Latino anti-war leader ties immigration surge to Iraq message - Carlos Montes

As director of Latinos Against the War, Carlos Montes plans demonstrations against U.S. military involvement in Iraq. So why is he talking about immigration?

“A lot of people don’t see the link,” Montes explains. Making the connection between the Iraq war and the mass movement of people is one way he is trying to stir the Hispanic community to speak out against the conflict, he says.

The Latino anti-war movement could use more spark. On that point organizers like Montes as well as those running non-Hispanic anti-war groups agreed. The Hispanic appetite for war protests is not as great as it was during the Vietnam era, when the National Chicano Moratorium march in East Los Angeles made headlines. Journalist Ruben Salazar was killed by police while covering that event for KMEX-TV.”*

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