Stop the War Against Immigrants of Freehold, New Jersey

PUBLIC LETTER





Stop the War against the immigrant community of Freehold, New Jersey




To the citizens and government of the United States,

To the city of Freehold and the county of Monmouth,

To the State of New Jersey,


To the immigrant community in the United States,

To National and International civil society,

To local, national, and international mass media,

Signatories, citizens, organizations, men, women,

and children of civil, national and international society


"We denounce the terrorist wave that the authorities of Freehold New Jersey have unleashed against all the immigrants of this city, and we denounce the assault on the civil rights of every inhabitant in the city of Freehold, New Jersey."




We consider the discretionary regulations and their enforcement as constituting an attack

against Humanity and a shameful assault on all the inhabitants (citizen, resident and

immigrant) of Freehold, New Jersey; and furthermore, these actions constitute an attack against

individual rights and the civil rights of the inhabitants of Freehold, New Jersey.




We do strongly condemn the actions taken under the cover of said regulations as a flagrant

violation of human rights of immigrants as guaranteed by the constitution of the United States

and national and international laws on the rights of the immigrants and their families.




We considered these measures and actions to be clearly a wave of terror against immigrants

that reflect the political climate created by National Security to implement and promote

executive power over the people of the United States, as defined by their most faithful

expression in the Patriot Act.




We recognize these expressions as violence and systemic aggression by the neoliberal model

and an economic globalization which have been unleashed against humanity especially

against those most vulnerable and unprotected, immigrants worldwide.




We demand that the authorities of Freehold, the state of New Jersey, and federal authorities

of the United States immediately cancel all aforementioned regulations, measures, and

ordinances against immigrants that officially took effect January 1, 2004.




We demand the strictest respect of immigrant human rights as sacrosanct within the

constitution of the United States and international laws; and we demand respect for the civil

rights of all inhabitants of Freehold, New Jersey.




We demand that the authorities of Freehold, the state of New Jersey, and all its operatives

including the city police and special task force, immediately cease and desist the harassment

of the immigrant community.




We demand that a suitable space be provided where journeymen and workers may

congregate for the purpose of organizing to seek work.




We strongly condemn beforehand any fines, detainments, arrests or deportations that are

applied against any immigrant or citizen of the city of Freehold or against anyone who is in

solidarity with them.




We announce our position in order to mobilize and to declare publicly our demand for the

cancellation of these discretionary measures, regulations and ordinances; and the immediate

release of persons and cancellation of charges against anyone detained under these

circumstances.




We declare our solidarity with the immigrants, citizens, churches, and organizations of

Monmouth County and the city of Freehold, New Jersey, who struggle for justice and peace.




We are encouraged by their spirit to resist this terror and oppression with dignity, and to stand

in solidarity with them always!