Immigrants' Rights @UCLA_CILP. Empath. Past lives include activism, journalism, politics and many many countries. Soy mexicana, estadounidense y del 🌍 querido.
Dec 22, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
As someone who parroted Democrat’s talking points on immigration “we have to live up to our values as a nation of immigrants and laws” for 4 yrs as spox for CHC & OFA, I want to apologize for believing them. 🧵
Truth is that our immigration laws are working exactly as the eugenicists who wrote them intended: to keep out anyone but white Western Europeans or “whites” in general. 2/8
Dec 20, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Mexico lindo y queridooooo 💕💕💕
Oct 29, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The silver lining of observing immigration proceedings in New York City is that, at least here, when ICE lawyers try to deport our loved ones, attorneys are there to help. Every detained immigrant here has access to counsel, which makes all the difference. nytimes.com/2019/08/13/opi…
Because of the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, a first of its kind effort to provide universal representation to all incarcerated immigrants in New York, immigrants in NY jails have a 1,100% better chance of staying home than getting deported. vera.org/publications/n…
Sep 19, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This story of a man who had never been a citizen of *any* country, made me tear up.
'The morning of his naturalization ceremony, he
put on a suit and knotted his red, white and blue tie. He pinned an American flag to his lapel. He was ready to become an American...
'I feel like a newborn baby...Today is like a new life. I’ve never been a citizen in all my life. Today means I have a new future...In this country, I feel more free than ever before.'
