Chicago seems to be for many reasons the political capital of immigration. There may be more immigrants in California or the border states, but Chicago is the place where lots of ideas came together. |
I really feel this time around nobody is going to get fired. We have prepared this so well with the letters for employees to give to their employers. |
I think this is a production of a record company, is not part of the movement. Somebody should translate exactly the national anthem of the United States, into Spanish, and into Korean, for that matter, many other languages, so people know exactly the meaning, the history and the words in the national anthem. |
This is just intimidation, plain intimidation. |
We don't want to go from being poor, undocumented workers to being poor, documented workers. It's not going to give us health care; it's not going to give us the overtime employers are not paying us. |
When I wasn't documented, I remember the panic -- wondering if I could get a job. I felt obliged to help now. |