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"In the 1980s, when Sendy Soto and her family left Guatemala for the United
States in search of a better life, they followed in a long American immigrant
tradition by making Chicago’s Logan Square their home.
There, among her Mexican, Central American, Polish and other immigrant
neighbors, Soto was instilled with a sense of community and a desire to help
and work with Chicago’s growing migrant population.
A 2020 report from the Vera Institute of Justice showed that 1.7 million
migrants reside in Chicago, about 18% of the population, and 842,000 are at
risk of deportation. For more than 15 years, Soto had worked with government
entities and nonprofits in the City of Chicago and the state of Illinois to
close racial disparities and protect vulnerable immigrants: In 2008, she worked
with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the author of the DREAM Act, which later
became DACA.
A decade later, Soto founded the Chicago Immigrant Transit Assistance (CITA).
Under her leadership, the organization helped asylum seekers at Greyhound bus
stations around the city who have been let out of a detention facility or come
from other departing cities – forming what Soto has called an “aboveground
railroad” to help migrants passing through her city."
Via
The Fixer May 3, 2023:
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/brazil-favelas-plus-codes-addresses/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
