CASA de Maryland (also called CASA) is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) immigration advocacy organization that helps immigrants, most often of Central American extraction, find employment, regardless of their legal status in the United States. CASA’s executive director has told workers he will never turn their names over to federal immigration officials.
CASA leads its membership in political and policy advocacy that has included public demonstrations against the Trump administration’s restrictionist immigration policies, promoting a path to citizenship for immigrants living illegally in the United States, promoting legislation allowing undocumented aliens to pay in-state tuition at Maryland state colleges, and campaigns to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
CASA is one of five organizations suing to overturn the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. census form. In 2008, CASA tried to prevent the police department in Montgomery County, Maryland, from giving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents the names of foreign nationals arrested for violent crimes and illegal firearms possession.
In November 2007, CASA executive director Gustavo Torres attended a conference in Venezuela, a nation then ruled by hard-left socialist president Hugo Chavez, where the main event was a panel discussion entitled “United States: A possible revolution.” The following year Citgo Petroleum – an oil company owned by the Venezuelan government – made a $1.5 million donation to CASA.
In addition to funding sources controlled by the Venezuelan government, federal state and local governments in the United States have provided a significant share of CASA’s donations. A 2011 Washington Post profile reported that “nearly half” of CASA’s $6 million budget came from “local, state and federal appropriations.” Contributors noted in the 2017 CASA annual report include several federal agencies, the state governments of Maryland and Virginia, and local government agencies within those states.
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We Must speak out against Maryland becoming a Sanctuary State. Montgomery County has had 9 murders and rapes since July of this year. NOT acceptable, yet it's only going to get worse if we don't do what we can to stop it now.
ReplyDeleteILLEGALS should not / never receive any US tax payer money / benefits. The US should send them back to the Country of origin. It would be cheaper and save our democracy.
ReplyDeleteWhy do these people blame Trump for everything?? He is just “putting out fires”. The LAWMAKERS can solve these problems with a little cooperation!!!
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