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Why Don’t Mexicans Just Come Here Legally?
I receive this question a lot from non-Mexican readers of this blog, and sometimes even clients who are wrestling with the legal immigration process. After all, immigrating should be a matter of filing out some paperwork and waiting your turn. Read More …
“That Awkward Moment When You Run Away from Your Home Country Due to Discrimination For Being Queer, To Be Locked Up in the Land of the Free…”
Full text: “That awkward moment when you run away from your home country due to discrimination for being queer…Only to be locked up in the land of the free with a lot of machista, and sexist, homophobic, transphobic ICE officers.” Read More …
Of the Deported and Departed – Lessons from the #BringThemHome Campaign
Two whole months after self-deporting to Mexico, walking up to the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with a humanitarian parole and asylum application to come back to the United States and spending 17 days at the Eloy Detention Center in Read More …
Why I Support The Bring Them Home Campaign
Several immigrant youth, who have been leaders in the undocumented youth movement in the United States, have crossed the border into Mexico, and plan to turn themselves in alongside other undocumented youth who left or were deported from the United Read More …
“You May Think I Am Crazy, But I Think It Is Crazier That I Haven’t Seen My Family for 15 Years”
“In 2008 I was knocking on doors to get President #Obama elected, and now, in 2013, I will be knocking on America’s door, asking President Obama to bring my community home.” – Lizbeth Mateo. Breaking from The National Immigrant Youth Read More …