Recently, the State of Florida joined a host of other states in suing the federal government over the President's executive action on immigration. In addition to subjecting thousands of Florida families to deportation, this lawsuit, if successful, would deny work permits to thousands of Florida immigrants and deprive Florida of a massive $102 million in much-needed tax revenue over the next five years. President Obama had to act on immigration after Republicans in Congress chose to do nothing. And despite the fact that President Obama's immigration action will benefit countless families in Florida and generate millions of dollars in taxes, Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi are joining with their political partisans to block it. Gov. Scott signed the Florida DREAM Act, helping young immigrants access in-state tuition. But this lawsuit changes everything. We need Gov. Scott and his administration to immediately end the lawsuit against President Obama and stop the attacks against immigrant workers and families living in Florida. They are part of our state and they deserve a way to become documented residents, not shunned and set up for deportation.

Recently, the State of Texas joined a host of other states in suing the federal government over the President's executive action on immigration. In addition to subjecting thousands of Texas families to deportation, this lawsuit, if successful, would deny work permits to thousands of Texas immigrants and deprive Texas of a massive $338 million in much-needed tax revenue over the next five years. President Obama had to act on immigration after Republicans in Congress chose to do nothing. And despite the fact that President Obama's immigration action will benefit countless families in Texas and generate millions of dollars in taxes, Gov. Rick Perry and Attorney General Greg Abbott are joining with their political partisans to block it. Gov. Perry signed the Texas DREAM Act, helping young immigrants access in-state tuition. But this lawsuit changes everything. We need Gov. Perry and his administration to immediately end the lawsuit against President Obama and stop the attacks against immigrant workers and families living in Texas. They are part of our state and they deserve a way to become documented residents, not shunned and set up for deportation.

Pastor Jose Armando faces imminent deportation!

Ever since the announcement on executive action on immigration, the Democrats are supporting the President's decision, while the Republicans opposed it. The only way to call on Speaker Boehner to let the House pass the immigration reform bill is to sign the petition ASAP.

Recently, the State of Ohio joined nineteen other states in suing the federal government over the President’s executive action on immigration. In addition to subjecting thousands of Ohio families to deportation, this lawsuit, if successful, would deny work permits to thousands of Ohio immigrants and deprive our state of $41 million in much-needed tax revenue over the next five years. President Obama had to act on immigration after Republicans in Congress chose to do nothing. And despite the fact that President Obama's immigration action will benefit countless families in Ohio and generate millions of dollars in taxes, Gov. Kasich and Attorney General Mike DeWine are joining with their political partisans to block it. In the past, Gov. Kasich has been a commonsense voice for immigrant families in Ohio, but this lawsuit changes everything. We need Gov. Kasich to immediately end the lawsuit against President Obama and stop the attacks against immigrant workers and families living in Ohio. They are part of our state and they deserve a way to become documented residents, not shunned and set up for deportation.

The election of Cory Gardner this year was a tough loss that progressives must now live with. But we won’t sit quietly while Gardner casually disregards the promises he made to Colorado on the campaign trail. Colorado still deserves better--and we will continue to demand better from Gardner as Colorado’s next U.S. Senator.

It’s wrong to leave millions of people, who are part of the fabric of this country, in limbo - afraid and unable to fully participate in the country where they serve in our military and work hard in our economy. This is not about politics. It’s about fairness and who we are as a country.

President Obama's announcement protecting 5 million people who only know this country as home has inspired me to start working to fight for everyone else. Just as President Obama allows everyone with U.S. citizen children and has been here for five years to come forward, I think everyone who has resided in this country should be offered the opportunity to come forward. Sign and share this petition to tell your representatives in Congress to introduce a bill to this effect and work to pass it now.

On Thursday, the President announced a long-awaited executive action that will take steps towards fixing our broken immigration system. Eligibility for the executive action is limited to immigrants with roots in and family ties to the United States—specifically, undocumented immigrants who have been in the U.S. for at least the past five years and also are parents of U.S. citizens or green card holders. This action is a step in the right direction, and it's critical that the media takes a fair and balanced approach in their coverage. Showing inflammatory footage that perpetuates harmful stereotypes will do nothing to advance the current story, and will only feed right-wing fear-mongering on the issue. President Obama's action is about hard working people who having been living and working in the United States for years. To portray them in simple stereo types is dishonest. Its critical that the major television networks take a fair and balanced approach to covering this issue by featuring real stories of those most impacted.

My husband, Cesar Chavez, and I decided to move back to Delano to begin organizing the United Farm Workers in 1962. Thousands came to work with our movement once the Delano Grape Strike started in 1965, 50 years ago in 2015. Millions of good people in North America supported us by boycotting grapes and other products. All these years, I chose to stay in the background. I walked picket lines, managed our credit union and cared for our eight children. Cesar respected my privacy. I never spoke in public or talked with reporters. Unlike my husband, I never got very involved in politics until October 2012, when President Obama came to dedicate the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument at the Tehachapi Mountain town of Keene, CA. That’s where Cesar lived and worked his last quarter century, and where he is buried. As we walked away from paying respects at my husband’s gravesite, with the President holding my arm, I asked, “Mr. President, will you promise you will do something on immigration reform?” “Yes, Mrs. Chavez, I promise I will,” he said. Today, President Obama kept his promise to me and to the American people by using his power to help many of the immigrants who toil in our fields, make beds, clean rooms, cook meals, work in construction and manufacturing, and care for our young and elderly. They serve our country in the military. I’ve known the farm workers all my life. Like other immigrants, they take jobs most other Americans won’t take for pay most other Americans won’t accept and under conditions most other Americans won’t tolerate. Big parts of our economy can’t survive without immigrants. All President Obama did is what President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush did, letting some immigrants stay and work here. Most of the immigrants who qualify have been in this country for some time. They have clean records. What the President did is just temporary and it is only after the Republicans in the House of Representatives repeatedly refused to pass a bipartisan bill that already passed the U.S. Senate. President Obama did the right thing on immigration. Please join me in thanking him for his leadership. At the same time, we should urge Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform that will solve this problem once and for all.

As people of conscience, we commend you for the anticipated Administrative Action you are taking to address our broken immigration system and the temporary relief it will provide to thousands of immigrant families. It is a long overdue first step toward recognizing the humanity and inalienable human rights of our immigrant sisters and brothers. At the same time, we are compelled by our conscience to insist that you include the thousands of still arriving Central American and Mexican children and their families fleeing violence and seeking reunification with their loved ones. We appeal to you to use your executive authority to grant them refugee status, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or deferred action status per the recommendation of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) [1] and Pope Francis who declared these children must be “welcomed and protected.” [2] At this moment, thousands of mothers, fathers and children, many of whom are fleeing extreme violence, death threats, rape, and persecution in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are being held in US detention centers. The President must take action to release them and grant them immediate protection. We remain one executive order away from protecting children. Our hearts go out to the more than 60,000 children who have come to this country seeking protection, but who now face immediate deportation back to unspeakable violence in home countries, and away from family members already here in the US. How many child refugees must die after being deported, before the President takes action? We will not allow these child refugees to be sent back or taken away from families already here. If our government will not protect children, we, people of conscience, will. [1] Testimony of United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) Senior Protection Officer, Leslie Velez, before the United States Congressional House Judiciary Committee , June 25, 2014 [2] Statement by Pope Francis, July 15 2014: “This humanitarian emergency requires, as a first urgent measure, these children be welcomed and protected." And that these measures “must be accompanied by policies that inform people about the dangers of such a journey and, above all, that promote development in their countries of origin.”

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