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Saticoy to Oxnard on Friday
UFW President Arturo Rodriguez joins farm workers' two-day immigration
protest march in Ventura County |
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United Farm Workers President Arturo S.
Rodriguez joins Ventura County farm workers and supporters walking
today (Friday) from Saticoy to Oxnard, marking the second day of a
two-day march to protest immigration raids and intimidation and build
support for the AgJobs bill allowing undocumented field laborers to
earn permanent legal status. (See updated route and schedule below.)
Rodriguez joins the marchers at 5 p.m. Friday. Similar UFW-led
marches are underway this week in the Salinas and Central valleys.
Recent raids and intimidation by U.S. immigration authorities heighten
the need for this landmark legislation, march organizers say. UFW
offices across California have received numerous calls from farm workers
and other Latinos afraid to leave their homes or take children to
school. According to reports, people are often being questioned and
arrested because of their skin color.
The bipartisan federal AgJobs bill now before Congress-S. 1645 and
H.R. 3142, by U.S. Sens. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) and Edward M. Kennedy
(D-Mass.), and U.S. Reps. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) and Howard Berman
(D-Calif.)-would allow undocumented farm workers to earn the legal
right to permanently stay in this country by continuing to work in
agriculture. Also strongly backed by the agricultural industry, AgJobs
has the support of 63 co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate, including many
Republicans.
AgJobs has been endorsed by hundreds of organizations representing
a broad cross-section of employer associations, religious organizations,
immigrant advocates, civil rights groups and unions from across the
nation. The editorial boards of the Wall St. Journal, Los Angeles
Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, Salinas
Californian, La Opinion, Miami Herald, New York Times and other newspapers
around the U.S. have editorialized for the measure.
Starts at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, July 2, 2004 in Saticoy; Rodriguez
joins march at 5 p.m.
March begins at Cabrillo Village on Saticoy Ave. in Saticoy; right
towards Telegraph Rd.; right onto Los Angeles Ave.; right on Rose
Ave.; right on Cesar Chavez Blvd.; left on Juanita Ave.; right on
Cooper Rd.; left on Garfield Ave.; right on Third St.; left onto "B"
St.; ends at 6 p.m. at La Plazita Park in Oxnard.
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