The attorney general said that in today’s America, the march for justice has broadened to include women, Latinos, Asian-Americans, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and others.
Together with T-Shirts commemorating slain African-American teenager Trayvon Martin and posters slamming a recent Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a key element of the law protecting minorities’ right to vote, calls for immigration reform had a notable presence in the demonstration.
For her part, Latino activist Itzel Guillen, who flew in from San San Diego expressly for the occasion, told Efe that “the Hispanic community today faces challenges very like those African-Americans had to deal with 50 years ago. Today, for example, we are fighting for immigration reform, for our people, so that they can be citizens with equal rights and can vote.”
The Hispanic community thus responded to the call made in the past few days by several Latino politicians and leaders like Congressman Luis Gutierrez and the president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, Janet Murguia, who consider the uniting of minorities “basic” to achieving their shared civil-rights goals.
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