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Immigrant groups' aim: Turn marchers to voters
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jul 13, 2006 01:28pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - USA Today |
| News Date | Thursday, July 13, 2006 04:30:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The promise was splashed across signs that hundreds of thousands of immigrants carried in marches this spring: Hoy marchamos, mañana votamos.
The message in Spanish to Congress that "today we march, tomorrow we vote" was as American as balloons popping at a political convention.
For organizers of those nationwide demonstrations over changes to immigration law, mañana dawns with the Nov. 7 elections. Whatever action Congress may take, activists are pledging to mobilize 1 million new voters from newcomers to the USA: Hispanics, mostly, but also Koreans in Los Angeles, Hmong in Minnesota, Irish in New York City.
"Our community will turn out when they are angry. And our community is very angry," says Cristina Lopez, deputy executive director of the Center for Community Change.
"What Republicans are looking at is a national (Proposition) 187 moment," says Eliseo Medina, vice president of the 1.8-million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU). "The question is, did they learn anything from California? Or are they going to repeat the lessons of the past?" |
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