Q: Speaking of support, what do you think is most important for organizations and allies who want to support those directly affected?

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A: The work needs to be more in-depth. Raising awareness so that it’s not just the allies and the organizations, but rather people in general. At the moment, I haven’t been able to, to be honest. But when we were doing it, we tried working together with other groups and people from churches, or people who’d come to an event and wrote letters.

 

Trying to involve others and making others aware of what is happening and what happens inside (detention centers). Because a lot of people think that the people who are detained are OK, that they don’t need anything because they can eat there, they don’t pay rent and people think they’re happy. People think that they’re treated well. People think that us immigrants come here just because we want to. A lot of people think that “caravaneros” (people in the caravans) are criminals. And that’s where the groups, the organizations, everyone, we should organize and find new ways to make people see that caravaneros or immigrants, we came to this country in search of a new life and others come because in their country they tried to kill them. In other words, they’re no longer just coming for a better life, but to have a life.

 

Create groups to raise awareness to help us continue that. Like what’s happening with the virus, which is a global pandemic. And so we need the whole world involved.