Rallies to mark immigration protests of '06

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times

Article Launched: 05/01/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

Farmworkers and others plan to rally this afternoon at the Paso del Norte Bridge in Downtown El Paso in support of a nationwide effort to duplicate last year's May 1 boycott and walkout for immigration reform.

Several organizations, including the Sin Fronteras farmworker center, Asociación de Trabajadores Fronterizos and some University of Texas at El Paso students, are behind the rally.

"It is important to stand up against the recent (immigration) raids. We shouldn't be hunting down undocumented immigrants. Mexican labor built El Paso and built the U.S.," said Guillermo Glenn, coordinator of Asociación de Trabajadores Fronterizos.

It wasn't known Monday whether high-school students would walk out as they did last year but at least one school district was preparing for that possibility.