“We’re here to protest the Minutemen, a group that promotes the lie that immigrants are the cause of all evils in this country,” said Miguel Angeles from Asociación Tepeyac, a local advocacy group for immigrants from Mexico.

Among those joining in the counterprotest were members of the New York May 1st Coalition, Coney Island Avenue Project, and Bayan Philippine. The protesters chanted slogans and carried signs saying “No human being is illegal” and “Stop the deportations.”

“We need to legalize all those in this country without putting hoops for them to jump through or other obstacles and steps to achieve that,” said Bobby Khan, executive director of the Coney Island Avenue Project, which defends the rights of Pakistanis and other South Asians.
 
 
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