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Alma Nava:
Immigration Rights
It was Monday, May 1st, 2006. More than 200-thousand people in the Bay Area took to the streets to participate in a “Day without Immigrants.” The protest was part of an organized effort across the country to show support for immigrants and to protest anti-immigration laws. At issue was the House Resolution 4437, also known as the Sessenbrenner law. It aims to increase the penalty for undocumented immigration to a felony and also to punish the people who help them make it in the United States.
Many of the people protesting in the Bay Area that day were younger than 18.
And their presence built huge momentum for the immigrant rights movement.
The Next Generation’s Alma Nava was also marching that day and she wonders what happened to that student movement. |
