Deportation affects 1 million families in U.S.

I live in Western New York state where Mexican farm workers have come for years to work in our fields and harvest our crops, work that locals don't want and won't do. These workers and their families are harassed, intimidated, and their children face enormous discrimination the worst of which is being separated from parents who are swept up in raids and deported. Here is one such case of Maria Guadalupe Zamudio and her children.

From the Democracy Now web site:

Last November, Maria Guadalupe Zamudio, a Mexican national with temporary immigration status, was deported after trying to apply for permanent residency. She was banned from the US for ten to twenty years. Maria’s three children, aged nine to twelve, are all US citizens. Last Thursday, they joined their aunt and uncle to make a twenty-hour drive from Worthington, Minnesota to Washington, DC. They’ve each written letters to President Obama asking him to let their mother return. We speak to twelve-year-old Gerardo Zamudio.

Video lasts about 8 minutes.



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