Central Coast Leaders Empower Migrant Families Ahead of Inauguration
1/17/2025 | 1m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Central Coast advocates protect immigrant communities from deportation threats.
On California’s Central Coast, leaders like Ana Luisa Salazar are educating undocumented communities about their rights as deportation threats grow. Groups like 805 and DocuFund provide rapid alerts and legal support, ensuring vulnerable families stay informed and prepared.
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Central Coast Leaders Empower Migrant Families Ahead of Inauguration
1/17/2025 | 1m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
On California’s Central Coast, leaders like Ana Luisa Salazar are educating undocumented communities about their rights as deportation threats grow. Groups like 805 and DocuFund provide rapid alerts and legal support, ensuring vulnerable families stay informed and prepared.
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Today, despite widespread disenfranchisement, migrant communities remain determined to drive change.
Amid the Trump administration's deportation threats, community leaders like Ana Luisa Salazar are stepping up to provide essential know-your-rights information.
Before migrating to the United States, Salazar advocated for indigenous communities in Spanish and Mixteco.
-[Spanish language] -I want to continue informing indigenous communities since they are often left behind in terms of accessing critical information.
-Organizations 805 and DocuFund are focusing on transforming fear about the incoming administration into decisive action.
-We are organizing a rapid response system, which is going to be alerts, text message alerts to notify our community.
If we see ICE authorities being in the community, being in public spaces and schools, providing know-your-rights workshops, family preparedness workshops.
-The more we educate ourselves, the less afraid we'll be.
-While 805 and DocuFund is taking steps to help keep families together, they are also preparing for the worst-case scenario by facilitating family reunifications with lawyers within their coalition.
Reporting for CalMatters, I'm Susana Canales-Barrón.
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