Exercising our voice:

Speaking about just immigration policies and practices to 2008 candidates

If you identify with Mennonite Church USA, print this letter and send it to any candidate running for office through Election Day, November 4, 2008. Since it is a word document, you may put the name of the candidate of your choice in the Dear Candidate line and add your local address. Be sure that each person who signs includes their address so candidates know you are members of their voting district.

This advocacy campaign is not partisan; you and your congregation may send this letter to all your candidates. In this work, we join other denominations that are part of the Faith Leader Roundtable and hope to influence immigration policy in the United States.

Please send a list of the candidates to whom you send letters and the number of signatures to . Thanks!

Contacts for presumed presidential candidates are below; for other elected officials, see http://www3.capwiz.com/c-span/dbq/officials.

John McCain 2008
P.O. Box 16118
Arlington, VA 22215

Position on immigration:
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/68db8157-d301-4e22-baf7-a70dd8416efa.htm

web contact:
http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact

Obama for America
P.O. Box 8102
Chicago, IL 60680

Position on immigration:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/immigration/

web contact:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/mypolicy

At Charlotte 2003, delegates passed the Mennonite Church USA Statement on Immigration.

English (95k PDF)
Spanish (109k PDF)
Indonesian

Commitment number eight reads:

Advocate for just and humane policies for immigrants and refugees by contacting local, state and national elected officials.

We invite you to give voice to this commitment during your local, state and federal elections in 2008.