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12 January 2001
Mavis are you friends with anyone? Your stuffed animal counts!
“I only need Jubilee, and mom and dad. All of the other kids my age are annoying as shit”
“I don’t think me and Gretchen are related, she has friends, I don’t”
Max has war flashbacks to Reigny Day
I tried to make Dolph not look like Hitler, the boy deserves to be more than a bad Hitler joke
The interview between Adrian Florido and Rosa Sosa, an undocumented immigrant living in fear after Hurricane Harvey which hit in 2017, portrays not only through the translation of Adrian Florido but also through her desperate tone that the aftermath of the Hurricane imposed both physical and cultural damage. Rosa Sosa represents the fear evoked in the Latino and Hispanic minority populations living in Texas. In the interview, as Adrian translates Sosa’s experiences as an undocumented immigrant living through the detrimental loss of a natural disaster, Adrian brings to light the fear of undocumented immigrants asking for help in a time of dire need. With the destroyed infrastructure to housing and many undocumented people’s homes, many immigrants are reluctant to go to the government for help in fear that they will be deported. Adrian translates Sosa’s response to Custody and Border Patrol offering help stating, "We said, what are they doing here," Ramos said, "and we all ran back home. We knew they were here to help, but there's that fear, you know, of not knowing if they're going to take you away” (Sosa 2017). Given that before Hurricane Harvey, there was a strict immigration bill passed in Texas that was supposed to be placed in effect but was halted due to the natural disaster, Sosa and the 600,0000 other immigrants without legal status were not only ineligible from gaining help from the government through FEMA but were too afraid to even approach and settled for near starvation and thus had to turn to a private organization in order to gain the help they needed. This interview not only illuminates the destruction of a whole minority population but victimizes undocumented immigrants as true falsified climate refugees that are unable to receive help because of their legal status. The foundation of fear instilled within these people relates to how the environment, particularly natural disasters such as Hurricane Harvey can deconstruct and reshape the cultural identities of people who not only work so hard to sustain basic human needs but are also those responsible for fixing the problem. It is the minority groups that help clean up the damage, but they are the least likely to receive help. Carlos Ramos ends the interview stating, “ He does know that undocumented immigrants will be a critical part of the labor force in Houston's rebuilding effort like they were after Hurricane Katrina. I'm hoping there will be a lot of work for us soon," he said, "so my family can start to rebuild." This powerful statement coincides with the idea that the minority population remains as the repeated substructure for rebuilding a community that was already disproportionately displaced to begin with.
__________________________________________________ Works Cited: Florido, Adrian. “Advocates Struggle To Help Undocumented Immigrants Find Relief After Harvey.” WBFO, 5 Sept. 2018, news.wbfo.org/post/advocates-struggle-help-undocumented-immigrants-find-relief-after-harvey. Florido, Adrian. “Houston's Undocumented Residents Left Destitute And Fearful In Harvey's Wake.” NPR, NPR, 7 Sept. 2017, www.npr.org/2017/09/07/549132417/houston-s-undocumented-immigrants-left-destitute-and-fearful-in-harvey-s-wake.
#BrittanyBowens the mother if #MaleahDavis gets heckled again at court in #Houstin aka #HarrisCounty #DerionVence had a court appearance... Why was she even there? I have not heard her say why... Unfortunately we may be watching another #CaseyAnthony right now... #LeakYou (at Harris County Courthouse Annex 31) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzyR-Wxl2Zm/?igshid=1eoi1kh9mpmj0
Our hearts go out to Texas today and in the coming months and years that it will take to rebuild! . . #hurricaneharvey #hurricane #houstin #texas #texaslove #heart #takecareofoneanother