Orange County Immigrant Youth United

04/29/2019

Hello all! Hope you’re all having a good Monday. Read the new Deport This! Column to stay informed on why tomorrow is such an important day for immigrant rights!

By Hairo Cortes, Chispa Tomorrow could be one of the most significant days for immigrants in California’s history. The State Assembly’s Judiciary Committee is expected to decide whether to advance…

04/17/2019

Read the new Deport This! Column where activists and organizers hold Sheriff Don Barnes accountable and relay the message that every detained individual needs to be freed!

By Sandra De Anda, Orange County Immigrant Youth United Activists briefly blocked traffic in front of Theo Lacy facility in Orange on Saturday in a rally to free immigrant detainees from Orange County…

03/18/2019

Check out our new Deport This! Column. Last Wednesday local organizers and activists went up to SF to fight for the right to have California stay a sanctuary city. Give it a read and share ✊🏽

By Sandra De Anda, Orange County Immigrant Youth United Activists and organizers got on a bus Tuesday night in Anaheim for an hours-long trek to San Francisco. That’s where a rally took place the…

03/12/2019

In this new Deport This! Collum,
Gerson Cortes writes about how the dreamer narrative still provides a path recogniation and help to many undocumented folks.

By Gerson Cortes, (Guest columnist) I first joined the DREAM movement at the end of 2010, right after the DREAM Act failed to pass through the Senate. For months, activists burned themselves out…

03/06/2019

Local community member Fabiola has been putting work into helping preserve our community, and now she needs our help. Please share the fundraiser and donate!

Fabiola, a community member who has a history of supporting community efforts is currently in need of support. She has provided fundraising opportunities for efforts to support the well being of trans asylees in the OC and even helped further by providing direct support like employment and transp...

03/06/2019

“A startling 26 percent of women in Orange County identify as victims of domestic violence. In 2017 alone, local law enforcement responded to 8,452 domestic violence calls — nearly one call every hour of every day.” 88 lots are up for debate at today’s city council meeting in Santa Ana. The city wants to privatize these lands for their own benefit and their own pockets. We are having a housing crisis in Santa Ana, and this crisis exacerbates domestic violence because many women do not have the financial means to leave their homes. Those that do leave end up homeless. A lot of the women affected by this gentrification are women of color and undocumented women. Let’s take the people’s land back from greedy hands. Housing justice is reproductive justice! 🏡 Hope y’all come out today!

01/28/2019

Give the new Deport This! Column a read! Local organizer Erik Garcia gives y’all the scoop on what’s going on with this smart wall business

By Erik Garcia, Chispa The Supreme Court of the United States deferred action last week on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The move leaves the policy in place for about 700…

01/21/2019

Read our new Deport This! Column! ✊🏽

By Samuel Paramore, OCIYU How’s that “new year, new me” pledge working out three weeks in? Regardless of resolutions, it’s a new year and the same damn presidential administration.

01/15/2019

The Los Angeles teachers’ strike began with rain, but at least there was food. Some taco truck operators showed up at some schools to provide teachers with food. “It’s L.A. What else are you going to bring?” said Victor Fernandez. “It’s tacos. Nobody hates tacos.” About 50 people picke...

01/14/2019

Cheer up on this rainy day with a beautifully written letter to Cyntonia Brown. The struggles of women of color are intersectional and we need to hold each other up in the face of the military industrial complex

Editor’s Note: Cyntoia Brown received clemency last week after serving 15 years in prison for a killing committed while a victim of child s*x trafficking in Tennessee. Alejandra Pablos…

01/08/2019

https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-admin-opposes-ongoing-mental-care-for-reunited-migrant-families/?fbclid=IwAR2fYve-NKleURP4DyisC6-5ZWXZ11rVIgwdAFeCjm8yZ-e-nh0B_oJBWKo

Being able to afford, get proper diagnosis, and be subject to needed treatment of trauma imposed by the deportation system was already extremely difficult for detained-and-released migrants. The Trump Administration wants it to be near-impossible.

A Justice Department attorney said Monday that the government has no constitutional duty to provide mental health treatment to migrant families who were separated under President Donald Trump’s now…

01/08/2019

https://ocweekly.com/the-perilous-treks-of-children-across-the-u-s-mexico-border-then-and-now/

In this week's Deport This!, Hiaro Cortes provides important perspective to the deaths of Jakelin Caal Maquin and Felipe Alonzo-Gomez though a telling of the path of his own youthful migration.

By Hairo Cortes There’s three things I remember most about the day I crossed the border as a seven-year-old child: Space Jam, the last movie I watched in Mexico in the smuggler’s house…