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MARIO SOLIS (left seated) and his wife Elena and their children Mario Jr., 18, and Leslie, 6, face deportation following an October incident.
Terror of being ILLEGAL IN THE U.S.
Coalition supports immigration reform, education
By MARGIE TRAX PAGE - Staff Writer - mtrax@starbeacon.com Star Beacon
The coalition, the first of its kind in Ohio, hopes immigration reform will help reunite families, stop inhumane immigration enforcement and stop home and workplace raids, create “pathways to citizenship,” by giving undocumented immigrants a way to establish legal citizenship, and remove immigration application backlogs.
In the last few months, more than 100 immigrants in Ashtabula County have been detained or deported, Wilkinson said.
“We have passed through one of the darkest eras for Latinos in this country,” Dahlberg said. “President Bush’s ‘Operation Return to Sender’ rounded up tens of thousands of people and deported many of them. The rise in hate groups is astounding.”
Dahlberg said Ashtabula County residents wouldn’t want fear to shape their communities.
“People are afraid to leave their homes,” Dahlberg said. “Ashtabula County residents don’t want their kids in jail. They don’t want dads to be afraid to go to work and mothers afraid to go to the supermarket. If they knew the horrors, the residents of this county would wonder why are we doing this to people?”
Wilkinson believes immigration reform is a top priority for President Barack Obama.
“But there are more misconceptions about immigration reform than with any other issue,” Wilkinson said. “This country was built by immigrants. The fabric of our society is woven by the work of immigrants. They don’t deserve to be political scapegoats.”
For more information on the Coalition for Immigrant and Refugees Rights, call (440) 964-3372 or email hola@holatoday.org.
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