AMÉRICA MEXICANA 🇲🇽 🇲🇽

We are entering a time in the U.S not seen before.. this is Salinas, CA and many places across California. Immigrants and their families protesting. I don’t think Americans understand that without immigrants we don’t have much of a foundation when literally everything is run based on the work of immigrants. Let me tell you about a little place called Palo Alto, California. Where every single restaurant every single café and every single major institution is run on the back of immigrants, specifically janitorial services, childcare, cooks, and countless jobs that they have taken on. There’s a reason they made a movie called “ a day without a Mexican”. Back then Mexicans made a third of the population and now it’s getting closer to half.  Please note that I am Peruvian and understand the values that immigrants bring specifically Mexican Americans, which will be mostly impacted by these incoming terrible policies. I also don’t think that many understand that social media (mobilization) is also something that immigrants will use to their benefit and therefore we really will be living in some unprecedented times when we create havoc for these communities and fear. Fear, including not knowing if family members will be deported and knowing that the federal government doesn’t know how to account for people because of inefficiency and so the disruptions that will occur will result in the disruption of American life. Wow, I really wish I wasn’t writing this out, but this is the reality and what happens with elections. I have heard some of even my own family members who have told me that they voted for this change in policy, thinking that only bad people will be deported, but as we are seeing even before the new administration that anyone is being targeted. Terrified? You know who’s more terrified are the families that are not showing up for healthcare or for work right now. 

#California #Immigrationraids