This footage is from the protest in front of the INS building that took place from noon to 1pm at 444 Washington Street in San Francisco on June 13, 2003.
Speaker: Banafsheh Akhlaghi, Immigration Attorney
Banafsheh Akhlaghi in San Francisco (Small – 8 MB)
Audio – Banafsheh Akhlaghi Immigration Attorney in San Francisco (MP3 – 3 MB)
Banafsheh Akhlaghi, Immigration Attorney
(Excerpt) These aren’t just stories. 13,000 individuals. One of them will be meeting me here today. These are real live individuals with real live dramas that none of us could even encounter on a daily basis. The rest of them sit in deportation. They wake up every morning wondering if today will be their last day — if they’ll be picked up today or not…
These are stories that I see every day and that the bulk of us here see every day. Please expose it, and expose it as much as you possibly can. Please speak out for them as we are trying to speak out for them. Thank you very much for being here.