Published: July 7, 2007
The Senate’s failure to fix our badly broken immigration system means that local elected officials will continue to take immigration matters into their own hands. As seen in Morristown, NJ, Hazelton, PA, Suffolk County and countless other cities and towns, the results are often divisive, discriminatory and damaging to our communities and to immigrant families. Senate Republicans have failed immigrant workers and the American people, particularly the 12 million immigrants already here who will be further targeted and persecuted. Today’s vote is not a vote to preserve the status quo, it’s a vote that will make an already bad system worse.