Posted on 01/22/2025 10:24:49 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Leticia Jimenez expects to graduate from Cal State San Bernardino this spring with a degree in business administration.
She came to the country without authorization when she was 2 years old and grew up working the fields of the Coachella Valley with her parents when school was out.
She would be excited about the new opportunities her degree might present, but instead feels anxious every time she leaves the house. “I make sure that I say a good ‘goodbye’ to my parents,” she said. “I go out with more fear— anything can happen.”
Jimenez, 21, is like millions of undocumented immigrants living in California whose lives have become deeply woven into the state’s economy and social fabric — and who are rattled by the flurry of executive orders that President Trump has signed targeting immigrants.
When Jimenez does leave home, she said she always carries a red card detailing her rights under the U.S. Constitution — one in her wallet, one in her car and another in the back of her phone case.
“There’s a big chilling factor that’s going to emerge from this,” said Manuel Pastor, director of the Equity Research Institute at USC, who studies immigrants in the state. About 1 and 8 Californians are in the U.S. illegally or live with a family member who is. Most immigrants without legal status in the state, about 2.4 million people, have resided here for more than a decade, a factor that distinguishes California from other parts of the country.
A dramatic change in enforcement wouldn’t just affect undocumented people, Pastor said, but their family members who are “citizens or documented immigrant relatives.”
Those in California’s most immigrant-reliant industries — manufacturing, agriculture, hospitality, construction — are limiting their trips or staying home.
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Oh wait when will Trump turn off the free stuff to the unidentified , the ones with no name or fake name ?
I think that is the point.
The message is clear. If you crossed the border illegally then you should be prepared to be deported. Will it happen? Don’t know but the possibility is real.
If she hasn’t made any attempt to become a citizen after all these years then she can gtfo.
Title is a lie...should say ILLLEGAL immigrant community.
Who paid her college tuition? If the parents are migrant farm workers I can’t imagine it was them.
Who paid her college tuition? If the parents are migrant farm workers I can’t imagine it was them.
interesting how the liberal progressives literally invited illegals into These United States of America and then blame everybody else for them being force to go back never acknowledging that it’s THE LEFTS FAULT, along with the the complicit rinocrats, that this has to happen at all. where did they think the long term consequences would lead to?
a lot of illegals in CA have no job right now because of the Fires. Just go back to Mexico.
Funny how the LA Times can find her but no one else has for 20 years.
That state right there is where more likely there’ll be a stiff challenge to enforce, everything from lawfare to open armed resistance. That’s been an entrenched nest for a long time, with a lot of political cover which facilitated it.
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Everything is moving so fast but I saw a news report that the agents can arrest any state or local authority that interferes with emigration performing their duties.
In this case federal law “Trumps’ state laws.
So we may soon see a George Wallace moment when a local stands in the door to block a federal agent from entering a building. I hope it is caught on camera.
Strongly agree! *
We should, however, be prepared to reimburse those who were invited by the Biden Admin to leave hell holes and enter our nation en mass with no questions asked. That would include return fare in their local currency and meal tickets.
Then send the bill to the DNC.
Better them than us, for a change.
19 years without ONCE trying to gain legal status?
ZERO FOXTROT.
Get out.
She had a chance to do it the right way and chose not to so get ready to travel South cupcake.
Well said.
It would be a heckuva lot easier to find the gang banger down the street than the 1 out of 1000 or more that are going to college. But no. They search until they find one they think will garner some sympathy.
Pronto.
Funny. The maggots are afraid and full of fear all of a sudden. They weren’t afraid when they were illegally invading America. Commit the crime, do the time. They don’t own America. It’s OUR HOME. Not their friggin Disneyland or Wally World.
“When Jimenez does leave home, she said she always carries a red card detailing her rights under the U.S. Constitution — one in her wallet, one in her car and another in the back of her phone case”
As an illegal she has no rights under our constitution.🙄
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