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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After Donald Trump's victory successful the contention for the White House, migration advocates came unneurotic successful Fresno connected Friday greeting to tackle the community's increasing "uncertainty and fear" of the president-elect's proposed migration policies.
"Asylum seekers are among the astir susceptible populations successful our nine nether immoderate administration," Senior unit lawyer astatine San Joaquin College of Law, Jessica Jaramillo Perez, said. "They travel to the United States fleeing violence, prosecution and unimaginable hardship, and each they are seeking is refuge and safety."
Perez works with galore asylum seekers, the radical that she says volition person a "direct and severe" interaction from Trump's projected migration policies.
She says contempt the "uncertainty and fear" that the General Election results brought upon the community, they are not alone.
"There is nary request to hide, to beryllium soundless oregon to springiness up," she said. "We are here. We've done it earlier and we'll bash it again."
The Executive Director of Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena y Oaxaqueño, Sara Martinez says that Indigenous communities, specified arsenic immigrants, refugees, and oppressed communities, person a past of absorption towards racist systems that proceed to effort to "eliminate and intimidate" them.
"These attacks are not caller to us," Martinez said.
Martinez urges the assemblage to enactment unneurotic and physique networks to support each other.
Another instrumentality too unity that advocates accidental volition assistance the assemblage attack Trump's projected policies is knowledge.
Matías Bernal, the enforcement manager of the Education and Leadership Foundation, advised immigrants to ever stay informed, informing that misinformation could beryllium utilized to "weaken our spirit."
"Misinformation and fearfulness are often tools utilized to weaken our tone and resolve, but cognition is power," helium said. "Together, we tin physique a web that volition not let immoderate individual, immoderate household members to beryllium near behind. Let america take the way of action, compassion and resiliency."
He besides calls for assemblage leaders to measurement up and uphold and fortify protections for migrant communities.
On Thursday, Councilmember Luis Chavez urged section lawmakers to guarantee that the national authorities understands the Central Valley's request for undocumented workers, saying that without them, the valley's cultivation scenery could spot consequences that volition negatively impact millions crossed the federation - and adjacent the world.
Kerman's Mayor, Maria Pachecho was astatine the lawsuit and she says she has been moving with Congressman John Duarte to fortify protections for undocumented immigrants to supply a way to "safety and stability."
"To each the radical of Kerman and beyond, I privation you to cognize this. You tin number connected maine to bash everything successful my powerfulness to support you. I volition proceed to combat for your rights and for your safety."
