Day laborers are the most targeted by this administration

As part of Labor Day celebrations, unions and workers across the country took to the streets to protest the White House’s “pro-billionaire, anti-worker” agenda. As you know, one of the groups of workers that has been most persecuted by this administration is day laborers who seek work on street corners.

Manuel Vicente, director of Radio Jornalera and collaborator with the National Day Laborers Network, explains that music is a powerful tool for protest in demonstrations.

He also affirms that music plays an important role in this tense situation caused by raids and arrests.

Manuel Vicente warns that currently, being brown makes us vulnerable within a system that criminalizes those who seek work and a dignified life.

Manuel Vicente tells us why day laborers are the main target of ICE raids.

He says that the current administration and its immigration agents are criminalizing being brown, and that it is a racial issue. Let’s listen to Manuel Vicente of the National Day Laborer Organization Network.

Manuel Vicente, director of Radio Jornalera and collaborator with the National Day Laborers Network, indicates that Latinos are being cruelly attacked and despite this, there is fear, but day laborers are responding, although they continue to go out to work with fear.

But our community is also responding and supporting the workers who leave very early to look for work. Let’s hear from Manuel Vicente, director of Radio Jornalera and collaborator with the National Day Laborers Network.

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But he has also said that it is the community that has come out in defense of migrants.

Manuel Vicente, director of Radio Jornalera and collaborator with the National Day Laborers Network, explains everything that a day laborer’s family has to go through, but emphasizes that migrants carry a dream that is not individual.

Manuel Vicente, director of Radio Jornalera and collaborator with the National Day Laborers Network, comments that he accompanies them with music because it is part of our culture, it is a response to cultural repression of liberation…

He also says that they bring serenades to the detention centers where the day laborers are held.

Finally, Manuel Vicente reports that on Labor Day, they are launching a newspaper called La Talacha, which will inform the community about how to protect themselves from ICE.