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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - June 3, 2010
Activists in Chicago Push Against Rahm Emmanuel
by: Micah Uetricht
truthout|Report
Activists in Chicago are some of the nation's fiercest
agitators for immigration reform, as more than two dozen
were arrested at a civil disobedience at the entrance to
a detention facility in the city's downtown area yester-
day, the second such action in a month.
But another Chicagoan is reportedly standing squarely
in their path - one they will have to either win over
or overwhelm if a path to citizenship for millions of
undocumented immigrants is to be won this year.
Rahm Emmanuel, President Obama's chief of staff and former
Illinois representative, was reported this week to be
holding the White House back from tackling immigration
reform, an issue he once called the "third rail of American
politics."
Emmanuel is a well-known political pragmatist. He has
skirted immigration in the past to avoid its potential
fallout, and does not want to pick a potentially explosive
and politically damaging fight on immigration that is
unwinnable and will cost votes.
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But many activists demand a plan for reform now, and are
unconcerned with legalization's potentially negative
consequences for Democrats' midterm prospects. They say
deportations are tearing their communities apart, and they
can't wait until after re-elections. A favorite Spanish
chant at the rallies is "Legalizacion o no re-eleccion";
even Rep. Luis Gutierrez - a high-ranking member of the
Democratic Party - said in a CNN interview last month that
if Democrats take Latino votes for granted, Latinos will
abandon the Democratic Party.
At a march to a detention center in downtown Chicago
yesterday, many chants and speeches targeted Obama.
Not all Chicago reform activists bad-mouthed the party of
their city's former representative. Members of the Service
Employees International Union held signs calling for
Republicans to stop stalling reform, and SEIU International
Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina warned that if the
party of the right remained recalcitrant, they would not
receive a single vote for any office - "not governor, not
mayor, not even dogcatcher."
But others at the rally seemed most angered by Emmanuel
and the Democrats.
"I don't know how these politicians can sleep at night,"
said Rachel Heuman of the Illinois Coalition for
Immigration and Refugee Rights.
"The destruction of families [through deportations] is
inhuman. It's completely immoral to play politics with
people's lives, and it makes me infinitely angry."
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As she spoke, Heuman was interrupted by a Department of
Homeland Security officer: she was one of 30 to sit
down and block the doors to a detention facility where
immigrants facing deportation are sent in the city's
South Loop, and was soon arrested.
Heuman's anger is echoed by the immigrant rights movement
around the country, as proponents of legalization have been
reinvigorated by the passage of Arizona's strict anti-
immigrant bill SB1070. News of arrests in protest of the
bill and in favor of reform is almost daily - recent sites
of civil disobediences include:
* New York City
* Los Angeles
* Washington, DC
* Chicago (an action less than a month earlier)
Arizona continues to see civil disobediences (including
nine students chaining themselves to the capital building,
four undocumented students sitting in at Sen. John McCain's
(R-Arizona) office and an ongoing boycott that has
already cost the state millions of dollars.
The pressure for immigration reform is strong, and national
rage seems ready to boil over. Emmanuel and Obama's White
House don't want to upset too many midterm swing voters
and lose crucial seats in Congress. But as anger among
the immigrant rights movement reaches a boiling point and
activists are promising to withhold votes for Democrats,
inaction on immigration reform could see Emmanuel heading
back to Chicago with the president by 2012.
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