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Mon, 12/19/2011 - 12:00am
Portland Community Rallies for Immigrant Rights
Over the weekend, hundreds of supporters of immigrant rights gathered in downtown Portland to commemorate International Migrants Day. Speakers at the rally in the South Park Blocks Saturday morning spoke of the need for national legislation providing a real path to citizenship for immigrants, and encouraged the passage of the DREAM Act to allow children born abroad but raised in the U-S to be able to become citizens.
KBOO’s Anna Preble was there, and spoke with some of the participants in the march and rally: