This article was originally published on the Huffington Post Blog. How did we build an immigrant rights movement? As undocumented queer immigrants, we learned from our own experiences. Frank Sharry’s latest opinion piece in The Washington Post extols the gay rights movement for teaching the immigrant rights movement how to fight, and in doing so, he places himself [...]
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When I hung a flyer announcing the National Coming Out of the Shadows (NCOS) rallies happening across Illinois with the new collective – Undocumented Illinois – I did not expect a blatantly discriminatory reaction to arise. For the last three years, I have been a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and in that [...]
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My name is Rossette valladares and I am undocumented. Over two decades ago my family came to this country in hopes of a better life. I’m 22 and at my age my mother carried me in her arms. I was 8 months old when we crossed the border. In her stories and words she was [...]
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It was a cold October night and I had just come from school. The house was silent. And the only sound came from children playing and laughing outside. As I enter my house I could see my family was gathering around someone. One of my uncles came up to me and told me that my grandmother passed away. And [...]
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Yo soy Genoveva Ramirez. Hace 12 anos llegue a este país buscando una mejor calidad de vida para mi familia. Al llegar aquí me di cuenta que el ser indocumentado te limita a muchas cosas. Uno de mis mayores miedos se hizo realidad el 11 de febrero a la media noche, cuando salía del trabajo [...]
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For the first time in the Village of Addison undocumented residents of DuPage county will declare themselves ‘undocumented and unafraid.’ This event is part of a series of actions during March, National Coming Out of the Shadows month. The month is being led by a new collective of undocumented, immigrants calling themselves ‘Undocumented Illinois,’ and [...]
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My name is Stephanie. I come from a line of hardworking people. As a result of the poverty my parents experienced in the Philippines, our family moved to the Marshall Islands in waves in order to be closer to the chance of coming to America. One year after naturalizing as Marshallese citizens, 9/11 forced my [...]
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