Tag: immigration

Krystal Rodriguez-Campos, director of the judicial immigration clinic at the College of Law, discusses “Advocating for the Voiceless: Noncitizen Survivors of Violence” on Tuesday in the Quay Davis Executive Board Room.

The University hosted a virtual roundtable on immigration relief for non-citizen survivors of violence to make them aware of the resources that are available to them. 

Enrique Morones, founder of Gente Unida, House of Mexico and Border Angels, explained how to get involved in activism, how to help immigrants and how hateful words turn into hateful actions in a lecture as part of the virtual Latinx Heritage Month series on Wednesday via WebEx.

VICE’s short documentary is a window into Rodriguez’s life story. He was born in Mexico and immigrated to California at age 6 with his mom and two sisters. He grew up in Visalia, about 45 minutes from Fresno in the Central Valley. 

Poet and Public Speaker Yosimar Reyes talked about the need to change the narrative on immigrants and how his own experience can be used as insight into the life and struggles of a modern, Latino immigrant on Oct. 15 via Zoom.

U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers have frightening similarities to the concentration camps set up in Nazi-Germany and there needs to be more awareness of what is going on at the front gates of the United States to create a real change.