'No Papers No Fear' group reach Charlotte,
North Carolina after six weeks of holding rallies and confronting prejudice.
The Guardian.
Ed Pilkington.
For the past
15 years Miguel Guerra has been living in the shadows as an undocumented Latino
immigrant in the US. He kept out of view, avoided public places and never spoke
his mind to anyone outside his immediate family.
Not any more.
Under a
blazing North Carolina sun,
Guerra joined almost 50 other undocumented Latino immigrants on a Sunday in a
park on the outskirts of Charlotte, the North Carolinan venue of this week's
Democratic national convention. It was in effect a mass coming out ceremony.
For the past
six weeks the group has been riding across the American south in a converted
Greyhound bus bearing the slogan: "No Papers No Fear". They have
stopped in about 20 cities in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia before arriving in North
Carolina, holding rallies and confronting anti-Latino prejudice along the way.
"We're
no longer afraid to say we are undocumented," Guerra declared. Read
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