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Rallies For Immigration Reform Enter Second Month

Posted February 23, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.

The mass movement for immigration reform entered its second month last week with more than 100 rallies and events around the country. One of the best publicized was the Road Trip for Immigration Reform through Upstate New York sponsored by the New York Immigration Coalition. The trip drew significant media coverage in the Hudson Valley, the Capital Region, Syracuse, and Western New York.

200 people rallied in warm Contra Costa, California on Saturday. In Frisco, Colorado, 40 immigrants marched for their rights through near-blizzard conditions. On Feb. 17, 100 marchers walked from the entrance to Ellis Island all the way to the Elizabeth Detention Center ten miles away.

The Dream Walkers, four young peolpe who set out from Miami on January 1 heading for Washington, continued their walk through Georgia. The four young people have all been impacted by their own or their family’s undocumented immigrant status.

Organizers of events around the country hope that the rallies will build support for the March 21 mass march in Washington.

Meanwhile, in a small town elsewhere in Georgia, 200 people attended a rally organized by the Ku Klux Klan against immigration reform.

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