Subject: Words matter.
From: "Gabriela Domenzain" <[email-masked]>
To: "R. Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 03:00:29 +0000

R.,

Earlier this week Secretary Clinton bragged about voting, as a Senator, to spend money to build a "barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in."

This is exactly the kind of outdated, offensive thinking that the Democratic Party cannot represent. It is flat-out wrong to hear Secretary Clinton echo failed policy and even more hurtful that she would call New Americans, illegal immigrants.

Words matter, and no human being is illegal.

This intolerant rhetoric has no place in our Party. We need to stand up and lead with the compassionate message and actions that make us who we are. We are made better in every generation by the arrival of New American immigrants, they make us stronger, and they make the economy stronger for all of us.

Sign our petition if you agree--no more hateful rhetoric, no more divisive policies.

During Governor O'Malley's time as Mayor and as Governor, he kept a sign on his desk that read: "Help Wanted. Irish need not apply." It served as a daily reminder that we were all once strangers in this land. I know he will lead the nation in the same way he led in Maryland--with principled leadership.

In Maryland, Governor O'Malley passed the DREAM Act, passed driver's licenses for New Americans, and led Marylanders to house more Central American refugee children per capita than any other state in the union.

The Democratic Party must lead with actions and words.  We must all embrace and boast that the enduring symbol of our nation isn't the barbed wire fence---it's the Statue of Liberty.

Sign this petition if you agree that we need to move beyond the old, tired, divisive policies and rhetoric of the past.

Thanks,

Gabi

Gabriela Domenzain
Director of Public Engagement
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