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Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
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Date: May 02, 2013 03:42PM
Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
Not strictly a Latino issue, they say
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20130429/NEWS/130429213/1117/immigrants-rights-groups-march-on-congressman-x2019-s-herndon-office&template=fairfaxTimes
The Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights led a march from Rachel Carson Middle School to Rep. Frank Wolf’s Herndon office Wednesday, along with members of the Virginia New Majority, ACLU of Virginia, Centreville Immigrant Forum (CIF), Coalition of Asia Pacific Americans of Virginia (CAPAVA), Just Neighbors, Legal Aid Justice Center’s Immigrant Advocacy Program (LAJC), League of United Latin American Citizens Council 4609 (LULAC VA), National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), Social Action Linking Together (SALT), Tenants and Workers United, Virginia Organizing (VO), Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO) and Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy.
The Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights led a march from Rachel Carson Middle School to Rep. Frank Wolf’s Herndon office Wednesday, along with members of the Virginia New Majority, ACLU of Virginia, Centreville Immigrant Forum (CIF), Coalition of Asia Pacific Americans of Virginia (CAPAVA), Just Neighbors, Legal Aid Justice Center’s Immigrant Advocacy Program (LAJC), League of United Latin American Citizens Council 4609 (LULAC VA), National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), Social Action Linking Together (SALT), Tenants and Workers United, Virginia Organizing (VO), Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO) and Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy.
About 150 people marched on Rep. Frank Wolf’s (R-Dist. 10) office in Herndon Wednesday, blaring cadences from bullhorns, waving signs, and demanding that he take a stand--preferably in their favor--on immigration reform.
The Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, made up of the Arlington-based Virginia New Majority, the ACLU of Virginia, the Centreville Immigrant Forum, the Coalition of Asia Pacific Americans of Virginia, the American Citizens Council 4609, Tenants and Workers United, the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium, and other immigrant rights groups, organized the march.
“Herndon is home to a large immigrant community and is a part of Congressman Frank Wolf’s district,” said Virginia New Majority Organizing Director Rishi Awatramani. “Our goal is to persuade Rep. Wolf to vote for legislation that will create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and allow them to keep their families intact.”
The coalition’s main complaint is that as currently proposed, the White House immigration bill outlines a path to citizenship for immigrants that could take as long as 13 years.
Under the bill’s provisions, undocumented immigrants would have to apply for “lawful prospective immigrant status,” then wait eight years from when the bill is passed, or until the current backlog for legal immigrants is thinned out, whichever comes first. Then, once started, the process could take an additional five years to finalize. “That is much too long,” said undocumented immigrant Raul Anaya, 21, of Reston, who says his undocumented status is preventing him from attending medical school, a lifelong dream of his.
Anaya, from El Salvador, said his parents overstayed a tourist visa in 2001--when he was nine years old--and hoped to have their family become naturalized citizens. According to Anaya, the family was approved under Section 245(i) of U.S. immigration law, which allows undocumented immigrants who normally would be ineligible to adjust their status to to apply for permanent residence under certain conditions. “But after 9/11, the entire process was frozen, and we remain undocumented,” he said. “I want to be called an American, educate myself and contribute to America. And there are thousands like me, who only want to create a productive future for themselves as Americans but are being held back.”
Omari Musa, 67, is a former railroad worker for the Union Pacific Railroad, who ran as a candidate for mayor of Washington DC in 2010 as a member of the Socialist Worker’s Party. As an African-American, Musa says he understands organized oppression. “Laws are made to be changed,” he said. “My people were once slaves, but times and laws change. I am here marching today to help effect that change onto this issue.”
Thought by many as primarily a Latino issue, many marchers said they want Wolf to know that immigration laws affect a great number of people from diverse backgrounds and varied ethnicities.
“My family fled Vietnam when my mom was pregnant with me. They had no choice but to leave their home country,” said Fairfax resident Tram Nguyen. “After the fall of Saigon, my dad spent several years in a forced labor camp for assisting the United States during the Vietnam War. He and several others escaped from the camp, reunited with their families and used a small boat to sail along the coast to Thailand where I was born in the Songkhla refugee camp.”
Nguyen said she doesn’t remember anything about the country of her birth due to leaving there at a young age. “When I was six months old, we were admitted to the United States as refugees. This is the only country that I have ever known. Today, I am a proud naturalized citizen. I am one of the lucky ones. There are millions of people who come here seeking a better life but are denied the chance to become citizens.”
