March 6, 2006<\/p>\n
Dear Senator,<\/p>\n
We, the undersigned 84 organizations and 117 individuals are writing to urge you to oppose provisions in the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006” which the Senate Judiciary is debating this week that would harm various vulnerable populations, including asylum-seekers, children, trafficking victims, and others seeking protection in the United States. No matter what your position is on a temporary guest worker program or border enforcement, we can and should all agree that the United States must uphold its legal commitment and moral obligation to provide refuge to those fleeing persecution or abuse in their home countries. As written, provisions included in Titles II and VII would further harm these already at risk individuals. For example, the bill would:<\/p>\n
Limit Access to the Federal Courts<\/p>\n
Criminalize Asylum Seekers, Trafficking Victims, and Other Vulnerable Populations<\/p>\n
Provide for Prolonged or Indefinite Detention of Asylum Seekers and Others<\/p>\n
We recognize and support the need to reform our nation’s immigration laws. However, this can and should be accomplished in a thoughtful and deliberate manner that does not harm refugees, battered women, and other vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n
Many of the undersigned organizations and individuals will also be writing to you separately to discuss these and other issues of concern with this bill. Thank you for your consideration.<\/p>\n
Respectfully,<\/p>\n
Organizations<\/strong><\/p>\n Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma Individuals *<\/strong><\/p>\n Kerry Abrams Muneer I. Ahmad Deborah Anker Lisa E. Bagley Theresa E. Barrett Jennifer Barton Jon Bauer Monique Beadle, Refugee Project Director Eva M. Berbegal<\/p>\n Jacqueline Bhabha Lisa Block Linda Bosniak Prof. Richard A. Boswell Susan Bowyer, Managing Attorney Mary Brittingham Elizabeth M. Bruch Susan Bryant Michelle Caldera Simone Campbell-Scott<\/p>\n Janet M. Calvo Stacy Caplow Herb Castillo, Executive Director Jennifer M. Chacon Michael J. Churgin Amanda Coleman Sue Colussy<\/p>\n Rev. Barb Dinnen Catherine J. Douglass<\/p>\n Troy E. Elder Thomas Esparza, Jr.<\/p>\n James P. Eyster Christine Feagan<\/p>\n Todd D. Fernow Niels W. Frenzen Maryellen Fullerton Paula Galowitz Dr. Frances Geteles, psychologist<\/p>\n Pamela Goldberg Anne Goldstein Catherine Griebel<\/p>\n Mrs. Talat Hamdani Kim Harrison<\/p>\n Michael G. Heyman Dina Francesca Haynes Barbara Hines Matthew I. Hirsch Susan C. Hopkins, Esq.<\/p>\n Carly Hutchinson<\/p>\n Lauren Huston<\/p>\n Kate Jastram Harvey Kaplan (attorney)<\/p>\n Allen S. Keller, M.D. Nancy Kelly Anne Kemper<\/p>\n Jillian N. Kong-Sivert, Attorney at Law Hilary Kopple<\/p>\n Lewis Kurlantzick Margaret Lamb<\/p>\n Narita Maraj<\/p>\n Hugh Macgill M. Isabel Medina Kathleen A. Moccio Prof. Nancy Morawetz Thomas Morawetz Riikka E. Morrill Prof. Karen Musalo Jonathan Robert Nelson, Esq., Alizabeth Newman Barbara A. Niess, MPA, MSW Michael A. Olivas Melanie Orhant, Esq. Carson Osberg<\/p>\n Maureen O'Sullivan (attorney)<\/p>\n Catherine Paplin<\/p>\n Roy Petty Rev. Antoinette Pezet<\/p>\n Michele Pistone Dianne Post<\/p>\n Kathi Pugh Jaya Ramji-Nogales<\/p>\n Anne Rapkin<\/p>\n Nancy Lynn Robertson Susan Roche, Esq. Cristina Rodriguez Ted Ruthizer Lauren Sachs<\/p>\n David Saphire<\/p>\n Ragini Shah Andrew I. Schoenholtz Philip G. Schrag Barbara Schwartz Anita Sinha, Advocacy Director Deborah S. Smith Charles Song and Sunny Lee Nancy Spencer<\/p>\n James H. Stark Kurt A. Strasser Carlina Tapia-Ruano Margaret Taylor Rev. Linda Theophilus, David B. Thronson Bernard Trujillo Diane Uchimiya Anne Underwood, Esq.<\/p>\n Stephen Utz Jesse Leah Vear Athena Viscusi, LICSW Douglas P. Wachholz, Esq. Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia Jonathan Weinberg Virgil Wiebe John Willshire-Carrera Arthur D. 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American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
American Friends Service Committee
American Immigration Lawyers Association
American Jewish Committee
Amnesty International – USA
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Break the Chain Campaign
Brewster Center Domestic Violence Services, Inc
Boat People SOS
Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition
Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Corning NY
Center for Battered Women's Legal Services
Sanctuary for Families
Center for Gender & Refugee Studies,
University of California,
Hastings College of the Law
Center for National Security Studies
Center for Victims of Torture
Center for Women Policy Studies
Christian Legal Society
Church Women United
Church Women United of Chemung County (NY)
Church Women United of NYS
Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program
Cornell University Law School
Asylum\/CAT Appeals Clinic
The Door – A Center of Alternatives, Inc.
