Friday, September 16, 2011

Giving a voice to immigrant victims of 9/11 and aiding families

More than 100 of the people killed in the 9/11 attack were undocumented immigrants and many more were legal immigrants. All their families needed special help to recover from the trauma. - - Donna Poisl

ALBOR RUIZ - NY LOCAL

We didn't have time to cry," said Joel Magallán, executive director of Asociación Tepeyac, about the months following the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks.

"It was a very, very intense period, and we only had time to work from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., day in and day out."

Not that Magallán and the mostly Mexican community group did not have plenty to cry about.

After all, it was thanks to their efforts that it was discovered that more than 100 undocumented immigrants - deliverymen, waiters, cleaners, cooks - had been killed at the World Trade Center.
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