Keisy Chavez, 41, of Centreville, says even the current legal immigration system is broken and keeps families apart. Chavez was born an American citizen but says her two brothers were born in Peru and want to come to the U.S. but have been awaiting their green cards for more than 10 years. “It is just crazy,” she said. “Families should not be kept apart for decades like that. Is there any wonder people try to get around a system like that?”
The Virginia New Majority says it is fighting to get the current White House immigration bill changed to be able to provide a better system that will not impact so many families negatively by making them wait 13 years to get on with their lives.
“Congressman Wolf’s district is wealthy, due in part to immigrant labor,” said Awatramani. “But he has given no concrete perspective on this bill. We hope to convince him that changes are needed to allow those who want to become American citizens to be able to do so in a reasonable amount of time.”
Wolf was not available to be at his office when the protestors arrived, due to a prior commitment.
“He is at a National Day of Prayer reception in Washington, otherwise he would have been here,” said Wolf’s Chief of Staff Dan Scandling. “Congressman Wolf is always willing to listen to his constituents on every issue and will be following the immigration bill closely as it moves through Congress.”
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Not strictly a Latino issue, they say
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20130429/NEWS/130429213/1117/immigrants-rights-groups-march-on-congressman-x2019-s-herndon-office&template=fairfaxTimes
The Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights led a march from Rachel Carson Middle School to Rep. Frank Wolf’s Herndon office Wednesday, along with members of the Virginia New Majority, ACLU of Virginia, Centreville Immigrant Forum (CIF), Coalition of Asia Pacific Americans of Virginia (CAPAVA), Just Neighbors, Legal Aid Justice Center’s Immigrant Advocacy Program (LAJC), League of United Latin American Citizens Council 4609 (LULAC VA), National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), Social Action Linking Together (SALT), Tenants and Workers United, Virginia Organizing (VO), Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO) and Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy.
The Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights led a march from Rachel Carson Middle School to Rep. Frank Wolf’s Herndon office Wednesday, along with members of the Virginia New Majority, ACLU of Virginia, Centreville Immigrant Forum (CIF), Coalition of Asia Pacific Americans of Virginia (CAPAVA), Just Neighbors, Legal Aid Justice Center’s Immigrant Advocacy Program (LAJC), League of United Latin American Citizens Council 4609 (LULAC VA), National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), Social Action Linking Together (SALT), Tenants and Workers United, Virginia Organizing (VO), Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO) and Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy.
About 150 people marched on Rep. Frank Wolf’s (R-Dist. 10) office in Herndon Wednesday, blaring cadences from bullhorns, waving signs, and demanding that he take a stand--preferably in their favor--on immigration reform.
The Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, made up of the Arlington-based Virginia New Majority, the ACLU of Virginia, the Centreville Immigrant Forum, the Coalition of Asia Pacific Americans of Virginia, the American Citizens Council 4609, Tenants and Workers United, the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium, and other immigrant rights groups, organized the march.
“Herndon is home to a large immigrant community and is a part of Congressman Frank Wolf’s district,” said Virginia New Majority Organizing Director Rishi Awatramani. “Our goal is to persuade Rep. Wolf to vote for legislation that will create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and allow them to keep their families intact.”
The coalition’s main complaint is that as currently proposed, the White House immigration bill outlines a path to citizenship for immigrants that could take as long as 13 years.
Under the bill’s provisions, undocumented immigrants would have to apply for “lawful prospective immigrant status,” then wait eight years from when the bill is passed, or until the current backlog for legal immigrants is thinned out, whichever comes first. Then, once started, the process could take an additional five years to finalize. “That is much too long,” said undocumented immigrant Raul Anaya, 21, of Reston, who says his undocumented status is preventing him from attending medical school, a lifelong dream of his.
Anaya, from El Salvador, said his parents overstayed a tourist visa in 2001--when he was nine years old--and hoped to have their family become naturalized citizens. According to Anaya, the family was approved under Section 245(i) of U.S. immigration law, which allows undocumented immigrants who normally would be ineligible to adjust their status to to apply for permanent residence under certain conditions. “But after 9/11, the entire process was frozen, and we remain undocumented,” he said. “I want to be called an American, educate myself and contribute to America. And there are thousands like me, who only want to create a productive future for themselves as Americans but are being held back.”
