Hundreds of people greeted the widow of a World Trade Center worker killed in the attacks when she travelled to his home in Imphal, India with her son to join Hindu prayers traditionally held one year after a death.
Many of the first-generation immigrants were doctors, engineers and other professionals looking to escape the Marcos regime and fill trade-worker shortages in the U.S., said Rolando Lavarro, the city's new councilman-at-large, whose parents immigrated to New Jersey in the 1970s.
But Kamal Abbas, director of the Independent Center for Trade Union and Worker Services, says the government will move to block political gains by the labor movement just as it has blocked pro-democracy reformers.