We sent this message today to our statewide email alert list.
News coverage and online discussion of a new ACLU report on immigrant rights has been strong -- on both sides of the issue -- and YOU can participate:
http://www.aclum.org/ice
Some of the sentiments expressed at websites such as Boston.com and the influential blog DailyKos are strongly anti-immigrant. We say enough immigrant bashing. Unfair treatment, indefinite detention, and hostility do not solve the problems of illegal immigration. In fact, they go against our country's values and the Constitution. Help us say so:
http://www.aclum.org/ice
Our report, Detention and Deportation in the Age of ICE, found that every day in Massachusetts, around 800 immigrants and asylum-seekers languish in county jails around the state waiting to be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or fighting a legal battle to stay in the United States.
None of them are serving sentences for having committed a crime. Yet they spend months, and sometimes years, in cells side-by-side with sentenced criminals, not knowing when they will be allowed to leave.
Our report is the first of its kind to thoroughly document jail conditions and due process issues for immigrants detained in Massachusetts. The personal stories of the people we interviewed show that ICE's zeal to deport people tramples fundamental rights.
Learn more and join the discussion here:
http://www.aclum.org/ice
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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If they are here illegally (which means against the law), then should we just say, ok let's ignore the law? If one group such as gang members insist we ignore certain laws, should we do it because they are represented by the UCLA?
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