Some realize that they need to enter formal politics in order to make change. Even newcomers to this country like Jose Cortez-García, who came with his three children seventeen years ago, is planning to run for office. “I am going to go into politics. I am going to talk about myself,” he says excitedly, alluding to his story of hard work and perseverance, and the barriers he’s experienced firsthand. “In my family, my wife and I work, and we work hard, we pay a lot of taxes, we pay a lot. I am killing myself to earn $3,000, and then there is this other person that earns $500,000, but this
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