Rolando Lopez
student
“I’d choose Obama, because I’m Mexican, and the other guy might repeal all the things Obama has approved [that help immigrants].”
Dominique Rharo
student
“Most likely Obama, because he helped us when we weren’t doing so well after Bush.”
Carlos Ramirez
student
“Oh, I guess Obama because there have been a lot of changes in the last four years since he’s become president. I just saw it on TV last night.”
Elias Bautista
student
“I don’t know—a president who likes immigrants and will give them a chance because if they weren’t here there’d be no one here to work in the fields. Most immigrants are hard workers, but people just look at the bad ones. So I guess Obama.”
This article appears in Sep 20-27, 2012.