Her kids won’t protest

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Hundreds of students have ditched Los Angeles-area schools to join the immigrant rights march, but Miriam Roman said she’s confident her children are not among them.

A 30-year-old immigrant from Guatemala who attended the march with her 2-year-old daughter Jaime, Roman decided to keep her other two children, ages 7 and 11, in class. ‘I’m here, and they’re over there in school. So we’re both working toward a better future,’ said Roman as Jaime toddled down the street toting a sign that said, ‘Earn path to citizenship.’

Roman attended the march in the hope that her oldest child, who is in the country illegally, will someday gain the citizenship status held by her other two children ‘because even the worst here and making ends meet is often the best you can hope for back home’ in Guatemala, she said.

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