MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa—“Education, not deportation!” chanted 200 spirited young people marching September 29 from the high school to the community college here, calling on Congress to pass legislation that would allow children of immigrants without papers to continue with their schooling and potentially gain legal status.

Emily Lynch, 16, who attends Marshalltown High, came along to support her fellow students. “It was an eye-opening experience for me,” she told the Militant. “Before today I didn’t know kids my age were active in things like this.”

Margaret Trowe, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Iowa secretary of agriculture and a former worker at the JBS Swift plant here, marched with the students. She said her campaign calls for legalization of undocumented workers as a way to strengthen the struggles of all working people.

—ELLEN BRICKLEY