See Page with the full letter and a link to a New York Times Editorial

http://jewishalliance.org/letterushousebill-child-notify/

Thank you for signing on to the letter to Secretary Napolitano regarding Alabama’s anti-immigrant law, HB 56. Over 350 organizations signed on demanding an end to unjust immigration enforcement policies and programs in Alabama. Yesterday, we mailed the letter to Secretary Napolitano and we plan to request a meeting with her to further press for our asks. Again, we thank you for signing on and we hope you will continue to distribute the letter widely.

To download a final copy of the letter, click here.

To read the press release about the letter, click here.

Thank you for your support.

Tong Lee
Rights Working Group
202-296-2300 x 123
tlee@rightsworkinggroup.org
www.rightsworkinggroup.org

Andrew Fischer, as President of JALSA, writes in the Brookline Tab, deploring the arguments used in the debate over the Pledge of Allegiance in the Brookline Schools.

As many of you know, Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians is set to expire on September 30, 2011. Since 1991, the United States has provided temporary legal status to Liberian nationals who fled and have been unable to return to Liberia due to unstable conditions resulting from the civil war. On March 18, 2010, President Obama signed a memo extending DED for Liberian nationals through September 30, 2011. The extension provided these Liberians with temporary work authorization, but it expires in six months and does not provide them with a new pathway to obtain lawful permanent residency.

We are collecting organizational signatures for a sign-on letter in support of an extension of DED for this population – for more information and to sign on, please visit
http://www.energyofanation.org/liberian_ded_letter.html/
Organizational signatures will be accepted through May 27, 2011.

Liza Lieberman
Grassroots Policy Associate and
DC Young Leaders Coordinator
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
1775 K Street NW, Suite 320
Washington, DC 20006

IMMIGRATION POLICY REFORM
*** JALSA urges members to continue to write the Patrick Administration indicating our concern over potential Massachusetts participation in the so-called “ICE Secure Communities” program. JALSA believes this program will not make us more secure, but will create an atmosphere of distrust and discrimination.
*** Interested in working on Immigration issues? Contact Sheila Decter if you would like to help participate in national conference calls and help to prepare local educational programming on immigration. 617-227-3000 or email JALSAoffice@gmail.com