TBT: Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Immigration Reform
Majority Leader Eric Cantor has said we can get immigration reform done this year, and he said he #39;s not running away from the issue. Words are nice, but wher...
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Stories of families torn apart by deportations were juxtaposed against quilts bearing the images of men and women killed by undocumeted immigrants Saturday as parties on opposing sides of immigration reform conducted demonstrations in San Juan Capistrano and elsewhere in the county to make their voices heard.
Outside Mission San Juan Capistrano, members of We the People Rising, a Claremont-based group that opposes illegal immigration, held up the U.S. flag and banners that read Stop Illegal Immigration, Hire Americans and Secure the Border.
Across the street stood a group of Latino immigration activists holding a large banner that read Undocumented and Unafraid in South Orange County. Members of that group shouted, Not one more, demanding an end to deportations of illegal immigrants.
Were just immigrant youth from San Juan Capistrano who are here to ask the government to pass comprehensive immigration reform instead of tearing families apart, Ana Karen Rosal said.
Members of the Orange County Dream Team, who have temporary legal residency under a program that defers deportation for young people, staged similar events in Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana and San Juan Capistrano as part of a Day of Action with events by various groups participating in the Not One More campaign nationwide.
Opponents of the campaign held their rally in San Juan Capistrano.
Steve Nelson, a San Juan Capistrano resident, said he came to help vocalize the need for secure borders. All were asking is that the government enforce the law and end illegal immigration, he said. Why should we be labeled as racists and xenophobes?
Robert McDearmon, a San Clemente resident, said he isnt against legal immigrants making the United States home.
But dont jump in the front of the line and dont break the law, he said. Illegal immigrants are taking jobs our veterans should have, and they are kicking up taxes here in California. I dont blame the people who came to this country looking for a better life. I blame our government for not enforcing the law.
McDearmon and at least 10 others displayed a stolen lives quilt to honor American citizens killed by people who are living in the United States States illegally. Members of We the People Rising held signs and quilts, which are part of a Remembrance Project based in Houston.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Protesters marched to the White House Saturday with signs labeling President Barack Obama Deporter In Chief to pressure him to curb deportations of immigrants.
The protesters walked for about an hour from a park in the districts Mount Pleasant neighborhood to a park flanking the White House. It was one of several marches staged Saturday by groups hoping to force the president to use his powers to halt deportations of non-criminal immigrants.
We are bringing the human suffering to the doorstep, said Marisa Franco, an organizer of the Ni Una Mas Deportacin (Not One More Deportation) campaign of the National Day Labor Organizing Network.
But the Washington, D.C., protest of about 250 was small compared to other marches held in the years-long fight for immigration reform.
The national effort did not match the turnout seen in 2006, when millions marched in major cities and communities around the country, inspired by a harsh House-passed immigration bill. Those marches were largely aimed at Republicans, whereas Saturdays marches targeted the president, whom some in the rally said they had help vote into office.
We are bringing the human suffering to the doorstep.
In Eloy, Ariz., numerous supporters converged at the front of a federal detention center, after traveling more than 60 miles from Phoenix, The Associated Press reported.
Hundreds of activists also marched through downtown Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. Organizers had said events were planned in 70 cities.
In Washington, D.C., Gloria Ceros, 33, said she had marched other times in the past for the rights of immigrants, most recently in support of DREAMers, young immigrants who have grown up in the country after being brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents.
Despite the failures of Congress to pass immigration reform, Ceros said she was marching again because she was hopeful the government would one day listen to her pleas.
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Rep. Polis on the discharge petition to bring immigration reform to a vote
On March 26, 2014, Rep. Polis urged his colleagues to sign a discharge petition to bring H.R. 15, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration M...
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