immigration voice rally

I was recently at a rally organized by a group called Immigration Voice that represents legal high-skilled immigrants who are trying to make a career and life in the United States. The event was held over two days Mon Sept 17 and Tue Sept 18 in the US Capital. This group had organized many meetings (about 150 of them) with senators and congressmen who were in the Capital City. About 1500 legal highly-skilled immigrants turned out for this rally from many states. Yours truly got some face time with Congressman Danny Davis (7th District Illinois), Congressman McDermott (7th district Washington state) to talk and hear about legal highly skilled immigrants. On Sept 18, the full contingent slow-marched peacefully from the Washington Memorial to the US Capitol. Congressman McDermott gave a little speech about overall immigration policy and acknowledged that the law should include issues faced by legal highly skilled immigrants. The Business Week covered this event here: http://tinyurl.com/yvd7jq, NY Times here: http://tinyurl.com/238nef and Washington post here: http://tinyurl.com/yt5h64

My capacity in this group is minimal, I happen to be a friend of a very energetic gentleman who is the Illinois chapter VP for Immigration Voice: Anil S. I do believe in the objectives of the group and have supported them with my presence at the rally and purchasing merchandise from their website. At the rally, I met the organizers: Doctor, Software Engineer, Ad Creative and other professionals - like some of us. They seemed very motivated and committed. They have done a great job in highlighting some of the issues in the US immigration process. Some folks have a lot of trouble with immigration and others do not perceive it as trouble at all. In any case, this group shows that the issues are clear and present.

I wanted to share the experience with my readers and encourage everyone to support the group in whichever way they can if they'd like to. Immigration Voice accept donations on their site, they have directions on how to reach out to your local political offices, they have cool merchandise for sale on their site and they cover most of the nationwide immigration events. Their website is: www.immigrationvoice.org.