To: Rep. Warren Davidson (OH-8)
Speaker Boehner: Stop the SAFE Act -- Give us a vote on citizenship instead
Speaker Boehner: We won’t stand for the expansion of an Arizona-style law across the country. The so-called “SAFE” Act would criminalize 11 million immigrants, when the American people are asking to put those 11 million on a path to citizenship. The decision is yours. Stop Bob Goodlatte’s SAFE Act -- give us a vote on citizenship instead!
Why is this important?
Have you heard of Rep. Bob Goodlatte? I’m guessing no.
As Chairman of the Judiciary Committee he has a lot of power to shape the immigration proposals that will come out of the House this fall. What is he doing with this power? Some really bad stuff. First, he’s blocking a path to citizenship, even for DREAMers, and second, he wants to make Arizona's horrible "Show Me Your Papers" law the law of the land.
This means that instead of promoting what most Americans support -- a path to citizenship -- one of the most powerful voices in the House is joining forces with extremists like Michelle Bachmann to pass a law that would criminalize millions of undocumented Americans.
Unfortunately, this is par for the course for Rep. Goodlatte. This summer he voted with Rep. Steve King to reinstate the deportation of DREAMers, recently said he wants to ban DREAMers from ever becoming citizens, and this week told his constituents that he doesn’t mind if immigration fails. "We’ll try, but if we fail, that’s okay," he said.
Needless to say, with Rep. Goodlatte in charge, immigration reform will go nowhere! If Republicans are serious about reform, they need to stay away from Rep. Goodlatte and what we like to call the “SAFE to Discriminate” Act.
We know the path to citizenship has majority support in the House. With a single action, Speaker Boehner can save his party from irrelevancy by bringing citizenship to a vote. So come September, Speaker Boehner has a decision to make: Will he side with the majority of Americans and let the path to citizenship come to a vote in the House? Or will he side with extremists in the Arizonafication of the country?
As Chairman of the Judiciary Committee he has a lot of power to shape the immigration proposals that will come out of the House this fall. What is he doing with this power? Some really bad stuff. First, he’s blocking a path to citizenship, even for DREAMers, and second, he wants to make Arizona's horrible "Show Me Your Papers" law the law of the land.
This means that instead of promoting what most Americans support -- a path to citizenship -- one of the most powerful voices in the House is joining forces with extremists like Michelle Bachmann to pass a law that would criminalize millions of undocumented Americans.
Unfortunately, this is par for the course for Rep. Goodlatte. This summer he voted with Rep. Steve King to reinstate the deportation of DREAMers, recently said he wants to ban DREAMers from ever becoming citizens, and this week told his constituents that he doesn’t mind if immigration fails. "We’ll try, but if we fail, that’s okay," he said.
Needless to say, with Rep. Goodlatte in charge, immigration reform will go nowhere! If Republicans are serious about reform, they need to stay away from Rep. Goodlatte and what we like to call the “SAFE to Discriminate” Act.
We know the path to citizenship has majority support in the House. With a single action, Speaker Boehner can save his party from irrelevancy by bringing citizenship to a vote. So come September, Speaker Boehner has a decision to make: Will he side with the majority of Americans and let the path to citizenship come to a vote in the House? Or will he side with extremists in the Arizonafication of the country?