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Lozano committed his life fighting for labor rights, union organizing before he was murdered in 1983 at the age of 31.

These workers have a beautiful voice, a powerful voice. The only problem is that nobody wants to hear them.

“Hope…is not the same as joy that things are going well…or…headed for early success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good...”

Why are desperate refugees turning up on the U.S. border? Because we have offloaded the costs of the drug war on Latin America.

The choice confronting the Biden administration is whether to expand an immigration program prioritizing grower profits over workers’ and immigrants’ rights, or to reinforce an immigration system based on family reunification and community stability.

I have lived it and I have suffered through it and I know that when people say “get in line,” there is no line. I am here to try to change the system so that people have a pathway and if they choose to become a citizen, they can.

Life should come before profit, human rights before property rights.

Agents routinely ignore emergency search and rescue calls and push people into harsh terrain as part of a “deterrence” policy, reports say.

In short, ending the Muslim ban should begin a bigger process of healing the harms this long-term dehumanization has caused.