Call To Action:

Stop HR 4437 Sensenbrenner/Peter King Bill

CALL YOUR SENATOR AND CONGRESSPERSON and ask them to stop the HR 4437 Sensenbrenner/Peter King bill which passed through the house and will be in committee in the Senate in February 2006. The bill calls for building a 698-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, turning undocumented immigrants into felons and permitting “deputization” of local and state police officers as immigration agents.

But it also included a provision that makes it a crime for anyone to assist undocumented immigrants to “come or remain” in the United States. Officials from churches and relief agencies and immigrant advocates said this could lead to the imprisonment of priests, nuns, social workers, doctors and Good Samaritans who may provide these immigrants with anything from counseling to a ride to the grocery store.

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