There has never been this kind of mobilization in the immigrant community ever. They have kicked the sleeping giant. It's the beginning of a massive immigrant civil rights struggle.
We are a dream of inclusion, of education.
This is a justice issue. You can't have 11 million vulnerable people being exploited and not have that addressed eventually.
This is a justice issue: You can't have 11 million people being vulnerable and exploited.
The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.
They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.
Nothing like this has been seen in this country. And if it continues moving forward, it's the beginning of a massive immigrant civil-rights struggle.
We don't have a leader like Martin Luther King or Cesar Chavez, but this is now a national immigrant rights movement.
