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THE MARCH WAS LESS THAN HALFWAY DONE when my aging knees began to swell. I'd lost my contingent from Oakland, and was marching with Leo and his family from Sacramento. I was drawn to the sign he was carrying that read, "History Says Immigration Is, Will Be, Has Been, Always Was RACIAL!!! Indians, Africans, Mexicans, Asians." It stood out from the rest. He must have had help making it, since Leo didn't speak a word of English.
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"Todos somos humanos ... vivir por mi familia (We're all human beings ... to live for my family)," he answered when I asked him his reason for skipping work to join the San Francisco march.
Leo was ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Marching in step with history: the immigrant rights movement on the...