Migrant workers aim to demonstrate their financial impact in Florida

“Jimmy Delgado has not slept much the past three weeks. The hoarseness in his voice shows his fatigue.

By day he is a personal injury attorney fighting for his clients. By night he is on a mission, traveling from Arcadia to Ocala trying to get local business owners to support immigrant employees in a May 1-7 strike.

Delgado, a Palmetto-based lawyer, is part of a group of Hispanic business owners called the Concilio Mexicano de Florida, or Mexican Council of Florida, who are mobilizing to gain support from businesses across the state for the work stoppage.”

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