BORDERLINES: Kaitie Dong Talks About Empowering Immigrant Youth Activists
Immigrant and refugee youth organizers can have a powerful impact on helping their communities. OneAmerica's Youth Organizer Kaitie Dong tells us how.
Immigrant and refugee youth organizers can have a powerful impact on helping their communities. OneAmerica's Youth Organizer Kaitie Dong tells us how.
“If employers in any industry were to tell their American workers, ‘You cannot leave your worksite,’ there would be a societal outcry.”
"Like a stone in water, the impact of ICE enforcement ripples out to the family of the person targeted."
"Most of us, despite respective COVID-19 hurdles, can at least get through our day without wondering if our 9-year old has remembered to feed their newborn sibling, or how our oldest daughter will fare stepping out of high school and into the fields."
When we have healthcare workers, but they themselves do not have access to healthcare, that shows us that this system has failed.
"They told us we could not have blankets anymore." In this translated declaration, a 7-year-old girl recounts the cruelty of the guards at a facility in Clint, TX.
195,000 immigrants were due to lose their TPS (Temporary Protected Status) rights in January. Eddy Laine writes about his hopes the program will be extended under the incoming administration.
[My cousin] chooses to repay his debt by helping to shut people out and deporting them.
"I'm not scared to say I'm a refugee, I'm LGBT, I'm here and I want to be visible for others."