Fast for Families Campaign to Cross United States for Immigration Reform Agencia EFE
go to original January 28, 2014

The activists who went without food for a month to demand that Congress act on immigration reform, announced this week that they are taking the Fast for Families protest on the road.

The campaign will go on until April 9, organizers told a press conference in Washington.

The tour comes at a time when the Republican Party, headed by House Speaker John Boehner, is working on a list of principles it will approve as the basis for passing immigration reform in 2014, and which are already known to include legalizing the undocumented but exclude a path to citizenship.

One of the leaders of Fast for Families, former Service Employees International Union executive Eliseo Medina, said comprehensive immigration reform must include citizenship.

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Goals of the Fast for Families Across America:

• To build on the momentum sparked by the Fast for Families;
• To educate the public in order to increase the level of urgency to act to end the moral crisis created by our broken immigration system;
• To be visible in the districts of key MOC’s so they see that immigration reform is about real people;
• To call to action in our communities – we act, we fast, we pray;
• To go deeper and engage more communities than have previously been engaged.
• The Fast for Families campaign is a collaboration between diverse partners from the faith, immigrant, labor, and civil rights communities and individuals committed to fixing our broken immigration system.

For more info visit the website at Fast4Families.org

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