[LWVNM Action] Action Digest, Vol 22, Issue 1

Mon Aug 2 12:32:31 MDT 2021

THX Meredith.  Do any of these articles have an action request?
*Nevertheless She Persisted, 2020 Centennial Celebration of Woman's Vote   *
*Sonya*

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 9:55 AM <action-request at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> Send Action mailing list submissions to
>         action at mailman.swcp.com
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>         https://mailman.swcp.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/action
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>         action-request at mailman.swcp.com
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
>         action-owner at mailman.swcp.com
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Action digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
>    1. Coalition for the American Dream-90 top CEOS urge Pres. Biden
>       and Congress to pass path to citizenship for Dreamers,
>       letter-7-29-21 (Meredith Machen)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 18:42:14 -0600
> From: "Meredith Machen" <mermachen at cybermesa.com>
> To: <lwvus-immigration-discussion-group at googlegroups.com>, "LWVNM
>         Action" <Action at mailman.swcp.com>
> Subject: [LWVNM Action] Coalition for the American Dream-90 top CEOS
>         urge Pres. Biden and Congress to pass path to citizenship for
>         Dreamers, letter-7-29-21
> Message-ID: <00f501d78737$3e862a10$bb927e30$@cybermesa.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> In mid-July, federal judge Andrew Hanen of Houston ruled on a
> administrative
> procedural technicality that President Obama in 2012 had exceeded his
> authority when creating DACA-Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This
> ruling has dashed the dreams of 800,000 Dreamers who have been in limbo
> since then.  Now major corporations are urging Congress and Pres. Biden to
> do the right thing and pass long-overdue legislation that was thwarted by
> the previous administration and ignored by Congress.  All of the research I
> have seen indicates that the American economy depends on immigrant labor to
> thrive. The CEOs push this time to at least provide for the very popular
> Dream Act legislation to be passed will make a difference for a small
> segment of the population. Comprehensive immigration reform has a hard,
> long
> battle ahead, but "Poco a poco, se llega muy lejos."    Meredith Machen,
> LWVUS Immigration Group, co-moderator
> **********
> More than 90 CEOs, including Apple's Tim Cook, are urging Congress to pass
> a
> law offering a citizenship path to young immigrants brought illegally to
> the
> US as children,
> <
> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-29/cook-pichai-join-ceos-ur
> ging-congress-pass-path-to-citizenship
> <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-29/cook-pichai-join-ceos-urging-congress-pass-path-to-citizenship>>
> Bloomberg reports.
> In the
> <
> https://www.coalitionfortheamericandream.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/7.29
> .21-CEO-Letter.pdf
> <https://www.coalitionfortheamericandream.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/7.29.21-CEO-Letter.pdf>>
> letter signed by Apple's Tim Cook, Facebook's Mark
> Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai, Amazon's Andy Jassy, Microsoft's Brad
> Smith, and many others, the CEOs write on behalf of the "recent ruling in
> the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
> regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program."
> "The district court's ruling is devastating for hundreds of thousands of
> Dreamers, as it found the program to be unlawful. While it allows those who
> currently have DACA to continue to renew their status-for now-it further
> throws into chaos the lives of these Dreamers and impedes their ability to
> legally work and contribute to our country.
> We strongly urge Congress to pass legislation to provide a pathway to
> citizenship for Dreamers. Securing a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers
> not
> only is the right thing to do, but is a huge economic benefit to the United
> States."
> It's not the first time Apple and Tim Cook
> <https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/02/apple-files-daca-amicus-brief-tim-cook/>
> put their voices and names behind the Deferred Action for Childhood
> Arrivals, or DACA, policy. In 2019, Apple said that it employed 443 DACA
> holders - or Dreamers - across 36 states in the United States. In 2017,
> Apple employed 250 Dreamers, so that number has grown by quite a bit since
> then.
> In this new letter signed by over 90 CEOs, Tim Cook and other chief
> executives officers even quoted President Biden's speech after meeting with
> Dreamers: "These young people are part of the fabric of our nation and
> vital
> to our future."
> The letter follows:
> "Dreamers add billions of dollars to our GDP; they are employees who fill
> key roles at our companies; they pay federal, state, and local taxes; they
> work with us, start their own small businesses, teach our children in
> school, and serve in our military. About half of all Dreamers are essential
> workers who have been serving on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis."
> These CEOs are urging Congress to pass legislation that creates a pathway
> to
> citizenship for Dreamers and allows them to remain in the US to work,
> attend
> school, and/or serve in the military without fear of deportation.
> According to Bloomberg, President Biden proposed a pathway to citizenship
> for 11 million people living illegally in the US, "but House Speaker Nancy
> Pelosi earlier this year opted for a pared-back approach to attract support
> from moderate Democrats."
>
> https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/29/tim-cook-and-other-ceos-team-up-to-call-on-co
> ngress-to-pass-path-to-citizenship-for-dreamers/
> <https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/29/tim-cook-and-other-ceos-team-up-to-call-on-congress-to-pass-path-to-citizenship-for-dreamers/>
>
>
> Meredith Machen
> League of Women Voters of New Mexico
>
>  <tel:505-577-6337> 505-577-6337 c
>  <mailto:projects at lwvnm.org> projects at lwvnm.org
>  <mailto:meredith.machen at gmail.com> meredith.machen at gmail.com
>
> Empowering Voters - Defending Democracy
>
>
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <
> http://mailman.swcp.com/pipermail/action/attachments/20210801/dcbd4c2d/attachment.htm
> >
> -------------- next part --------------
> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
> Name: Immigration Dreamers need pathway to citizenship
> 7.29.21-CEO-Letter.pdf
> Type: application/pdf
> Size: 76238 bytes
> Desc: not available
> URL: <
> http://mailman.swcp.com/pipermail/action/attachments/20210801/dcbd4c2d/attachment.pdf
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Subject: Digest Footer
>
> _______________________________________________
> Action mailing list
> Action at mailman.swcp.com
> https://mailman.swcp.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/action
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> End of Action Digest, Vol 22, Issue 1
> *************************************
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.swcp.com/pipermail/action/attachments/20210802/26239fbe/attachment.htm>