Update: Brenda was deported to Mexico, despite efforts from the Salt Lake City Dream Team, DreamActivist.Org, United We Dream, and the Immigrant Youth Justice League. Thank you for your support for Brenda and her family. Brenda came to the U.S. when she was 6 years old. At the age of 15, she had her [...]
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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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Not only is Ruth Gomberg Muñoz an amazing anthropologist, activist, and professor – she is an amazing friend and mentor and ally. She has taught classes such as “Undocumented Labor Migrations” at UIC [where we met!] and has published an ethnography titled, “Labor and Legality” which focuses on undocumented immigrants who work as busboys at [...]
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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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"La organización Chicago Community and Workers Rights esta invitando a una reunión informativa en nuestra organización a cerca de “la reforma..
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New York coming out!
Houston - " Jovenes indocumentados en Texas salen de las sombras y declaran su estatus migratorio publicamente! Un abrazote a Alicia Torres quien..
