so, lynn and carina, come on up. [cheering and applauding] >> these are our neighborhood leaders for lafayette park. (applause) >> and there is not enough applause that we can give them, but we need to give it up in a very big way. thank you so much for all that you've done and please know that all of us are so thankful for your individual efforts. and we wouldn't be here without you. so, thank you so much to both of you. (applause) >> we're going to bring lynn and carina up in a brief second. why don't you speak now. that will work, right? but i also wanted on behalf of the department to thank you both of you. lynn, since you've been the lafayette champion a long time, there is your official lafayette park sign and your picnic blankets. carina, you've been our playground champion, lafayette park playground sign. >> thank you. (applause) >> why don't you guys say a few words right now. >> okay. the only thing that i want to do is to thank all of you who have been -- hundreds, it took literally hundreds of people to d

esta semana con funciones de la casa blanca para reforzar la condiciÓn migratoria, como nos dice carinalones de indocumentados que viven en california como muchos de ellos describen duras condiciones laborales. >> ninguna persona nacida aquÍ va a querer hacer nuestro trabajo, los indocumentados porque nosotros venimos con un sueÑo y un anhelo de superar necesitamos trabajar mÁs fuerte, trabajÓ para nuestras familias yo deje dos hijos en salvador, bastante tiempo. >> mirando al centro de polÍticas migratorias en california la mitad de los indocumentados llevan en el paÍs mÁs de 10 aÑos, 68% no tienen acceso a servicios de salud que frecuentemente serÍan vÍctimas de prÁcticas laborales inadecuada. >> pc a las condiciones que enfrentan los trabajadores indocumentados en california, componen la fuerza laboral del estado y componen 138.000 millones de dÓlares en su economÍa. de acuerdo al estudio los documentos son el 38% de los trabajadores agrÍcolas y el 14% de los de la construcciÓn. de la participaciÓn designa los expertos han incluido positivamente en la economÍa. >> que suban los nivel

so, to carina jones who led the fund-raising for the playground and lynn new house seigel who led the fund-raising for the friends of the park, and folks at dpw mohammed nuru, phil, your team. it's a thrill to be with my colleagues on the board of supervisors who lead the charge every day to make san francisco a better place. i've got proclamations for all the folks i just mentioned. thanks again for being here and celebrate this beautiful day here at lafayette park. (applause) >> so, mark, we have a little parting gift for you to commemorate this great day. and to encourage you to get out here and take this and play with us. we have a lafayette playground sign and a

. >> reporter: for carina, the rice video was a terrible video of what she's been trying to forget forears. >> one of the first times was in an elevator. so when i saw that video the other day of ray rice hitting his then fiance, it just brought back all those memories. i don't know why when that door closed, my boyfriend at the time, my ex-husband, thought that he could just push me against the wall and punch me in the face. >> reporter: at the time she did not file a police report. instead of letting the rice video send her back to a very dark place, the video prompted her to share her story on facebook for the first time, hoping it would help others. >> if it helps one to 10 to 100 women out there or more, then that's why i put it out there. >> reporter: like janay rice, she went on to marry her then boyfriend, even having three children. she said the abuse subside but returned with a hand print. >> when i came home one day, and i saw a mark on my daughter's face, i immediately asked -- i said what is -- what happened? and he said, she wouldn't stop screaming. that was the moment i

at old dominion university i spoke to carina, a bright, ambitious young woman who her sophomore year worked three jobs, at one.four jobs to ensure she met tuition. she mentioned the she was the first of her family members to set foot on a college campus. she said -- quote -- "college is a foreign field to my family" and that she was a pioneer. she is not alone. the challenges she faced were repeated time and again. at virginia state university one of our historically black colleges i bet meth with tobias who mentioned a lot of his peers had to drop out of schools because they coon afford afford to take out any more loans or debt. he told me i've made the decision to stay in school because the key to my future but i do so knowing that i will have to spend a lot of years paying off the student loans. and at one of our finer public institutions, the college of william and mary, i had a great conversation with jacob, a junior originally from the are some southwest part of our state in lebanon, virginia. she's graduating from college in three years instead of four because of dual enrollme