Petition to President-elect Obama for a Moratorium on ICE Raids
10:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration
7 Nov 2008
Petition to President-elect Obama for a Moratorium on ICE Raids
President-elect Obama, we congratulate you on your historic victory, and we celebrate this moment with great hope that under your leadership we will finally be able to achieve a humane, inclusive immigration policy that unites families and offers a path toward citizenship for the undocumented. Fundamental reform of our broken immigration system is an urgent national priority. The first step, that you can take through executive order, is to immediately end all Immigration & Customs Enforcement raids.The enforcement of the unjust laws of our broken immigration system is tearing our country apart. The workplace and neighborhood raids by squads of ski-masked ICE agents armed with automatic weapons are the most brutal and outrageous part of this enforcement. They tear our families apart. They terrorize our communities. And they routinely violate the civil and constitutional rights that define our nation.
The ICE raids must end now! President-elect Obama, Latino and immigrant voters responded to the promise of change you made to our nation and voted for you by huge margins and in record numbers. We call on you to uphold that promise and honor our support by declaring an immediate and unconditional moratorium on ICE raids until just and human immigration reform is passed and implemented.
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2 Responses to Petition to President-elect Obama for a Moratorium on ICE Raids
Gloria Velasquez
November 10th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Please do anything in your power to stop the separation of families. Not every undocumented person in the United States is a criminal, but they are being treated as such. We all have the right to look for a better place for our families. Fortunately, the United States has proven to be that for many of us.
Gloria
Winnie
November 21st, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I come from a family of immigrants, as most Americans do, so I believe in the right of the world’s people to strive for better lives at a better place, but let’s not lie to ourselves… every undocumented person in the US is a criminal and has broken immigration laws by living in the US illegally. That doesn’t justify brutality in their treatment, but we also cannot believe everything we hear in the news on this sensationalistic issue. What is not unreported is that many ICE agents do not want to be conducting these raids. Before 9/11 and the creation of ICE, many of these agents were US Customs agents. They protected our border from drug-trafficking, arms smuggling, etc. They used to force farmers, who hired illegal immigrants as laborers but reported them to law enforcement when payday arrived, to give them their hard-earned wages. These same agents are now forced to do immigration work that none of them signed up for. Give these guys a break. They are doing their job, which is to enforce the immigration laws that Congress enacted. Don’t make them out to be evil.