"We
deserve our share of the blame for not doing more to engage our members on
issues of racial justice and immigrant rights in recent decades. When we fail
to talk to our members about these issues, bigotry festers."
By
George Miranda, New York Daily News
September
9, 2017
Hundreds of immigrants are being deported
every day, and have been for years, but the impact hits home when it happens to
one of your own.
Over
the last two weeks, my union, the Teamsters, watched as one of our long-serving
members was taken from his family and deported. The experience was a wakeup
call that deportation can happen to any of our immigrant members or neighbors.
In
just 13 days, the family that Teamster member Eber Garcia Vasquez labored to
build and support over three decades was ripped apart.[…]
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| Teamsters Local 813 member Eber Garcia Vasquez |
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