Among the participants were workers who had lost their job due to the attack of September 11, and also families of Mexicans who died that day. "We come to New York so they will give us a symbolic urn and to try to obtain a death certificate", explained Francisco López Ruiz to La Jornada. He and Nora Molinar came from Oaxaca to clarify what happened to their son, Fernando Jiménez, who used to work in a pizzeria in a location close to the Towers. He disappeared on September 11. The young man left home five years ago, but maintained constant contact with his mother to only leave a dead silence after September 11. Now, no one can confirm where he worked, and his employers apparently do not wish to take legal risks by admitting that they used to hire undocumented workers. "We’re not here for retribution or money. They haven’t given us anything. We only want to know what happened. Our motivation is more spiritual", affirmed his parents.

"INS can go to hell", chanted the protesters before the federal building. "No, no, we won’t go. And if they throw us out, we’ll come right back", they repeated. "Zapata lives, our fight goes on and on", they claimed. The Virgin of Guadalupe hovers past as placards and chants demand amnesty. "We will not be modern slaves", states one placard. Another reads, in English: "We work your land, build your houses, cook your food. We want what we deserve". An African American woman stops, reads the message, and comments: "I understand this one". The procession passes by the huge void of the World Trade Center. A construction worker, with hard hat and tools, crosses the street to ask what the march is about. A participant explains and the worker responds: I’m an immigrant too. We are all immigrants and we all deserve a chance. I’m with you", he says and sends his regards to Jesus Christ. Many comment along the way that the hope that was raised by the government of Vicente Fox is beginning to vanish, in the sense that there will never be a change and that promises have not been kept. Others affirm that things are worse than ever, especially after September 11- unemployment, lack of support, more racism and abuse.

At each station of the cross, a testimony is read aloud relating the experience of an undocumented immigrant, arrests, deportations, inaccess to health services, labor and human rights’ violations; racism, and how every immigrant can now be a suspected "terrorist" , under new U.S. laws, as well as a victim of abuse and exploitation that is allowed as a result of being undocumented.

At the tenth station, when Jesus was crucified the reading stated: "Crucified on this cross because of immigration laws. For the governments of our nations of origin for whom we do not exist. They don’t want to know about our needs, neither here nor there. Governments play deaf, dumb, and blind to our suffering. Our employers have us nailed to our jobs. We feel abanonded, without defenses, disunited, and unorganized in our defense. Nearly vanquished. We need strength to claim and demand justice. Often, we are about to cry as Jesus did: Father, why have you abandoned me?"

However, during more than two hours, there is a cry that resounds against the old skyscrapers at the southern-most point of the city, past Wall Street, by the center of the finanical world, for the voices of the invisible of the city: "A people, united, will never be defeated", and "You hear it, you feel it, la raza is present". "Here and there, la raza will triumph." Once again you hear voices –now in Spanish- of the undocumented who get up in this city of immigrants, on this harbor that has seen Chinese, Russians, Irish, Italians, Arabs, Africans, and Caribbeans arrive –that is, representatives of all humanity. Today, in some way, it was celebrated that all of them permit the daily resurrection of the city.