Activists Will Tour US and Demonstrate During Obama Visit to Demand Immigration Reform CNN Mexico
go to original April 17, 2013

Fifty civic organizations, intellectuals and artists are preparing a delegation that will tour several cities in the United States with the intent of presenting the humanitarian crisis in immigration that exists between the two countries.

Activities will also take place in Mexico City during the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama in the first week of May. The actions will be part of the Migrant Action Days campaign, which will take place from April 16 to May 5, which includes the distribution of videos and photographs, organizers said Tuesday.

In late April, Alejandro Solalinde, the priest and advocate for the rights of immigrants, will make a tour of several U.S. cities, accompanied by relatives of migrants who have been victims of violence, with the intent of arriving in Washington DC to sensitize the authorities of that country regarding changes to immigration policies, said Marco Castillo, president of the Popular Assembly of Migrant Families of Mexico (APOFAM), in a telephone interview with CNNMéxico.

The Solalinde tour will take place while the U.S. Congress discusses immigration reform legislation that could resolve the legal status of millions of people in that country. Castillo claims that 6,600,000 Mexicans would benefit from immigration reform that regularizes their legal status.

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