Advocates demand work permits for undocumented immigrants

Local elected officials joined immigrant workers, community members and other leaders to urge the Biden Administration to help undocumented immigrants now that the president has put many asylum seekers on a faster track to obtain work permits.

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Mahalia Velasco says that her father, undocumented and working in the U.S. for decades, was never offered a work permit. She said he was deported more than a decade ago.

“He still paid his taxes and he still worked hard every single day of his life, just like many of our people,” Velasco said.

And while she is not old enough yet to vote, she said that her siblings are and there is a larger push to register and organize the Latino vote

The rally was organized by The Resurrection Project.

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