[lbo-talk] REVISED Resolution on immigrants' human rights

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Wed Mar 29 05:47:21 PST 2006


Resolution by Councilmember JoAnn Watson

Whereas, America was first the home of the Indigenous peoples of

this land; and

Whereas, All other Americans are immigrants and the descendants of

immigrants from various other nations from around the

world; and

Whereas, Over the years immigrants from various countries have been

more or less welcomed here by the establishment of the

United States, with racism and economics playing a major

role in which peoples are favored over others in

immigration; and

Whereas, Several of the southern United States were once part of

Mexico until the United States took the territories

through various wars and genocidal actions; and

Whereas Today with economic prosperity in the U.S. on the lands

of their ancestors, many workers and peasants from the

nations to our south naturally gravitate to the U.S.

states that were formerly part of old Mexico; and

Whereas, This past week hundreds of thousands of people

demonstrated around the United States on behalf of

immigrants' human rights and against a bill that the U.S.

House of Representatives passed SEEKING TO CRIMINALIZE

UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES.

Whereas, Today, Monday, March 27, at 10:00 am, there will be a

march for immigrant rights in the City of Detroit,

starting from Holy Redeemer church.

Whereas, On Tuesday, March 28 Farmworkers from the Coalition of

Immokalee Workers to visit Detroit, THEREFORE BE IT

Resolved, That the Detroit City Council supports and salutes the

marches for immigrants' rights , especially the march here

in Detroit; and be it further

Resolved, That the Detroit City Council greets the Farmworkers from

the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and welcomes them to

Detroit; and be it finally

Resolved, That the Detroit City Council opposes the bill passed by

the U.S. House Representatives as harmful to the human

rights of immigrants AND THEIR COMMUNITIES and supports a

humane, not racist, immigration system.



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