Category: Immigration
Columbia: Meet Your Neighbor! Nov 17 Potluck at Columbia Friends
Saturday, November 19, 12:30 pm, at the Quaker Meeting House, 120 Psigah Church Rd, Columbia, SC
Understanding Islam and Muslims, Thu, Sep 8, 6:00-7:30 PM
Introduction to the Refugee Task Force of Carolina Peace Resource Center
The Refugee Task Force of Carolina Peace Resource Center meets monthly to plan educational, visibility and charitable events to support refugees and refugee resettlement programs. We also promote legislative advocacy at the federal and local levels, and we strive to stay abreast of anti-refugee legislation so that we can organize to defeat it.
Email us for more information. We welcome volunteers of all backgrounds, not matter how much time you have to give. Volunteering matters to us.
You can follow the Refugee Task Force’s activities on Facebook. Posts on the task force’s activities are in the category Refugee Task Force.
Refugee Resettlement in South Carolina: Facts, Not Fear
Voice Your Opposition to Anti-Refugee Bill S.997
ACTION ALERT: The Time for Immigration Reform is Now!
ACTION ALERT: Tell Congress the Time for Immigration Reform is Now!
The US Senate just passed an immigration reform bill that provided a path to citizenship for the undocumented but also “practically militarizes the border” in Senator Graham’s words, spending $50 billion to doubling the number of border agents by adding 21,000 and building 700 more miles of border fortifications.
The US House now needs to pass an immigration reform bill, but it faces a rocky road in the House. There is strong opposition in the House to a path to citizenship. An immigration reform bill without a path to citizenship isn’t really immigration reform. Your Congressman is already hearing from those who oppose immigration reform. Your Congressman needs to hear from you.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Your Congressman the Time for Immigration Reform is Now!
Contact your Representative and tell him you support a path to citizenship and you oppose “militarizing the border” and wasting $50 billion in taxpayer money. When Congress returns to session after the July 4th holiday, they need to get down to work!
Contact Your Rep Now & Mark Your Calendar to Call-In on TUES July 9th, SC Call in Day.
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LINKS TO CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE & MORE INFO (click read more)
Rep Mark Sanford (SC-1): https://sanford.house.gov/contact/email-me
Rep Joe Wilson (SC-2) :https://joewilsonforms.house.gov/Forms/WriteYourRep/default.aspx
Rep Jeff Duncan (SC-3) https://jeffduncan.house.gov/contact-me
Rep Trey Gowdy (SC-4) http://gowdy.house.gov/Contact/default.aspx
Rep Mick Mulvaney (SC-5) https://forms.house.gov/mulvaney/webforms/zipauthen_contact.shtml
Rep Jim Clyburn (SC-6): https://forms.house.gov/clyburn/zipauth.shtml
Rep Tom Rice (SC-7): https://rice.house.gov/contact/email-me
Don’t know your Congressman? Outside SC? Go here: house.gov
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BACKGROUND
“S.C. House members cooler — but not stone cold — on immigration reform” Charleston Post & Courier, SUN June 30th
“Securing” the border? Necessary?
*The number of border agents in recent years has already been doubled… doubling them again would quadruple the number of border agents.
*Deportations have hit record levels under the Obama administration. This also means family separations on a massive scale and the imprison of American citizens in private prison gulags due to a lack of due process.
* The border cannot be “secured.” As long as there is opportunity on the other side of the border, people will cross it. Just as with the drug war, as long as there is supply and demand, efforts to stop border traffic will be bypassed. In addition, most undocumented immigrants cross the border legally, but overstay their visas.
Advocacy Organizations
SC Immigration Coalition, http://www.sc-coalition.org/about-us/our-work/ccomprehensive-immigration-reform
A United South Carolina, http://unitedsc.org/
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Kingday at the Dome, MON Jan 16th
King Day at the Dome
MON Jan 16th
Assemble 9:30AM at Zion Baptist Church (Gadsden & Washington)
March 10AM
Rally at the Statehouse, 11:15AM.
March and Rally to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s advocacy for voting rights, and social and economic justice. Education, immigration reform and jobs!
Sponsored by the South Carolina NAACP.
Volunteers Needed! to Table for Carolina Peace. Contact info @ carolinapeace.org / Peaceline (803) 216-1448 (Leave message).
Immigration Rights Walk & Prayer Vigil, SUN Dec 18th
Walk & Prayer Vigil for Immigrant Rights
SUN Dec 18th
Gather 1:15PM at Zion Baptist Church (Washington & Gadsden)
Walk to Statehouse begins 1:30PM
Prayer Vigil at Statehouse, 2-3PM
The Constitutionality of South Carolina’s new immigration law (SB 20) is being challenged in Federal Court in Charleston on MON Dec 19th. We gather to oppose this draconian law. If upheld, the law will require law enforcement to investigate the legal status of anyone they stop and develop a “reasonable suspicion” the person is not here legally. Immigrants are our neighbors, our brothers and sisters, our teachers, our service members, and they should not be treated as “others.”
Text of the law: http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/bills/20.htm
More Info: www.sc-coalition.org
STOP SB 20: SC Senate Considering Draconian Immigration Law
The South Carolina Senate is currently considering a law seen as more draconian than Arizona’s recent controversial law. Senate Bill # 20 or SB20 would require law enforcement to check the immigration status of anyone they have “reasonable suspicion” is unlawfully in the United States. Currently, the law is in the Senate’s Judiciary committee but will come up for a vote in the Senate soon.
3 Arguments against SB 20:
1. Costly. At a time when SC’s government has a $1.3 billion deficit, the state of South Carolina and muncipalities cannot afford the added expense of enforcing this law.
2. Added Burden to Law Enforcement. Besides monetary concerns, SB 20 would burden police with immigration enforcement, distracting them from stopping violent crime, etc.
3. Promotes Racial Profiling. Legal residents will greater face discrimination or harassment due to “looking” like an immigrant.
We need federal immigration reform, not repression.
CONTACT your STATE SENATOR and let them know what you think.
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