Immigrant rights groups shifting tactics as November approaches – Arizona From: tucsoncitizen.com
Tagged: activist, Arizona, border, immigrant rights, voter registrationPosted on: April 30th, 2008
Activists supporting the rights of illegal immigrants have lost big in the past two elections when Arizona voters decided measures to take away in-state tuition, some social services benefits and the right to sue for punitive damages.
During the past two years, Immigrants Without Borders and other groups have urged supporters to march for immigrants’ rights. As November approaches, however, Bermudez and others are moving to a strategy that speaks to a slogan chanted during those demonstrations: Today we march; tomorrow we vote.
“There isn’t going to be any demonstrations. The voter registration drives are going on as we speak,” said Daniel Ortega, a lawyer and activist for the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund.”*
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