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08-10-2009, 11:42 AM #1
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.
http://www.nj.com/bridgeton/index.ssf?/ ... ml&coll=10------------------------
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08-10-2009, 11:48 AM #2
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now
Now if we could just get them to boycott coming here in the first place and sucking up all our tax dollars after they get here
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08-10-2009, 12:08 PM #3
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Good! That way they will be guilty of a Federal offense an get deported quicker.
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08-10-2009, 12:52 PM #4
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Isnt it funny how all these "Christian" men and women are encouraging people to break the law and continue to do things the wrong way? Great leader you are "REV."
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08-10-2009, 01:13 PM #5
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I think that is funny! If anyone who knows anything about the census, which any religious leader should know, is that it is a way for the government to know how many people to budget for (a short way of describing it all).
So....if they boycott it, they do not get counted and funding for all of the programs they love to drain, will be short funds and not enough to go around, and then the domino effect will be that those who are not documented are very likely to be the ones who could be turned down first just on the basis of shorted funds and the agencies will then take clients in order of those who have the proper documentation for themselves and family members.
That's ok, let them boycott if and also be in trouble for a federal offense too as Vortex said.“In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.â€
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