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FRISCO — Immigrants and their allies will meet at the Frisco Bay Marina this evening at 5:30 to march down Main Street in support of immigration reform. The walk will conclude at the Frisco Historic Park, where speakers will address the crowd.
The demonstration is one of five such events taking place this week throughout mountain communities in Colorado, including Telluride, Gunnison and Edwards.
The actions coincide with the Presidents' Day congressional recess and aim to place pressure on U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet while he is home from Washington, D.C. Immigration reform advocates hope Bennet will take a leadership role on the issue among his colleagues in the Senate.
Summit County resident Leti Díaz is one of the event's organizers. She expects hundreds of people to attend.
According to Díaz, making citizenship more accessible to immigrants would benefit families and the local economy.
The week of political action takes place just after the release of a new report on the economics of immigration by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank based in Washington. The report, “Raising the Floor for American Workers,” argues that pathways to legalization for now-illegal immigrants would help American workers and the U.S. economy.
Comprehensive immigration reform would generate $1.5 trillion in the next decade by raising wages, increasing consumer purchasing, creating more jobs and generating greater tax revenues, according to the report.
Economic analysis by the Center for American Progress suggests that legalizing the nation's unauthorized workers and putting new legal limits on immigration that rise and fall with U.S. labor demand would create an increase in U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by 0.84 percent. In contrast, the report concluded that mass deportation of illegal immigrants would reduce the GDP by 1.46 percent.
“Everybody is invited to hear what we have to say. We want to let them to understand the need for immigration reform in our community,” Díaz said.
The Center for American Progress report is available at http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/01/raising_the_
floor.html
Julie Sutor can be reached at (970) 668-4630 or jsutor@summitdaily.com.
The demonstration is one of five such events taking place this week throughout mountain communities in Colorado, including Telluride, Gunnison and Edwards.
The actions coincide with the Presidents' Day congressional recess and aim to place pressure on U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet while he is home from Washington, D.C. Immigration reform advocates hope Bennet will take a leadership role on the issue among his colleagues in the Senate.
Summit County resident Leti Díaz is one of the event's organizers. She expects hundreds of people to attend.
According to Díaz, making citizenship more accessible to immigrants would benefit families and the local economy.
The week of political action takes place just after the release of a new report on the economics of immigration by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank based in Washington. The report, “Raising the Floor for American Workers,” argues that pathways to legalization for now-illegal immigrants would help American workers and the U.S. economy.
Comprehensive immigration reform would generate $1.5 trillion in the next decade by raising wages, increasing consumer purchasing, creating more jobs and generating greater tax revenues, according to the report.
Economic analysis by the Center for American Progress suggests that legalizing the nation's unauthorized workers and putting new legal limits on immigration that rise and fall with U.S. labor demand would create an increase in U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by 0.84 percent. In contrast, the report concluded that mass deportation of illegal immigrants would reduce the GDP by 1.46 percent.
“Everybody is invited to hear what we have to say. We want to let them to understand the need for immigration reform in our community,” Díaz said.
The Center for American Progress report is available at http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/01/raising_the_
floor.html
Julie Sutor can be reached at (970) 668-4630 or jsutor@summitdaily.com.
