{"id":529801,"date":"2010-04-16T12:18:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82557"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:18:14","slug":"organizers-prepare-for-may-1-immigration-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529801","title":{"rendered":"Organizers Prepare for May 1 Immigration Rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several pro-immigrant grassroots organizations today announced plans for major demonstrations across the country on May 1 that will focus on immigrant workers&#8217; rights and comprehensive immigration reform. Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Milwaukee are among the cities that expect large rallies.<\/p>\n<p>May 1 has long been a day for immigration protests, starting in Los Angeles more than 10 years ago, according to Maria Elena Durazo of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. Organizations participating in the rallies, including Service Employees International Union (the largest union for immigrant workers), Mexican-American Coalition for Immigration  Reform and Center for Community Change, expect this year&#8217;s demonstrations to bring together thousands of protesters like in previous years, especially when the stakes are so high.<span id=\"more-82557\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>During a conference call this morning, organizers pointed out that Arizona&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82190\/arizona-likely-to-have-toughest-laws-on-immigration\" >Senate bill 1070<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc15.com\/content\/news\/phoenixmetro\/central\/story\/ICE-40-arrested-as-tip-leads-agents-to-Phoenix\/hZLw9GE8-UOak3SqA17flw.cspx\" >recent immigration raids in Phoenix and Tucson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81337\/problematic-287g-program\" >the 287 (g) program<\/a> are just some examples of what&#8217;s heating up the immigration debate.<\/p>\n<p>From a Center for Community Change press release today:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The grassroots organizations are escalating  because President Obama has yet to deliver on his promise to move  immigration reform, the Senate has yet to deliver on its promise to  produce a bill, and DHS has yet to deliver on its promise to focus on  arresting bad actors instead of terrorizing ordinary immigrants. The  time for making promises has run out.\u00a0 The time for concrete action has  arrived.\u00a0 We demand action from the President, Congress and DHS by May  1:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sens. Schumer and Graham must introduce a bill<\/li>\n<li>Congress and the President must pass  comprehensive immigration in 2010<\/li>\n<li>The President must end rogue enforcement at  ICE and enact policies that  keep families united<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several pro-immigrant grassroots organizations today announced plans for major demonstrations across the country on May 1 that will focus on immigrant workers&#8217; rights and comprehensive immigration reform. Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Milwaukee are among the cities that expect large rallies. May 1 has long been a day for immigration protests, starting in Los [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}