Thank you to all of our participants in the October 19th
D4CC March for Migrants!
On October 19th we invite all fellow advocates to join us to march and demand an end to mass incarceration of immigrants and asylums seekers, to end family separations and immediately reunite children with their parents and relatives, and to ensure that all immigrants arriving at ports of entry receive appropriate, confidential medical care.
MARCH SCHEDULE
8:30 am - 9:30 am March Marshal training with DC Action Labs @ US Navy Memorial Plaza
10:00 am - 10:30 am crowd arrival for Rally @ US Navy Memorial Plaza
10:30 am – 11:00 am Rally with Invited Speakers @ US Navy Memorial Plaza
Katherine McKenzie, MD: Dr. McKenzie is a Yale School of Medicine faculty member, and has served as the director of the Yale Center for Asylum Medicine (YCAM) since 2007. In addition to bringing her passion for immigrant advocacy to trainees, she is an attending physician in the Yale Refugee Clinic.
Mario Mendoza, MD: Dr. Mendoza is the Founder of Lifeundocumented.org, a nonprofit organization dedicated to telling the stories of undocumented immigrants. He shared his personal story of his arrival to the US as an undocumented immigrant as the executive producer of his self-funded documentary “An Undocumented Immigrant Story: Immigrant Data and 1986 Amnesty”.
Julie Sierra, MD: Dr. Sierra is an internal medicine physician and faculty member at University of California-San Diego. She spends her weekends volunteering in the care of migrants at Tijuana-based clinics through San Diego Border Dreamers. She also treats immigrants awaiting asylum applications in San Diego who have been granted temporary asylum but have no where to wait but the crowded shelters.
11:00 am – 3:00 pm March from US Navy Memorial Plaza
March start: US Navy Memorial Plaza
