PRESS RELEASE
Religious Leaders Call for President, Congress to Put Families Ahead of Politics, Pass Immigration Reform
The Interfaith Immigration Coalition is standing today with the seven-year-old girl who gave voice to the reality of our broken immigration system yesterday by asking First Lady Michelle Obama if her undocumented mother will be deported.
At First Lady Obama's and Mexico's First Lady Margarita Zavala's visit to an elementary school in Silver Spring, MD yesterday, the second-grade student's simple yet powerful question to Mrs. Obama about "Barack Obama... taking everybody away that doesn't have papers" and how her mom "doesn't have any [papers]" revealed the tragedy that parents are torn away from their children as America waits for Congress to pass immigration reform.
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This country was built by immigrants, it will continue to attract and need immigrants. Some people think there are enough people here now -- people have been saying this since the 1700s and it still is not true. They are needed to make up for our aging population and low birthrate. Immigrants often are entrepreneurs, creating jobs. We must help them become Americans and not just people who live here and think of themselves as visitors. When immigrants succeed here, the whole country benefits.
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