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Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
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Detroit, Michigan - The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride stops for a rally in Detroit on its way to Washington and New York. Freedom rider Elvira Arellano (left) speaks about how she was arrested on her job at O'Hare airport because she was an undocumented immigrant. Inspired by the civil rights Freedom Riders of the 1960s, immigrant workers boarded buses from nine cities to tour the country to campaign for the rights to apply for citizenship, to reunify their families, and to organize unions without regard to legal status.
Copyright © Jim West
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