1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: From Vuduro Media. It's Latino USA. I'm Maria Josa. Today, 2 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 1: on the eve of President Elect Joe Biden's inauguration, we 3 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,319 Speaker 1: hear from Latinos and Latinas from across the country about 4 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: the promises they want Biden to keep. Back in November, 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: Latina and Latino voters helped deliver the presidency to Joe Biden. 6 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: In key swing states like Georgia and especially Arizona, LATINX 7 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: voters helped turn former red states blue, and during the campaign, 8 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: Biden made a long list of commitments to our communities. 9 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 2: On Day one, I'm sending to the United States Congress 10 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 2: a immigration bill. We're going to find those kids and 11 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 2: we're going to unite them with their parents. Reopening schools 12 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 2: safely will be a national priority for the Biden Harris administration. 13 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 2: We're going to reverse Trump's rollbacks of one hundred public 14 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 2: health and environmental. 15 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: Role Biden has said he'll invest in education and healthcare 16 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: for Latinos. He said he'll stop border wall construction and 17 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: that he'll work with Congress to create a path to 18 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: citizenship for undocumented people. Biden also said he'll crack down 19 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: on pollution in communities of color and reduce incarceration. So 20 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: in the lead up to the inauguration, Latino USA reached 21 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: out to young Latinas and Latinos around the country to 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: hear what promises they're hoping Biden will keep and what 23 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 1: they want Biden to do that he hasn't committed to yet. Plus, 24 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: we're going to speak with these young people about how 25 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: the changes they want to see would actually impact their 26 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: own lives. We're going to start this very non comprehensive 27 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: survey by speaking with Virginia Palacios. Virginia is a ninth 28 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: generation Tehanna who grew up near Laedo, a city on 29 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: the Texas Mexico border. 30 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 3: We're in the South Texas fresh so it's a lot 31 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 3: of mesquite trees and prickly paracactus. 32 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: Virginia is also an environmental science and policy consultant that 33 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: The USA producer Alisa Scarce spoke with Virginia and she's 34 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: going to pick up this story from here. 35 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 4: Virginia lives in a rural area on a fourth generation 36 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 4: cattle ranch that's been in her family if we're close 37 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 4: to one hundred and twenty years. 38 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 3: We inherited it from my great uncle, who was a 39 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 3: Grand Champion cat roper during the Great Depression, he traveled 40 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 3: the rodeo circuit with his brother. You know, they were 41 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 3: fortunate enough to be born into families that had a 42 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 3: lot of land, and so they were able to run 43 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 3: cattle and support their families that way, and my dad 44 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 3: was enamored with that history of cowboy culture. 45 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 4: He raised Virginia and her brother on the land. She 46 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 4: remembers running around as a little kid and watching her 47 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 4: dad move these huge cows from field to field, and 48 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 4: she thinks growing up this way set the foundation for 49 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 4: a love of nature that eventually led her to go 50 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 4: to grad school to study climate change. And that's where 51 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 4: she was when in twenty eleven he. 52 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 3: Had to sell all the cattle on the ranch because 53 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 3: the drought got particularly bad. And there was a national 54 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 3: study that came out shortly after that drought showing that 55 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 3: climate change made the heat waves longer and the temperature 56 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 3: is more intense that year, and so we know that 57 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 3: climate change has already been impacting us. 58 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 4: There had always been droughts in South Texas, though Virginia 59 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 4: says they got worse and worse over time. It meant 60 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 4: the grass wouldn't grow, which meant Virginia's dad had to 61 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 4: start buying a lot of food to keep his cattle alive, 62 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 4: so much so that he wasn't making money off his 63 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 4: ranch anymore. 64 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 3: You know, it's kind of funny because I was always 65 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 3: kind of hassling my dad. I was like, Dad, cows 66 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 3: produced methane, and methane is really bad for the climate. 67 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 5: But when it came to the point where he. 68 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 3: Had to sell them because he realized that the drought 69 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 3: was so bad, it put things into a different perspective 70 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 3: for me because I realized that he really didn't have 71 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 3: a choice. 72 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 5: I realized that we had kind of gotten to this. 73 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 3: Point with climate change where it wasn't theoretical, it wasn't 74 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 3: something far off in the future that could happen, it 75 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 3: was it was happening. 76 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 4: Now, and it made the climate issues she was studying 77 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:24,919 Speaker 4: more personal. 78 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 3: When I think about my family's history out here and 79 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 3: you know, our Texan identity, it's sad. You know, it's 80 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 3: sad to think that this cowboy culture is something that's 81 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 3: been cherished for so long, you know, in Mexico and 82 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 3: Texas as part of Techano culture. 83 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 6: And. 84 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 3: Now it's dying off, and it's because of economic choices 85 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 3: that we're making with the kinds of industries that we're supporting. 86 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,799 Speaker 4: One of those industries is the oil and gas industry, 87 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 4: which is huge in the area of South Texas where 88 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 4: Virginia lives. 89 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,919 Speaker 3: One of more visceral things that we were seeing in 90 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 3: the community was these open top dump trucks holding this 91 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 3: sledge waste that was coming from the oil fields. 92 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 5: These open top dump trucks would stop at this light. 93 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 3: Just before the International Bridge on H thirty five, and 94 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 3: all this drilling waste sledge would go spilling out the. 95 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 4: Back of the truck to Virginia. This was a sign 96 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 4: that the government wasn't doing enough to keep an eye 97 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 4: on what the industry was doing. And on top of 98 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 4: the sledge, she noticed flaring, which are these balls of 99 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 4: fire from burning excess gas off an oil well. She'd 100 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 4: see the flaring as she drove down the highway. Virginia 101 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 4: keeps taps on what this stuff is doing to the 102 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 4: air and the water in her hometown, and some of 103 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 4: it is scary. 