Over Twelve-Hundred Pro-Immigrant Groups Sign Letter to New Administration
President Obama, Secretary Napolitano: Welcome to D.C. Here Are Some Things We Think You Should Do… Washington , DC – Over 1,200 advocacy groups delivered a letter to the Obama Administration outlining priorities for immigration reform from the pro-immigrant, pro-immigration perspective. The letter stressed the urgency with which the new Administration should approach immigration reform legislatively and administratively, noting that efforts to address the many ills facing our immigration system have become the victim of gridlock in Washington for too long. “Over the last eight years, immigrants and their families, employers and workers alike, have suffered from our nation’s inability to find common ground on the issue of immigration reform,” states the letter, which was signed by groups in 39 states plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Noting the President’s background and the new era his presidency signals, the letter says, “As the son of a Kenyan national a...