[NOW Action List] Call Your Senators on Wednesday, Sept. 27!

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Action Needed Background All NOW Actions		Call Your Senators and Demand Real Immigration Reform, Not Prisons and Walls The Senate may vote this week on "The Secure Fence Act," H.R. 6061, a bill to erect a 700 mile wall on part of our 2,000 mile shared border with Mexico. Its cost when completed is estimated to be as much as seven billion dollars and will be built with precious taxpayer's funds as a sorry tribute to those who promote hatred, vigilante tactics and servitude. Action Needed: Wednesday, September 27, is a call-in day to ask Senators to OPPOSE this bill and others like it. Call your Senators' offices today -- use the Senate Switchboard number (202-224-3121) and ask for the Senators from your state, or get their office numbers. Let your Senators know that "real" immigration reform cannot be enforcement only and has little need for walls and prisons. NOW's letter, sent last week to all 100 Senators, includes many talking points. Call today: 202-224-3121 On an additional note, Monday night the House and Senate appropriations committees' conferees added almost $2 billion in funding for building some part of the fence into the $34.8 billion spending plan for the Department of Homeland Security for the coming year. The conferees DID turn down efforts to attach major immigration enforcement provisions being pushed by the House. Background: The House and Senate have passed different versions of anti-immigrant legislation that is very punitive to undocumented workers and immigrant families. See NOW's June 12 alert for more details. Both the House and the Senate bills are seriously flawed and there is little likelihood of agreement between the two houses on what the final bill should look like. Despite this stalemate, and to fuel the flame of anger and hatred toward immigrants, both the House and Senate are bringing up piecemeal pieces of the bills, focusing on "enforcement first," for electioneering purposes. Call today: 202-224-3121! Real immigration reform must deal with the reality of the lives of 12 million undocumented workers and their families who have come to our country for a better chance. Resources: Analysis of Secure Fence Act News Report on Appropriations conferee's agreement Senate Appropriators Block Harsh Enforcement Provisions from Conference Agreement on DHS Funding
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