On the 12th episode of Immigration Today! we welcome Dulce Garcia, the Executive Director of Border Angels. Border Angels is a nonprofit organization that advocates for human rights at the U.S. Mexican Border. Their work focuses on attempting to reduce the number of fatalities at the border through direct action such as water drops at the desert to help immigrants battling dehydration along their journey into the U.S and direct humanitarian aid.
Dulce Garcia was raised in San Diego and is an undocumented DACA recipient herself. She is a witness of the hardships many immigrants face but despite of this she graduated from UCSD with a bachelor's degree in Political Science and attended law school at Cleveland Marshall College of Law. Since then she opened her private practice in 2016 and has provided assistance to many low income immigrants. Dulce also sued Trump and the administration after the termination of DACA. As a result of those efforts, hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients are able to renew their DACA status. She has received the “Women of the Year” award by Assembly Woman Lorena S. Gonzalez.
In this podcast, Dulce recounts her personal journey as an undocumented immigrant growing up near the border in San Diego. She is a business owner, property owner, an attorney, and she pays taxes. Even after 33 years she does not have a path to citizenship like thousands of other migrants in the U.S. She also tells us about her brother’s deportation case and how she fought to bring him back.
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“It is hard to feel a sense of belonging when we are still attacked and there is no path to citizenship… we feel American, we feel like this is our home but the Federal Government keeps reminding us that we are not there yet.”
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