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On January 1st, four immigrant students left Miami, Florida for a four month-long journey to Washington, DC – on foot. These brave students are walking the “Trail of Dreams” in order to unite support for just and humane immigration reform and highlight the urgent need for change.
Carlos, Gaby, Felipe and Juan are documenting their journey and telling their stories as they march towards Washington and towards the hope of an immigration system that keeps families together and grants them the right to full citizenship in the country they consider home.
Yesterday, one of the marchers took to the Trail of Dreams blog and penned this inspiring message:
Along the way we are going to encounter hardships, however, we know that if we keep ourselves positive we will achieve anything. This is a walk of faith, many have put so much on the line because we KNOW what we are doing will create ripples of effect that will impact people through out the globe. Newspapers around the world are writing about this and people are sending us messages from Europe saying they are going to walk with to the US Embassy in solidarity.
So as we collect people’s dreams in our daily walk, we ask you, what work are you willing to do to ensure that the faith you have is not dead? How are you going to make your dreams a reality?
While these four passionate activists are walking for justice, back in Homestead, Florida another group of community members and families will be fasting in solidarity. The “Fast for Our Families” are on an indefinite fast:
…in the name of all who have lost a loved one to the deportation system. The purpose of this fast is to touch the hearts and minds of all who value family unity and the strength of our communities. President Obama, we can’t wait anymore!
To read more about these brave marchers and fasters and to help support their efforts, visit the Trail of Dreams website and the Fast for Our Families website.
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Tags: dream act, dream act students, fast for families, immigrant students, immigration reform, trail of dreams
I am so proud of how strong all of you are. I will be following your walk now to its end, and support your cause wholeheartedly!
Be well.
I will support them as much as I can!!!
I know how hard is to be an illegal immigrant. I was only ten years old when I came to the U.S.A. Now I am almost out out of High School, I am one of the best students on the school but with out legal documentations I can not do anything. I want to became an airliner pilot; however, now it is just a dream as I can not go to any flight school.
I hope soon the immigration reform will pass. That will make me so happy!!
People need to understand the Dream act does not only affect hispanics/latinos. When people use the term undocumented we suddenly think mexican but there are so many other people who come into this country undocumented. This affects so many communities and gives people an opportunity to succeed.
I Hope this immigration reform passes through because i support all hispanics that are just trying to better their lives and do no harm to anyone.
People need to understand and have an open mind about immigration. This country is based on immigrants. Understand that people are going after a better future for their families and have gone through many hardships to come to this country and still are going through many hard times without a driver’s license or a social security number to work and feed their family. We are all humans and have the same needs and wants no matter what. The negativity that people have towards immigration is absurd. I just hope that you or your family never ever have to go through anything like that, keep in mind that the world goes around and you don’t know where you or your generation will be tomorrow. You don’t know how hard it is to want to get an education and better yourself and not being able to do it because of a paper; it is very frustrating but I still have faith and believe that things will get better.
If you are here illegaly I think you should be sent back when caught or hunted down. If you are here illegaly you have broken the law and you are a criminal and you should be treated as one and sent back from where you came from. There are enough problems here in our country to have to put up with criminals that have permeated our borders and take many jobs away from legal American Citizens. The drugs and gang members that you have brought don’t belong here. Illegals, GO HOME youare not wanted here.
Dios los bendiga y los cuide en su proposito y recuerden hay que estar unidos
CALL TO: 1-866-956-3902 and say: “NO, WE DON’T WANT THE IMMIGRATION REFORM BE APROVED ” // POR FAVOR LLAMEN AL 1-866-956-3902 Y DIGAN: NO A LA REFORMA INMIGRATORIA?
CALL TO: 1-866-956-3902 and say: “NO, WE DON’T WANT THE IMMIGRATION REFORM BE APROVED ” // POR FAVOR LLAMEN AL 1-866-956-3902 Y DIGAN: NO A LA REFORMA INMIGRATORIA?
CALL TO: 1-866-956-3902 and say: “NO, WE DON’T WANT THE IMMIGRATION REFORM BE APROVED ” // POR FAVOR LLAMEN AL 1-866-956-3902 Y DIGAN: NO A LA REFORMA INMIGRATORIA?
CALL TO: 1-866-956-3902 and say: “NO, WE DON’T WANT THE IMMIGRATION REFORM BE APROVED ” // POR FAVOR LLAMEN AL 1-866-956-3902 Y DIGAN: NO A LA REFORMA INMIGRATORIA?
LLAMEN A SUS SENADORES Y SU CONGRESISTA DE SU AREA Y DIGAN: “NO A LA REFORMA DE IMNMIGRACION” YA BASTA OTRA ADMISTIA COMO LA DEL 1987 ESTA REFORMA ES SOLO OTRA ADMISTIA DE NUEVO ESO DE REFORMA ES SOLO PARA CUBRIR LA PALABRA ADMISTIA.
“NO A LA REFORMA DE IMMIGRACION….NO!”
Immigrants students are waiting for this, I hope this year we can make it.
my brother is in high school he’s one of the best students of the school he wants to graduate be an engineer but he’s an illegal immigrant student and he can’t go to college, all the teacher in school talk about how smart and good student he is, but he can’t do anything just wait… that someday a reform for all the innocent students that are brought by their parents to the usa can be here legal and be free like everyone else, everybody has a dream.
God Bless America.
oops! fixed.
January 1st – May 1st is four months
I want to say ,thank you walkers so much. I have been praying and praying to God that this reform act gets passed and all the immigrants that are already here get to stay.I am a student and know of younger students coming up who had no involvement of how they entered the country including me. But we are here by the Grace of God, and dont want to be sent back because this is all we know AMERICA! this is our way of life , which we have known for years PLEASE PRESIDENT OBAMA AND CONGRESS GRANT THE YOUTH IMMGRANTS AND ALL THIS REFORM ACT, THE DREAM ACT ! THIS IS OUR YEAR BY THE GRACE OF GOD! give it to us. THANK YOU AGAIN WALKERS FOR TAKING A STAND GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
This is surely great to see, i have met one of the walkers and certainly the ambition found in these your dreamers should inspire all immigrants to get up and be even stronger than we were in past years when CIR was fighting at its best! Now is time to be fighting even better!