Here is information that should explain the 1,000 Mile march we are doing on our Knees to Washington DC for Immigration Reform.

I am going to put down in chronological order what has been happening. We hope you can help us spread this message.
” If you park your car and you do not put your quarter in the parking meter your car gets towed.
These persons who are entering the USA without proper documents are basically committing the same crime as you not putting a quarter in the parking meter and are getting sent/towed to their native country.
What many people do not know is that these people DO NOT HAVE A METER to put their quarter/application into.
Help us make the public aware of this and that Congress does not want to put up a meter.

This is the type of Immigration Reform we need. (Immigration Reform is not Amnesty)

This is our face book page
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Knee-A-Thon-Thank-You-Pilgrimage/147552295338755

Link to a 10-4-2011 Highlands Today Article

http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2011/oct/04/LANEWSO1-stop-look-at-march-on-knees/news/
Link to the 10-8-2011 news article
http://www.newssun.com/news/100911-ct-Hispanic-march
Thank you & GOD BLESS U ALL

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From: kneeathon@lists.ruralhome.org [mailto:kneeathon@lists.ruralhome.org] On Behalf Of leslie@ruralhome.org
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Subject: [kneeathon] Press release: Kneeling Pilgrimage Seeks Attention for Immigration Reform

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Santos De La Rosa, hipoteca1@comcast.net

KNEELING PILGRIMAGE SEEKS TO DRAW ATTENTION TO NEED FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
Sebring, Florida, Sept. 7, 2011 – Santos De La Rosa plans to leave home at sunrise on September 10, headed for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC – on his knees.

“Traveling a thousand miles on my knees is nothing,” De La Rosa says, “compared to what immigrants in the U.S. have to bear, especially immigrants who are farmworkers.” His journey is intended to draw attention to the reasons many people want to come to the United States, and the hardships they suffer. Ultimately, he hopes to see immigration laws reformed to make it easier for them to come to the U.S., work here, and remain here.
De La Rosa, age 56, is a third generation American; he and his parents were born in the U.S. As migrant farmworkers, he says, they gained an understanding of the difficulties facing immigrants, particularly undocumented farmworkers. He believes others may not have learned the same lessons.
“U.S. citizens who complain about undocumented immigrants are not bad people,” De La Rosa says. “But they have never been poor and they also don’t know how hard it is for poor people to get here legally. You can’t wait 10 or 15 years to get a visa before you start providing for your family. Others would probably do the same thing in the same situation. People know they may die trying to get into the U.S., but they feel they have to try anyway. Then when they get here they don’t mind taking the jobs no one else wants, like hard farm labor.”

De La Rosa has great faith in humanity, as well as in God. He is sure that others will help him through his “Knee-a-Thon” and will even join in for at least part of his travels. He estimates the journey will take years because he cannot set aside the rest of his life to make this trip. He will travel on Saturdays and Sundays, while keeping his full time job for a nonprofit organization in Sebring. Every weekend he will drive farther from home to begin at the point where he finished the previous weekend. (He will not travel on November 12 because of a prior commitment.)

“I want to say thank you and God bless to all the millions of good people in this great nation that believe in human rights,” De La Rosa states. “Thank you for understanding the obstacles that undocumented immigrants face and for helping them because it’s the right thing to do. I thank those who are in the military also, for preserving American rights so that we can express our opinions, as I am doing with this pilgrimage.”

De La Rosa plans to use his Face book page to let others know about his progress as he moves toward the Lincoln Memorial.

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Here is information that should explain the 1,000 Mile march we are doing on our Knees to Washington DC for Immigration Reform.

I am going to put down in chronological order what has been happening. We hope you can help us spread this message.

If you park your car and you do not put your quarter in the parking meter your car gets towed.

These persons who are entering the USA without proper documents are basically committing the same crime as you not putting a quarter in the parking meter and are getting sent/towed to their native country.

What many people do not know is that these people DO NOT HAVE A METER to put their quarter/application into.

Help us make the public aware of this and that Congress does not want to put up a meter.

This is the type of Immigration Reform we need. (Immigration Reform is not Amnesty)

This is our face book page

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Knee-A-Thon-Thank-You-Pilgrimage/147552295338755

· Link to a 10-4-2011 Highlands Today Article

http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2011/oct/04/LANEWSO1-stop-look-at-march-on-knees/news/

· Link to the 10-8-2011 news article

http://www.newssun.com/news/100911-ct-Hispanic-march

You will need people to help you with cash for your wish list which includes:

Gasoline
Knee pads
USA Flags
Tomato Bucket
Signs, or supplies to make signs

If you cannot start on in your community we invite you and your friends, family, and contacts to join us. See the info link to keep up where we will be traveling the next weekend.

