On Sunday, our all-star list of speakers at the March For America includes:

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Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles

The Cardinal has been a fierce advocate from the faith community. In 2006, he spoke out against a bill that would further the criminalization of immigrants and announced that he would order the clergy and laity of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to ignore the bill if it were to become law.

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Marc Morial, president and CEO, The National Urban League

Morial was former New Orleans mayor and led the National Urban League in also opposing anti-immigration legislation in the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, particularly on lack of worker protections in the bill.

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Janet Murgía, president and CEO, National Council of La Raza

Murgía was former deputy assistant to President Clinton and is the current CEO of National Council of La Raza. The organization has been one of the national Latino organizations spearheading the fight for immigration reform.

Keep your eyes peeled for another post on more of our super-star line-up.

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  • Amberdru

    Another amnesty is unjust; those waiting legally to come are behind those illegally here who would be allowed to stay and legally work. It robs legal immigrants of their place in line.

    Twenty-five million Americans are not able to find full time work; legalizing millions of illegal aliens hurts U.S. citizens.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMaNa1K8lJo

    Father Patrick J. Bascio, a retired Roman Catholic priest who is also an international human rights expert, professor, and widely published author, has written a book entitled “On the Immorality of Illegal Immigration.”

    January 11, 2010
    Izzy Lyman
    Earned Media

    Father Bascio presents a strikingly different perspective on illegal immigration than that of many church leaders. Like a prophet of old, he boldly decries current illegal immigration policies that have contributed to his fellow Americans’ joblessness, shrinking wages and poorer working conditions. Based on the years Father Bascio spent ministering in Harlem, he also argues that African-American workers, in particular, bear the heaviest burden of the illegal invasion, which locks them out of many workplaces or drives wages below livable levels.

    Barbra Jordan was right:
    Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.