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Dear Supporter,
The Maryland Green Party urges its
supporters to attend this Sunday's protest against bipartisan
targeting of immigrant populations with aggressive raids and
deportations. Howard County Executive Calvin Ball, a Democrat, has
maintained an Intergovernmental Service Agreement with Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) to imprison immigrants in the Howard County
Detention Center. Join a broad coalition of activists demanding an end
to this policy.
Join us on Sunday, August 11, at 3:30pm
at the Howard County Detention Center, 7301 Waterloo Rd, Jessup, MD
20794.
Here is the call from Hinenu, a Baltimore-area Jewish social
justice community, inviting all to participate in Sunday's action:
"Tisha B'Av (the 9th of Av) is a day of communal mourning,
commemorating several catastrophes in Jewish history. This year on
Tisha B'Av, we demand an end to the modern catastrophe of deportations
and detention camps. Jews throughout Maryland and allies will
demonstrate publicly that we will not turn our backs on refugees
arriving in our country or on our immigrant neighbors already here.
Join us to study, read, sing, bear witness, and call on ICE and CBP to
#ClosetheCamps."
The Green Party's platform calls for an end to policies that allow
local police to work as agents of federal immigration agencies. The
Green Party opposes militarization of borders, has demanding a halt to
ICE raids, and has called for amnesty for undocumented individuals
living in the U.S. and a quick path for citizenship for those who seek
it. The Green Party also acknowledges that migration from crisis areas
is often the result of dangerous U.S. economic policies and military
actions, and seeks to end those disastrous policies.? ??
You can read more about the Green Party's platform on immigration
reform here
and here.?
Click
here for more information and to RSVP for the event on
Facebook.?
Maryland Green Party
http://www.mdgreens.org/
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