Margarita Romo is an activist for immigrant farmworkers in Florida. She was inducted into the Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame in 2013. (wikipedia)
We do not want terrorists or drug dealers crossing the frontier, either. We have to look for a way to help those people who have been living here for many years.
It's 25, 30 years of coming here, and for the first time I'm feeling really good.
Who's going to decide that they know enough to get their kids back? There's no way that you can translate the love that a parent has for their child.
The message is that we would like an opportunity for these folks. Maybe (illegal immigrants) did not come in the proper way, but they came to work, and they paid their dues in those fields.
