"If we are the farmworkers putting food on your tables, if we are the nannies taking care of your children, if we're the ones holding your parents' hands in your nursing homes, if we're your housekeepers and your gardeners, then why are we being targeted? Why are we being terrorized? Why, if we are part of your families, part of your communities, and an essential part of this economy, why are we being treated as outsiders? We don't ask for special treatment. Only the dignity and humanity that every person deserves," Mayra Cardenas said.

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