Photographer Francisco Dominquez gives a slide show presentation in the Cultural Awareness Center March 18 about the current political situation facing migrant workers. Photo by Allison Valenzuela.
Allison Valenzuela | Staff Photographer
vlenzam@imail.losrios.edu
On March 18, a tall, wild- haired man stepped up to the slide projector in the Cultural Awareness Center.
As he adjusted the focus on the projector, he began to speak. Francisco Dominguez is a photographer who has exhibited his work for 20 years. Dominguez came to City College to present his work on the currentpolitical situation facing migrant workers.
“[Hispanic immigrants] did not come on a boat or on a plane,” Dominguez says. “In 1848 the entire western United States was taken from the Mexicans at gunpoint.”
Dominguez spoke about what motivates undocumented aliens to cross the border. According to Dominguez, they have families and homes in Mexico but no money to care for them. They come because they are desperate to feed their families and save their homes. They brave 18,000 border patrol agents, 100 S.W.A.T. teams, and Minutemen Civil Defense Corps.
The presentation made emotions run high and defenses rise.
Dean of Learning resources Center, Rhonda Rios-Kravitz, was happy with the presentation.
“[Dominguez] is providing a lense for people to see,” Rios-Kravitz says.
Dominguez’s photo exhibit
will be displayed on the third floor of the library through April 17.
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