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D.C. protesters: ‘Immigrants are not criminals’ |
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Militant/David Salner
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WASHINGTON—On March 7 about 20,000 people rallied at the Capitol here to oppose House of Representatives bill 4437, which brands undocumented immigrants as “criminals.” Five buses of poultry workers, construction workers, and others came from Georgetown, Delaware. There were not enough buses there for everyone who showed up.
Unionists from the United Food and Commercial Workers, Service Employees International Union, and others carried banners and signs at the rally, like one above, which says in Spanish: “We are workers, not criminals.” Danny Cardona, a day laborer from Freehold, New Jersey, told the Militant, “I’m here in the U.S. because I need to work. I came today because I don’t want to be called a criminal, and to protest any fence between Mexico and the U.S.” The bill calls for funding a 700-mile fence between the two countries. —JANICE LYNN
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