46th IMMIGRATION - Proposed 2018 Platform
Immigrants strengthen the fabric of our community, state and nation. All immigrants should be afforded full human rights, civil liberties, and a fair, safe and timely pathway to legal status or citizenship.
We support:
- All people, regardless of their country of origin or immigration status being treated fairly, respectfully, and with compassion and dignity
- All immigrants having the right to equal treatment under the law, and in all proceedings being guaranteed basic human rights
- Comprehensive immigration reform through improved pathways and options to citizenship or legal status
- Encouraging lawful immigration, family unification and reunification, expediting processing of applications for legal entry, asylum, (H-1) (H-2) guest worker and temporary work permits, permanent residence and citizenship
- Improving immigrant worker rights and protections by preventing wage discrimination, ensuring safe worker housing/living conditions, equitable access to medical care and educational opportunities
- Detainees’ right to humane treatment, safe facilities, adequate medical care, nutrition, clothing, shelter and family unity
- Reducing the 100-mile Border Patrol internal operating zone to 50 miles from any border
- Efforts to ensure that U.S. immigration enforcement is transparent and accountable
- Efforts to improve the E-Verify System
- The DREAM Act and retaining DACA
- Policies that protect immigrants’ ability to seek help or to access to law enforcement without fear of deportation
- Granting asylum to persons fleeing areas of war, genocide and political or personal oppression, including their LGBTQ status
We oppose:
- Withholding health care or emergency health and human or family services due to immigration status, citizenship status or legal status
- State or local police involvement in the enforcement of federal immigration laws
- Efforts to deputize, commission and finance vigilante border militia groups
- Acts of hate, bias or violence, including harassment, intimidation, bullying; the use of racial, culturally insensitive, ethnically biased terms such as “illegal” in reference to any person or group
- Barriers to acquiring an equitable education, and testing in languages other than one’s primary spoken language
- ICE, Boarder Patrol and Homeland Security contracting with for-profit prison corporations and county jails; immigration detention without a constitutionally adequate bond hearings; amilies detained in ICE Detention Centers; and quotas or other immigration rules with the primary purpose of preventing immigration
- Excluding immigrants because of their country of origin, religion, race or ethnicity