Jill Garvey: National Town Hall Meeting Focuses on Immigration Reform

National Town Hall Meeting: We Can’t Wait

By Jill Garvey
www.imagine2050.net

Among cheers of “Sí se puede!” and “Time is now!” hundreds packed into the Church of the Reformation for a National Town Hall meeting on Capitol Hill. Their calls were clear - we can’t wait, we need comprehensive immigration reform now.

Farmworkers certainly can’t wait. Last year a pregnant teenager, María Isabel Vásquez Jiménez, died after working in a California vineyard in blistering heat without access to water or shade. Her’s is just one of many deaths due to inadequate protections for undocumented workers. How many more farmworkers will die in the fields before our system is reformed?

Janet Murguia of NCLR said, “We need to see the change that was promised.”

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White House to Hold First Town Hall Online Tomorrow

Tomorrow morning at 8:30am PST, President Obama will be holding an online town hall. As one of the priorities of the Obama Administration is to open up the White House to citizens, they are taking advantage of the internet to allow people to participate in the first ever online White House Town Hall.

Currently, questions are being taken via online form. Those interested in submitting a question or voting on one already submitted can visit www.whitehouse.gov/openforquestions Questions will be accepted until 6:30am PST.

To submit or vote for your favorite questions on Fair and Just Comprehensive Reform add the term "immigration" in the search queue at the top. Be sure to let President Obama know that you want him to support Immigration Reform and a halt to raids that divide families.

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