Immigration Reform Rally Held in San Jose

nbcbayarea ^ | Nov 27, 2013 | Bay City News

[moonshinner_09]

About 100 people attended a rally in San Jose Wednesday morning with a symbolic Thanksgiving Day feast to call attention to families being separated by deportations and the need to reform current U.S. immigration laws.

The rally, organized by the immigrant advocacy group SIREN -- Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network -- took place on a lawn outside the San Jose office of the Department of Homeland Security along busy Monterey Highway.

A long table was set, with a turkey and Thanksgiving holiday decorations, with small signs in front of chairs such as "Mother," "Daughter" and "Father (Deported)," to illustrate how some families with members who are undocumented would be celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday.

U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, who had a place named for her at the table, spoke at the rally along with leaders of Catholic churches in East San Jose and people who described how their lives were affected when family members were deported.

Lofgren, a booster of immigration reform and leading Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, urged House Republicans to review a draft bipartisan immigration reform bill and pass it as the Senate did last summer.

"We've made it clear, we will sit down with Republicans and go item by item, bill by bill, so that we can reach consensus to fix our broken immigration system," Lofgren said. "We can do any of these things. What we can't do is nothing."

[moonshinner_09]

U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, who had a place named for her at the table, spoke at the rally along with leaders of Catholic churches in East San Jose and people who described how their lives were affected when family members were deported..I ask why don't they make the debate equal ? How many American families will sit down and described how their lives were affected when family members are forever changed by drunk drivers causing lives to parish,women being raped,home invasions,etc,etc..why not include everyone.It works both ways

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Lofgren, a booster of immigration reform and leading Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, urged House Republicans to review a draft bipartisan immigration reform bill and pass it as the Senate did last summer.
“We've made it clear, we will sit down with Republicans and go item by item, bill by bill, so that we can reach consensus to fix our broken immigration system,” Lofgren said. “We can do any of these things. What we can't do is nothing.”

Bill by bill, Oh brother.

[Conspiracy Guy]

When are they going to call it Amnesty instead of Immigration Reform? I guess they’ll do that when they call the Affordable Care Act, Obama’s War on Healthcare.

[MuttTheHoople]

Here’s an idea.....maybe those folks can go to Mexico to have Thanksgiving with their families.

[glock rocks]

Did that turkey have any little teardrops tattooed under his eyes?

[jz638]

A member of congress can’t drum up more than a hundred pro-illegal activists in San Jose on the day before a holiday? Very telling.

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100 is a very weak turnout for SJ.

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They celebrate Thanksgiving in Mehseeco?

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