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Before you ask, NO, I am not making this up. Please take this post seriously, because some calls need to be made. Delegate Kelli Sobonya (R-Cabell) is hosting a right wing anti-immigrant group at the State Capitol this Monday. The group was started by Pennsylvania Representative Daryl Metcalfe and styles itself under the innocuous heading, "State Legislators For Legal Immigration." Don't be fooled by the sanitized appearance. These people and their policies are down right mean and inhumane. And on Columbus day??? I know it's a Legislative interim, but holy smokes. Again, if you have a minute or two, please contact your legislator. Educate them on the dangers that these initiatives pose, and tell them to have no part in this right wing theater. For starters, the population of undocumented immigrants in West Virginia is so minute that legislation dedicated to the issue is not needed. Second, states that have enacted omnibus anti immigrant bills have been on the receiving end of a litany of problems, most of them economic. And now is absolutely the wrong time for mass amounts of West Virginians to end up unemployed because of the hurdles everyone will have to jump over to just to get and keep a job. That is the kicker with these types of bills. They don't address any substantive issues. They are completely reactionary and end up creating problems for citizens of the states that pass them into law. |