Empire Justice Center
Episcopal Migration Ministries
Ethiopian Community Development Council, Inc.
Fairfax County Privacy Council
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
Hispanic Development Corporation, Newark
Human Rights First
Human Rights Watch
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project
Immigration Equality
Institute for the Study of Psychosocial Trauma, Palo Alto, CA
Interfaith Refugee Action Team Elizabeth (IRATE)
International Institute of the East Bay
International Rescue Committee
Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Jesuit Refugee Service – USA
Jubilee Campaign USA
Kurdish Human Rights Watch, Inc.
Ladies of Charity of Chemung County (NY)
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights – San Francisco
Legal Momentum
Legal Services for Children – San Francisco
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Maine Civil Liberties Union
Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center
Migrant and Refugee Cultural Support, Inc (MIRECS)
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
Morning Star House Inc.
The Multiracial Activist
Na Loio- Immigrant Rights and Public Interest Legal Center
National Immigration Forum
Network Against Human Trafficking
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
Past Regents' Club, Diocese of Rochester (NY)
Pax Christi Maine
Pax Christi, Upstate NY
Peace Action Maine
Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center
Physicians for Human Rights
Political Asylum Project of Austin
Prison Legal News
Rocky Mountain Survivors Center
Social Justice Commission of Sacred Heart – St. Dominic Church
Portland, ME
Safe Horizon
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence
Tahirih Justice Center
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
University of Connecticut School of Law
Asylum and Human Rights Clinic
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Vermont Refugee Assistance
Washington Defender Association's – Immigration Project
Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Women Empowered Against Violence, Inc. (WEAVE)
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Women’s Law Project
World Relief<\/p>\n
Associate Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law<\/p>\n
Associate Professor of Law
American University Washington College of Law<\/p>\n
Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic<\/p>\n
Shearman & Sterling LLP<\/p>\n
LIRS Ambassador<\/p>\n
Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights<\/p>\n
Clinical Professor of Law and Director,
Asylum and Human Rights Clinic
University of Connecticut School of Law<\/p>\n
World Organization for Human Rights USA<\/p>\n
Executive Director
University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Harvard University<\/p>\n
Safety Network Community Organizer, Southern District<\/p>\n
Professor, Rutgers University School of Law<\/p>\n
Univ. of California, Hastings College of the Law<\/p>\n
International Institute of the East Bay
Oakland, CA<\/p>\n
Associate Professor of Clinical Law
George Washington University Law Center<\/p>\n
Associate Professor of Law
Valparaiso University School of Law<\/p>\n
CUNY School of Law<\/p>\n
William R. Davis Clinical Teaching Fellow
UConn Law School
Asylum & Human Rights Clinic<\/p>\n
Professor of Law CUNY School of Law<\/p>\n
Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Education
Brooklyn Law School<\/p>\n
International Institute of the East Bay
Oakland, CA<\/p>\n
Acting Professor
U.C. Davis School of Law<\/p>\n
Raybourne Thompson Centennial Professor
University of Texas School of Law<\/p>\n
Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Anthropology
New School for Social Research<\/p>\n
Las Americas Comunidad de Fe\/Trinity United Methodist Church<\/p>\n
Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Carlos A. Costa Immigration and Human Rights Clinic
FIU College of Law<\/p>\n
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
