The Times Ignores the Immigrant Community
* The Latinos of Los Angeles finally came out to the streets to protest the way some conservatives and liberals alike are attacking with racial fury the immigrants of this frontier land. The Valley Edition of the Los Angeles Times did not report this event.
The demonstration, which took place on a sunny Feb. 26, was organized by Proposition One Coalition, a network of political, religious and community organizations which have the common objective of reforming the current immigration law and stopping anti-immigrant hysteria of this recessionary time.
Aztecs, Mayans, Mexicans, Central and South Americans showed something distinctly different from previous demonstrations. The symbols, the political language, were more audacious and aggressive.
To ignore this demonstration creates the perception that the editorial policy of the Los Angeles Times coalesces with that of those who attempt to reinforce the political and social invisibility of the immigrant community.
The undocumented and documented immigrants (and this technical difference is irrelevant in terms of human rights) were in this demonstration with their real faces, real names, surrounded by real families and real children. They were there to deny their invisibility to all those who wanted to listen. The Times ignored them.
NESTOR FANTINI
Van Nuys
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