May Day marches are being held across the county to bring attention to workers’ rights and immigrant protections.
Workers, union members, and allies took part in a march beginning at Union Park in Chicago. Among them was Brittany, a university student from Aurora who came with her mom.
“It makes me really proud how we can all come together," she said. "Especially immigrants [because of] how it's normalized for them to be scared and be normalized to be looked down at. And the fact that they all had the courage to come up here and fight for their rights is really, really good in my opinion.”
Luis, from Aurora said he came to march for his children.
translated: "I teach my kids to not be afraid," he said. "I teach them to go out and protest and to demand our rights because we’re people just like any other person in this country. We pay taxes like any other person, and we’re being discriminated against in that we’re being put to the side being that we’re this country’s labor force."
Immigrant workers are calling for the right to work with dignity and an end to President Trump's mass deportation plan.
