{"id":797271,"date":"2019-07-01T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=368220"},"modified":"2019-07-01T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:18:19","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-stand-up-for-our-hardworking-immigrant-neighbors-and-their-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-stand-up-for-our-hardworking-immigrant-neighbors-and-their-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Stand up for our hardworking immigrant neighbors and their families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Dreamers stands with our Summit County families and all immigrant families as we strongly oppose the announced Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids targeting families in their homes throughout the U.S., including Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>We believe the president\u2019s advance notice of the ICE raids, in which he announced that \u201cICE will begin the process of removing the millions\u201d of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., and the subsequent postponement \u201cfor two weeks\u201d for negotiations, is a cruel political ploy designed to instill fear in immigrant families and to stoke an irrational fear of immigrants in his political base.<\/p>\n<p>We believe a threat to separate families should never be a negotiating tactic for any government leader.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Summit County and the mountain region, our friends and neighbors are afraid and have been calling local attorneys and support agencies to express their fears. Their No. 1 fear is they will be separated from their children. That this threat comes directly from the very top of our national government is indefensible.<\/p>\n<p>We are also very concerned with continuing reports of families and children being held in detention at the U.S border in inhumane, unsafe and worsening conditions. We believe our nation has the wealth and resources as well as the legal and moral responsibility to humanely and efficiently process the families seeking political asylum, safety and a better life in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>We urge all residents of Summit County, especially our local elected leaders, to stand up with Mountain Dreamers and voice strong support for our hardworking and productive immigrant neighbors and their families, and voice firm opposition to any actions designed to sow fear and division in our community.<\/p>\n<p>Summit and the mountain region is our community. We stand up in support of our friends, our neighbors, our colleagues and our classmates. Mountain Dreamers believes we are one community, and stronger because of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Dreamers est\u00e1 al lado de nuestras familias inmigrantes de los condados de Summit y Colorado y se opone firmemente a las redadas anunciadas de Inmigraci\u00f3n y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s) que atacan a las familias en sus hogares en los EE. UU., Incluido Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Creemos que el aviso anticipado del presidente de EE. UU. Sobre las redadas de ICE, en las que anunci\u00f3 que \u201cICE comenzar\u00e1 el proceso de remoci\u00f3n de los millones\u201d de inmigrantes indocumentados en los EE. UU., Y el posterior aplazamiento \u201cpor dos semanas\u201d para las negociaciones, es una Truco pol\u00edtico cruel dise\u00f1ado para infundir miedo en las familias inmigrantes, y para avivar un miedo irracional a los inmigrantes en su base pol\u00edtica.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Creemos que una amenaza para separar a las familias nunca debe ser una t\u00e1ctica de negociaci\u00f3n para ning\u00fan presidente o gobierno estadounidense.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aqu\u00ed en Summit y la regi\u00f3n de la monta\u00f1a, nuestros amigos y vecinos tienen miedo, y han estado llamando a los abogados locales y agencias de apoyo para expresar sus temores. Su temor n\u00famero uno es que ser\u00e1n separados de sus hijos. Que esta amenaza provenga directamente de lo m\u00e1s alto de nuestro gobierno nacional es indefendible.<\/p>\n<p>Tambi\u00e9n estamos muy preocupados por los informes continuos de familias y ni\u00f1os detenidos en la frontera de los Estados Unidos en condiciones inhumanas, inseguras y que empeoran. Creemos que nuestra naci\u00f3n tiene la riqueza, los recursos y la responsabilidad legal y moral de procesar de manera humana y eficiente a las familias que buscan asilo pol\u00edtico, seguridad y una vida mejor en los EE. UU.<\/p>\n<p>Exhortamos a todos los residentes del Condado de Summit, especialmente a nuestros l\u00edderes locales electos,&nbsp;p\u00f3ngase de pie con los So\u00f1adores de las Monta\u00f1as&nbsp;y a expresar su firme apoyo a nuestros vecinos inmigrantes, trabajadores y productivos, ya expresar su firme oposici\u00f3n a cualquier acci\u00f3n dise\u00f1ada para sembrar el miedo y la divisi\u00f3n en nuestra comunidad.<\/p>\n<p>Cumbre y la regi\u00f3n de la monta\u00f1a es nuestra comunidad. Nos levantamos para apoyar a nuestros amigos, vecinos, colegas y compa\u00f1eros de clase. \u00a1Los Mountain Dreamers creen que somos&nbsp;<em>una<\/em>&nbsp;comunidad, y m\u00e1s fuertes por eso!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-stand-up-for-our-hardworking-immigrant-neighbors-and-their-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Dreamers stands with our Summit County families and all immigrant families as we strongly oppose the announced Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids targeting families in their homes throughout the U.S., including Colorado. We believe the president\u2019s advance notice of the ICE raids, in which he announced that \u201cICE will begin the process of removing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 11:05:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}