Migrant Justice Archives

26 Nov OC Supervisors to Hold Public Forum on the County’s Relationships With ICE

Posted at 12:23h in Migrant Justice, Press Release

ADVISORY // Excuse Cross-Posting November 26, 2018 Contact: Ana Ramirez, 310-895-5201, ana@resilienceoc.org Hairo Cortes, 657-272-3475, hairo@chispaoc.org Salvador Sarmiento, 202-746-2099, sgsarmiento@ndlon.org OC Supervisors to Hold Public Forum on the County’s Relationships With ICE Immigrant rights advocates force County to comply with TRUTH Act requirements under California law What: Public Forum on the County’s Relationships with...

05 Nov Check out “Deport This!” A Partnership Column with OC Weekly and OC Immigrant Youth United!

Posted at 00:38h in Blog, Culture, Featured, Migrant Justice

Last March, I joined Denise de la Cruz and tallest Mexican in Orange County, Gabriel San Roman, to talk immigration for OC Weekly’s OC Speakly podcast. We were a few months into Trump’s presidency. I remember feeling dazed. By this point Trump had rubber stamped...

21 Jun Jennicet Gutierrez: 3 Years After Interrupting Obama at the White House

Posted at 10:20h in Blog, Culture, LGBTQ, Migrant Justice, Politics, V-Blog

David Carbajal talks with Jennicet Gutierrez about the day she interrupted President Obama at the White House Pride Celebration in order to call for an end to the detention and deportation of Transgender immigrants. The interview was first streamed live on Chispa's Facebook account on...

30 Apr OC Human Relations Honoring Sheriff Hutchens is a Slap in the Face to All Who Believe in Justice

Posted at 19:26h in Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, Migrant Justice

I thought it was April Fools again when I learned that OC Human Relations will honor Orange County Sheriff, Sandra Hutchens, at its Annual AWARDS Celebration and Fundraiser. Unfortunately this isn’t an elaborate practical joke. On May 3rd, OC Human Relations will really honor a...

27 Mar Liberal Cities Must Respond to Attacks Against Sanctuary by Defending and Strengthening It

Posted at 08:00h in Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, Migrant Justice, Politics

Last week, the City of Los Alamitos in Orange County took the first step in passing an ordinance to exempt itself from the California Values Act, the state’s sanctuary law. The council also lent its support to Jeff Sessions’ lawsuit against California with an amicus...

19 Mar Los Alamitos Puts Itself on the Wrong Side of History With Attempt to Undermine Sanctuary Law

Posted at 18:36h in Blog, Featured, Migrant Justice, Politics

Tonight, the Los Alamitos City Council is set to consider an ordinance designed with the intention of opting the city out of the California Values Act, our state’s Sanctuary law. This ordinance is missguided, based on a bad interpretation of immigration law, and must be...

07 Mar The More Congress Fails Immigrants, the More We Must Embrace Risk, Creativity, and Idealism

Posted at 00:34h in Blog, Featured, Migrant Justice, Politics

Donald Trump really wants to convince the public that Democrats don’t care for DACA, but conveniently fails to mention he started the fire when he moved to end the program last summer. While Democrats seem to not care about DACA, the DREAM Act, or immigrant youth...

28 Feb The Supreme Court Just Sided With Trump to Take Away Rights from Immigrants

Posted at 08:31h in Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, Migrant Justice

On Monday February 27th, the Supreme Court handed ICE and the Trump Administration a powerful tool to continue their attacks on immigrant communities. In Jennings v. Rodriguez the Court ruled that ICE can detain immigrants indefinitely, withdrawing the right to due process for millions. The...

08 Feb Vacation Bar is the Latest Gentrified Spot to Steal the Hood Food Business Model and Profit Off It

Posted at 18:41h in Blog, Economic Justice, Featured, Gentrification, Migrant Justice, SanTana, Vivienda Digna

You know gentrification is nestling quite comfortably in your neighborhood when you see a portable grill on the sidewalk selling $8 bacon wrapped sausages by a twenty-something-year-old millennial in a rustic-stained welding apron. In truth, bacon wrapped hot dogs are a common delicacy sold by...

08 Jan Armando Ibanez Encourages All of Us to Always Tell Our Own Stories

Posted at 20:31h in Blog, Culture, Featured, LGBTQ, Migrant Justice

Armando Ibañez has taken storytelling to a whole other level with his web series, Undocumented Tales which he began in September of 2015. For him, being in charge of how the stories of queer immigrants are told is not something he takes lightly. Ibañez shares...