Immigrant boycott

Re “Immigrants Divided on Boycott,” April 20

The hypocrisy of the anti-immigrants knows no bounds. They claim that undocumented immigrant workers take jobs from legal residents. Then, when the “illegals” say they’re going to strike to show their economic power and demand their rights, those who would deny them the right to work want them to go to work. That’s exactly the point. Immigrant workers do a huge share of the work and should have the right to be here. This child of immigrant refugees isn’t working on May Day, the traditional celebration day of the working-class movement. I’ll be demonstrating for full and immediate legalization of all undocumented workers.

STEPHEN SEIFERHELD MAY

Los Angeles

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I’m a Salvadoran girl who came here a couple of years ago. I disagreed with the Spanish stations promoting a walkout, knowing that something like that would just make Latino students look bad and irresponsible. Many students didn’t even know the purpose for that walkout. In school, I saw my friends walk out thinking that they were proving something. But to my eyes they look like irresponsible students taking for granted what this country is giving them. I know there are more ways to prove a point. Why did those kids avoid the Saturday protest but when there are some during school they are the first to be in the mob? They proved to me how ungrateful they are.

I will never deny my ethnicity. I know I am a Latina, and I know I’m not meant to be here. But for now I won’t bring attention to myself knowing that my time here might be on the line. I will be as quiet as a small bug trying to avoid getting eaten.

ANDREA MONRROY

Los Angeles