Thank you & GOD BLESS U ALL

Sincerely

Santos De La Rosa

863.655.1191 Home

863.414.2217 cell

Hipoteca1@comcast.net

Sebring FL

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From: kneeathon@lists.ruralhome.org [mailto:kneeathon@lists.ruralhome.org] On Behalf Of leslie@ruralhome.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 3:08 PM
To: kneeathon@lists.ruralhome.org
Subject: [kneeathon] Press release: Kneeling Pilgrimage Seeks Attention for Immigration Reform

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Santos De La Rosa, hipoteca1@comcast.net

KNEELING PILGRIMAGE SEEKS TO DRAW ATTENTION TO NEED FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM

Sebring, Florida, Sept. 7, 2011 – Santos De La Rosa plans to leave home at sunrise on September 10, headed for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC – on his knees.

“Traveling a thousand miles on my knees is nothing,” De La Rosa says, “compared to what immigrants in the U.S. have to bear, especially immigrants who are farmworkers.” His journey is intended to draw attention to the reasons many people want to come to the United States, and the hardships they suffer. Ultimately, he hopes to see immigration laws reformed to make it easier for them to come to the U.S., work here, and remain here.

De La Rosa, age 56, is a third generation American; he and his parents were born in the U.S. As migrant farmworkers, he says, they gained an understanding of the difficulties facing immigrants, particularly undocumented farmworkers. He believes others may not have learned the same lessons.

“U.S. citizens who complain about undocumented immigrants are not bad people,” De La Rosa says. “But they have never been poor and they also don’t know how hard it is for poor people to get here legally. You can’t wait 10 or 15 years to get a visa before you start providing for your family. Others would probably do the same thing in the same situation. People know they may die trying to get into the U.S., but they feel they have to try anyway. Then when they get here they don’t mind taking the jobs no one else wants, like hard farm labor.”

De La Rosa has great faith in humanity, as well as in God. He is sure that others will help him through his “Knee-a-Thon” and will even join in for at least part of his travels. He estimates the journey will take years because he cannot set aside the rest of his life to make this trip. He will travel on Saturdays and Sundays, while keeping his full time job for a nonprofit organization in Sebring. Every weekend he will drive farther from home to begin at the point where he finished the previous weekend. (He will not travel on November 12 because of a prior commitment.)

“I want to say thank you and God bless to all the millions of good people in this great nation that believe in human rights,” De La Rosa states. “Thank you for understanding the obstacles that undocumented immigrants face and for helping them because it’s the right thing to do. I thank those who are in the military also, for preserving American rights so that we can express our opinions, as I am doing with this pilgrimage.”

De La Rosa plans to use his Face book page to let others know about his progress as he moves toward the Lincoln Memorial.

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Now that I write these few lines I remember the end of a paragraph where SR Obama spoke of the good and bad habits of the politicians, preguntandose: when I alooketh and descubriré that now I am one of “those” politicians… Oh, answer difficult for whom this face in the mirror because there is not reflected what is but what you want to be.

If being political is forgetting the promises to the electoral marginalized, the illegal immigrant expected promised immigration reform.

If all, all ansolutamente is given by calculating political… If it and the quiet is should the “maneuver” between backstage characteristic of the old political tanning, tanned, sedentary, thirsty; hidden in the silks… If it is true, for example Janet Napolitano is driven to hunt undocumented in the best style of film planet of the apes, Capitol by orders “”

Bizarre, unthinkable for human morally healthy; if prior to the IMMIGRATION REFORM, all pro March raids have to envy that used to make the Nazi SS are entered by a politician and not a subaltern bureaucrat…

We then not look even; not juzgemos; maintain that fire of faith; we continue to believe that the greatest leader, that man, a sort of MESIAS of the poor and marginalized, us brighten, sculpted with its programmes and promises the image of decency, the purity of the future of work and rewarded effort…

We continue believe so because it would lose the next day and the rest of the days.

We are humble people, working people, people only requests a meter of land where we sit, without fear, protected from abuse, racism, the rejection of , the outrage, aggression…etc.

We are 55 million Latinos of which 20 have not the roles required in this land of immigrants, in this paradise the freedom (?)

We will be – want to or not, put a pit full of crocodiles along the frontera-la ANO 2050 the absolute most, years before, days later…

We are not those who attack reject it because not even agree to have a President of color; we are not owners of insurance companies, we are not part of the pharmaceutical; industry we are not working on Wall street, safe cleaning toilette or cleaning floors…

We are thought that and even believe in you.In that mentioned book where give class of decency, fitness, CONFIABILIDAD.Where you show with more than because the American village hope elect to the best leader of the last 50 years.

NOT WE FAIL BRACK!
Dr.Marco Antonio Rios Pita Giurfa
Inmigrante