Sarah Griffith

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  Sarah signed the petition | about 1 year ago

  Ask Gov. Schwarzenegger to Release Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan with Time Served
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  Sarah commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Pelosi Puts a Wall Up on Path to Citizenship

   I appreciated this story by Mr. Bennion.  I was really let down that so little was said about immigration reform during the primaries and generals.  I understand that the economy, the wars, and health care are important, but immigration and the hatred that people in this country have for immigrants (especially brown ones...sorry, but it's true) is serious, real, and in dire need of attention.  
  As for Nancy Pelosi: as a student of immigration history and comparative race theory, I know that politicians say what their constituents want to hear.  Pelosi is Congresswoman from California.  Californians are deeply divided on Latin American immigration, but the majority are supportive of punitive measures against "illegal" immigrants.  Pelosi needs votes to stay in power.  She'll go where the wind blows on the immigration debate if that means she gets her California vote....that is, if immigration reform is ever even considered a serious debate to have.  It's saddens me that Pelosi is outspoken on so many issues, and rightly so, however, when it comes to an issue that could potentially jeopardize her being re-elected in California, she backs down.  
  As a student of history, using the immigration debate as a political tool (and especially on the West coast where immigration from the Far East had become a political make-or-break right of passage between the 1860s through the 1960s) is nothing new.  It is my hope that this next administration will take up a national immigration reform package very, very soon.  This is an issue that deals with real people, with families, and with individuals who deserve the right to be treated as equals  in this country which means they play by the rules because the rules are created in a fair and humane way by politicians who aren't simply out to get re-elected.

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  Sarah commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Pelosi Puts a Wall Up on Path to Citizenship

  I appreciated this story by Mr. Bennion.  I was really let down that so little was said about immigration reform during the primaries and generals.  I understand that the economy, the wars, and health care are important, but immigration and the hatred that people in this country have for immigrants (especially brown ones...sorry, but it's true) is serious, real, and in dire need of attention.  
  As for Nancy Pelosi: as a student of immigration history and comparative race theory, I know that politicians say what their constituents want to hear.  Pelosi is Congresswoman from California.  Californians are deeply divided on Latin American immigration, but the majority are supportive of punitive measures against "illegal" immigrants.  Pelosi needs votes to stay in power.  She'll go where the wind blows on the immigration debate if that means she gets her California vote....that is, if immigration reform is ever even considered a serious debate to have.  It's saddens me that Pelosi is outspoken on so many issues, and rightly so, however, when it comes to an issue that could potentially jeopardize her being re-elected in California, she backs down.  
  As a student of history, using the immigration debate as a political tool (and especially on the West coast where immigration from the Far East had become a political make-or-break right of passage between the 1860s through the 1960s) is nothing new.  It is my hope that this next administration will take up a national immigration reform package very, very soon.  This is an issue that deals with real people, with families, and with individuals who deserve the right to be treated as equals  in this country which means they play by the rules because the rules are created in a fair and humane way by politicians who aren't simply out to get re-elected.