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Jaenette Vizquerra
Jaenette Visguerra made it on Times Top Most Influential People. She went to a Church instead of reporting to ICE.
http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736271/jeanette-vizguerra/
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A hammer pounds away in the living room of a middle class home. A sanding machine smoothes the grain of the wood floor in the dining room.
But this home Pastor Ada Valiente is showing off in Los Angeles, with its refurbished floors, is no ordinary home.
“It would be three families we host here,” Valiente says.
By “host,” she means provide refuge to people who may be sought by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. The families staying here would be undocumented immigrants, fearing an ICE raid and possible deportation.
The purchase of this home is part of a network formed by Los Angeles religious leaders across faiths in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. The intent is to shelter hundreds, possibly thousands of undocumented people in safe houses across Southern California.
The goal is to offer another sanctuary beyond religious buildings or schools, ones that require federal authorities to obtain warrants before entering the homes.
“That’s what we need to do as a community to keep families together,” Valiente says.
At another Los Angeles neighborhood miles away, a Jewish man shows off a sparsely decorated spare bedroom in his home. White sheets on the bed and the clean, adjacent full bathroom bear all the markers of an impending visit. The man, who asked not to be identified, pictures an undocumented woman and her children who may find refuge in his home someday.
The man says he’s never been in trouble before and has difficulty picturing that moment. But he’s well educated and understands the Fourth Amendment, which gives people the right to be secure in their homes, against unreasonable searches and seizures. He’s pictured the moment if ICE were to knock on his door.
“I definitely won’t let them in. That’s our legal right,” he says. “If they have a warrant, then they can come in. I can imagine that could be scary, but I feel the consequences of being passive in this moment is a little scary.”
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Watch: Latina journalist Maria Hinojosa epically shuts down a condescending Trump adviser on the word “illegals”
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I made these in response to hate crimes in my community. They are full size and free to download and print if you’d like to use them, too.
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The children of undocumented immigrants have a message for Donald Trump
follow @the-movemnt
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#resist (at Tacoma, Washington)
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Sanctuary Cities
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LOVE IS LOVE.
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL.
IMMIGRANTS MAKE AMERICA GREAT.
WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
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On “Orange is the New Black,” Diane Guerrero’s character Maritza is a tough Latina who is separated from her young daughter while she does time. It’s a pretty moving storyline on its own, but Guerrero’s real life is just as captivating, if not more.
When she was 14 years old, she came home to an empty house. Dinner had been started, but there was no one home to finish it. Neighbors told her that immigration officers had taken her parents and older brother away.
Hear her tell the story in her emotional New Day interview.
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Daniela Vargas, 22-year-old Dreamer, told her story to the press — and was promptly detained by ICE
Federal immigration authorities didn’t waste any time detaining Daniela Vargas, a 22-year-old undocumented resident of Jackson, Mississippi.
ICE showed up just moments after Vargas spoke out about the detentions of her father and brother last week in a raid on their home.
Those detentions happened on Feb. 15, and Vargas has spent the past two weeks trying to bring attention to her family’s story.
On Wednesday, she spoke at a press conference in Jackson organized by local advocates, where she described the contributions that immigrants have made to the United States.
Afterward, she was pulled over and arrested, according to the Huffington Post. Vargas will now be processed and face an immigration judge. Read more (3/2/17 10:04 AM)
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Latin America has some of the most troubling murder rates of women in the world.
More than half of the 25 countries with the highest femicide, gender-motivated killing of women, rates are in Latin America. According to a 2011 study, El Salvador, where, in 2011, 647 women were killed, leads, with Guatemala at third and Honduras close behind at sixth.
link: http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/our-issues/challenges-women-face-latin-america
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Street harassment is a really big problem.
Street harassment like groping and verbal attacks on Mexico City buses became such a huge problem in 2008 that the city rolled out new women-only bus lines. While similar actions haven’t been taken throughout the rest of Latin America, recent news show that street harassment is a problem in most countries, including Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
link: http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/our-issues/challenges-women-face-latin-america
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Indigenous women have a high rate of maternal mortality.
While Latin America has experienced many advances in maternal healthcare, indigenous women remain particularly vulnerable to pregnancy complications and death. In Peru, where 23 percent of women are indigenous, the maternal mortality rate in 2009 was 103 per 100 thousand births. However, figures from 2011 show that in Puno, where the population is mostly indigenous Aymara and Quechua, maternal mortality rose by 45 percent.
Link: http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/our-issues/challenges-women-face-latin-america
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