Latino and African American leaders made a coalition this Monday, Sept. 23, to demand the United States Congress to approve an immigration reform and legislation that fights poverty in the country.
According to information published by El Nuevo Herald, the leaders who integrated the measure on Monday are Thomas A. Sáenz, president and general attorney of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF); Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organization Network (NDLON); and African American revered Jesse Jackson, who made the initiative public in a press conference in Los Angeles.
The coalition demanded that Congress review and give priority to an immigration reform delayed in the House of Representatives since last June when the Senate, of a Democrat majority, approved a project that contemplates the legalization of 11 million illegal immigrants, a measure that has been hampered by the Republic opposition.
In the last few weeks, specialists and pro-immigrant organizations made public their fear of possible delay of an immigration reform in favor of seeking a solution to the civil war in Syria.
"Inevitably, new important and urgent subjects will come up, but that is no excuse for the failure of a full-time Congress to address the critical matter of the immigration reform," denounced Sáenz, quoted by El Nuevo Herald.
The same source informed that the coalition highlighted that an immigration reform benefits the American economy and demanded the Congress to fight rising figures in poverty.
"As long as we face the two demons of poverty and mass incarceration, nothing but direct action of the masses can defeat darkness and bring dawn to the United States again," said reverend Jackson, according to El Nuevo Herald.
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