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"We not only are the people who cook your food and clean your houses, but we spend money too," stressed [Leny Herrera], a Gramercy Park resident who came to the U.S. from Colombia over 14 years ago. "America needs us just as much as we need the opportunities here."
[Naisha Mercado]'s father Ruben, 39, a nurse in the Bronx, had allowed his daughters and nieces to skip school because he said the cause was just that important. "The resolution of Washington's immigration policy crisis is long overdue," he said. "It is time they come up with some real criterion and work towards them.""In the meantime, 111 continue to show up on days like this," [Lorna Calderon] said, "It's very important for our worries to be visible."See the full content of this document
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We the People
"America needs us just as much as we need the opportunities here," said Colombian, Leny Herrera, at the Union Square immigrant rally on Monday.
On that day, May Day, usually set aside to celebrate labor worldwide, hundreds of thousands of New York's immigrant activists, advocates and sympathize...See the full content of this document
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