MEDIA ADVISORY FOR AUGUST 28, 2009
Description: Various organizations, including La Raza Justice Movement, Free-The-Kids Colectiva CRECEN, LULAC, Houston Peace and Justice Center and others will call for a moratorium on all deportations and detentions, in solidarity with a national call.
With the Obama administration announcing the continued detention of immigrant children and with 287(g) resulting in the deportation of people who have committed minor traffic violations, various groups are calling for a moratorium on deportations=2 0and immigration detentions. The groups will call for a moratorium on detentions and deportations and will announce details of a rally scheduled for August 29th, 2009.
“If we can’t have reform this year, we absolutely require relief in the form of a moratorium of the enforcement of employer sanctions, raids, deportations, e-Verify, and prolonged detention for immigration related offenses, which are civil in nature,” said a release issued by the national organization Mexican American Political Association, Chicago Community and Workers Rights and a dozen other organizations from around the country.
A moratorium on deportation is not unprecedented. Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles, Jesse Jackson and Attorney General Ed Meese (under the Reagan administration no less) all supported some form of moratorium on deportations in the eighties.
WHEN: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:00 PM to 2:15PM
WHERE: James Driver Park, 10918 ½ Bentley, Houston, TX 77093
WHO: La Raza Justice Movement, Free-The-Kids Colectiva CRECEN, LULAC, Houston Peace and Justice Center and others
WHAT: A press conference calling for a moratorium on deportations and detentions.
