Sample Message: "Hello, my name is Name and I am a Catholic in City Texas. I am calling to ask that you oppose SB 9 and HB 9. As a Catholic, I believe in promoting the life and dignity of all human life, including the lives of immigrants in our communities. Therefore, I am asking you to oppose SB 9 and HB 9. These bills threaten public safety and endanger the civil and constitutional rights of Texas residents. It is an expensive way to make our cities less safe. Thse bills could encourage discrimination, co-opt local law enforcement, and scapegoat immigrants who are valuable contributors to our society and our state. Solutions to our nation's broken immigration system must be implemented through federal comprehensive immigration reform. Piecemeal policies such as SB 9 and HB 9 only serve to separate and weaken the communities in our state. Thank you for your time. For more information you can contact the Texas Catholic Conference at 512-339-9882."
House State Affairs Committee Members: Representative Byron Cook: (512) 463-0730,
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Representative Pete Gallego: (512) 463-0566,
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Representative Charlie Geren: (512) 463-0610,
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Representative Patricia Harless: (512) 463-0496,
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Representative Harvey Hilderbran: (512) 463-0536,
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Representative John Frullo: (512) 463-0676,
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Representative John Smithee: (512) 463-0702,
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Representative Burt Solomons: (512) 463-0478,
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Representative Sylvester Turner: (512) 463-0554,
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Representative Dan Huberty: (512) 463-0520,
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Representative Tom Craddick: (512) 463-0500,
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Representative Jose Menendez: (512) 463-0634,
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Representative Rene Oliveira: (512) 463-0640,
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Please act by June 20, 2011. If you contact the office and this alert has already expired, you may ask for your legislator's position and thank him or her or express your disappointment accordingly.Please feel free to write to us at
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to let us know about your advocacy experience and about any responses you receive. Our Catholic Faith
State and local law enforcement authorities have many serious concerns on their hands, such as protecting our communities from those who seek to harm others. If these provisions are enacted into law, we fear that immigrant communities would no longer trust local police to protect them or to share with them important information about crime in their neighborhoods. We also are fearful that massive-scale enforcement of civil immigration laws by improperly trained state and local police officials will result in inadvertent deprivations of even citizens’ and lawful permanent residents’ civil and constitutional rights. Instead of criminalizing these persons, we should permit those who are here to earn a legal status so they can come forward and contribute to our nation without fear. (Testimony of Bishop James Tamayo, Bishop of Laredo, Texas, March 28, 2007)
