by Marvin J Ramirez
Marvin Ramirez
The enemies of Latinos have thrown a jab to the liver against immigrants with the latest immigration plan that calls for stronger employer sanctions if they hire undocumented people.
In a written statement, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), expressed deep concerns over the Bush Administration’s plan.
The measures include increasing the use of state and local law enforcement in enforcing federal immigration laws, expanding raids at workplace sites, and implementing new Social Security “no match” regulations that could put millions of Americans at risk of losing their jobs, says the statement.
“Today the Bush administration put forth a set of measures disguised as immigration enforcement which amounts to an assault on the civil rights of all Hispanic Americans,” stated Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO.
“The package of measures announced will result in the racial profiling of all working Latinos. In effect, what these measures will do is impose a substantial burden on a subset of our citizens which is based entirely on the color of their skin, their accent, or their name,” continued Murguía.
Why are they doing all that? Who’s going to benefit from it? Not only they are going to stain the soul of the country abroad as a humanitarian and nation of justice, but also it will hurt most large and small businesses nationwide at a time when there is serious fear of a recession.
Congressional opponents of real immigration reform have been targeting legal immigrants and even U.S. citizens in recent debates. The distinction between undocumented and legal immigration and between immigrants and Latinos has been deliberately blurred. It is the responsibility of congressional leaders to halt the scapegoating, do their job, and fix our nation’s broken immigration system,” concluded Murguía.
