Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform!
"Please support comprehensive immigration reform that strengthens and protects America?s family immigration system and creates a pathway to citizenship"
As your constituent, I write to express my support for comprehensive immigration reform, and I urge you to support comprehensive immigration reform that strengthens and protects America?s family immigration system and creates a pathway to citizenship. Any effort to fix our broken immigration system MUST be comprehensive and take into consideration the millions of immigrant families who already contribute to America?s success and aspire to reunite with loved ones.
Comprehensive immigration reform and improvement of our family-based system are crucial to the socioeconomic success of immigrant families?and all American families?here in our state and across the nation. Healthy families build a strong middle class and help grow our economy, making the U.S. more competitive in the global market.
The Senate?s bipartisan bill, which passed with nearly 70 votes, demonstrates the overwhelming support of Americans across party lines, demographics, and geography for comprehensive immigration reform. Despite strong protest from many communities against the bill?s elimination of the sibling and adult married category, the Senate bill nevertheless contains key family provisions benefiting immigrant families. These include the elimination of decades-long backlogs and strengthening the ability of some family members to reunite.
In your own chamber, Representative Mike Honda, along with 67 co-sponsors, has introduced the Reuniting Families Act (H.R. 717) that proposes needed reforms to our family immigration system. H.R. 717 stands in stark contrast to the SKILLS Visas Act (H.R. 2131), which would eliminate sibling sponsorship and invalidate many approved applications in the visa backlog. These changes would have a devastating impact on immigrant communities and our economy. I urge your support to include pro-family measures like those in the Reuniting Families Act (H.R. 717) in comprehensive immigration reform.
I, with many in your district, look forward to your leadership in comprehensive immigration reform that protects family unity and strengthens the ability for U.S. citizens and permanent residents to reunite with their loved ones in a timely manner.
Comprehensive immigration reform and improvement of our family-based system are crucial to the socioeconomic success of immigrant families?and all American families?here in our state and across the nation. Healthy families build a strong middle class and help grow our economy, making the U.S. more competitive in the global market.
The Senate?s bipartisan bill, which passed with nearly 70 votes, demonstrates the overwhelming support of Americans across party lines, demographics, and geography for comprehensive immigration reform. Despite strong protest from many communities against the bill?s elimination of the sibling and adult married category, the Senate bill nevertheless contains key family provisions benefiting immigrant families. These include the elimination of decades-long backlogs and strengthening the ability of some family members to reunite.
In your own chamber, Representative Mike Honda, along with 67 co-sponsors, has introduced the Reuniting Families Act (H.R. 717) that proposes needed reforms to our family immigration system. H.R. 717 stands in stark contrast to the SKILLS Visas Act (H.R. 2131), which would eliminate sibling sponsorship and invalidate many approved applications in the visa backlog. These changes would have a devastating impact on immigrant communities and our economy. I urge your support to include pro-family measures like those in the Reuniting Families Act (H.R. 717) in comprehensive immigration reform.
I, with many in your district, look forward to your leadership in comprehensive immigration reform that protects family unity and strengthens the ability for U.S. citizens and permanent residents to reunite with their loved ones in a timely manner.
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