Defend Immigrant Rights
International Worker's Day- May Day- 2013 took on additional special meaning this year, as the drumbeat for
immigration reform gets louder and louder. As part of an ongoing campaign, SEIU
and allied organizations - such as Mi
Familia Vota and the Community
Center for Change – as well as unions and community groups celebrated
May 1st with major actions in over 70 cities across the nation. See photos.
The current immigration bill in
the U.S. Senate has some positive provisions, but it fails because it includes a guest worker program as well
as an extensive further militarization of the border. The bill being drafted in the Republican controlled House will probably be worse.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) favors both the
permanent extension of the DREAM
Act as well as broader immigration reform legislation that would grant immediate
permanent resident status to all undocumented workers and their children and
would establish an expeditious and non-punitive road to citizenship for these workers and their
families.
We also oppose all workplace
discrimination based upon immigration status and oppose any and all guest
worker programs because they not only exploit the workers
involved but also
undercut all workers’ rights to secure humane wages and working conditions,
especially in the service and agricultural sectors.
DSA is a member of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee rights and participates in the global struggle for equitable economic development
and labor rights to reduce the forces that push desperate people to emigrate.
We understand that massive migrations of workers, refugees and asylum seekers
is a consequence of a global political and economic system that works for the
benefit of transnational corporations at the expense of the vast majority of
the peoples of the world.
See prior post. A Working Class View of Immigration
Reform. David Bacon.
Get involved http://www.dsausa.org/current_campaigns
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