Ave Maria Law School<\/p>\n
Prof of Law
Univ. of CT School of Law<\/p>\n
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Southern California
Gould School of Law<\/p>\n
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School<\/p>\n
Clinical Professor of Law
New York University School of Law<\/p>\n
Consultant<\/p>\n
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
University of Connecticut School of Law<\/p>\n
Mother of:
Mohammad Salam Hamdani
NYPD CADET, WTC II<\/p>\n
Professor,
The John Marshall Law School<\/p>\n
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
University of Nevada at Las Vegas<\/p>\n
Clinical Professor of Law
Immigration Clinic
University of Texas School of Law<\/p>\n
Adjunct Professor
Widener University School of Law<\/p>\n
Lecturer in Residence
Boalt Hall School of Law
University of California<\/p>\n
Director, Bellevue\/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture<\/p>\n
Clinical Supervisor, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic<\/p>\n
Becker, Hadeed, Kellog & Berry, P.C<\/p>\n
Professor of Law
University of Connecticut School of Law<\/p>\n
Oliver Ellsworth Research Professor
Director, Int'l Graduate Studies
University of Connecticut School of Law<\/p>\n
Ferris Family Professor of Law
Loyola University New Orleans
School of Law<\/p>\n
Director, Pro Bono Development
American Immigration Lawyers Association<\/p>\n
Professor of Clinical Law
New York University School of Law<\/p>\n
Tapping Reeve Professor of Law and Ethics
University of Connecticut School of Law<\/p>\n
Accredited Rep\/Paralegal
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project<\/p>\n
Univ. of California, Hastings College of the Law<\/p>\n
New York, New York<\/p>\n
Director Immigrant Initiatives
CUNY School of Law<\/p>\n
SafeHouse Center<\/p>\n
University of Houston Law Center<\/p>\n
Anti-Human Trafficking Consultant<\/p>\n
Law Offices of Roy Petty<\/p>\n
Professor and Director, Clinical Program & CARES Clinic Villanova University School of Law<\/p>\n
Pro Bono Program Counsel
Morrison & Foerster<\/p>\n
Staff Attorney\/Public Policy Coordinator
Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence<\/p>\n
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project<\/p>\n
Assistant Professor of Law
NYU School of Law<\/p>\n
Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School<\/p>\n
Clinical Staff Attorney
Child Advocacy and Immigration Clinic
Columbia University Law School<\/p>\n
Georgetown University Law Center<\/p>\n
Professor of Law
Georgetown University<\/p>\n
Clinical Professor
University of Iowa College of Law<\/p>\n
International Institute of the East Bay
Oakland, CA<\/p>\n
Reynolds, Motl and Sherwood, PLLP
(Adjunct Professor, The University of Montana School of Law)<\/p>\n
Santa Monica, Ca<\/p>\n
Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic
University of Connecticut School of Law<\/p>\n
Phillip I. Blumberg Professor
University of Connecticut Law School<\/p>\n
President-Elect AILA
Minsky, McCormick & Hallagan, PC, Principal<\/p>\n
Professor of Law
Wake Forest University School of Law<\/p>\n
Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Eastmont<\/p>\n
Associate Professor of Law
Co-Director, Immigration Clinic
Boyd School of Law at UNLV<\/p>\n
U. Wisconsin Law School<\/p>\n
Assistant Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law<\/p>\n
Professor of Law
University of Connecticut School of Law<\/p>\n
Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights<\/p>\n
Clinical Director
Neighbors Consejo<\/p>\n
Centro Latino de Abogados<\/p>\n
Adjunct Professor of Law
Washington College of Law at American University<\/p>\n
Professor of Law
Wayne State University<\/p>\n
Associate Professor of Law
University of St. Thomas School of Law<\/p>\n
Clinical Supervisor, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic<\/p>\n
Professor of Law
Western New England College<\/p>\n
Immigrant Children's Advocacy Project<\/p>\n
Migration and Refugee Services
Diocese of Trenton, NJ<\/p>\n