Immigrant Rights Advocates to Launch Keeping Families Together Campaign in Oregon

Immigrant Rights Advocates to Launch Keeping Families Together Campaign in Oregon

Portland, Ore. -- Causa Oregon has partnered with immigrant activists, advocates and champions from across the nation in the Keeping Families Together Campaign. The campaign brings together individuals, community organizations and leaders, and elected officials from across the Nation who support humane immigration reform and policies to keep families together   

On January 15th, Causa, Oregon’s Statewide Immigrant Rights Organization, will hold a press conference in Portland launching the campaign in Oregon.

Keeping Family Together Campaign Kick-off
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 at 10AM
Location: 
Citizenship & Immigration Service USCIS Field Office
1455 NW Overton Street
Portland, OR 97209

Earlier this week, the President announced that his Administration would be pushing for passage of a bipartisan Immigration Reform bill this month. Causa will be working with individuals, organization and leaders around the nation to ensure that the President holds to his promise.

During the Press Conference, Causa will also announce next actions to be taken on state issues such as Drivers Licenses and In-State Tuition.

Keeping Families Together Campaign

Our nation’s broken immigration system tears families apart. With 11 million undocumented immigrants in our country, the largest grassroots immigrant rights organizations are launching a new campaign to fix our patchwork of failed and mismanaged immigration policies so that families have a pathway to citizenship and can stay together.

These families will be the voice of the “Keeping Families Together” campaign. They will lift the veil on the moral crisis of family separation and tell their story of our broken immigration process to illustrate why we need change now.

Keeping Families Together highlights the stories of immigrant families who struggle to cope with the heartbreaking effects of our country’s broken immigration system. The website encourages people to share their personal stories and empowers them by building a community to advocate for immigration reform.

Uniting with immigrant activists, advocates and champions, these families will demand a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. The Keeping Families Together campaign tour will stop in cities across the country, including New York, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., among others. Family stories will be told at campaign rallies, vigils and community dinners and will be recorded and shared with policymakers.

Keeping Families Together is a project of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement and powered by the Center for Community Change. It brings together individuals, community organizations and leaders, and elected officials from across the Nation who support humane immigration reform and policies to keep families together. For more information, please visit www.keepingfamiliestogether.net

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About Causa Oregon

Causa, Oregon's Statewide Immigrant Rights Organization is the largest Latinaand Latino civil and human rights and advocacy organization in the Pacific Northwest. We work to defend and advance immigrant rights through coordination with local, state, and national coalitions and allies. For more information, visit www.causaoregon.org

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