TELEPHONE PRESS CONFERENCE: YA ES HORA ¡CIUDADANIA! CAMPAIGN RE-LAUNCHES NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP EFFORT Historic campaign helped set a naturalization record last year, Will re-launch in 2009 with naturalization workshops April 18 in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Denver, Houston, Phoenix and other Cities around the nation From: hispanictips.com

Leaders of the historic ya es hora ¡Ciudadania! (It’s time, Citizenship!) Campaign will brief reporters on Tuesday, April 14 at 1:00 p.m. EDT on the official re-launch of the campaign’s national efforts to motivate eligible legal permanent residents to apply for U.S. citizenship in 2009.

The ya es hora ¡Ciudadania! (It’s time, Citizenship!) Campaign, which includes Entravision Communications, impreMedia, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, NALEO Educational Fund, National Council of La Raza and Univision Communications Inc., will officially re-launch its efforts on Saturday, April 18 with naturalization workshops in cities across the country that are being held in conjunction with AILA, the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

The re-launch of the campaign follows an analysis by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund that reveals how the success of the ya es hora campaign led to a dramatic increase in Latino naturalized citizens that helped set a record for the overall number of naturalizations in FY 2008.  The analysis of data from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) shows that nearly one out of two (44%) of the nation’s 1,046,539 new U.S. citizens was Latino.

WHAT:           Telephone Press Briefing: ya es hora ¡Ciudadania! Campaign

WHO: Jeanne Butterfield, Executive Director, American Immigration Lawyers Association

Flavia Jimenez, Director of New Americans Initiative, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Clarissa Martinez, Director of Immigration & National Campaigns, National Council of La Raza

Grace Lopez, Director Mi Familia Vota Colorado

ya es hora Partner Principals

WHEN:           Tuesday, April 14, 2009

1:00 p.m. EDT

Contact: Eric Wagner, ewagner@naleo.org

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