APA Immigration: The First Undocumented? (teach-in at State House, MASS HOPE 2010 Vigil)

Join the Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW) and Stand-up for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (STIRR) at the 24-hour Vigil for Immigrant Rights.  As part of the Mass Hope 2010 Vigil, held in front of the State House on Beacon Hill, we also will be presenting a living time line on Asian Americans and immigration.

We are organzing this to support the Student Immigrant Movement (SIM), a student activist group that is spearheading this action. SIM, and other supporting groups, have kept this sit-in vigil going since early June as an organizing effort against the MA budget amendments that were just passed in the Senate limiting the human rights of immigrants (described below).

1. Requiring businesses that work with the state to use some system (like E-verify) to verify paperwork, or the business will lose contract with government and be fined.
2. Fining higher penalties for being caught with false documents, for example from $50 to $250 for ID's
3. Denying access to assisted housing programs for undocumented people.
4. Requiring stricter requirements for housing, social security and health benefits, documented or undocumented.
5. Creating an anonymous tip line to report suspicious people using false documents, business hiring undocumented people and people who are undocumented and mandating investigations of all no matter how uncredible the reports are.
6. Barring undocumented students from receiving In-State tuition.

7. Blocking limited and basic health care for undocumented people.

Asian Americans are among those in the immigrant communities who also will be affected, so we should have our voices heard, too.  We will be holding a speak-out on Asian American immigration history and timeline in solidarity with all those who can join us that night. The action will be on Monday, June 21, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm, and EVERYONE IS WELCOMED!  Come by after work and show your support!

 

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24 Beacon St.
Boston, MA 02133

 

 

 

 

 

 

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