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Advocates take to Brentwood streets to register voters, push for immigration reform
Photo credit: Daniel Altschuler
Immigrant advocates launched a new campaign to register voters Thursday, saying they hope the effort will amplify minority voices in a year when national immigration reform is at stake.
Many in the group of close to 20 people at Ross Memorial Park had already been walking through the streets of Brentwood to find and register new voters and get signatures for a petition favoring a path to citizenship...