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On Saturday, more than a thousand Floridians gathered at Jose Marti Park in Little Havana, to march for a fair and inclusive immigration reform with a path to citizenship for the 11 million aspiring citizens. ACLU of Florida staff, including myself, participated in the march. We expressed our concerns about how our broken immigration system is rife with severe civil rights and civil liberties problems, and that reform is long overdue. There are about 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country and there is currently no effective way for these aspiring citizens to become citizens. As we move forward to fix this broken system, we must do so in a way that honors our country’s promise of equality to all.

We are inviting everyone in Florida to tell us how immigration policy impacts you. It doesn’t matter whether you are undocumented, have legal status, or are a citizen. We want to hear why you support federal immigration reform—whether it’s your family’s personal story of immigration, someone else’s story you’ve heard about, or simply your reasons for supporting reform.

ACLU of Florida's Field Coordinator Nikki Fisher is attending the 50th Anniversary March on Washington. She will be blogging her experiences for ACLUFL.org The original March on Washington took place over two decades before I was born. When I was a kid in school first hearing about it, it seemed as far away from me as did stories about the Civil War or the founding fathers or anything else I read about in a history books. But as I grew older and learned more about the march, more about what the people involved were fighting for, and more about the world, it became less of a mythic part of some distant history and more relevant to me.