Colorado Representative Douglas Bruce, with his verbally abusive remark about Mexican "peasants," offered the immigrant community a platform to respond to proposed House legislation on Wednesday.
Rev. Malcolm Himschoot was one of the speakers at a Denver press conference to address the indecency of racism at the capitol and the necessity for worker justice in the fields.
"We don't need more underpaid, exploited, locked-in-poverty members of the human community," said Himschoot.
The press conference was held at Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores, a site where men and women come for training, hiring, and to file lost wages and worker's compensation claims - which last year amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
HB 1325 could make workers with H2A visas even more vulnerable to unscrupulous employers. Phone calls are encouraged today to secure strong worker protections in the proposed legislation.
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