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Support immigration laws that keep children safe
CEASE is speaking out and encouraging others to do the same against immigration raids particularly focused on Latino workers throughout the country. It has been reported that as many as 13,000 people have been arrested nationwide, affecting families and especially children of the families. Contact your representative to protest these raids and their effects on families and children. For additional information, contact the National Immigration Justice Center.
After Arizona passed a brutal immigration law in 2010, CEASE wrote a letter to NAEYC, which was holding its Professional Development Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, soon after the law was passed, to speak up more visibly and specifically about the damage that law would do to America's young children.
- NAEYC Governing Board 2010
- NAEYC Response
May 26, 2010
Mark Ginsberg, Executive Director
Jerlean Daniel, Executive Director Designate
Sue Russell, President
Stephanie Fanjul, President-Elect
NAEYC
1313 L St. NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC, 20005-4101
Dear Mark, Jerry, Sue and Stephanie,
CEASE has asked me to send the following communication to you, in hopes that you will distribute it to the members of NAEYC's Board of Governors and will take timely action on it. If we can be of any help in this regard, please feel free to contact us.
We believe that the Governing Board's statement is a good foundation for NAEYC's response to Arizona's new immigration law, but it clearly is just the beginning. The Special Session at the Professional Development Institute (PDI) in Phoenix on the impact of immigration law and policy on us and our children should be an opportunity for NAEYC's leaders to pave the way toward greater consciousness and activism among our members and their communities, but also within our PDI host community, on how the policies embedded in Arizona's new law hurt young children, not only in Arizona. Within your Special Session, please use Louise Derman-Sparks' "Anti-Bias Education" which supports our concerns that all children will be adversely affected by this law. NAEYC's leaders should make public statements about this in Arizona's newspapers and television stations. The Governing Board should adopt a policy that, following the PDI, NAEYC will not sponsor regional or national meetings in any jurisdiction that would deny basic human rights to children and their families. Specifically, NAEYC should join La Raza and other national organizations in signing their Pledge to Boycott Intolerance, Boycott Arizona, http://action. nclr.org/ p/dia/action/ public/?action_ KEY=1754 .
Every American child deserves a home and family, but far too many U. S. Citizen children's parents without papers are warehoused in detention facilities for months or sent outside the United States, with no thought to the well-being and growth of their children. The Arizona law, if it is permitted to take force, would require everyone in Arizona to collaborate with these inhumane practices or risk criminal fines or imprisonment. It would promote racial profiling, making even U.S. Citizen Latinos suspect in their own communities by forcing them to carry identification papers with them everywhere.
How can NAEYC be a high performing inclusive organization (HPIO) unless its leaders, and we, act as role models for simple human decency and respect for the children in our care and their families?
Sincerely
John Surr, for CEASE
