Immigrants in New York prepare to reflect on their daily Viacrucis

This is the seventh year that Asociación Tepeyac de New York organizes the live Viacrucis, that begins at 4:30 pm with a small protest in front of the INS Building, symbol of the immigration laws that keep more than 11 million immigrants in the United States undocumented. The economic system of the United States requires cheap workers, the law makes them illegal because they are more profitable by can remaining invisible and not appearing on the accounting books, thus lowering production costs and making it possible to offer competitive prices. Therefore, immigrants should be anonymous slaves, so they can be exploited. The law makes them illegal so they can be taken advantage of, while society accuses them and makes them the target of many attacks, and they are judged as guilty, even though their suffering demonstrates the failure of the country and of the neoliberal economic model.

The procession of this Viacrucis advances on Broadway toward the Statue of Liberty, but does not reach Battery Park, where the Statue of Liberty can be seen from. The Statue is not seen as a symbol of the hopelessness of the immigrants for whom the possibility of obtaining a Permanent Residence has not arrived yet, a possibility that would give them greater freedom to develop as human beings.




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