Organizers said the event aims to allow the U.S. citizen youth with nonresident parents to speak out.
The petition is an online campaign on Facebook and it seeks the granting of a parole in place to nonresident parents of U.S. citizen children who are under 21 years old.
The Foreign Workers of the CNMI group on Facebook was created by Marianas High School graduate Kelvin Rodeo on Sept. 13 now has over 500 members.
Rodeo, a college student in the states, said the group was created to help foreign workers in the CNMI.
He is encouraging those who are not in the CNMI but are living in the states to write letters to U.S. newspapers, news stations and lawmakers about the situation of the islands’ nonresidents.
“We will fight till the last deserving immigrant is saved,” he said. “You have earned the right to stay because you have been working in the CNMI for so long. If you have been working in the U.S. mainland you would have already been U.S. citizens by now, why should it be any different in the CNMI a territory of the U.S. where U.S. laws are applicable?”
Rodeo said the group is not only for Filipinos but for all CNMI foreign workers: Chinese, Koreans, Bangladeshi, Indian, and other nationalities.
Participants are urged to bring posters, banners and candles.
To join the group or to watch out for the latest updates, visit the Foreign Workers of the CNMI page on Facebook.
