Join CAUSA for Presidential Inauguration Festivities

CAUSA, PCUN, and VOZ HISPANA invite the public and media to join them in being a part of history and celebrate the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, the son of an immigrant from Africa and a white woman from Kansas.

Hope is very much alive among the people of civil society organizations in Oregon and the United States. This is a great inspiration. The movement that President-elect Obama started is an opportunity for deep racial reconciliation and social justice for all. It is an opportunity to welcome the immigrant in our midst and a time to reject the culture of hate. The time to build a lasting culture of hospitality and reconciliation is now.

Presidential Inauguration Festivities at PCUN
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Time: All Day starting at 8:30AM
Location: PCUN Union Hall, 300 Young Street, Woodburn, Oregon

This opportunity demands strong leadership from all of us. We stand committed to assist our new President to work on a Comprehensive Immigration Reform program that will help 12 million of undocumented immigrants to come out of the shadows and start the path to citizenship.

Schedule of Activities:

8:30 am-- Witness Broadcast of Inaugural Ceremony and join in conversation with other members of the Latino Community. We will have a large TV, Mexican pastries and Coffee.

5:30 pm—FIESTA with delicious Mexican food from the Woodburn area and Latin American music.

For more information please call: (503) 982-0243 or (503) 269-5694

¡SI SE PUEDE! Yes We Can!

Read more »

McCain: Comprehensive immigration reform is very necessary

In an interview with Senator John McCain, the Arizona Daily Star reports today that the former Republican candidate for President believes Comprehensive Immigration Reform is very necessary.

McCain said, it would be impossible to deport everyone who is not in the country "illegally". And that, "If somebody's been here for a long period of time and been good citizens, they've worked hard in their community and at their job — look, it's reality and there's not 12 million pairs of handcuffs in America."

Senator McCain was not volunteering to be the one to go out and push for passage of Comprehensive Immigration Reform. That, he said, will need to be lead by President-elect Obama. "If President Obama wants it to be a highest priority, I'm prepared to join in," McCain said. "If not, I'm not going to go out there, out front, because it's obvious it won't succeed unless we get the administration in the lead."

For more on the story, visit this link.

Read more »

Child of Immigrant Parent Elected President of the United States

The historical election of Barack Obama as the first black American to be elected president of the United States is also significant as he is the seventh child of an immigrant parent to be elected to the office. Barack Obama's father was born in the village of Nyang’oma Kogelo in Kenya and immigrated to the United States at the age of 23.

According to Wiki Info, President Elect Obama joins former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Buchanan, Chester Arthur, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover and Andrew Jackson as children of immigrants to be elected to the Nation’s highest office.

Barack Obama's election to the Presidency of The United States keeps with America's tradition as being a country of immigrants.

Read more »