Summary
Originally from Mexico City herself, Gaby Hernandez understands firsthand the challenges immigrants can face in the United States. As the executive director of the Long Beach Immigrants Rights Coalition in California, she empowers those in her community to push for better resources and protections at both the local and national level. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on immigrant justice.
Five Facts
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Who
is profiled in this piece, and what is her background?
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What
is Gaby Hernandez's job?
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Where
does she work? In what communities?
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Why
does citizenship not necessarily confer full rights to immigrants, according to Hernandez?
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How
do immigrants seek rights effectively, according to Hernandez?
Focus Questions
What do you think Hernandez means when she says that the immigration system "isn't broken. It's exactly working how it was designed to work"?
Media literacy:
Why do you think this piece was set up as a single, uninterrupted monologue rather in a format like question and answer?
For More
For a lesson on the ways immigration policy has changed (or hasn't) in President Biden's first year, see
this lesson
.
