A group of about 80 immigrants, who gathered from different states to the capital of the nation and marched in the halls of the Congress while wearing “Courage” stamped medallions around their necks and deposited all the medallions to the House speaker Mr. Boehner’s office.
The Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) has organized this gesture to ask Mr. Boehner to push the immigration reform bill forward in the House for voting. This act of protest was launched at the summit organized by FIRM at a Washington hotel on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The organizers called this summit as ‘Keeping the Families Together Summit’ as the total numbers of deportations has reached almost at 2 million during the Obama administration. At the summit, they will decide different strategies for immigration movement. FIRM is a national coalition of grassroots organizations fighting for immigration rights and reforms.
The Senate passed the comprehensive immigration bill with 68-32 votes in the June of last year, which was crafted by the Gang of Eight members of the bipartisan group which addressed key issues like border security measures, merit based visa system and opening a door to the U.S. citizenship for about 11 million undocumented immigrants presently residing in the United States.
Boehner and other Republican firmly opposed the bill and called it as an ‘Awful’. Boehner even never brought the bill for voting in the House. Republicans proposed the piecemeal immigration reform which means crafting separate small bills for separate immigration issues rather than a single comprehensive bill covering all the issues.
At the summit, they will decide different strategies for immigration movement. FIRM is a national coalition if grassroots organizations fighting for immigration rights and reforms.
easyIME.com is a free service, which streamlines the immigration medical exam process for green card aspirants by helping them locate the right USCIS Civil Surgeon and schedule their green card medical exam online. Green card aspirants can also find immigration lawyers near their zip code through this service.
