Students Stage Protest Over Beating of Immigrants
About 50 students and several teachers gathered in front of Sierra Hall at Cal State Northridge on Thursday afternoon to express anger and frustration over the April 1 clubbing of two illegal immigrants by Riverside County sheriff’s deputies in South El Monte.
“It could have been anyone here,” said Luis Marquez, 23, a Chicano studies major. “It could have been our parents.”
Marquez, whose parents came from Jalisco, Mexico, in 1976 and found work in furniture factories, said that the immigrants who were beaten were coming to the United States to find work.
“Is it wrong for someone to want to make things better for their family? No!” Marquez told the crowd. “How can I say this is a great country when I see this [done] to my people?”
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