-- by Aurelia Fierros, Examiner.com, Houston:

Leaders from faith, law enforcement, immigrant rights, business and labor will meet this Thursday with Secretary of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano to discuss immigration reform. The following is a statement by Angelica Salas, Executive Director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), a regional immigrant and human rights organization based in Los Angeles:

“As President Obama’s designee to oversee the much needed overhaul of our nation’s broken immigration system, we expect Secretary Napolitano to share with the community what progress has been made in terms of moving immigration reform forward. As the person in charge of pitching reform to legislators and to the general public we need her to exert active leadership not in six months, not when a bill is introduced, but immediately. The effort to move immigration reform will require all of our collective efforts to reach a just and humane solution to our nation’s archaic immigration laws.

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