TELE-PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY: Religious Leaders Express Moral Outrage at Senate's Failure to Restore Family Values in Immigration Bill

Faith Leaders Call on Pro-Family Advocates to Speak Out

Thursday, June 07, 2007

In response to the Senate’s failure to pass the Clinton-Hagel-Menedez family-reunification amendment to the immigration bill last night, religious leaders will hold a tele-press conference today at 1:30 PM EST to call for family values to be restored as the bill moves forward, and for pro-family advocates throughout the religious community to join in call for legislation that values families. Sen. Hillary Clinton will join the religious leaders on the teleconferece.

The current immigration bill does nothing to fix the fact that an estimated 1.5 million legal immigrants in the United States have been waiting as long as seven years to bring husbands, wives and small children to live with them. The bill actually reduces the number of family reunification visas available each year, which means that the backlog of families waiting to be reunited will only continue to grow.

WHO: Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, President, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, America's largest Hispanic Evangelical organization
Sen. Hillary Clinton
Jim Wallis, Founder, Sojourners and Author, God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It
Rev. Derrick Harkins, Pastor, Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Washington, DC and World Relief Board Member
Sister Simone Campbell, Executive Director of NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby

WHEN: 1:30 PM Eastern

CALL-IN: 1-800-599-9186

PASS CODE: FAMILY

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