(8 Jun 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles – 8 June 2022
1. Protesters chanting in Spanish behind banner
2.SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Sanbrano, immigrants rights advocate:
“We are sending a message to President Biden to comply with his promises and to extend temporary protected status to the people with have lived here for over 20 years and they’re still in limbo. And we want him to work for and demand that permanent residence and gross citizenship are given to the immigrant workers in the United States.”
3. Various of protesters chanting and holding pro-immigrant signs
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Angelica Salas, executive director, Coalition for Humane Immigrants Rights:
“Very specifically to President Biden, what we’re telling him is you promised citizenship. You promised a permanent solution for the undocumented and for the people who have been with temporary protected status now for decades. You promised solutions. We demand that those solutions come forward. And we understand that there’s obstacles in Congress that we have senators and a Republican Party that’s not willing to engage. But you have the power as the president of the United States to extend protection to our people, to stop the detention and deportation. And that is what we’re demanding with our rally.”
5. Sign reads “Pres. Biden Citizenship Now!”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Vladimir Carrasco, deputy director of external affairs, Coalition for Humane Immigrants Rights:
“No, absolutely not. The Summit of the Americas is not inclusive of black immigrants, of any person of color, really. I mean, what happens when you have politicians and executives in a room is often that the people that are most directly impacted by the decisions are left out. So that’s poor people. We saw we see this with Vice President Kamala Harris going to South America and really empowering corporations to take land and militarize the borders in Central America, which then directly impacts who? The poor and black immigrants that are criminalized and persecuted by the system.”
7. Protesters chanting in Spanish behind banner
STORYLINE:
Immigrant rights activists demonstrated outside the Summit of the Americas on Wednesday, demanding that President Joe Biden take action to protect undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Migration has taken center stage at the assembly of Western Hemisphere leaders in Los Angeles this week, reflecting its emergence as a top foreign policy issue amid red-carpet drama over who comes and who stays home.
The “Los Angeles Declaration,” to be announced while U.S. President Joe Biden meets with his counterparts from North, Central and South America Wednesday through Friday, is expected to be a brief call to action that supporters hope will guide countries on hosting people fleeing violence and persecution and searching for more economic stability.
The United States has been the most popular destination for asylum-seekers since 2017, posing a challenge that has stumped Biden and his immediate predecessors, Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
But the U.S. is far from alone. Colombia and neighboring South American countries host millions who have fled Venezuela. Mexico fielded more than 130,000 asylum applications last year, many of them Haitians, which was triple from 2020. Many Nicaraguans escape to Costa Rica, while displaced Venezuelans account for about one-sixth the population of tiny Aruba.
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