"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

- Closing lines of the poem inscribed at the entrance to the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty

 

CIEJ is a coalition of American/Legal resident families facing permanent separation due to the 1996 immigration acts AEDPA, and IIRIRA. 

Eliminating due process, bond hearings, and judicial review, has served to muzzle us.   We are no longer allowed to defend ourselves in a court of law. Worse, these laws are being applied retroactively, allowing new penalties to be imposed on already settled matters. 

Our families are being destroyed, our lives shattered, our children devastated because these harsh laws have unjustly characterized our legal resident loved one, thus our entire family, as undesirable, and a danger to society.  

We have joined together to raise public awareness of who we are, and provide information to legal residents and their family about how these laws may affect them. 

United Nations Commission on Human Rights statement UNCHR 53rd Sess. Item 9

Summary of the provisions in the 1996 acts: The new immigration law,  Criminal Penalties  

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Dianne
07/22/2006

I just have to say that its very wrong and good on you for showing a video of twinks for cash.
Peter
08/10/2006

Immigrants are on a hiding to nothing IMO.The people who benefit from the cheap labor of the illegals are scared to be vocal in their support for them while the raucous and racist minority make the most noise
Anonymous
07/12/2006

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