Get rid of your tired, your poor?? Help fix our broken immigration system.
Friday, May 28, 2010

Support JCUA's work for comprehensive immigration reform: Help raise $50,000 in 50 days for 50 states.

Your donation will help JCUA push for comprehensive immigration reform legislation

Similar laws or variations of Arizona SB 1070 are under consideration in more than 20 states across the U.S.

"Give me your tired,
your poor..."

The famous poem on the Statue of Liberty, completed in 1903 by Emma Lazarus, a Sephardic Jew.

"The huddled masses
yearning to be free..."

Lazarus set a welcoming tone for a century of mass immigration to the U.S. that included the parents and grandparents of most American Jews.

But the welcoming tone in the country has struck a dissonant chord with the passage of SB 1070, an anti-immigrant, anti-human rights measure recently signed into law in Arizona.

Help JCUA fight for a fix to the broken immigration system.

As Jews, we are called upon to sound the shofar of justice, to replace the cacophony of strident voices with the harmony of chesed (kindness). Like the torch on the Statue, we are a "light unto the nations." That's the meaning of the torch in the JCUA logo.

Over 50 days -- ending on Independence Day -- we are raising $50,000 (or more) to intensify the push for comprehensive legislation covering all 50 states. We call it "50x50x50" short for 50 days...50 states...50k. And we need your help.

As a nation of immigrants, as a Jewish organizational voice for justice, as a community of immigrants, we must treat the "huddled masses" with dignity and compassion..

JCUA programs and actions:

• JCUA leaders arrested at recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protest

• JCUA leaders arrested in protest at the federal immigration detention center in Chicago suburban Broadview

• Postcard campaign to call on U.S. reps to support CIR

• Visits to elected officials in Illinois and Washington

• Support for workers and community in Postville, Iowa

• Co-convener of the national We Were Strangers, Too: The Jewish Campaign for Immigration Reform

Learn more about JCUA's work for comprehensive immigration reform

 The 50x50x50 campaign is sponsored by several groups and individuals, including the AzulaySeiden Law Group.