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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:Jeremy Funk, 605-366-3654
May 8, 2014 Lindolfo Carballo, [email protected]
***Media Advisory for Thursday, May 8 at 5:30 PM ET in D.C.***
Immigration Reform Advocates to Greet GOP House Leader with Signs That Say “Eric Cantor: The One Man Blocking Immigration Reform” Ahead of His Award Ceremony with CHLI
Washington D.C. – Before Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor accepts a ‘public service award’ tonight at an event with the conservative Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute, Cantor will be greeted by immigration reform advocates waving signs that say: “Eric Cantor: The One Man Blocking Immigration Reform.” The pro-economic growth advocates will gather outside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel at 5:30 pm ET and will also pass out flyers to CHLI event attendees that say: “Eric Cantor is the One Man Blocking Immigration Reform. As Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor is siding with the anti-immigrant wing of the Republican Caucus and refuses to call the Senate passed immigration reform bill for a vote on the floor of the House. If the bill were called, it would pass. Demand that Cantor give immigration reform an up or down vote on the floor of the House.”
Some have speculated that Speaker John Boehner was referring to Cantor when he vented his frustration on immigration reform: “I think we should but the appetite, the appetite amongst my colleagues for doing this is not real good. Here’s the attitude, ‘Ohhh, don’t make me do this. Ohhh, this is too hard.’
Jeremy Funk, Comm. Dir., Americans United for Change: “Eric Cantor simultaneously panders to the extremist Tea Party elements in his caucus – gavel envy? – at the same time he tries to put on a business friendly face for the Wall Street wing of the Republican Party. Cantor needs to decide whether he is going to be “the new face of the Republican Party” or whether he is going to continue to enable the anti-immigrant elements in his caucus like Steve King.”
WHO: Lindolfo Carballo, Community Organizer, Casa de Virginia
Virginia families Impacted by the broken immigration system
Rabbi Jason Kimmelman-Block
Bend the Arc Jewish Action
WHAT: Visibility outside CHLI award event for Eric Cantor; Advocates to Wave “Eric Cantor: The One Man Blocking Immigration Reform” Signs
WHERE: In front of Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 1330 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC
WHEN: Thursday, May 8 at 5:30 PM ET in D.C.
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