WASHINGTON -- A coalition of human rights groups and labor organizations will band together to push for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, starting this week with events in eight states and continuing with a bus tour to 80 cities and a march on Washington, D.C.
The group, called Alliance for Citizenship, is aligned with 24 others, including the Service Employees International Union, National Council of La Raza, Church World Service, Center for Community Change, National Immigration Forum, AFL-CIO labor federation and Southern Poverty Law Center.
The idea behind the Alliance for Citizenship campaign announced Tuesday is to harness and grow support for immigration reform from outside Washington, where Latino voters and others can press their own lawmakers to move forward. So far, the group has collected 300,000 petitions calling for a pathway to citizenship.
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