IMMEDIATE ADOPTION
Number
190557
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
COMMON COUNCIL
Title
Resolution urging the United States Congress to introduce and pass legislation that would create a three-year renewable visa program for spouses and parents of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status recipients.
Analysis
This resolution urges the United States Congress to introduce and pass legislation that would create a three-year renewable visa program for spouses and parents of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status recipients.
Body
Whereas, The practice of separating children from their families is an arbitrary interference in family life, and the separation of children from their parents is a violation of human rights; and
Whereas, The United Nations human rights office has stated that the Trump administration’s practice of separating children from migrant families entering the United States violates their rights and international law, and the United Nations urges an immediate halt to the practice; and
Whereas, The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in San Diego, calling for a halt to the practice of separating children of migrants from their parents and for reunification of families; and
Whereas, The struggle to protect the rights of children to stay with their families is deeply embedded in our nation’s history from its original perpetration during the genocide of native Americans and the holocaust of slavery when children were torn from their parents; and
Whereas, The U.S. Congress previously urged former president Barack Obama to issue executive orders to temporarily prevent deportations that separate families with U.S.-born children or children eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); and
Whereas, President Obama issued executive orders that provided the deferral of deportation and the provision of work permission...
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