Rights For All People

On April 28, Rights for All People / Derechos Para Todos (RAP) launched a campaign against unjust deportations that are shattering families, hurting communities, and wasting taxpayer dollars.  With immigrants leading the way, we are calling on every person who shares our concern to join this effort.

Deportations are on the rise

Increasingly, the broken federal immigration system is having a destructive effect on our local communities.  In the last two years, 800,000 people have been deported, many of them mothers, fathers or sons and daughters who pose no threat.  Mothers are being separated from their children, husbands from wives, contributing individuals from communities—even when no laws have been broken.  To be out of status in this country is a civil violation, akin to a traffic ticket.

And despite their best efforts and thousands of dollars to navigate the bureaucratic red tape of the broken federal immigration system, people are waiting 8, 10 or 20 years for their status petitions to be reviewed or resolved. During this time, many contribute to our communities by working hard for local businesses, volunteering in the community and participating in our childrens’ schools.

These families are our families, our friends, our neighbors.  They are members of our community. 

Profiting Off of Misery

Our tax dollars are being diverted from vital government services to tearing families apart. Between 2005 and 2009, for every dollar that GEO spent lobbying the government, the company received $662 in taxpayer funded contracts, totaling $996.7 million.[i] For years, GEO, the private prison corporation that runs the Aurora immigrant detention center, has profited hugely from lobbying.  Their efforts wreaked havoc on African American families and communities through the so-called War on Drugs.  Now they have turned to immigrant detention as their new “cash cow”.  

And Wells Fargo Bank is a primary stockholder in GEO, earning stock dividends while also serving as a financial advisor to Wall Street, urging its investors to buy stock in GEO.  The irony is that in the Denver area, many immigrants have accounts with Wells Fargo, a bank that has actively courted the Spanish speaking community. 

Our Campaign

We ask the broader public (that’s you!) to act with us against deportation and an inhumane system of laws that criminalizes communities of color every day. 

Please join us in this campaign!

Face the Truth Campaign

Rights for All People is a member of the Rights Working Group (RWG), a coalition made up of 260 community based and national organizations dedicated to ensuring that the American commitment to liberty and justice for all is fulfilled regardless of race, religión, ethnicity, national origin, or immigration status.  RAP actively participates in RWG’s Face the Truth Campaign which strives to end racial and religious profiling in our communities by:

* Revising the June 2003 Department of Justice Federal Guidance on Racial
   Profilingto eliminate the border and national security loophole, to              
   include profiling based on religion and ethnic origin, and to ensure that the 
   guidance is enforceable.

* Eliminating Department of Homeland Security programs that result in racial
   profiling in immigration enforcement.

* Securing passage of federal legislation to ban racial profiling - the "End
   Racial Profiling Act."



Rights for All People is an active participant in the National 'Reform Immigration for American' Campaign.The Campaign to Reform Immigration for America is a united national effort that brings together individuals and grassroots organizations with the mission to build support for workable comprehensive immigration reform.The campaign connects people from communities across the country who are ready to work together towards achieving the 279 votes needed to win just and humane comprehensive immigration reform legislation: 218 votes in the House of Representatives, 60 votes in the Senate, and one signature from the President.

What is RAP doing?

• Signing People up for Receiving the National Text Message at 69866
• Meeting with Colorado's Congressional Delegation about Reform
• Organizing Community Events around Reform
• Writing Editorials to the Local Newspaper

How Can YOU Get Involved?

• Sign up for a Text Message Below or Text Justice to 69866!

• Call the White House and tell Obama that immigration reform needs to happen this year! 1-866-961-2143
• Contact Your Congressional Representatives
• Write an Editorial in the Paper

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Aurora Commander Reaches Out to RAP and the Immigrant Community

Learn about Aurora District 1 Commander Rob McGregor and his efforts to reach out to RAP and the Latino immigrant community by clicking on the link above.  Commander McGregor wants everyone to feel safe calling the police and offers the following suggestions for when to utilize 9-1-1 services.

CAPC Immigration Enforcement Position

Aurora Chief of Police Dan Oates assures RAP and the immigrant community that local law enforcement is not authorized to enforce immigration law.  Click on the link above to read the official statement of the Colorado Association of Police Chiefs about the duties of local law enforcement officials in enforcing immigration law.