Omari Musa, 67, is a former railroad worker for the Union Pacific Railroad, who ran as a candidate for mayor of Washington DC in 2010 as a member of the Socialist Worker’s Party. As an African-American, Musa says he understands organized oppression. “Laws are made to be changed,” he said. “My people were once slaves, but times and laws change. I am here marching today to help effect that change onto this issue.”
Thought by many as primarily a Latino issue, many marchers said they want Wolf to know that immigration laws affect a great number of people from diverse backgrounds and varied ethnicities.
“My family fled Vietnam when my mom was pregnant with me. They had no choice but to leave their home country,” said Fairfax resident Tram Nguyen. “After the fall of Saigon, my dad spent several years in a forced labor camp for assisting the United States during the Vietnam War. He and several others escaped from the camp, reunited with their families and used a small boat to sail along the coast to Thailand where I was born in the Songkhla refugee camp.”
Nguyen said she doesn’t remember anything about the country of her birth due to leaving there at a young age. “When I was six months old, we were admitted to the United States as refugees. This is the only country that I have ever known. Today, I am a proud naturalized citizen. I am one of the lucky ones. There are millions of people who come here seeking a better life but are denied the chance to become citizens.”
Keisy Chavez, 41, of Centreville, says even the current legal immigration system is broken and keeps families apart. Chavez was born an American citizen but says her two brothers were born in Peru and want to come to the U.S. but have been awaiting their green cards for more than 10 years. “It is just crazy,” she said. “Families should not be kept apart for decades like that. Is there any wonder people try to get around a system like that?”
The Virginia New Majority says it is fighting to get the current White House immigration bill changed to be able to provide a better system that will not impact so many families negatively by making them wait 13 years to get on with their lives.
“Congressman Wolf’s district is wealthy, due in part to immigrant labor,” said Awatramani. “But he has given no concrete perspective on this bill. We hope to convince him that changes are needed to allow those who want to become American citizens to be able to do so in a reasonable amount of time.”
Wolf was not available to be at his office when the protestors arrived, due to a prior commitment.
“He is at a National Day of Prayer reception in Washington, otherwise he would have been here,” said Wolf’s Chief of Staff Dan Scandling. “Congressman Wolf is always willing to listen to his constituents on every issue and will be following the immigration bill closely as it moves through Congress.”
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Posted by:
Enrico Palazzo
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Date: May 02, 2013 03:44PM
The protest signs in Spanish, lol.
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
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Taxpayer
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Date: May 02, 2013 04:16PM
Shame that ICE wasn't there to round up these illegals, pedophiles, and rapists.
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
Posted by:
possum
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Date: May 02, 2013 04:37PM
We want our free stuff and we want it NOW!!
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
Posted by:
Yucky24.
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Date: May 02, 2013 07:06PM
America actually has one of the most "liberal" immigration systems in the developed world.
We allow in over ONE MILLION legal immigrants every single year. And give citizenship to everyone and their pet hamster and the extended-extended family of that pet hamster.
We also don't require immigrants to carry identification papers with them at all times. And our police don't randomly stop foreign looking individuals to check if they're here legally. The much maligned legislation in Arizona would only allow police to check the legal status of people who were already pulled over for violating the law. But even something as tame as that was going "waaaaay" too far and was equivalent to Nazi Germany apparently... What a sick joke...
Our government also looks the other way rather than arrest, imprison and then deport illegal immigrants.
Compare that with Japan where they only allow a few thousand people to immigrate to their country every year. You also have to have a college degree to be considered for citizenship and have a spotless criminal background. And you have to prove that there's a genuine need for you in the Japanese economy. You also have to carry an identification card with you at all times. And the police aren't politically correct at all. They're free to randomly stop you on the streets to check if you're in Japan legally. And if you aren't there legally, they'll toss you in jail and then fly your ass home.
That's what a SANE immigration system looks like.
And the small number of White Americans who immigrated to Japan would never even dream of demanding that their new country adopts their language and bend over backwards to accommodate them. And they certainly wouldn't form gangs like MS-13 and ruin whole areas.
So, stop bitching, you low-IQ subhuman spics. You should all be arrested and deported.
We allow in over ONE MILLION legal immigrants every single year. And give citizenship to everyone and their pet hamster and the extended-extended family of that pet hamster.
