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By: Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos
The CMSC has decided to initiate in 2020 the Campaign for Immigrants’ Mental Health Services, based on our 5-year experience relying upon group therapy sessions for the participants in our California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program, and the 3 Advance Parole Campaign advocacy trips to Washington, DC in 2019.
The purpose of this campaign will be to inform and educate the public regarding the psychological crisis affecting the immigrant population throughout the U.S., due to a pervasive state of fear generated by the Trump administration since coming into office in 2017, the targeted acts of violence as the August 3, 2019 El Paso, Texas mass shooting at a Walt Mart store, and the hate-crimes aimed against immigrants, Mexicans and Latinos.
This hateful climate has rendered entire immigrant communities into a general state of panic, eerily similar to the 1930’s persecution of the Jews in Hitler’s Germany, and the massive deportation of Mexicans in the U.S. during the “Repatriation Era”.
Tragically, this condition of ‘State terrorism’ is affecting parents and the estimated 3.2 million undocumented children and young adults under the age of 24 in the U.S., according to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). In addition, every year approximately 65,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high schools and out of that population about 25,000 of those students graduate from California high schools (US Dept. of Education, 2015).
However, since September 2017, the Trump administration has denied new DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) applications or Advance Parole for current DACA recipients. Thus, entire immigrant communities have constantly suffered with fear, anxiety and emotional uncertainty due to their undocumented status... Read Full Article
National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole 2019 Report
We are pleased to publish our 2019 National Campaign to Restore DACA’s Advance Parole Report, to document our accomplishments and pledge to continue leading in 2020 the struggle to reverse the government’s discriminatory practices against Dreamers. Moreover, this report also outlines our commitment to advocate for mental health services that are direly needed by immigrant communities throughout the U.S., due to the fear and emotional suffering induced by the government’s persecution.
VIEW REPORT (PDF)
WE SINCERELY THANK THE BLESSING AND GENEROSITY OF OUR SPONSORS AND DONORS IN 2019
We also want to thank again our sponsors and donors for their generosity, and all the senators and congress members that signed letters in support of restoring DACA’s Advance Parole throughout 2019.
The CMSC Team,
~ Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos, CMSC President and CEO
~ Lidieth Arevalo, CEO's Executive Assistant & Multimedia Director
~ Citlalli Ortiz, Communications Coordinator
~ Mayra Garibo, Administrative Assistant
~ Luz Vazquez-Ramos, Special Programs & Operations Director
~ Miriam Delgado, Development & Research Assistant
~ Armando Godinez, Program Assistant
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