Posted on 05/16/2010 10:22:16 AM PDT by mdittmar
The AFL-CIO and the nation’s largest civil rights coalition issued a strongly worded call for the Obama administration to sever its ties with law enforcement officials in Arizona or be complicit in the state’s racial-profiling anti-immigrant law, also known as S.B. 1070.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR), a coalition of more than 200 organizations, urged the administration to immediately stop cooperating with local law enforcement officials in Arizona.
Writing in Huffington Post today, Sam Stein says the AFL-CIO LCCR letter
is by far the most serious effort to date to make Arizona’s new immigration law untenable for the state. Other groups have urged economic and travel boycotts as a way to target the state government’s tourism revenues. Should [the Department of Homeland Security] adopt the AFL-CIO’s suggestion (and it’s a big question whether the Department will) it would deny the state the type of law enforcement expertise that the immigration law was designed to beef up in the first place.
Click here to read Stein’s entire post.
In the letter, Trumka and Henderson say:
We write to express our deep concern with the Department of Homeland Security’s continued cooperation with state and local law enforcement in Arizona pursuant to Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (”the 287(g) program”) in the aftermath of Arizona’s passage of Senate Bill 1070, and we ask that you immediately rescind all 287(g) program agreements in Arizona.
Read the AFL-CIO LCCR letter here.
Under Section 287(g) agreements, Homeland Security trains members of eight state and local law enforcement agencies in Arizona, including the state police, which allows the officers to enforce immigration laws.
Trumka and Henderson add:
We are grateful that President Obama has spoken out to correctly call the Arizona law “misguided.” However, more than words are required from the federal government at this time. Unless DHS terminates all 287(g) program agreements in Arizona, the federal government will be complicit in the racial profiling that lies at the heart of the Arizona law. Such a result would place the DHS at odds with this Administration’s stated views on SB I070, and at odds with basic American values of tolerance and non-discrimination.
To read more about the growing momentum to repeal Arizona’s onerous law, click here, here and here.
and the guy form there admitted he has not even read the bill much like most of the rats. hispanics and media who put down this bill
The rest of America must cut ties with the AFL_CIO.
Ping!
Yes, by far means...it should be so.
And if some other states start to stand with Arizona...well..this might turn into a bigger mess than anyone desired.
I give the left credit, they don’t sit around. They’re street fighters.
Contrast the GOP reaction to Elena Kagan.
The interesting thing about this is that the AFL-CIO should be as much against illegal immigration as anyone.
It just goes to show that union leadership is more about left-wing causes than representing the “working man”.
Does any union represent their members anymore?
America must first cut ties with the AFL CIO and especially with it’s terrorist President Richard Trumka. Trumka led the terrorists United Mine workers who terrorized South West Virginia.
American Citizens: Government Must Cut Ties with Unions
Never saw a statement from the afl-cio that the federal government should cut ties with CAIR,maybe I missed it.
Trumka = Thug and Criminal
Translation - support the massive ethnic invasion of the U.S. at all costs... don’t enforce illegal immigration laws - never - ever... promote a paradigm shift in U.S. Population dynamics in 20 years or less... increase Democrat voting registration by 20-30 percent in 20 years or less... subdue the Conservative voting population in the U.S. by importing massive numbers of socialist oriented Mexican, Central and South Americans...
This is the goal ... the Progressive, Socialist Leftist want.
Translation - support the massive ethnic invasion of the U.S. at all costs... don’t enforce illegal immigration laws - never - ever... promote a paradigm shift in U.S. Population dynamics in 20 years or less... increase Democrat voting registration by 20-30 percent in 20 years or less... subdue the Conservative voting population in the U.S. by importing massive numbers of socialist oriented Mexican, Central and South Americans...
This is the goal ... the Progressive, Socialist Leftist want.
Those words are music to my ears, what a concept, let us go!
From your lips to God's ears.....
Hey, what do you call a state that libs boycott and the Federal Gov. cuts all ties with! A free nation??
And I think we should sever all ties with the AFL-CIO and Obama administration or we will be complicit with their endorsement of violating existing federal law.
this should end the unions involvement with government....who the hell does this clown think he is telling the government what to do....he runs a union, that’s all...
Except for one Latino comment, all the comments on the AFL-CIO blog have been pro-AZ. Their own members are starting to turn on them.
It would be more appropriate for the AFL-CIO to leave Arizona altogether. It's time for these asshats to put their money where their mouths are.
Is the AFL-CIO telling Napolitiano what she can do now?
When did they become the srbiters of illegal immigration?
Who the hell do they think they are?
A real President would tell them to buzz off.
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