Posts By: Elizabeth Mendoza

Justicia Para Todos – Los inmigrantes indocumentados SÍ tienen derechos de inquilino.

Read the English translation in Rise Issue #9: Immigration – Raising Children in a New Country.

Uno de los problemas que pasamos en este país por ser inmigrantes y por no tener la residencia, ni información sobre los derechos como inquilinos es vivir en condiciones peligrosas sobre todo para los niños. En mi caso enfrenté el abuso por parte de mi casero.

Las condiciones más comunes en mi casa y tal vez en la … Read More

Home to Say Goodbye- I had to visit my sick father in Mexico despite the risk.

Translated from Spanish.

Catalino Rivera was my father. He wore a sombrero and a mustacheand he was a country man. He was strong and very strict, but also had a happy character.

My father and I were always very close. When I was growing up in Mexico, I followed him everywhere. He brought me around the countryside and to school on a bicycle. My father took us to the pool, to the rodeo, and … Read More

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