Week Three of Immigration Reform Action Heats Up
This week, our Affiliates in California, Texas, and North Carolina hit the pavement to continue the drumbeat for action on immigration reform. Below are highlights of our third week of action.
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Week Three of Immigration Reform Action Heats Up
This week, our Affiliates in California, Texas, and North Carolina hit the pavement to continue the drumbeat for action on immigration reform. Below are highlights of our third week of action.
Storified by NCLR· Fri, Aug 23 2013 14:40:57
We start in California where our Affiliate, TODEC worked feverishly to gather more than 1,000 letters of support. One of our youngest advocates and daughter of TODEC’s executive director, Clarissa Gallegos, had the privilege of hand delivering all the letters to Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.) himself.
Thousands of supporters wrote letters to Rep …Facebook
One of our youngest supporters delivers 1,023 letters of support for #immigration reform to… http://instagram.com/p/dVF-H6zdCe/NCLR
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TODEC also conducted a phonebank into Rep.Darrell Issa’s (R-CA-49) office this week, with volunteers driving grassrootscalls in support of immigration reform into the Congressman’s office.
Over 20 volunteers at our Affiliate, TODEC, phone banking, asking people to call their representatices to urge them to support #immigration reform! #UniteUSAnclr
Moving on to the great state of Texas, the NCLR Action Fund ran Spanish-languageradio ads in Houston . Two setsof ads, playing on stations KLOL 101.1 FM “Mega 101,” KLTN 102.9 FM, and KQBU03.3 FM, asked listeners to call Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas) and Rep. Pete Olson(R-Texas) and urge them to give immigration reform legislation a vote on theHouse floor.
Immigration Ads on the RadioIn August, the NCLR Action Fund ran a series of Spanish-language immigration radio advertisements in Tampa, Florida, Houston, Texas, and …
In North Carolina, our Affiliate, Latin American Coalition, rallied in front of Rep. Robert Pittenger’s (R-N.C.)Charlotte office on calling on him to helpkeep families together by working for comprehensive immigration reformlegislation in the House of Representatives.
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