TAKE ACTION!
Social Security No Match Comments Due April 25, 2008
America needs to find a real solution to undocumented immigration and our broken immigration system, and we need to do this together. Using a flawed database to require millions of workers, regardless of their status, to prove that they can work in this country takes us in the wrong direction. We're Americans because we want a better future for ourselves, our children and our communities. Our government should help us to make that dream real, especially now, and not send us all on a paperchase that could harm businesses, workers and agencies that we all depend on.
With everything happening in Congress and in our own communities, it's still important to make sure we generate as many comments as possible to the Department of Homeland Security to oppose the proposed regulations governing use of Social Security Administration No Match Letters. The deadline for comments is April 25, 2008 (next Friday)!
Use one of the postcards below to make your voice heard:
Postcards
Resources
Link to DHS Proposed Rule in the Federal Register
Summary of U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security Supplemental Proposed Rule (Updated 3/26/08)
Facts About the Social Security "No-Match" Letter (Updated 3/26/08)
Talking Points about the new Supplemental Proposed Rule (Updated 3/26/08)
Click here for a copy of DHS' Supplemental Proposed Rule (Released last Friday)
Call Your Representatives TODAY and demand that they reject the SAVE Act!
March 11, 2008
Today Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives filed a "discharge petition" on the SAVE Act (a.k.a. the Shuler-Tancredo bill), which means they are gathering signatures to force this dangerous anti-immigrant bill to the House floor for a vote.
The list of Oregon Representatives can be found here.
For all others, call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-225-3121 and ask to speak to your Representative.
For a list of Representatives who are co-sponsors on the SAVE Act click here.
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!
