TORN APART: Alina Diaz

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Channel: Human Rights Watch · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

Alina Diaz, a farmworker advocate, with Lidia Franco, Gisela Castillo and Marilu Nava-Cervantes, members of the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, a national organization that mobilizes farmworker women around the country to engage with policymakers about workplace abuses, including unpaid wages, pesticide exposure, and sexual harassment. Once an undocumented immigrant herself, Diaz is now a US citizen. For her, the farmworkers in her community are "already great citizens" in all but name. She dreams that one day they will go to Washington, not to "demand and scream and march," but to commemorate victory, to say, "Thank you, because you are giving me dignity, because you are treating me as a human being." 

http://features.hrw.org/features/Torn_Apart_US_immigration_reform_2014/index.php

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