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Action Alert: Oppose the Shuler-Tancredo SAVE Act!

2/27/2008 9:44 pm - Pressure is mounting in the Democratic-led House of Representatives to act on the SAVE Act (HR 4088), an enforcement and deportation-only bill introduced and sponsored by more than 140 Democratic and Republican opponents of humane immigration reform.

 

Action Alert

 

 

Call Your Representatives TODAY and demand that they reject the SAVE Act!

 

 

Pressure is mounting in the Democratic-led House of Representatives to act on the SAVE Act (HR 4088), an enforcement and deportation-only bill introduced and sponsored by more than 140 Democratic and Republican opponents of humane immigration reform.

 

 

Call the Capitol Switchboard today at 202-225-3121

 

to reach your Representative.

 

 

What would the SAVE Act do?

 
  • It would require more than six million employers to verify the work status of more than 130 million workers within four years, regardless of their status, using a federal database already known to have an unacceptably high error rate. 

     

  • It would make it easier for the government to put religious and humanitarian workers behind bars for so-called "alien smuggling."

     

  • In a half-baked attempt to address our immigration crisis, the bill would throw more resources toward ineffective border and interior enforcement rather than offer a comprehensive solution.

     

 

We need leaders who will tackle the tough issues and solve a complicated problem intelligently, not offer false promises and empty rhetoric like the SAVE Act.

 

The SAVE Act amounts to a Democratic Sensenbrenner Bill.  It represents a failure in leadership and a cynically motivated attack on immigrant families.

 

 

Who supports the SAVE Act?

 

The chief co-sponsors of the SAVE Act are Rep. Heath Shuler (D-North Carolina) and Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-California).  Rep. Bilbray leads the House Immigration Reform Caucus and is a former lobbyist of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, an anti-immigration organization recognized as a hate group by mainstream civil rights and research organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center.

 

 

For a list of co-sponsors on the SAVE Act, go to

 

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR04088:@@@P.

 

 

Don’t let hate speech and cynical election year politics hijack opportunities for real reform.  America needs rational, workable and humane immigration laws.  Make sure your voice gets heard!

 

 

For more information, contact Rich Stolz at rstolz@communitychange.org.

 

 

 

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