Flores
Marches - March 25, 2006
April 27, 2009
More than 500,000 people marched in Los Angeles on March 25, 2006 to protest federal legislation that would crack down on undocumented immigrants, penalize those who help them and build a security wall along the U.S.' southern border.
J Emilio Flores photographed the march.
Student Walkouts - March 24, 2006
April 23, 2009
On March 24, 2006, five hundred students from Huntington Park High in Los Angeles walkout of school to protest proposed federal legislation that calls for building a 700-mile-long wall along the Mexican border and making felons of undocumented immigrants. Hundreds of other students from Garfield, Roosevelt and Montebello high schools also walked out.
J Emilio Flores photographed the Huntington Park High students.
J. Emilio Flores' Caravana De La Libertad 2003
April 20, 2009
In September of 2003 J. Emilio Flores rode the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride with some of the 18 buses that traveled from several US cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Miami. Nearly 900 workers and their supporters arrived the nation's capital.
Inspired by the freedom riders of the 1960s the immigrant riders used their bus tour to gain support for legalization of undocumented workers, better working conditions and reforms to hasten the reunification of families.
