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February 21, 2012
Contact:
Erika Andiola
DRM Government Relations Director
ARIZONA DREAM ACT COALITION & CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER DOLORES HUERTA PROTEST AT GOP DEBATE
Who: Undocumented youth and civil rights activist, Dolores Huerta.
What: Protest outside of the GOP debate to demand the candidates to stop their anti-immigrant rhetoric and support the full DREAM Act or they will lose the Latino vote in Arizona.
When: Monday, Feb. 13 - 5:00 pm
Where: Mesa Amphitheatre 263 N Center Street Mesa, AZ 85201
Dreamers and supporters will be at the CNN GOP debate to remind the Republican candidates that the Latino community in Arizona has woken up due to hateful legislation, such as SB-1070. Dolores Huerta, a long time civil rights activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers, will be joining the undocumented youth to send the message to the Latino community that we will not stand with candidates who do not care about our issues.
Mitt Romney has emerged as a strongly anti-immigrant candidate with his rhetoric on the DREAM Act being the most direct. In addition, his "self-deportation" policy, which emerged from the advice of Kris Kobach, author of SB 1070, is nothing more than a disguise of a cruel scheme to make life unbearable for hard working immigrants.