Workers around the world took to the streets Thursday to mark May Day, with marches and rallies across Latin America, Europe and Asia. Here in New York City, immigration attorney Reena Arora was among those who gathered in Washington Square Park to demand rights for workers and immigrants.

Reena Arora: “One of the biggest problems facing the immigrant community is wide-scale wage theft. So we have a number of day laborers and domestic workers and workers in all different industries who are not paid their wages at all, just absolutely robbed of their earnings, and there’s no recourse for them because often their claims are so small that no lawyers want to help them fight for their wages back, and there are increasingly numbers of threats of deportation and other ways that make them extremely vulnerable as a workforce.”