San Francisco Giants Pitcher Sergio Romo Endorses The Dream is Now Campaign

For Immediate Release                      

June 4, 2013                                                    

San Francisco, CA – World Champion San Francisco Giants pitcher Sergio Romo announced his support for The Dream is Now campaign today in a youtube video that has been posted to www.thedreamisnow.org.  The Dream is Now Campaign is an effort of concerned citizens who believe America’s broken immigration system needs to be fixed, giving undocumented youth and their families the chance to earn their citizenship.

Romo, a first generation Mexican-America whose parents were born in Mexico, says in the video, “Today I am standing proud with the Dream is Now campaign because I strongly believe that there should be a pathway for the approximately 2 million undocumented students to earn their United States citizenship so that they can lead a productive life and give back to the only country they know as home.  They deserve a chance to live their dream and we will all win if they do.  I hope that you will log on to www.thedreamisnow.org and join me, in this movement.”

The Dream is Now recently released a 30-minute documentary by Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim (“Inconvenient Truth” and “Waiting for Superman”) that shares the stories of undocumented youth and their families who are desperate to earn their citizenship in the only country they've ever called home, the United States of America.  The 30-minute film, which has been screened hundreds of times on college campuses and at community gatherings, was created to keep the focus on Congress to pass immigration reform.  To view the trailer, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUx62UBoOoU.

For more information on the campaign visit:

www.thedreamisnow.org
twitter.com/TheDreamisNow
www.facebook.com/thedreamisnow

Press Contact:  Lisa Cohen, 310-395-2544, lisa@lisacohen.org

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It appears that the establishment on the left is finally starting to take notice of President Obama's deportation record. On Sunday Arianna Huffington appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos where she called Obama's record deportations a "scandal" that nobody is talking about:

"More people have been deported over the Obama administration than over the whole two terms of George Bush. And we’ve had, for example, since 2010, 200,000 parents of American citizens being deported for minor offenses. This is a real tragedy. And if this were being done under George Bush, Democrats would have been up in arms.”

She goes on saying that there is no accountability in the White House for their own actions calling the deportation and detention system a real nightmare.

Any of this sound familiar?

Here is a clip from the segment.  You need to go to the 6:45 minute mark to hear her comments, and the typical response from the Obama apologist David Plouffe that DREAMers aren't being deported, which we all know isn't true.  

Thankfully, Ms. Huffington called him out on it.  

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I stumbled upon an article written by Laura Murphy, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislation Office.  Ms. Murphy provides a summary of the "highlights and lowlights" of the recent immigration reform legislation that has made its way through the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In reading the summary it struck me that the proposed Senate immigration bill specifically includes protections against the hallmarks of the Obama administration's deportation and detention policy. Such protections include prompt bond hearings for detainees, alternatives to the for-profit privately run immigration detention system, bars to racial and ethnic profiling by federal law enforcement officials, restrictions on the use of solitary confinement, and restrictions on middle-of-the-night deportations.

So let me ask you this... Why does it take a new law to protect immigrants from the discriminatory and abusive practices of the current administration?

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