Keeping families together
The immigration reform movement incorporates many moral arguments: welcoming the stranger, promoting the common good, economic justice, humane treatment, etc. Our friends at America’s Voice are promoting another important one right now — keeping families together. Today they’re launching a letter-writing campaign to urge members of Congress to enact immigration reform that, among other things, keeps parents from being separated from their children by deportation. (In the past several years, over 100,000 immigrant parents of citizen children have been removed from the US.) The video below provides a compelling explanation of the need for reform that keeps families together. The voice-over is by our friend Derrick Harkins.
To join their campaign and send a letter to your representative, click here. Children of immigrants are petitioning the government to keep their families together. Let’s back them up!