Stop the deportation of undocumented students
Fight for fair immigration reform!
The work to stop Rigo's deportation continues.
This student from the University of Illinois at Chicago is a good person, student, an asset to the community, a friend.
His set date for deportation is December 16th, 2009, and most legal options have been exhausted.
His deportation, and the deportation of other undocumented immigrant students illustrate what is wrong with current immigration laws. We need to demand that ICE immediately halt Rigo's deportation through an administrative closure or to defer his deportation proceedings, stop deporting immigrant students, and that our legislators work to quickly pass just and humane immigration reform.
Rigo and millions of others like him can not wait.
We have just 16 days to show ICE that we have had enough of seeing our youth deported. We have just 16 days to send thousands of faxes to DHS Secretary Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton. We have just 16 days to stop Rigo's deportation!
What you can do:
- Show your solidarity on Friday December 4th to the Rally to Stop Deportations, 10:00 am at the First United Methodist Church, (77 W. Washington St) - Flier attached
- Invite your friends, family, students, co-workers, loved ones, club members, to come be in solidarity to stop the Deportation of Rigo Padilla and Pass Immigration Reform, because we cannot let one more youth get deported. Use the facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=179828538299&ref=ts
- Make sure you have sent a fax! We want to send 10,000 by the end of this week. It's free to you, and no need for a fax machine. It goes to ICE director John Morton, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and Senators Richard Durbin and Roland Burris. Together these faxes show that Rigo has support from his community, and CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Send your fax here: http://icirr.e-actionmax.com/takeaction.asp?aaid=184
- Get your friends, family, students, co-workers, loved ones, club members to send a fax too! Bring a lap top to a class, a gathering, a school hallway, an after-school activity, and have people send faxes on the spot (you would need internet connection). Alternatively you can gather people's Name, E-mail, Address, Zip Code, and tell them you will submit the fax online for them (show them the text of the fax).
- Volunteer to get arrested in December 12th. If Rigo's deportation has not been addressed, we are planning on organizing a civil disobedience action downtown Chicago. There would be trainings for the participants, and conversations with the police. Anyone who is interested must be a U.S. citizen, over the age of 18, and have no outstanding warrants.
Tania Unzueta
ilehlainat@gmail.com
