Jaime Contreras
Jaime Contreras
april boycott emerge given premature senate session until week
It's premature to do the boycott May 1, given that the Senate doesn't get back in session until the week of April 23. We want to see what comes out of the Senate and what compromises (with the House) emerge before we do that.
reform
Any immigration reform has to be comprehensive and not mean-spirited.
coming immigrants seen together
Immigrants are coming together in a way that we have never seen before, and it's going to keep going.
time
We could do it and do it well, but this is not the right time to do it.
achieve congress fed general immigrants message send strong work
What we want to achieve is to send a very strong message to the Senate, to the Congress in general and this administration that immigrants are fed up, that we are tired, that we work very hard.
coalitions create ideas lack leader national strong
We lack a national leader and national structure. Right now you have a lot of strong coalitions with a lot of different ideas of how to create this movement.