizens voted for you. Now you must give others a chance to thrive as Americans, too.

And you must eliminate the conditions that created this huge immigrant underclass in America. Give our immigration system the tools to work again. Separate it from the Department of Homeland Security (consider disbanding the department, or even just changing its name; we didn't used to have one). Let people into the United States to work and study without having to wait a decade or more for a visa. Reunite families.

Tyler Moran, employment policy director for the National Immigration Law Center, said there are two Bush policies that you could quickly overturn: End immigration raids and stop sending businesses Social Security Administration "no match" letters.

The raids have torn apart communities. The no match letters, which are based on flawed data and put employers in the position of policing the borders, are not effective.

Idaho Community Action Network organizer Leo Morales gives you until about Thanksgiving '09 to fix immigration and wants you to keep your eye on civil rights as you do it by maintaining access to courts for migrants.

The American Civil Liberties Union also sent you an aggressive timeline for restoring Constitutional protections, including suspending the REAL ID Act—which amounts to a national identity card—and ending the practice of local police and deputies enforcing immigration laws.

Good economics is the simple reason for doing all these things, and Idaho farmers understand that better than most, but we prefer that you remain motivated by human rights: End the stigma of being illegal and you end the debate on immigration.


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