It's important to reach out to the community. The community needs to know if they help the department, they will protect them. |
The ribbon symbolizes that we want dignity and justice for the immigrant community. |
There are Latinos throughout the U.S. who are U.S. citizens, who are culturally immersed, assimilated into the system. We feel we are just being picked on. |
We feel that the timing is very unfortunate because national efforts are under way to work together on creating a compromise that may include a guest worker program that would allow people arrested today to come into compliance and work legally in the United States. |