House Hearing Lacks Key Voices on Immigration Reform: Families
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013Contact:
For English language media: Donna De La Cruz, ddelacruz@communitychange.org (202) 339-9331
For Spanish language media: Ricardo Ramirez, rramirez@communitychange.org (202) 905-1738
Here is a statement from Kica Matos, Director of Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice for the Center for Community Change, on today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration:
“The House Judiciary Committee’s witness list for its hearing on immigration reform today is sorely lacking the voices of immigrant families who have suffered greatly under our broken immigration system. It is the plight of their families that have moved Latinos and immigrants to come together politically as an extremely powerful voice at the ballot box in the past two election cycles. And their families will once again be at the center of the fight for fair and humane comprehensive immigration reform that leads to a path to citizenship. Lawmakers must remember that the most important factor in immigration reform is people, not politics.”
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