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News from Around the Americas | February 2007
Immigrant Rights Activists Organize March North County Times
| The group plans to drive a caravan of vehicles from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas and back, stopping at border cities along the way. | San Diego - A group of activists gathered in San Ysidro Friday to begin a nearly monthlong series of demonstrations at locations along the U.S. border with Mexico to call for immigration reform.
Organizers of "Migrant March II," led by immigrant rights activist Enrique Morones, say the event is intended to rally support in favor of "fair immigration reform and demilitarization of the border."
"There is not one documented case of a person crossing the U.S. Mexican border that committed a terrorist act, not one," Morones told KFMB-TV.
"There's three from Canada. Three different cases. Yet, the National Guard is sent to the Mexican border."
The group plans to drive a caravan of vehicles from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas and back, stopping at border cities along the way.
The demonstration will culminate with an "All People's Immigration Hearing" in San Diego on Feb. 17. |
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