A group of about 50 immigrants, including parents with their children, went to the residence of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday to demand that she intercede for the rights of the undocumented and those aspiring to migrate to this country.
At the cry of “Kamala, listen, we are in the fight”, The protesters called for an end to the deportations and detention of underage immigrants, as well as for a route that guarantee legal status or nationality to millions of undocumented and to workers considered essential.
“Please stop the deportations, give some work permit, a citizenship, something, because we are in this country and I think we don’t hurt anyone, but we come to work and move forward for our children.” , asked Verónica Gasca to the vice president, to whom the American president, Joe Biden, entrusted the mission to stop the irregular migration from Central America.
Gasca, 28, arrived in the U.S. at just 11 to reunite with his father, but when he arrived he discovered he had been deported to his native Mexico.
Accompanied by her two US-born daughters, she could not hold back tears when she remembered not seeing her father for 15 years. In addition, she was moved by the possibility that she herself could be expelled from the country.
“Maybe tomorrow I will go out and get arrested or deported and who will they stay with?” He has been asked.
For that, asked Biden for immigration reform and to allow detained migrant children to be reunited with their families.
Another attendee at the rally was Nelson Vega, a 33-year-old Nicaraguan who a month ago managed to enter the United States after waiting for a year and a half in Mexico.
Vega had to stay in Mexico due to the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, established by the Donald Trump Administration (2017-2021) and which forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while his host request was processed in the US
This immigrant attended the rally to demand that all those affected by the MPP program, which the Biden government began dismantling from its first day in the White House, be allowed to wait in the US.
“I’m not the only one, I know this is a tough process, a lot of people are suffering like I suffered in Mexico,” Vega said, determined to defend those still waiting in the neighboring country.