Today about 100 college and high school students protested in the EMU amphitheater to educate high school students of what political action looks like and protest “anti-immigrant” ballot measures.

Co-Coordinator for the event and Mecha de UO member, Eva Reyas says this is part of a conference that is held every year for high school students.

Each year the conference has a theme — this year’s theme is immigration. The conferences workshops all revolve around that theme.

“We’re just saying immigration is beautiful,” Reyas said.

According to the protestors, the anti-immigrant ballot measures are the following:

• IP 40 Making English the official language of Oregon
  • This would make all published government information and documents written in only in English.
• IP 51: Increasing barriers to voter registration
  • This would eliminate voters off the voter roles within 10 years unless they re-register and show proof of U.S. citizenship.
• IP 52: Mandating Oregon employers use a flawed federal program to check the status of all current and future workers.
  • This could put employees at risk because of a inaccurate federal program