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DESCRIPTION:Join contingents of UUSF members, Mujeres Unidas y Activas and others to 
 walk with immigrant rights marchers on the last leg of a 40 mile march from 
 Petaluma. Meet at the Golden Gate Bridge, S.F. side at 11 AM. We’ll then 
 meet the marchers who are due at the Vista Point (Marin side of the bridge) 
 at 11:30 am and walk the 7 miles from the bridge to S.F. Civic Center and 
 S.F. Federal building at 7th and Mission. \n\nAs 40 years of congressional 
 inaction on immigration reform near, hundreds of immigrant community 
 members, allies, and supporters will hit the hot highways of Northern 
 California on Saturday, August 5, 2023 from Petaluma and San Jose on a 
 40-mile plus walk that will culminate in front of the Federal Building in 
 San Francisco on Monday, August 7, 2023.  \n \nThe “All In for 
 Registry” walk is organized by dozens of immigrant rights organizations 
 in the Bay Area and northern California, and members of the Northern 
 California Coalition for Just Immigration Reform (NCCJIR).  \n\nOrganizers 
 expect hundreds to walk over 40 miles plus from either starting point in 
 Petaluma or San Jose to demand respect for human rights at the U.S.-Mexico 
 border and to press Congress to pass H.R. 1511 (known as the “Registry 
 Bill”) which would allow approximately 8 million undocumented people 
 currently living in the U.S. to apply for legal permanent residency.\n 
 \nH.R. 1511, the “Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act 
 of 1929," (HR 1511). or “Registry Bill” updates a 1929 law so that 
 undocumented individuals may apply for legal permanent residency as long as 
 they have lived in the country for at least seven years.  It is estimated 
 that approximately eight million of the approximately eleven million 
 undocumented people in the U.S. will benefit under this new update of 
 current law.\n \n“Is this the kind of country we want to be, one that 
 causes injury and death to families, including children, who migrate to the 
 U.S. fleeing economic and political oppression?” states Socorro Diaz, 
 leader of NCCJIR and of ALMAS LIBRES, an Immigrant & Indigenous women’s 
 empowerment organization in Sonoma County.  “No more suffering!  We ask 
 that Congress pass H.R. 1511 so that migrants have a reasonable process to 
 apply for residency, and they may come out of the shadows of work 
 exploitation and fear.”\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/08/03/18858038.php
SUMMARY:A walk for Immigrant Justice
LOCATION:March from Golden Gate Bridge Vista Point to S.F. Civic Center
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/08/03/18858038.php
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