BRONX, New York—Maura DeLuca, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York public advocate, speaks at the Festival for the Immigrants of the Bronx August 22. “The Socialist Workers Party demands an immediate and permanent halt to the deportations of immigrant workers,” DeLuca said in Spanish. “We also demand legalization now, without restrictions.”

“It’s important to understand that the attacks on undocumented workers are attacks against the entire working class,” the socialist candidate said. “Immigrants strengthen the working class.”

A few hundred people attended the festival sponsored by La Peña del Bronx.

DeLuca also called for an end to the deportation proceedings against Víctor Toro, one of the organizers of the festival. Toro was imprisoned and tortured in Chile after the government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by a U.S.-backed coup in 1973. He has lived in the United States since 1984.

—SETH GALINSKY