Petitions

Goal: 1000 signatures. Help is needed until May 31, 2004.

Petition Info/Content | Petition Availability | Promote Petitions | Take Action Online

Petition Info

The Border Justice Committee will be sponsoring the following petitions:

  • Migrants Forum Petition # 1: Immigration Policy Reform (pdf version)
    Intended Recipients: Arizona Legislators
    Summary:     We urge you to make comprehensive and common-sense immigration reform a legislative priority. We cannot afford to ignore the human tragedy that is resulting from current policies. The U.S. has long stood as a beacon for human rights around the world and ignoring the deaths along our border cannot continue. We must reform immigration policy and end the deaths that occur in the desert.

  • Migrants Forum Petition # 2: Vote no on Anti-Immigrant Bills (pdf version)
    Intended Recipients: Arizona Legislators
    Summary:     Please work against anti-immigrant legislation to ensure that the fundamental rights of immigrants are not endangered; such as: (a) House Bill 2448 (suspension of businesses permits for employers who employ undocumented workers), (b) House Bill 2652 (authorizing armed volunteers to patrol the Mexican border), (c) House Bill 2392 (requiring out-of-state tuition for undocumented Arizona residents). Please work for legislation that legitimizes the presence of immigrants and provides humane immigration and living standards.

  • Migrants Forum Petition # 3: Support the International Migrant Workers Convention (pdf version)
    Intended Recipients: Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl
    Summary:     The undersigned support the passage of the International Migrant Workers Convention and ask that Arizona Senators work to promote its signing and ratification. The Convention works to ensure that all migrants and migrant families (documented and undocumented) are guaranteed basic human rights and fundamental equalities. Convention provisions work to: Prevent inhumane living and working conditions, physical and sexual abuse and degrading treatments; guarantee migrants’ rights to freedom of thought, expression and religion; guarantee migrants’ access to information on their rights; ensure migrants’ right to legal equality, which implies that migrant workers are subject to correct procedures, have access to interpreting services and are not sentenced to disproportionate penalties such as expulsion; guarantee migrants’ equal access to educational and social services; ensure that migrants have the right to participate in trade unions; etc.
    More Info: United Nations (Convention Text) | Amnesty International     | Global Campaign for Ratification

Petition Availability

  • Sign petitions at the following event locations
    • Amensty International Table Wednesday March 31 and April 14 in the Delph Courtyard from 11:30 - 1:00
    • All Border Justice Speaking and Performance Events

Promote Petitions

  • The Border Justice Committee needs help in promoting the petitions. Consider bringing these petitions to your on or off campus event. Outside groups are welcome to participate.
    • Petitions will be available for download
    • If possible, contact a Border Justice representative if you will be using these petitions and contributing the collected signatures to the ASU West Border Justice submissions.
    • Please submit petitions to william.simmons@asu.edu

Take Action Online

There are many ways to take action online regarding migant and border issues. In addition to contributing signatures to the Border Justice petitions, consider taking action online through one of the following agencies:

  

Related Info