Today, we honor our school's namesake on his birthday by sharing an excerpt from Eladio B. Bobadilla article in the Progressive Magazine, February 7, 2022 titled. "Remembering Immigrant Defender Bert Corona."
He also led an important hearts-and-minds campaign, crafting and articulating his vision for an Immigrants’ Bill of Rights, which asserted the rights of these workers to adjustment of status, to labor protections, and to human rights.
Corona connected the struggles of those south of the border to those north of it. And he pushed for both social and political change on their behalf, believing that the emancipation of the Chicano people could not be accomplished without that of their undocumented peers.
He was instrumental to the growth of a pro-immigrant consciousness among brown Americans and to the monumental shift in organized labor’s stance on the undocumented, which today is much more receptive toward their struggle, a position that’s often taken for granted."