Immigrant Dreams

Some conservatives complain that if immigrants want to live in this country, they should learn the language. Tell that to Aracely C., who has worked in the sweatshops of Los Angeles’s garment industry for the thirteen years she has been here. She works seven days a week, more than twelve hours a day. “I have no time to learn English,” she tells me as I sit with her and Leticia A. in the MacArthur Park headquarters of UNITE, the textile workers’ union, just a few blocks...