Parties Targeted on Immigrant Rights

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Immigrants rights activists will rally, march and picket today to call attention to their demands. The May 1st 2008 Coalition is calling for immigration reform, stopping raids, deportations, and use of No-Match Letters, rescinding the anti-immigrant resolution in Prince William County, declaring DC a Sanctuary City for immigrants, and establishing and supporting Workers Centers in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Activists will picket the national offices of the Republican and Democratic National Committees at 12:30P, “calling on members of both parties to recognize the basic human rights of all immigrants to this country. A march and rally will also be held at 4P. “With national elections underway, this is a critical time for advocates of justice for immigrant communities to raise our voices in solidarity,” say organizers. “Raids and deportations continue to tear families apart, both across the country and within the Washington metropolitan region.  We aim to challenge the climate of fear that these raids have produced and to show that the immigrant community will not be silenced.”