Freedom Folks: Communist Party USA Immigrant Rights Action Packet

I thought you might like to know what the Communist Party of the USA thinks about illegal immigration.

Below are important sample materials that can help move the struggle
for immigrant rights forward. The Senate debate is expected in
February. Many grass roots organizations are beginning to move. As
mentioned in earlier memos we urge the Districts, clubs, activists to
raise the issues with their Senators and especially any that are
members of the Judiciary Committee. The materials can be adapted to
your local situation by coalitions or grass roots groups and/or used by
clubs as they are. (PDF versions of flyer and petition are attached.)
1. ENGLISH SPANISH VERSIONS OF FLYER AND PETITION:
Defeat Anti-Immigrant HR 4437: A Statement by the Communist Party, USA
Last December, the House of Representatives passed anti-immigrant HR 4437, introduced by GOP Rep. James Sensenbrenner (Wis.).
• It would make all undocumented workers felons, as well as those
who help or work with them including teachers, clergy, union leaders,
social workers and family members.
• Employers would have to check the Social Security numbers of all their employees.

• An environmentally destructive wall would be built along the Mexican border.

• Local and state police would be deputized to arrest anyone they think
may be without documents. This would vastly increase racial profiling
and scare immigrants away from reporting crimes.
This is no solution! It is another way of diminishing the democratic
rights of the people in our country. HR 4437 must be defeated in the
Senate. Just and workable immigration reform should be passed instead.
What are the reasons for immigration?

Increased immigration is the result of the declining living standards
and job displacement caused by NAFTA and other pro-big-business
policies pushed by our government. To provide a better future for their
families, immigrants are pushed and pulled to come here, at great cost
and risk, to live without papers and suffer great indignities. This
puts immigrant workers in a vulnerable position and forces them into
substandard wages and working conditions. Employers and others use the
immigrants' vulnerability as a lever to lower living standards and
quality of life for all.
Don't buy the big lie.

Immigrants are accused of causing every social problem, and especially
of taking jobs and services they are not entitled to. This is not true.
Working people as a whole, including immigrants, pay a larger share of
the tax burden than the rich and receive fewer benefits. The profits
made from the work of immigrants and all workers are being taxed less
and less and sometimes not at all.
Immigrants don't fire or hire people. They do not outsource jobs,
downsize workplaces, raise prices or premiums. They are victims of big
business too. For more jobs and services, we need to tax exploitative
profits!
We need positive immigration reform.

History shows that as long as extremes of inequality exist between
countries, labor migration will continue. The pro-corporate policies of
our government that impoverish other nations must be changed.
Immigration law should protect the interests of both immigrant and
non-immigrant workers.
Organized labor and community and religious groups urge the following constructive program for immigration reform:
• Legalization with a clear path to citizenship must be allowed for
existing undocumented immigrants, and future immigrants, with a
priority on family reunification.
• Immigrants must be able to participate in labor, religious, civic and cultural activities without fear of deportation.

• "Guest worker" programs have historically been prone to exploitation.
Separate has never been equal. Instead, implement improved labor
protections and stronger enforcement for immigrants and citizen
workers.
Repressive policies like those proposed in HR 4437 must be rejected.
They are unjust and counterproductive, and make immigrant workers more
vulnerable to exploitation and other injustices.
Immigration policy is scheduled for debate in the Senate in February.
Contact and urge your senators today to reject HR 4437 and all
repressive anti-immigrant measures, and to vote for legalization of
immigrants with a clear path to citizenship and full labor and civil
rights for all people. Call the congressional switchboard: (202)
224-3121.

This is my answer to the Commies:

Secure the border by any means necessary.
Stiff penalties for employers, which are actually enforced
No
taxpayer funded programs for illegals or their families.(including
school for children of illegals and medical care for anyillegal)
No "Anchor Babies" (no automatic citizenship for children of illegals born in the US)
No path to Amnesty in any name or form for those here illegally
No Guest worker program until the above measures are put in place and the need can be PROVEN

Got it?

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