GUEST workers will collect signatures in the CNMI to support the granting of U.S. permanent residency to qualified nonresidents.
The Pilipino Contract Workers Association, the United Workers Movement and Dekada Movement officials will set up a “support center” to facilitate the campaign.
Pilcowa president Jun Concillado said their group will collect signatures from guest workers and local residents at the Fiestang Pinoy By Juvy Restaurant from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
“We are urging all our brother and sister contract workers and as well as local residents to support this petiton,” he said.
As of yesterday, 477 had signed the online petition.
Human rights advocate Wendy Doromal, who is based in Florida, said the petition has been online since Sunday.
“It was put online so that the federal officials who receive it will see that people from all over the United States support status for the nonresidents in the CNMI,” said the former Rota teacher.
Doromal said they already have signatures from Florida, California, Missouri, New York, Georgia, Oregon, Washington, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, Connecticut, and other states.
Former Interior Deputy Secretary of Insular Affairs David Cohen was among those who have signed the petition, she added.
She said she and her daughter Nani will deliver the petition and signatures along with letters from guest workers and others to Washington, D.C. in Jan. 2010.
In a press statement, Pilcowa board chairman Ronnie Doca, UWM president Rabby Syed and Dekada Movement president Boni Sagana said they want President Obama to see the petition, copies of which will also be handed to the U.S. Congress, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Homeland Secuirty Secretary Janet Nepolitano.
Doca said their group is willing to bring a copy of the petition to any household.
For more information, call Concillado at 287-0191 or Syed at 285-3306.
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Comments
Get ready. You are all headed back to the PI and Bangladesh. Be sure to thank Ron Hodges, Wendy and Tina Sablan on your way out the door.
Federalization: They asked for it and you about to get a great big dose of it.
Prayer? You might as well pray for rain in the Sahara.
If those that don\'t have u.s. citizen spouse or children over 18 years old, would not be given green card, it is because they recited this prayer often enough and God listened to them. Why? There is a line on that prayer that says \"deliver us from evil\"…
Good day and GOD BLESS YOU!——mberueco
then you will have an opportunity for green card other than
that the only hope you all have is an our father prayer and a
long hail mary miracle prayer because there is a new sherrif
in town and they are for strict rules and regulations they are ready to clean up the messed created by self government so
I say this is no slam dunk this will be a tough -goodbye.!!