""We will continue to express ourselves with more marches, with voter registration drives, with action until we get favorable reform."
Lopez's group is joining a national campaign to survey the opinions of 1 million immigrants, seeking to get their input into Congress' immigration reform debate.
The 18-question Spanish-language survey asks about how people should be able to obtain legal status, guest worker programs and criminal penalties for employers of illegal immigrants.
Lopez said immigrants plan a series of demonstrations, starting on Labor Day, which they hope can match the turnout of rallies that drew hundreds of thousands in Los Angeles and other cities this spring.
Delegates discussed other issues of concern to immigrants: illnesses caused by pollution in the San Joaquin Valley, protecting day labor centers and reviving driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
2006-08-20
06:37:19
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"We can change the face of politics in America," said state Sen. Gilbert Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, keynote speaker at the conference.
"And when we change the politics of America, we change the politics of the world."
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1249016.php
What do you think?
2006-08-20
06:38:01 ·
update #1
By the way, I note they do not break out legal from illegal immigrants, so their poll looks flawed from the get go.
2006-08-20
06:39:22 ·
update #2
Pancha - because people on both sides think they are winning. Or are making noise as if that is what they think.
2006-08-20
10:16:24 ·
update #3