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Oppose the Anti-Immigrant
Act to Enhance Community Safety
Dear MIRA Members,
A group of state legislators recently held a press conference to
announce the filing of an anti-immigrant
bill falsely called "An Act to Enhance Community Safety."
This bill represents a reckless response to hateful
anti-immigrant headlines. Research shows immigrants
are less likely to commit crime than the native-born. Yet the
sponsors of this bill have seized on a few
recent crimes in which reporters highlighted perpetrators
immigration status as an excuse to promote a
sweeping anti-immigrant package under the guise of promoting
safety.
This Bill Would:
Prevent hard-working students from obtaining a higher education,
by outlawing in-state tuition notonly for the undocumented, but for
many categories of immigrants that are currently eligible.
Harm workers by requiring those doing business with the state to
use E-verify, a system with a higherror rate that would increase
unemployment among authorized workers, including U.S. citizens.
Invite racially-motivated sweeps of minority and immigrant
neighborhoods by increasing fines forbuilding code violations.
Effectively bar impoverished U.S. citizen children from public
housing based on their parentsimmigration status.
Damage community-police relations and discourage crime
reporting, including domestic violencereporting, by requiring
verification of immigration status of anyone confined by police for
any time.
Require Massachusetts to report its implementation of the failed
and dangerous SecureCommunities program.
This year, Connecticut and Rhode Island decided to allow
undocumented students to pay in-state tuition
rates at state colleges. Rather than keep Massachusetts
economically competitive with these New
England states, this bills sponsors would like us to follow the
lead of Alabama, by punishing and
terrorizing our immigrant neighbors.
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UPCOMING ACTIONS AGAINST THIS ANTI-IMMIGRANT PROPOSAL
MIRA and our members are planning a series of actions against
this
outrageous bill. Send an e-mail [email protected]
you
would like to be part of these actions and to invite your
community to
defeat this anti-immigrant proposal. Together we can do it, as
we have
won similar fights throughout the year!
How to be part of this month of actions:1. Statewide Petition,
Thursday, Oct. 21st/ Friday, Oct. 22nd: Please circulate
broadly the online petition that you will receive in your
inbox.2. Collect signed post cards, through the end of October: You
will receive a pack of
post cards, please collect signatures from your district and
send them back to us at
105 Chauncy St., Boston, MA 02111.
3. Halloween at the State House, Monday, October 31st: Will
Senators giveimmigrants a trick or a treat? Bring your children to
the MA State House on
Halloween. Together we will send a message to Senators to treat
immigrant
families fairly and to stop the scary legislation tricks!
4. Interfaith and Human Rights Press Conference, Monday,November
7th: Pressconference with interfaith and human rights friends to
denounce anti-immigrant
actions in Milford and demand legislators to stop the hate.
5. Pro-immigrant action @ MIRA's Thanksgiving, Monday, November
14th: Share atable with your community at MIRA's annual
Thanksgiving Luncheon:RSVP here.
Be part of our pro-immigrant action, to voice our concern about
this potential anti-
immigrant bill.
For more information on these actions and to be part of this
fight please contact: Cristina
Aguilera [email protected]
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