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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - March 25, 2010
Tens of Thousands March on Washington, DC,
for Immigration Reform
by: Yana Kunichoff
truthout|Report
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of
Washington, DC, on Sunday to pressure President Obama to
work toward reforming the nation's immigration system and
giving legal status to the estimated 12 million undocument-
ed people currently living in the United States.
The crowd of immigration activists and immigrants of many
different backgrounds and ages filled the five large blocks
of the Washington Mall, flying American flags and chanting
"Si, se puede," Obama's campaign slogan of "Yes, we can"
in Spanish, and "Out of the shadows, Into the streets."
They arrived from all over the country, most in buses
organized by unions, community organizations and political
advocacy groups - among the marchers were undocumented
students from Chicago, workers from a meat-packing plant
in Tar Heel, North Carolina and an orchestra from New York
City with a repertoire of protest songs.
"Every day without reform is a day when 12 million hard-
working immigrants must live in the shadow of fear,"
Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-New York), chairwoman of the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus, told the rally. "Don't
forget that in the last presidential election 10 million
Hispanics came out to vote," she said, and that the crowd
must tell lawmakers "that you will not forget which side
of this debate they stood on."
Obama delivered a video message that was broadcast on huge
screens around the Mall. He said he would continue working
on the issue, but did not mention a specific time frame.
"I have always pledged to be your partner as we work to
fix our broken immigration system, and that's a commitment
that I reaffirm today." However, he went on to say, "you
know as well as I do that this won't be easy, and it won't
happen overnight."
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Rep. Luis Guiterrez (D-Illinois), who was the main sponsor
of an immigration reform proposal in the House, said he
was optimistic about Obama's push toward an immigration
bill this year. "I see a new focus on the part of this
president," Guiterrez said. "That's why we are here to say
we are not invisible."
For James Hong, the civic participation coordinator for
the Minkwon Center for Community Action in Flushing, New
York, coming to march Sunday was about bringing a very
specific group of people out of the shadows - the one in
five undocumented immigrants that are Asian.
"They are not out there politically, nor are they in terms
of the media coverage," he said. His hope is that this
march will help them "be recognized for their part in the
American dream."
As a representative of one of the United Food and
Commercial Worker Union, one of the first to speak up
about Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids on work-
places, Tracey Richardson said that she flew in from Los
Angeles with Jackie Gitmed, a worker, to march on behalf
of their colleagues whose immigration status kept them
from making it to DC.
"It is not only [a matter of] immigration reform, but
human rights," said Gitmed.
The rally was the first major mass street action for
immigration reform since protests by hundreds of thousands
in 2006, followed by failure in Congress to push through
an immigration overhaul in 2007, led to an increase in
immigration enforcement raids and widespread fear in the
immigrant community.
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Many religious leaders present at the event compared the
fight for immigration to the civil rights movement. "The
angst and trepidation in our communities is unprecedented,"
said Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, the leader of the National
Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. "This is our
Selma."
A number of prominent African-American leaders also spoke
at the event: the Rev. Jesse Jackson; Benjamin T. Jealous,
president of the NAACP; Cornel West, a Princeton scholar;
and Marc H. Morial, a former mayor of New Orleans and the
president of the National Urban League.
Up the hill from the assembled marchers, negotiations on
the health care bill were being concluded.
For Mario Cardenas, an undocumented immigrant rights
activist from Chicago, who has been in America since the
age of eight, the fate of the health care bill does not
inspire him with much hope for immigration legislation.
"The healthcare bill reflects the weakness of social
movements in this country, not only because it bans
[undocumented] immigrants from healthcare but because it
took a year to pass ... and it is so far removed from what
it was originally supposed to be," he said. For Cardenas,
there is only one way forward. "As an activist, my role
here is to build those social movements. I'm inclined to
believe that actual change, like legalization for all or
humane treatments towards immigrants comes from below, not
from legislators or lawmakers."
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