Rodriguez chronicles Latino plight in graphic detail

“Luis Rodriguez, the poet and former gang member, takes a phone call from a North Carolina reporter in the office of his home in the San Fernando Valley suburbs of Los Angeles at 9 a.m. on the last day of March.

In the background noise of his life are the high school student walkouts across the country, and especially in southern California: young Latinos ditching classes and taking to the freeway overpasses to protest pending legislation in Congress that might make it a criminal offense to be in the country without legal status. “

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