DALLAS — Alyson Kennedy, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Fort Worth, and Hilda Cuzco, the party’s candidate for Fort Worth City Council, joined a rally downtown of thousands here Feb. 2 to protest the step up in immigration raids and deportations. The SWP candidates carried signs reading “Amnesty for immigrant workers! No deportations!”
The demonstration was called by the Next Generation Action Network.
Hector Oyarvite, center, a waiter at a local restaurant, told Kennedy, “I heard about the march from a co-worker.” Kennedy said, “Trump, like Biden, represents the interests of the owners of the factories, restaurants and retail stores where we work. Both back a system that super exploits the labor of workers who don’t have papers, to drive down the wages and working conditions of all working people. The problems we face are caused by the capitalist class.”
“I agree that capitalists are the problem,” Oyarvite said.