Amid Labor Day Event, Immigrants’ Rights Groups Decry Trump’s Campaign Messages

As thousands of labor activists and union members marched through downtown Milwaukee on Monday as part of Labor Day festivities, supporters of immigrants’ rights pushed back against Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the presidential campaign trail.

Members of the group Voces de la Frontera carried signs critical of Republican presidential candidate Trump, who has been denouncing undocumented immigrants.

Voces member Rafael Diaz said many of the immigrants are hard workers.

“We work the same as everyone else. My parents work just as hard as everybody else to get what they need,” he said. “We’re here for the same country. We pay our taxes. We do everything that any citizen would do.”

Diaz said that he feels angry when Trump mentions having U.S.-born children of undocumented parents be sent to their parents’ country of origin.

Trump argues that thousands of Hispanics have worked for him and his relationship with them is very good.

But a Washington Post/ABC News poll released last week showed that 82 percent of Hispanics who were polled view Trump unfavorably — with 68 percent feeling “strongly so.”