Tag: Latino Issues

On May Day in 2006, a human mass of white shirts stretched along downtown Denver's Speer Boulevard in one of the largest mobilizations in the city's history. An estimated 75,000 people boycotted work and school to march and protest against federal legislation that would have further criminalized undocumented immigrants in the Untied States. Millions of others rallied in more than 25 cities.

Former State Senator Polly Bacca lamented about conditions a number of undocumented workers face. "Some are no better than slaves on a plantation," she...