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Those who vote to protect those who cannot vote from deportation

2020-11-01T22:32:32.898Z


"May the winner have mercy on the children, on the poor people who come to fight, come to make their little money to get ahead, to educate their children, losing everything," asks the daughter of an undocumented Peruvian immigrant who has voted with the idea of ​​representing him in the electoral process.


By Sarah Yáñez-Richards 

Miami .-- Laura began to dance when she left to cast her vote in the ballot box.

For a moment he forgot about the rain, the people around him, his health problems and, despite wearing a mask and a face shield, he even forgot about the pandemic.

This Peruvian-American was not jumping for joy because of Donald Trump or Joe Biden, but because at that moment she

felt that she had done everything in her power to help her undocumented relatives to remain in the United States

.

"My dad was going to be deported because you know who, I don't want to say the name because my mom doesn't like me to say the president's name. We had a bad year this year and now she says: [Trump] go away. That's why she she danced, she doesn't want to keep repeating that, "says Irene, who went to accompany her mother to a Miami library to vote early together.

[Follow all our coverage on the 2020 elections here]

The Peruvian-American woman explains that her mother, Laura, came 40 years ago with the papers in order on a plane, but that her father settled in the United States after crossing the border with Mexico on foot in the 1980s.

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"

Many have been deported, but we were among the lucky few and my father stayed

. It is a miracle! But my mother does not want Trump to win because she believes that random export will continue with him," adds the young woman.

"That the winner has mercy on the children, on the poor people who come to fight, come to make their little money to get ahead, to educate their children, one is sacrificing from so far away, losing everything, they have nothing in their countries and they come here to work. We work like animals, like mules, we pay taxes (taxes) and after a while they come to separate us ", says Laura with tears in her eyes from the emotion she feels when talking about this subject.

Another voice for which these two women voted was that of Laura's son and Irene's brother, who after a traffic violation could be deported. "

He is not a criminal, he is a working boy and from one moment to another they will take away his papers, out of nowhere and now again to pay a lawyer

. The lawyer charges 10,000 or 15,000 dollars

. You have to work hard to pay him, "says this woman who points out that she never asked the government for help, despite having a thyroid problem , and that in the four decades that he has been in the United States he did not stop working hard.

[The Trump administration expels more than 200 children from other countries to Mexico in defiance of immigration laws]

"

Trump is also a father and has children, what if the same thing happened to him

, that they took away his son ... There he would know what it is to feel pain. But he has everything, he is a millionaire", laments Laura.

"You no longer need to commit a crime, simply a traffic violation can affect your papers and with that they put you for deportation. In the last four years I have seen that people have been deported for very absurd things. In other governments, before deport, they would have sought more information, "adds the young woman.

However, the numbers show that in the first three years of the

Democrat Barack Obama administration, 1.18 million people were deported

, while, in the same timeline, Trump deported fewer than 800,000 emigrants.

This year Joe Biden said it was a "big mistake" that the Obama Administration deported hundreds of thousands of people with no criminal records.

And one of the promises of the former Obama vice president is that if he wins this election in his first 100 days in the White House, he

will ask Congress to legalize more than 11 million undocumented immigrants

.

[This is how Trump changed legal and illegal immigration to the United States, and these are his future plans if he wins the election]

Irene explains that for her mother Biden is "the least bad", because she already knows how Trump acts.

"I came to vote because I want my mother to feel that she is not alone. The truth is, I support activists more than politicians. But my mother came to vote with just one thought: My son is deported and your father is still pending. So I said: If you feel good about that candidate, I will help you. "

DJ Eddia Olivares, who this year has used his program on Florida radio La Raza FM to make special programs about the elections, points out that

Irene and Laura are not the only ones who vote on behalf of those who cannot

, as he knows many cases.

The Mexican-American born in Texas stresses that, "unfortunately," there are families in which the elderly cannot vote for their immigration status, but their children, grandchildren or nephews can. "There are houses where only one person can vote. So that person is the one who represents the family when they go and vote and they are all proud."

Source: telemundo

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