We also don't require immigrants to carry identification papers with them at all times. And our police don't randomly stop foreign looking individuals to check if they're here legally. The much maligned legislation in Arizona would only allow police to check the legal status of people who were already pulled over for violating the law. But even something as tame as that was going "waaaaay" too far and was equivalent to Nazi Germany apparently... What a sick joke...
Our government also looks the other way rather than arrest, imprison and then deport illegal immigrants.
Compare that with Japan where they only allow a few thousand people to immigrate to their country every year. You also have to have a college degree to be considered for citizenship and have a spotless criminal background. And you have to prove that there's a genuine need for you in the Japanese economy. You also have to carry an identification card with you at all times. And the police aren't politically correct at all. They're free to randomly stop you on the streets to check if you're in Japan legally. And if you aren't there legally, they'll toss you in jail and then fly your ass home.
That's what a SANE immigration system looks like.
And the small number of White Americans who immigrated to Japan would never even dream of demanding that their new country adopts their language and bend over backwards to accommodate them. And they certainly wouldn't form gangs like MS-13 and ruin whole areas.
So, stop bitching, you low-IQ subhuman spics. You should all be arrested and deported.
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
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Yucky24.
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Date: May 02, 2013 07:09PM
Correction: Those were actually just the requirements to get permission to live and work in Japan. Getting citizenship in Japan is much, much harder. As it should be...
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
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I see
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Date: May 02, 2013 07:15PM
Angry Locust.
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
Posted by:
roundup
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Date: May 02, 2013 07:18PM
The problem seems to be not only the fed, state, and local governments but also the American people are far too tolerant of the lawbreaking illegals. If the illegals did not feel so welcomed they would not stay.
There needs to be a Kristallnacht-like movement to clear out this country. If they are citizens or legal residents, they should get protection and immunity. All others should be given strong encouragements/inducement to leave. Any ideas how to get something like this going?
There needs to be a Kristallnacht-like movement to clear out this country. If they are citizens or legal residents, they should get protection and immunity. All others should be given strong encouragements/inducement to leave. Any ideas how to get something like this going?
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
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Where's gordo?
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Date: May 02, 2013 09:29PM
Gordon Blvd is in the far back wearing black pants, a black hat and blacked out glasses..lolz...o O
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
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Green Card?
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Date: May 03, 2013 12:40AM
possum Wrote:
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> We want our free stuff and we want it NOW!!
We want our free stuff and we want it NOW!!
However.... We don't want to work for it, We don't want to pay for it, and we want it delivered to us....
The Real American Way
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> We want our free stuff and we want it NOW!!
We want our free stuff and we want it NOW!!
However.... We don't want to work for it, We don't want to pay for it, and we want it delivered to us....
The Real American Way
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
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Imigrints
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Date: May 03, 2013 07:08AM
Not sure if the USA can handle the influx of millions of new benefit seekers. The money will run out eventually.
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
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future democrats of america
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Date: May 03, 2013 08:35AM
It would have been better if they marched to demacrat's office, he could have stepped outside and signed them as voters for the next election.
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
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Jess1
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Date: May 03, 2013 08:53AM
"Rachel Carson Middle School to Rep. Frank Wolf’s Herndon office Wednesday"
Funny, I drove up and down C'ville road twice and never saw a "march".... and apparently, neither has the FT, who have "corrected" (as in flushed down the memory hole) their "story".
Who's running the FT nowadays, Moonies?
Funny, I drove up and down C'ville road twice and never saw a "march".... and apparently, neither has the FT, who have "corrected" (as in flushed down the memory hole) their "story".
Who's running the FT nowadays, Moonies?
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
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jerry brown
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Date: May 03, 2013 08:56AM
the white guy on the right with the mustache doesnt fit the image I get of someone marching for more free stuff for illegals.
Re: Immigrants rights groups march on congressman’s Herndon office
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belt buster
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Date: May 03, 2013 08:58AM
gordo aint missing too many meals, wonder if that bulk was paid for with food stamps
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Traveler
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Date: May 03, 2013 10:38AM
In Guatamala and Bolivia almost ALL of them look just like that. In Chile and Argentina, much nicer places, everyone is white but they also speak Spanish. Why don't these people go to those countries and mow lawns? At least they speak the language. Why is everyone white on Univision and Telemundo? I thought we were the only racists in the world.