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In Global Citizen, I found this picture in a very interesting article that shows that rights are still not recognized to the LGBT community in the United States and therefore that battles continue to have to fight.

We can see: the right to be parents, the fact that in some states still children can be sent to “gay conversion therapy”, discrimination suffered to find work and even housing, the right to separate bathrooms in schools, right to equal access to health and the battle against violence in which I want to stop.

Today this community suffers a enormous problem of violence throughout the country. I was impress by the numbers in the article, one in five hate crimes in the country are for the sexual orientation of the person and 2% of crimes are committ by the sexual identity. How are not they going to be alarming numbers?

However, in spite of this as they point out there are still 16 states in the country that do not include gender or sexual identity under their hate crime laws. 13 states only considers the sexual orientation and there are 4 even that do not have hate crime laws.

As we have seen this quarter in relation to civil rights is much to move forward, this is the picture of Mesha Caldwell, transgender woman who was one of the 28 murders reported in 2017 and in his case has not yet found the killer. We can’t forget about them.

 

Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/9-battles-the-lgbt-community-in-the-us-is-still-fi/

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This week we read the story of Jose Antonio Vargas as undocumented in the United States. In this hard article he tells how he lived in a state of constant fear since he knew he was undocumented. Although he felt American, the United States did not consider him as an American.

It shows the harsh situation that millions of people are living in the United States today. That’s why I shared this photo, to show another of these millions of stories that should open our eyes.

She is Jeanette VIzguerra with her three children. Jeanette is an undocumented Mexican immigrant who lives in the United States for 20 years. After the election of President Donald Trump she was cited by ICE. To avoid deportation with your children, she requested asylum in a church in Colorado. She spent three months in the church until she was granted a permit to remain in the US until 2019.

This woman became a symbol of the resistance of immigrants to Donald Trump and named one of the 100 most influential people for the time. In the article show how families have emergency plans against fires, earthquakes or tornadoes but  the undocumented families today In the United States have dreaded emergency plans knocking on the door. Live a life in a state of fear and constant alertness.

As noted in this article Jannette came to the United States to work, to a better life and opportunities for her children. She is not a criminal nor does he want to take the job of another American, she came to look for the best for his children and he fought until the end for that.

 

http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736271/jeanette-vizguerra/

https://www.westword.com/news/jeanette-vizguerra-became-the-face-of-immigrant-resistance-in-2017-9886147

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This week we read in class the text Deportation Policy and the Making and Unmaking of Illegal Aliens by Mae Ngai. We discussed in class mainly the importance of the terminology and the great difference between Illegal alien v / s undocumented individual. We talked about how we are territorial people and we read in the text “The quota laws stimulated the production of illegal aliens and introduced that problem into the internal spaces of the nation”.

People now believe that certain immigrants come to take away their work, resources and only bring other crimes with them.

However, why only people of a certain nationality terrify them? Why do they create a collective fear towards certain people who end up doing jobs that nobody else wants? Why is it okay to break certain families in order to prevent more people from entering?

With these laws and migratory structures, entire families are subjected to high-risk situations.

For example, last week I went to the border of San Diego. This border is now in eye of the world for the new migratory policies against the caravan that are heading towards the border. In Tijuana, I met Benjamin. He told me how he lived more than 15 years with his family in the United States, he was deported on his own and he cannot return for a minimum of 10 years. Now he wanted to raise money to cross the border in a unconventional ways (by the sea) to be with his family again.

Thats how mmigrants from certain countries are being dehumanized until the point that people had to put their life in danger in order not to be separated from his family.

Sources: I took this photo in the Tijuana border two weeks ago. November 7 2018

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In 2017 President Donald Trump issued an executive order called: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States. This Travel Ban suspended the USRAP and the entry of people from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Syria.

After the travel Ban against certain countries with Muslim majority citizens published on February 1, 2017, dozens of lawyers gathered together with other citizens at airports to support these arriving citizens and “coming together of teams to start filing actions to try to protect people. ”

As we saw in class in Deepa Iyer’s text “We too Sing America” ​​after 9/11 the American system has continued to deny civil rights and now it is denied to the South Asian, Arab, and Muslim.

