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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Should be “1 in 8” - 12.5% of Californians are in the U.S. illegally or . . .
I wrote the EXCERPT. Sometimes I [edit], sometimes I do not.
“Expect to see a lot more sob stories like this.”
A few times the last couple of days I’ve been seeing a video of a VERY pregnant woman, supposedly stuck on the other side of the border, with her shirt pulled up, rubbing her bare stomach and crying. I suppose it’s to pull at our heart strings.
Well boo-frickin-hoo. Do not drop your spawn on this side of the border.
Good point. They’ve counted on being coddled for decades, and being able to suck up the good life at our expense. I am so over it!
You excerpted what was in the original article. The error lies with the original author, and their editor.
Journalism (and editing) is a lost art.
F#CK’EM; if your here ILLEGALLY report to the nearest ICE office and hope for the best.
Perhaps you wont be sent back to the S%!THOLE COUNTRY you came from perhaps you will, that’s on you for breaking the law to begin with.
And NO, I don’t care that you graduated from college, take your degree that you got WITH MY MONEY back to your craphole of origin and try to make it better!
FREE MY ASS, THAT WAS MY MONEY AND YOURS!
Nothing in life is free, this was STOLEN!
WHY? They were just as ILLEGAL under OBUNGHOLE as the recent entries!
“Who paid her college tuition?”
Go to the bathroom. Look in the mirror.
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