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.
