[Cispes-Alert] Update: Join the Outrage Against Bush's Support for Repression and the Latest Manipulation of Immigration Policy

Tue Sep 25 16:49:24 EDT 2007

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September 25, 2007

CISPES ACTION ALERT UPDATE

Join Union Leaders and Elected Officials by Taking Action NOW    to Demand
that the U.S. Government Stop Denying Visas to Opposition Voices! 

Go here
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=267&Itemid=
27>  for more background and information about how to respond; go here
<https://chavez.mayfirst.org/cispes/>  to help CISPES tell Bush that
Salvadoran Unionists Are Not Terrorists!

Since last week CISPES has been mobilizing people to stop the Bush
Administration's latest abuse of immigration law which would prevent
foreigners from voicing opposition to U.S. policy.  On September 20, in an
effort to keep us from hearing the truth about the growing opposition to the
disastrous U.S. economic program in El Salvador the U.S. Embassy in El
Salvador denied union leader Maria de los Angeles Pleitez Carcamo a visa to
come on a speaking tour of the U.S.  Check out the coverage of the CISPES
alert:

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/907/68/

http://www.tribunahispanausa.com/detallesdelanoticia.php?noticia=2163

Maria Pleitez: Threat to US Security or to Bush's Privatization Policies?

Pleitez is scheduled to participate in CISPES's "We Are Not Terrorists,
Organizing is Democracy!" tour from Oct 16-31.  During the tour Pleitez will
talk about her union's work to stop the privatization of the public health
care system and the increasing repression that social movement and union
leaders are suffering from the Salvadoran government.

Embassy officials made the blatant political nature of the visa refusal
clear.  Pleitez presented the U.S. Consulate in San Salvador with an
impressive array of documents, including proof of work, family ties, and
over a dozen letters of invitation from Congressional Representatives and
community groups.  But the Embassy wanted to know about her political
affiliations.  The U.S. consular representative questioned Pleitez about her
ties to CISPES and her union work and concluded the interview by referring
to the importance of U.S. security as the reason for her not being allowed
to travel in the U.S.

Union leaders from the U.S. and elected officials have responded to the visa
denial for the Salvadoran unionist.  On September 24 the many officials and
CISPES supporters who had written the Consulate received a letter of
response from Consul General Carl S. Cockburn asserting that "It would be
entirely irresponsible for anyone to attach a political explanation to this
matter, in the same manner that it would be dishonest of an applicant to
attribute to one of our consular officers political comments that the
officer would never make."  CISPES subsequently responded to Mr. Cockburn
and reiterated our belief that the rejection of Pleitez's visa was in fact
political in nature.  Click
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=268&Itemid=
27>  here to see a copy of the CISPES response to the US Embassy.

And take action NOW
<http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=267&Itemid=
27>  to continue demanding that the U.S. Consulate grant Ms. Pleitez a visa
immediately!

And finally, don't forget to support the important work CISPES does to
<https://chavez.mayfirst.org/cispes/>  bring the powerful voices of social
movement leaders like Maria Pleitez to the U.S.! 

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