Dozens of activists blocked traffic on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge Thursday morning, demanding a pathway to citizenship for the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants. Activists with the Bay Area Coalition for Economic Justice and Citizenship for All halted traffic for 45 minutes by stopping over two dozen cars on the bridge, organizers said in a release. Immigrant families and allies occupy the Golden Gate Bridge demanding Senate Democrats override the Senate parliamentarian and finally pass #CitizenshipForAll. https://t.co/SbyJW1OYlB — Pangea Legal (@PangeaLegal) September 30, 2021Earlier this month, the Senate parliamentarian ruled against including a path to citizenship for certain immigrants in Democrats’ major spending bill, which is being advanced through the budget reconciliation process. Activists on Thursday were calling for Democrats to overrule the parliamentarian — as some progressive lawmakers have also suggested.

Source: Huffington Post September 30, 2021 19:30 UTC