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>> >>PEGGY: WHILE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WORKS TO COME UP WITH A REFORM PLAN FOR THE NATION'S
11ÊMILLION UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS ANEWLY FORMED LOCAL GROUP CALLED SAN DIEGANS UNITED
FOR COMMON SENSE IMMIGRATION REFORM HAVE THEIR OWN PLANS.
HERE TO TALK MORE ABOUT IT ARE MY GUESTS NORMER ASSEMBLYMAN AND CHAIR OF THE NEW GROUP NATHAN
FLETCHER, AND NORMA CHAVEZ PETERSON DIRECTOR OF ACLU.
NATHAN, WHO WERE SOME OF THE KEY PLAYERS HERE IN THE GROUP?
>> >>NATHAN FLETCHER: WE HAD THIS AMAZING AND BROAD COALITION, THOSE REPRESENTING ORGANIZATIONS,
DWANE ROTH, AND JO PANETTA, WE HAD LAW ENFORCEMENT LEADERS, BUT ALSO SIGNING ON WERE CHIEF LANDSDOWN,
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BONNIE DUMANIS, WE HAD LABOR LEADERS, THE CEO OF THE SAN DIEGO AND IMPERIAL
COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL, LORENA GONZALEZ, INDIVIDUAL LEADERS FROM HER LOOB LABOR UNION, CIVIL LIBERTIES
GROUPS, NORMA, AND THE ACLU, AND FAITH GROUPS, PAS CHRS PASTORS, BISHOPS, LEADERS FROM ACROSS
ALL DENOMINATIONS. >> >>PEGGY: A VERY DIVERSE GROUP WITH VERY
DIFFERENT INTERESTS. WHAT ABOUT THIS DECISIVE ISSUE IS UNITING
THEM AND MAKING THEM A PART OF THIS GROUP. >> >>NATHAN FLETCHER: I THINK EVERY MEMBER
CARES ABOUT IMMIGRATION FOR DIFFERENT REASONS. EVERYONE WANTS IT SOLVED IN ITS ENTIRETY.
FOR QUALCOMM ITS IT'S A QUESTION OF GROWING THE SAN DIEGO ECONOMY AND U HOWING A VISA
CIS TOOM GET THE SKILLED WORKS IN NEEDED. THE SHERIFF TALKED ABOUT THE NEED FOR PUBLIC
SAFETY. YOU CAN'T HAVE PEOPLE AFRAID TO REPORT CRIMES
OR AFRAID IF THEY'VE BEEN A VICTIM. LABOR TALKED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE TO NOT HAVE
AN UNDER CLASS, TO MAKE SURE ALL WORKERS HAVE BASIC PROTECTIONS, TREAT WOULD DEEING NEAT
AND RESPECT. CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUPS ARE SUPPORTED ON THOSE
BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS EMBEDDED IN THE CONSTITUTION. ALL OF THIS CAME TOGETHER AND SAID IT HAS
TO BE SOLVED AND IF WE ALL ACROSS THE SECT SPECTRUM CAN AGREE TO A CORE SET OF PRINCIPLES,
VERY SPECIFIC THAT OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON SHOULD BE AS WELL.
>> >>PEGGY: I WANT TO COME BACK TO THOSE PRINCIPLES. I WANT TO ASK NORMA, DO YOU SEE THAT THIS
IMMIGRATION REFORM HERE IN SAN DIEGO WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE COME OUT OF IT?
>> >>NORMA CHAVEZ-PETERSON: I THINK WHAT I WOULD WANT TO SEE COME OUT OF OUR EFFORT IS
THAT NUMBER ONE, THE WORK HAS TO HAPPEN IN WASHINGTON D.C.
I THINK HERE, LOCALLY, WHERE WITH THIS HISTORIC MOMENT WITH THESE STAKEHOLDERS COMING TOGETHER,
WE WANT TO UNITE THE SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY AROUND THESE SHARED PRINCIPLES AND MAKE SURE THAT
OUR REPRESENTATIVES TO CONGRESS TAKE THAT MESSAGE BACK TO D. C., AND GET TO WORK ON
REALLY ADDRESSING THIS COMPLEX ISSUE, BUT IF WE CAN FIGURE IT OUT, COME TO SOME COMMON
GROUND, THEY'VE GOT A FIGHT. >> >>PEGGY: I LOVE THE COMMON SENSE IN THE
TITLE THERE. DO YOU THINK THAT AN OVERHAUL IN WASHINGTON
D.C., IN THE IMMIGRATION REFORM, IS LIKELY AND DO YOU THINK THAT WILL IMPACT US HERE
IN SAN DIEGO? >> >>NORMA CHAVEZ-PETERSON: I THINK THE STARS
ARE ALIGNED. I MEAN, LOOK, WE'VE IDENTIFIED A POPE TODAY.
I'M HOPEFUL THAT OUR COUNTRY CAN MOVE FORWARD. I THINK THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT'S BEEN LONG
OVER DUE K, TO BE ADDRESSED, AND THERE'S A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS, A LOT OF MOVEMENT IN
WASHINGTON D.C., THERE'S A SENATE PLAN, A HOUSE PLAN, THERE'S A WHITE HOUSE PLAN.
SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN THIS YEAR AND I BELIEVE IT CAN HAPPEN.
>> >>PEGGY: NATHAN, YOU GUYS ARE TRYING TO HELP THAT HAPPEN.
WHA ARE THE FOUR PRINCIPLES? >> >>NATHAN FLETCHER: THE FOUR PRINCIPLES
WE CAME TO AGREE ON, SD COMMON SENSE.ORLG ORG, THE PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP, WE'VE GOT
TO BRING THE U PAIRNS OUT OF THE SHADOWS. THE SECOND IS THE REFORM OF THE SLEEZ UH AND
IMMIGRATION SYSTEM TO HIGH SKILLED AND LESSER SKILLED WORKERS TO MATCH IN A MARKET BASIS
AND THE NEEDS OF ECONOMY INSURING WE HAVE PROTECTIONS FOR WORKERS.
THE THIRD FOCUSES ON INSURING THAT WE HAVE SMART BORDER SECURITY, MAKING SURE THAT THAT
BORDER IS OPEN FOR COMMERCE AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE, AND MAKING SURE THE COMMUNITIES FEEL SAFE.
THEN THE FOURTH IS REALLY INSURING THAT EVERYTHING HAPPENS REALLY INCLUDES THOSE BASIC HUMAN
RIGHTS, THOSE CIVIL LIBERTIES PART OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.
WE JOKE TODAY THAT YOU PROBABLY COULDN'T GET OUR COALITION TO AGREE ON MUCH.
WE MIGHT AGREE ON WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IT, S BUT IT WOULD TAKE AWHILE.
WE ALL CAME TOGETHER, AGREED ON THESE CORE PRINCIPLES.
I BELIEVE IT CAN BE DONE THIS YEAR. >> >>PEGGY: WE ARE OUT OF TIME, BUT I WANT
TO FOLLOW UP LATER THOP CORE PRINCIPLES AND HOW THAT ACTUALLY TRICKLES DOWN TO SOME ACTION
GOING ON AND GETTING THESE IMMIGRATION BILLS PASSED.
>> >>NATHAN FLETCHER: I'D BE HAPPY TO COME BACK BACK.
>> >>PEGGY: ALL THE, NATHAN FLETCHER, AND NORMA CHAVEZ PETERSON.