"I live in Dallas, where the police and immigration are working together. One day, when I got home from my job, I turned on the t.v. and I see children asking for help because their father was arrested in a raid. A child said, 'Who will listen to me and help us?' I said I can do something. The child moved me--my father died when I was seven months old and I know what it's like to live without a father. Families shouldn't be separated.
"I called my job to ask for a five-month leave and my boss said no so I quit my job. I talked to my family, said the resources we have to build a house I would use for the trip, and they said OK, if the money is used for that, to carry my message so that the government can hear it and do something for immigrants."
--Mario Castellon, a man we met on Long Island who is in the midst of a bike trip from San Miguel, El Salvador, to Denver, for the convention
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