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Immigrant Families Demand Immigration Reform, Reiterate March 21st Deadline for Senate to Introduce Legislation With Path To Citizenship

Posted by Alesia on March 13, 2013

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 13, 2013

 

Contact:

For English language Media:

Donna De La Cruz, ddelacruz@communitychange.org, 202-339-9331, 202-441-3798 (cell)

For Spanish language Media:

Ricardo Ramírez, rramirez@communitychange.org 202-339-9371, (202) 905-1738 (cell) 

Immigrant Families Demand Immigration Reform, Reiterate March 21st Deadline for Senate to Introduce Legislation With Path To Citizenship

National storytelling bus tour culminates on Capitol Hill With Visits, Actions  

(WASHINGTON)—Immigrant families who took part in the nearly 3-week, 19-state, 90-city national Keeping Families Together bus tour came to Capitol Hill today demanding legislation with a path to citizenship.

DSC_3792 actThe more than 100 families from all areas of the country told their stories of dealing with the broken immigration system at a people’s hearing attended by these members of Congress: Luis Gutierrez, D-Illinois; Mike Honda, D-California; Judy Chu, D-California; Juan Vargas, D-California; Steven Horsford, D-Nevada, and;  Bill Foster, D-Illinois.

After the hearing the families visited the offices of several members of the Senate’s Gang of 8 to tell their stories. They also held actions at Sen. Marco Rubio’s office and another at the Republican National Committee demanding that GOP members introduce a bill with a path to citizenship.

“The stories these families have been...

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Immigrant Families Rebuke Jeb Bush: Call for Path to Citizenship

Posted by Alesia on March 5, 2013

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For English language Media: Donna De La Cruz, ddelacruz@communitychange.org, 202-339-9331, 202-441-3798 (cell)

For Spanish language Media: Ricardo Ramirez, rramirez@communitychange.org (202) 905-1738

Immigrant Families Rebuke Jeb Bush: Call for Path to Citizenship

Bush’s Flip-flop on Citizenship Puts Politics Before People

(WASHINGTON)—Immigrant families fueling a national bus tour with their stories of hardship dealing with the current broken immigration system rebuked former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for flip-flopping on his support for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants as he looks down the road to the 2016 election.

“He’s putting politics over people, the same people he has supported for all these years,” said Janet Alvarez Magallanes, who was part of the California leg of the bus tour. “I am American, my children were born here but my husband could be deported any day. For me and for my kids, we’ll be very devastated if he gets taken away.”

In an interview Monday on the “Today” show, Bush said that he does not think that most Latinos wanted to become citizens. But public opinion surveys indicate that Latino immigrants do want to naturalize. The Pew Hispanic Center recently released a study that shows that “more than nine-in-ten (93 percent)...

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Immigrant Families Launch Bus Tour to Tell Stories of Broken System

Posted by Alesia on February 25, 2013

Immigrant Families Launch Bus Tour to Tell Stories of Broken System

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 25, 2013 Contact: For English-Speaking Media: Donna De La Cruz, ddelacruz@communitychange.org, 202-339-9331, 202-441-3798 (cell)

For Spanish-Speaking Media: Ricardo Ramirez, rramirez@communitychange.org (202) 905-1738

More than 500 families will visit 19 states and 100 congressional districts to call for a path to citizenship for 11 million aspiring citizens

CHICAGO – Families torn apart by the immigration system and immigrant rights activists gathered in Chicago today to launch the Keeping Families Together Story Tour. The tour will elevate the voices of families that have been splintered because of our patchwork of failed immigration policies.

Over the next three weeks, more than 500 family members will join the tour and travel more than 20,000 miles to demand immigration reform. The

Keeping Families Together Story Tour was launched by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), a coalition of the largest grassroots immigrant rights organizations. FIRM has issued a March 21st deadline to the Senate to introduce a comprehensive immigration bill that contains a path to citizenship.

“For the 25 days from February 25th to the March 21st deadline, Senators will hear stories of separated spouses doing their best...

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