Some 262,591 people were removed from the U.S. “We both had been afraid of the ‘unknown expectations’ of being tossed back South with no knowledge of what resources would be available to the already mentally, emotionally, and financially broke victims of our broken immigration system,” Zaldivar says. That 2014 conversation led to the creation in October 2019 of a resource guide called Crossing South, which provides those returning to four countries-Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala-with information they’ll find useful along the way. “And we’re asking, ‘What are people supposed to do, how do they find help? If you’ve not been there for 30-plus years, and they just drop you at the border, where could you go to find resources?’” “We sat in afterward for about an hour or two talking about this,” recalls Zaldivar, who is a member of #Not1More, an informal, immigrant-led campaign sponsored by American Friends Service Committee that advocates for and supports those caught up in deportation proceedings. for more than 30 years and had no family left in Mexico. That friend had been living without legal status in the U.S. In 2014, Christina Zaldivar found herself pondering these questions with some fellow activists after she had accompanied one of them to an immigration check-in in Centennial, Colorado. No longer have family in their countries of origin, how do they make their way Happens to people after they are deported from the United States? And if they
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