Next Meeting April 3, 2pm in Port Angeles
Stop The Checkpoints will meet in Port Angeles on Saturday, April 3rd, at 2:00 pm. Due to Library furlough of workers for a week due to budget cuts, the meeting will be held in a home near the Library. Please email info@stopthecheckpoints.com or call 360-452-7534 for the meeting location.
Topic will be: What real immigration reform should look like and how we can achieve it! Articles previously posted below provide some views on this topic. Bring ideas for action plans.
Need better alternative than Schumer reform bill
By David Bacon
OAKLAND, CA (3/19/09) – Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham announced Thursday their plan for immigration reform. Unfortunately, it is a retread, recycling the same bad ideas that led to the defeat of reform efforts over the last five years. In some ways, their proposal is even worse.
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Immigrant rights groups slam Obama, Democrats for slow action with legalization bil
By N.C. Aizenman and Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 9, 2010; A02
Leaders of nearly a dozen grass-roots immigrant rights groups excoriated President Obama and congressional Democrats on Monday, accusing them of moving too slowly Read more
AFL-CIO says Broken Immig. System benefits corporations
“The broken system is benefiting the very same corporate giants who destroyed our economy. It is allowing those corporations to exploit workers by… Read more
Funding cut for Border Fence
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD Published: March 16, 2010
Worker ID Card Spurs Controversy
ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan
By LAURA MECKLER, MARCH 8, 2010
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required Read more