With the Trabel Ban dictated in 2017, legal techniques are once again used to authorize the discrimination of people of specific nationalities.

But unlike other techniques and legal systems used in the past, this one awoke and ignited the indignation of many Americans who did not stop working and protest to demonstrate their disapproval.

This photo shows three lawyers at the airport offering help and free consultation, going beyond the protest. The discontent and anger of many was such that you could not leave aside other things to work and help as you could.

Sources:

https://www.google.cl/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/lawyers-trump-muslim-ban-immigration.amp.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769

https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/the-women-fighting-trumps-immigration-ban.html

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This week we saw in class the story of Fred Korematsu, an American citizen of Japanese descent who opposed being locked in concentration camps in EEUU.
In 1942 the president of the United States Franklin. D Roosevelt issued an order to lock up all Japanese citizens and their descendants in what they called relocation camps. There were 10 concentration camps far from the large towns in the United States where families were imprisoned until 1945.

Looking for images, I found this one of a woman with a sign in her house supporting the relocation of Japanese citizens outside of “white man’s neighborhood”.

When I saw this poster, the first thing I thought was the protest and sings that we saw this last year of American citizens against immigrants, asking them to leave and again support government programs based on discrimination, racism and hatred.

We see how history repeats itself again, children’s are locked up, and the entry of people of a certain nationality is impeded in America.

People have not learned from their mistakes and are being fooled again. Even though in many things the country has grown and improved, there is still much to be done in relation to respect for the civil rights of all.

 

Sources:

1. http://www.discovernikkei.org/es/journal/2016/12/7/guerra-de-oido/
2. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-poll-exclusive-idUSKBN15F2MG

 

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This is a picture of James Baldwin and Maya Angelou.

Maya Angelou was a poet, writer and activist of American civil rights like James Balwin. She received many awards and recognitions. Especially for her first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This autobiography is important as it was one of the first times that a woman of color dared to be the protagonist of her story. Especially in how she talked about racial segregation and her childhood as an African-American woman.

James and Maya were close friends and she describes him in her column in The New York Times in 1987 as her brother. In this column she tells how she talked with Baldwin about “courage, human rights, God, love and fear”. He was a great support for her and spoke of the great respect and admiration that she had for him, writing: “speeches will be given, essays written and hefty book will be published on the various lives of James Baldwin.”

Source:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou#Influencia

http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-angelou.html

Maya Angelou, RIP

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This is a picture of Malcom X with his sister Ella Little. Ella Collins was one of the most important women in the life of Malcom X. After her father died and her mother was admitted to a mental hospital Ella Collins and her husband Jack Collins became the legal guardians of Malcom X from the 14 to 21 years old. Ella was on many occasions the counselor of Malcolm, she advised him, for example, to leave the Nation of Islam to go instead to Orthodox Islam. In The Autobiography of Malcom X Ella was the first proud woman of color that he knew and he said that “There were no physical movements in my life that were more important or profound in their repercussions”.

She was a leading civil rights activist, after the murder of Malcom X she took over the Organization of African American Unity, founded by her brother.

Ella was an example and support for Malcom X, especially for the the fact that women of color were more than defenseless and attacked by the United States and related to the idea of ​​black is beautiful. She fought as a woman and was an example of being a proud woman of color.

Source:

https://www.theclio.com/web/entry?id=7553

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Moise Morancy is a New York photographer who made a set of portraits in response to police abuse suffered by African americans. There are several self portraits in which you can see him dressed in different ways but always with the flag and a rope around his neck. His message is: “No matter what your profession, how successful you have been in the US. If you have a darker skin tone, life will be much harder for you” In addition to relating it to what we have seen and read about the constant police abuse of african americans, this is directly related to the idea in Michelle Alexander’s book: The New Jim Crow about the symbolic production of race, where mass incarceration is giving a meaning to being a man of color: that is criminal. Beyond who he is or what he does, it is defined by the color of his skin.

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