To: Governor Doug Ducey
Gov. Brewer: Stop attacking immigrant women!
Shame on you! Vindictively denying immigrant women driver's licenses is a move to boost your image, not help the people of Arizona. Stop attacking immigrant women and their children!
Why is this important?
Thanks to the Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, abused immigrant women are losing their drivers' licenses. Under her new policy they won't even have the ability to get into a car and escape their abusers.
Brewer's order to block immigrants from getting drivers' licenses at first only included DREAMers, the recipients of deferred action under President Obama's 2012 program. But rather than do away with her discriminatory practice after faced with public outcry, Brewer vindictively included all immigrants who have received deferred action.
This will now include battered immigrant women in Arizona, who can receive deferred action under the Violence Against Women Act.
The state of Arizona has already issued tens of thousands of drivers' licenses to immigrants who qualified for deferred action in the past. But because she doesn't want to be seen as "giving in" to Obama or DREAMers, she'd rather take drivers' licenses away from all immigrants, period.
Brewer's actions are not only a direct attack on young people, but they are devastating for women in her state. Many undocumented immigrant women already don't report domestic abuse to law enforcement out of fear of deportation.
It’s time to put an end to Gov. Brewer’s anti-immigrant campaign. As the signer of the nation's most extreme anti-immigrant law, Brewer has carved out her entire political career at the expense of the most vulnerable of our society.
Arizona deserves better!
Brewer's order to block immigrants from getting drivers' licenses at first only included DREAMers, the recipients of deferred action under President Obama's 2012 program. But rather than do away with her discriminatory practice after faced with public outcry, Brewer vindictively included all immigrants who have received deferred action.
This will now include battered immigrant women in Arizona, who can receive deferred action under the Violence Against Women Act.
The state of Arizona has already issued tens of thousands of drivers' licenses to immigrants who qualified for deferred action in the past. But because she doesn't want to be seen as "giving in" to Obama or DREAMers, she'd rather take drivers' licenses away from all immigrants, period.
Brewer's actions are not only a direct attack on young people, but they are devastating for women in her state. Many undocumented immigrant women already don't report domestic abuse to law enforcement out of fear of deportation.
It’s time to put an end to Gov. Brewer’s anti-immigrant campaign. As the signer of the nation's most extreme anti-immigrant law, Brewer has carved out her entire political career at the expense of the most vulnerable of our society.
Arizona deserves better!