This International Workers’ Day, advocates for the immigrant community are raising their voices with a May Day march and rally at the State Capitol.
The core message: that immigrant labor is one of the many ways that immigrants contribute to our country.
“They work as hard, they work over the average that any American worker would work. Over 10 hours, 12 hours, seven days a week, don’t have time for their family, just to provide for their family,” Giselle Chavez, Make The Road Connecticut Bridgeport housing organizer, said.
Make The Road Connecticut organized the rally that brought together immigrants, community leaders, nonprofit organizations and other allies in the immigrant community.
The demonstrators chanted in Spanish, “The people united will never be defeated,” calling on Connecticut residents to recognize that immigrants work alongside their neighbors as nurses, construction workers, farm workers and caregivers.