The March for Migrants caravan begins nationwide tour

By Amy Isackson / Border Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published February 1, 2006 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

A migrants' rights caravan kicked off a nationwide tour from the border fence in San Diego Thursday. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson has the story.

The March for Migrants will travel across the country to Washington D.C. to discuss immigration reform with members of Congress. March organizer and longtime immigrants' rights activist Enrique Morones says they'll stop in 20 cities and collect migrants' stories along the way. He says that will help them present an accurate portrait of migrants in the United States to Congress and ask for appropriate help.

The Senate is set to consider immigration legislation later this month. Immigrants' rights activists say the version the House passed last December is unrealistic, racist and unenforceable, and they need to help educate the country and Congress as to why.

Amy Isackson

Amy Isackson was the border reporter at KPBS from 2004 to 2011. She covered breaking news and feature stories on California-Mexico border issues and immigration, for local and national broadcast. Amy got her start in public radio by pitching a series of stories about rural New Zealand - horse dentistry and sheep sheering - to Radio New Zealand's "Country Life" program. She then worked with Peabody Award-winning radio producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, to help create the Sonic Memorial, a series of stories on the World Trade Center before, during and after 9/11. Amy's work has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California and Nevada, the California Chicano News Media Association, and the San Diego Press Club. She won the Sol Price Prize for Responsible Journalism in 2009 from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story about high school students smuggling people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to venturing into the wonderful world of public radio, Amy worked for Yahoo! Inc. for nearly five years as an editorial surfer, associate producer and broadcast communications manager. She majored in Latin American History at Williams College. She grew up in San Diego and made frequent trips south of the border.

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