>> As Governor JB Pritzker calls on Democrats to be more aggressive in their fight against the Trump administration.

Organizers in Chicago and across the nation are planning May day rallies this Thursday, more than 1100 protest events are scheduled in nearly 1000 cities across the country.

This comes on the heels of yesterday's presidential executive orders targeting sanctuary cities and ramping up immigration crackdowns.

Joining us to discuss are 3 of the rally.

Organizers, Laurene cargos scientists for the EPA, Great Lakes region and executive vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees, local 704.

Omar Lopez is on the executive committee of the Immigrant Defense Resistance Council.

He's also director of Cold Water, a nonprofit providing HIV prevention services to the Latino community.

Jorge movie CA is a campaign organizer for a ride.

Chicago, which advocates for workers rights.

Thanks to all 3 of you for joining us.

Or hey, moving car, let's start with you.

Please tell us about what you all have planned for Thursday.

What can folks expect to see?

Thursday?

You're going to see the biggest protest in to see that.

You can go in so many years say things seen settle toes and seeks one.

>> immigrant community on attack nowadays is not only Damian community, but all community says students, colleges, universities, workers, the environment.

Everybody's on attack by the administration.

So you want to be seen receives tense pushing back that agenda.

What's happening that day?

Can we expect a rally and march all of the above?

What's going to happen is we're going to be meeting at 11:00AM Union Park on Lake in Ashland.

We're going march towards downtown.

We're going to cause downtown and we're going to rally between Michelle in Grant Park and we are thinking about a quarter million people, at least.

Larry, you'll be speaking at Thursday's rally once it gets to gets to that part of the city.

What will you be speaking about?

>> All p raising the voices for the 1000 EPA workers here in Chicago and the Great Lakes region who are fighting against the Trump urgings agenda to dismantle our ability to protect clean air and clean clean water for the American people.

What is your message to the people who'll be there and to the Trump administration?

>> Our message is to our fellow workers.

We're not alone.

We have.

A lot of solidarity to build sand.

We know that right now our duty is to protect democracy.

federal workers, unlike other workforces, don't swear an oath to protect the Constitution from enemies, foreign and domestic we take that oath very seriously, especially right now as we're under attack.

And we are stepping up to remind folks that when folks who come under attack autocratic rudel ruler, we know that our rights, our strongest right now at the beginning of the attacks as the attacks go on and on and on.

If we don't fight back, those we need become weaker.

And so.

We know what history has taught us.

You know, federal workers haven't seen an attack like this before, but other workers and other countries have so international.

What international Workers Day, we're standing up together with the workers of the world to say no to fascism May first, as you just said, has become known as International Workers Day.

Omar, do you see this as an opportunity to also defend immigrant rights?

>> Absolutely.

We're saying that the immigration issue is a labor issue.

We're saying that immigrants are not criminals to their workers.

So I think it's it's becoming that we should come out on May 1st.

I'm the workers Trice also the immigrants rights.

But I think it a lot more, you know, because in essence linking the immigrant struggle to the struggle of the rest of the workers around the nation, especially now with under the attacks from the administration.

>> Lorraine, you're still employed by the EPA, but many of your co-workers were laid off last week.

In fact, on Earth Day does that does all of Meek you know, take on a whole new meaning this year?

Does it make it that much more significant?

Absolutely.

Federal workers across different agencies beyond the Environmental Protection Agency.

>> Are seeing a tax on, you know, we 9 being dismantled that the department that investigates after every firefighter death in the workplace.

Department has been removed already.

We see Social Security administration under attack every service that that protects so many aspects of the quality of life in economy in this country are being attacked.

And so we're so empowered.

The federal union, this network is rising up to participate, all over the country and we're ready to fight along with our brothers and sisters and siblings all over the country.

How would you say morale is among you and your colleagues at the Morales been hard, but after 100 days of this, I see people ready to fight and ready to step into our power.

Even more than ever.

question to you does does have greater significance this year given what Lorraine just talked about, but also what is happening to the immigrant community right now?

>> Absolutely years.

The in your community has been target of several administrations, not on the Republican Social >> You expression back Obama was the reported chief when one that we don't like that for years ago were the heroes of society.

We would be essential workers know they are where the queen knows Myers making at fantastic point.

We're international workers.

We are simply workers calling to another country.

The looking for jobs.

That's who we are and ask how we want to be recognized.

If we fall into did discourse of being criminals, this incites is going to repair a loss.

We doubt understanding that we had the basic the basis of the economy we brought forward from the fields to the doors off everybody doing the bend.

Amy.

We are not going to let anybody for getting that.

The president signed 3 new executive orders yesterday cracking down on sanctuary cities Are you concerned that immigrant fears about the Trump administration and get ice reads that we've been seeing and hearing about?

>> That could impact turnout at the rally.

>> We are.

There's definitely fear in the community and this.

That's the idea that the Trump administration is has, you know, that to do that.

that's going to be our responsibility now to begin to change that kind of intelligence, especially in mansion that but the immigrant communities around the nation that we are not criminals we have protection under the law and that we need to.

Understand that the attack that are coming are coming from someone who isn't 100%.

So when when he violates the laws, you know, he's violating the lowsome.

So he's he's a criminal, were not the criminals.

We have to change the mentality that we have events and we have to begin to fight on use and the loss and we have to protect our families by educating them and know your rights.

We also have to have a complain where our members over the immigrant community.

It refers to vote fault.

Become citizens and the workers that are on that commended today they needed.

We need need to fight to get them work permits and this would be I think that's what we need right now.

I think today, too, be legal workers and let them work.

>> Okay, we're almost out of time.

But Jorge, are you seeing immigrant and undocumented community members are?

Are they free to go to work?

>> There's fear, no doubt, no doubt.

But also there's a lot of education.

We have been indicating people, Tom Homan live declared that order our West.

A very the border wells are we are not that, you kingdom he should have another tied particular life that you go was a very difficult target because people knew their rights.

And that's exactly what we need.

Not allow the administration to violate the law, OK, that's where we'll have to leave it.

Best of luck