“FAMILIAS UNIDAS” Campaign
What is this campaign about?
The campaign “United Families” is a series of activities and actions coordinated at a national level with the goal of obtaining a real and lasting solution to the current immigration laws. The campaign also seeks to strengthen the development of the local and national NALACC as organization that advocates for its members. The goals of the campaign are for our community to educate, mobilize and take a direct role in civic engagement with those who make the decisions that affect our lives. With the power generated by the campaign we want to create changes in laws that favor immigrants, their families and strengthen the social fabric of the US.
What changes do we want?
The campaign will allow the immigrant community to educate the congress and president on its needs within the politic of immigration reform. Our goal is to achieve immigration law changes the are ample, visionary and sustainable which include 1)a realistic an generous legalization program for those immigrants that are outside of the legal immigration laws 2)the adoption of a maximum of 6 months to resolve legal resident petitions 3)the creation of a national program of political, economic, and social integration of the immigrant communities in the US 4)the establishment of legal and secure systems to address the future migration of people to the US.
Why this campaign?
It is urgent to change immigration laws because families suffer long periods of separation due to the long wait that families must endure to come to this country. Additionally, current immigration laws threaten family unit because parents run the risk of being deported although their children may be US citizens. Although, the parents have being working for many years in the US, formed families and establish roots in their communities the is no mechanism that can adjust their current legal status.
Immigrants just like any other people yearn for a better life for their families and a fundamental step is that the family stays together. The struggle of parents and their children to stay together is the focus of the campaign.
How are we going to achieve it?
Organizing our community to build political power!.
The activities include visits to members of congress, the white house, rallies, vigils, house meetings, educational forums, press conferences, collection of signature on petitions, identifying allies, registration and mobilization of voters, and letter / postcard writing and faxing campaigns aim at those who have the authority to change the laws.
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