Caminata Por La Ley del Registro–Papeles Para Todes! From Sonoma County to San Francisco

(EN ESPANOL AQUI ABAJO)

June, 2023

Dear Friend & Supporter:

We humbly write to invite you to endorse, participate, and make a contribution to the Northern California Coalition For Just Immigration Reform’s (NCCJIR) 40-mile Walk For Immigration Reform–Papers For All Through Registry, which will take place August 5-7, from Sonoma County to San Francisco!

NCCJIR is a coalition of immigrant rights organizations in San Francisco, East Bay, Sonoma and Humboldt Counties, which includes Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA), East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, El Porvenir, ALMAS LIBRES, Raizes Collective, Centro del Pueblo, Immigrant Defense Task Force of the North Bay Organizing Project, the North Bay Jobs With Justice, Lideres del Futuro, Witness at the Border, National Lawyers Guild (SF Chapter), and others.

Currently, NCCJIR is part of a national campaign pushing for the passage of “Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929,” (HR 1511). or “Registry Bill.” The bill updates a 1929 law so that undocumented individuals may apply for legal permanent residency as long as they have lived in the country for at least seven years. It is estimated that approximately eight million of the approximately eleven million undocumented people in the U.S. will benefit under this new update of current law.

Why do immigrant communities continue to passionately organize around a legalization bill, despite the betrayals by politicians and the continued, anti-immigrant sentiment? Undocumented immigrants explain their involvement and sacrifice the best. They and their families continue to greatly suffer due to the lack of opportunities to adjust their legal status. Mothers and fathers are unable to see the children they were forced to leave behind in their home countries. People suffer emotional distress by not seeing their elderly parents before they die. They continue to suffer exploitation at work and remain vulnerable if they complain about work conditions. And they suffer a constant fear that law enforcement will discover them and deport them, forcibly separating them from family and loved ones living with them here.

It is important to continue to build community participation in the campaign, and to create the political climate needed to push forward pro-undocumented legislation. Immigrant communities continue to organize, not to achieve a fast win, but rather, to continue to build support for a just law which will offer an ongoing path to citizenship, a permanent solution to the current injustice.
Our messages for the August 2023 40-Mile Walk will be: 1) Congress must pass HR 1511, the “Registry Bill;” 2) The federal government must ensure human rights at the US-Mexico border and keep fair asylum rules in place; 3) Dignity for undocumented workers; 4) Stop the violence, including gun violence, against Immigrants and people of color.

For our 40-Mile Walk, which will publicize our cause, we will need items like food, water, a porta-potty, medical supplies, volunteers, and other supplies. Any monetary or in-kind donation would be very much appreciated!

To endorse, volunteer, or make a donation, please feel free to contact Renee Saucedo, 707-273-2974 or reneesaucedo8@gmail.com, or Manuel De Paz, 510-491-5273 or manuel@eastbaysanctuary.org.

You may make a donation online on the web page of Raizes Collective here: https://www.raizescollective.org/

Please click on “Support Us” on the bottom, right of the page and write a note saying the donation is for the Caminata/Walk.

Thank you!
The Northern California Coalition For Just Immigration Reform