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Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 2:25 PM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Thanks for signing -- can you ask your friends to sign too?
Bernie Sanders for President
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Hello Miriam -
Thanks so much for signing Bernie Sanders' petition to asking President
Obama to cancel plans for raids and deportations of women and children who
fled violence in Latin America. Can you ask your friends and family to sign?
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Thank you for all of your support. Bernie's email about this important issue
is below for you to forward to your contacts.
- Team Bernie
-----Email from Bernie Sanders-----
<https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/immigration-raids-petition?source=em160
514-a> Sign my petition asking President Obama to stop his plans for raids
and deportations of hundreds of women and children who fled horrific
violence in Latin America.
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Sisters and Brothers -
My father Eli immigrated to America from Poland in 1921 after World War I at
the age of 17. He was not a refugee fleeing war, although much of his family
later became victims of the Holocaust. He came to America looking to make a
better life. He never made a lot of money, but it didn't matter because he
was able to start a family and send his two sons to college. That meant the
world to him and he loved this country.
While my father came here as an immigrant seeking economic opportunity, many
immigrants arrived in our country fleeing war, oppression and violence. This
is true today for thousands of women and unaccompanied children who came to
our country in the last several years fleeing horrific violence in Latin
America.
This week the media reported something that I find not just wrong, but
inhumane: President Obama is currently planning "a month-long series of
raids in May and June to deport hundreds of Central American mothers and
children" who came to our country fleeing that same violence.
Sending women and children back into harm's way after they already fled
horrendous violence in Central America is painful and inhumane, and must be
stopped.
<https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/immigration-raids-petition?source=em160
514-fwd> Sign my petition asking President Obama to stop these raids and to
make sure that families fleeing violence in Central America are protected
from deportation.
Sign
<https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/immigration-raids-petition?source=em160
514-fwd> My Petition >
Donald Trump has of course called for building a "Great Wall" along the
border with Mexico. Hillary Clinton previously said that these same children
who fled violence in Latin America "should be sent back" in order to "send a
clear message."
I happen to see things differently. I don't believe that the United States
should turn away from our historic role as a haven for the oppressed.
I recently met a young Salvadoran woman who came to the United States on her
own at the age of 15 to flee gangs trying to recruit her. I've also spoken
with many children who have told me with tears streaming down their faces
that they live in daily fear that their parents will be taken away.
The United States of America must continue to be a refuge for the poor, the
tired, the oppressed, and certainly for women and children fleeing horrific
violence.
I urge President Obama to use his executive authority to protect families by
extending Temporary Protective Status for those who fled from Central
America, and I ask you to join me.
<https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/immigration-raids-petition?source=em160
514-fwd> Add your name to mine to ask President Obama to stop planned raids
and deportations of families fleeing violence in Central and Latin America.
Together, we can speak up to protect these families.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
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