He’s someone that I have worked with for many years, someone that I worked with very closely. And it takes all of this to free a known leader who has tremendous political support, community support, and we still can’t get him free. What really is going on to regular folks, regular immigrants who don’t have access to all of this. So I know that David would be saying today that this is not about him. This is about workers and he’s absolutely right.” —Christian Ramirez, political director, at SEIU, United Service Workers West