ACTION ALERT
April 9, 2009
Thank the President NOW for His Commitment to Immigration Reform!
The front page of today’s New York Times featured a clear and promising message: the Obama administration intends to address the country’s broken immigration system this year. The Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) and its affiliates – the Asian Law Caucus (San Francisco, Calif.), Asian American Institute (Chicago, Ill.), and Asian Pacific American Legal Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) – thank President Obama for his commitment to ensuring that reform of our nation’s broken immigration system will be a priority in 2009.
Immigration reform is critical for not just the Asian American community, but for all Americans. Countless families in our communities are waiting in desperation for a quick resolution to long and painful family immigration backlogs that have kept some immigrants from their closest relatives abroad for years, even decades. And at this time of economic uncertainty, comprehensive immigration reform is needed more urgently than ever to regularize status for those who are already working hard and paying taxes.
The White House is facing strong opposition from anti-immigrant groups who decry any attempt at comprehensive immigration reform during the current economic climate. We need your help to counter this opposition.
There are three actions you can do TODAY to show that the Asian American community stands strong on comprehensive immigration reform this year:
• CALL: President Obama and thank him for moving immigration reform in 2009. Call 866-584-3962.
• FAX: Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi to urge them to support President Obama and pass immigration reform in 2009. To send your fax, go to http://www.AmericasVoiceOnline.org/Leadership.
• TEXT: Join the FIRM (Fair Immigration Reform Movement) Mobile Action Network by texting “Justice” to 69866 to get updates on May 1 actions and future action alerts to help us win immigration reform this year.
Once you have made your own voice heard, please widely forward this message and encourage others to do the same.
Thank you for your effort and support!
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Lower Citizenship Fees! Organizational Endorsement Form
Dear friend,
NAKASEC and its affiliates in Los Angeles & Chicago are working with groups across the country to gather organizational endorsements for this important national effort to lower the citizenship fees. Many of us know firsthand how the drastic fee increase has become a barrier for our community members to become citizens. Please read below the letter to be sent to Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano:
“Dear Secretary Napolitano:
The undersigned organizations write in support of the letter from US Rep. Jan Schakowsky and her Congressional colleagues urging you to act now to reduce citizenship fees. The Bush Administration’s decision to increase fees from $400 to $675 in July 2007 has put citizenship further out-of-reach for thousands of hardworking, patriotic immigrants who want to fully participate in our democracy. We urge you to reduce the citizenship fee back to $400, and make the American dream of citizenship attainable again. Thank you for your consideration.”
Earlier this year, local and national immigrant rights groups came together to deliver a letter with 1,200 organizational endorsements to President Barack Obama on the urgent need to enact immigration reform. With you, altogether we gathered 97 endorsements primarily from the Korean American and Asian American & Pacific Islander communities.
If you would like to endorse, please send the following information to March 9, 5 p.m. to soh@nakasec.org or fax to 323.937.3753:
Organization: ____________________________________________________
Contact Person/Title:________________________________________
Address:_________________________________________________________
Email:_______________________________ Phone Number: (_____)__________________
Thank you for your thoughtful consideration. If you should have any questions, any of the following individuals would be happy to hear from you: Sookyung Oh at NAKASEC (323.937.3703, ext. 206, soh@nakasec.org), JungHee Lee at KRC (323.937.3718, junghee@krcla.org), and/or Sik Sohn at KRCC (773.588.9158, sohnsik@chicagokrcc.org). Together, We Build America’s Future.
Sincerely,
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
Korean American Resource & Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Korean Resource Center, Los Angeles, CA
NAKASEC and its affiliates in Los Angeles & Chicago are working with groups across the country to gather organizational endorsements for this important national effort to lower the citizenship fees. Many of us know firsthand how the drastic fee increase has become a barrier for our community members to become citizens. Please read below the letter to be sent to Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano:
“Dear Secretary Napolitano:
The undersigned organizations write in support of the letter from US Rep. Jan Schakowsky and her Congressional colleagues urging you to act now to reduce citizenship fees. The Bush Administration’s decision to increase fees from $400 to $675 in July 2007 has put citizenship further out-of-reach for thousands of hardworking, patriotic immigrants who want to fully participate in our democracy. We urge you to reduce the citizenship fee back to $400, and make the American dream of citizenship attainable again. Thank you for your consideration.”
Earlier this year, local and national immigrant rights groups came together to deliver a letter with 1,200 organizational endorsements to President Barack Obama on the urgent need to enact immigration reform. With you, altogether we gathered 97 endorsements primarily from the Korean American and Asian American & Pacific Islander communities.
If you would like to endorse, please send the following information to March 9, 5 p.m. to soh@nakasec.org or fax to 323.937.3753:
Organization: ____________________________________________________
Contact Person/Title:________________________________________
Address:_________________________________________________________
Email:_______________________________ Phone Number: (_____)__________________
Thank you for your thoughtful consideration. If you should have any questions, any of the following individuals would be happy to hear from you: Sookyung Oh at NAKASEC (323.937.3703, ext. 206, soh@nakasec.org), JungHee Lee at KRC (323.937.3718, junghee@krcla.org), and/or Sik Sohn at KRCC (773.588.9158, sohnsik@chicagokrcc.org). Together, We Build America’s Future.
Sincerely,
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
Korean American Resource & Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Korean Resource Center, Los Angeles, CA
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