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Immigrant rights in the heartland
Business brought me from distant, depopulated, rural Kansas wheat farms to Wichita on April 10th. Taking advantage of that opportunity I joined a City Hall rally organized by Sunflower Community Action, accompanying 4,000 vocal but peaceful marchers past the offices of a typically unresponsive U.S. Senator Pat Roberts. Protesters displayed a broad Hispanic solidarity. It seemed the numbers of 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation Kansans gathered there were as large as those of their green card-holding and undocumented brothers and sisters. Marchers demanding respect and equity around the country are the harbingers of a new and welcome day in America.