Posted on 09/10/2008 10:31:21 PM PDT by endthematrix
Washington, DCToday the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Americas Voice, Center for New Community, and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) launched a print ad denouncing known hate group, FAIR (the Federation for American Immigration Reform), for poisoning the immigration debate with bigoted, xenophobic hate speech. In support of the ad, SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina issued the following statement:
Its time that everyone learns who FAIRs founders, leaders and followers truly are. They are not reformers, but a group of extremists whose leaders are fostering a bigoted, anti-immigrant, anti-American agenda that we must stop.
We will not allow such a raging extremist group to hide behind this false veil of reform. By continuing to fan the flames of hate and fear, FAIR has contributed to rising levels of hate crimes and discrimination that we are seeing in immigrant communities across the country. There is no place for such fanatical hate speech anywhere in America todayespecially not in the halls of Congress.
Its time to stop the hate. Americans know that hate speech can't raise wages and living standards for workers, decrease gas prices, provide affordable healthcare, end the mortgage crisis, or solve immigration. America doesnt need zealots; we need smart, pragmatic immigration reform.
Crude attempts to shut down our border and round up anyone who looks a certain way do not begin to solve our broken immigration system. Instead, we need to go after the bad-acting employers who exploit workers, and find a fair, practical way to get undocumented immigrants out of the underground economy, into the system and under the rule of law.
(Excerpt) Read more at seiu.org ...
Deport on contact.
Convict employers of illegal aliens and sentence according to the law.
We had a visit last week from an Obama volunteer -- wearing a SEIU / OBAMA shirt. He spoke with such a thick Spanish accent it was hard to understand what he wanted. Needless to say, we asked him to leave, but now that I think about it, I should have first asked him if he was here legally.
Jack
All fixed now
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.