Full Text of HR0293 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to recognize Rosa
Arreola for her 13 | 4 | | years of work as
voter registration coordinator for the | 5 | | Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR); | 6 | | and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Voting and civic engagement are essential | 8 | | components of our democracy; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Rosa Arreola's work was an crucial part of | 10 | | ICIRR's Democracy Project, an
integrated non-partisan voter | 11 | | registration and mobilization campaign that has become a | 12 | | national model for
immigrant empowerment through civic | 13 | | engagement over the past 20 years; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Every two years, during each biennial general | 15 | | election cycle, the Democracy Project
hires and trains 20 | 16 | | fellows that run voter registration and turnout efforts in | 17 | | immigrant
communities, partnering with organizations based in | 18 | | these communities to educate, inform, and
mobilize naturalized | 19 | | citizens; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, During and in between each election cycle, Rosa | 21 | | Arreola led teams of volunteers to
nearly every single |
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| 1 | | naturalization ceremony over the course of 13 years to | 2 | | register all new citizens who
wanted to do so; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Rosa Arreola was the face and voice that greeted | 4 | | over 150,000 new citizens as
they walked out of their | 5 | | swearing-in ceremony and enabled them, as one of their first | 6 | | acts as
new citizens, to register to vote; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Rosa Arreola's teams of interns and volunteers | 8 | | have accounted for nearly half of the
356,000 new citizens | 9 | | registered by the ICIRR's Democracy Project since 2009, | 10 | | ensuring that
each new citizen would have a voice in the | 11 | | governance of their communities, state, and new home country; | 12 | | therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 14 | | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 15 | | we recognize Rosa Arreola for her 13 years of work as voter | 16 | | registration coordinator for the Illinois Coalition for | 17 | | Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), and we thank her for her | 18 | | dedication and leadership in making voter registration | 19 | | accessible to newly naturalized citizens; and be it further
| 20 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 | | presented to Rosa Arreola as an
expression of our esteem and | 22 | | respect.
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