Nativo Lopez Quotations

There is no one leader, and that's a good thing. It's a shared leadership among people who we don't even always know.

We are here to make a tough statement right in the bedrock of the anti-immigrant movement.

The policies are already having the effect of loss of confidence in the police.

We think this is a good follow to the March 25 demonstration, and it is on the way to May 1, which will be a day without immigrants working, shopping or going to school nationwide.

We expected to organize our people as a group and march together, but by the time I got there ... it was already impossible to find everybody and pull our people together. It was just spontaneous. It was wonderful. This tells you how much support we have.

We don't want half measures, we demand an amnesty, the immediate and unconditional legalization of the 12 million undocumented workers who work in this country.

We are asking people not to go to school, or work, or shopping and instead to go out and protest against the racist and inhumane measures in this bill.

The shift on the part of the Republicans only heightens our fear the Democrats will cut a deal behind the backs of the immigrant communities. That is what we are most fearful of.

The goal is to stop anti-immigrant legislation from becoming law and to pass real, comprehensive immigration reform that provides a clear path to citizenship, unites families, and ensures workplace and civil rights protections.