104 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 3: So there was a study that came out recently from 105 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 3: some researchers at UCLA where they looked at birth outcome 106 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 3: data in the eagle Ford Shale, which is this part 107 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 3: of South Texas. 108 00:05:58,440 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 5: That I live in. 109 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 3: They found that Hispanic women were fifty percent more likely 110 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 3: to experience pre term birth because of living next to 111 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 3: high amounts of flaring. 112 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 4: I mean, how does that make you feel as a 113 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 4: Hispanic woman living in that area. Is that something that 114 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 4: you worry about? 115 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean, you know, I'm in my thirties. 116 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 3: If I chose to have a child in the near term, 117 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 3: which is when I would have to have a child 118 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 3: if I was going to it's scary to think that 119 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,359 Speaker 3: the health outcomes of your child are out of your control. 120 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 4: Virginia wants to see Biden tackle both climate change and 121 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 4: these air and water quality issues that affect public health 122 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 4: in communities like hers, and both reducing greenhouse gas emissions 123 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 4: and cleaning up pollution in Black and Latino communities are 124 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 4: high on Biden's list of priorities. So how do you, 125 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 4: I mean, as someone who tracks climate and environmental issues 126 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 4: so closely, how do you feel at this moment that 127 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 4: we're going through this transition in the government. 128 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 3: It feels pretty relieving to be going through this transition, 129 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 3: knowing the damage that Trump did to the environment while 130 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 3: he was in office. 131 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 5: We won't see those kinds of policies in this new administration. 132 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 5: But I think we have to stay. 133 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 3: Vigilant in the environmental community for the kinds of compromises 134 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 3: that will come through in this new administration. 135 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 4: What's lost if Biden isn't able to do something significant 136 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 4: on climate in the region where you are well. 137 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 3: You know it's crazy to think about, but if the 138 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 3: river doesn't have enough water in it, if we have 139 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 3: forty fifty ninety more days per year with one hundred 140 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 3: degree heat, I can't imagine this community lasting nine more 141 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 3: generations down here. It might last a couple more generations 142 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 3: down here, but people are going to move. You know, 143 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 3: it's going to be a lot harder to exists down 144 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 3: here if we like climate change. 145 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 5: Get out of hand. 146 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: Coming up on Latino USA, we continue our conversations with 147 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: young LATINX activists about what they want to see from 148 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, and we're going to hear from some 149 00:08:22,600 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: of you our listeners. Stay with us. Yes, Hey, we're back. 150 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: And before the break, we heard from environmental advocate Virginia 151 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: Palacio's about the commitments she's hoping President Biden will keep 152 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: on the issue. Of climate change and the environment. And 153 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: now we're going to turn to immigration. We spoke with 154 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 1: college freshmen Andrea and Naya, who's from the Washington, DC area. 155 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: Andrea is nineteen years old. She's been undocumented since she 156 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: came to the United States as a five year old 157 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: with her family. Here's Latin Know USA producer Alissa Scarce 158 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: with Andrea's story. 159 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 4: You might have read about people like Andrea in the 160 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 4: news a few weeks ago. She's eligible for DAKA, but 161 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 4: even though the program has been around for more than 162 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 4: eight years, is she's only now applying for the first time. 163 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 4: That's because, as you may know, the Trump administration tried 164 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 4: to end DACA in twenty seventeen, and the program has 165 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 4: been batted around the court system ever since then. Then 166 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 4: this past December, a judge ordered the administration to reinstate 167 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 4: DACA and start taking new applications again. Andrea was born 168 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 4: in El Salvador to a single mom. 169 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 5: My mom. 170 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 7: You know, she was in law school actually when she 171 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 7: decided to come to the United States because she just 172 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 7: couldn't afford to raise me on her own. And you know, 173 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 7: my entire family resided in Maryland. So at the age 174 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 7: of five, we came through plane to America. 175 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 4: They settled in Maryland, and some parts of Andrea's story 176 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 4: might sound familiar if you've been following the Dreamer movement 177 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:50,839 Speaker 4: over the years. For example, she assimilated very quickly, so. 178 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 7: Much that like, my family members tease me and now 179 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 7: they're like, you don't even remember your roots. You're like, 180 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 7: you speak more English and Spanish, And it's true, I 181 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 7: actually speak more English and Spanish now. Most of my 182 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 7: memories and culture that I have is here. 183 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 4: One thing that makes Andrea a little unique, though, is 184 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 4: that DAKA already existed by the time she realized she 185 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 4: was undocumented. She heard about the program before she was 186 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 4: even old enough to apply, and you. 187 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 7: Know, I would hear it's a great program for young 188 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 7: people that had big dreams. 189 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 5: And I was like, well, I have big dreams. 190 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 8: You know. 191 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 7: I've always been a very ambitious kid in a good 192 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 7: way for as long as I remember. I set out 193 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 7: a goal to be a senator, and I was like, 194 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 7: I want to go to college, I want to go 195 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 7: to law school. I want to be a politician. I 196 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:39,959 Speaker 7: want to make these laws. And maybe that that kind 197 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 7: of came off from my mom going to law school 198 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 7: and having to drop off. 199 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 4: So she was waiting till her fifteenth birthday, which is 200 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 4: when she'd be eligible to apply. 201 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 7: But when I got to my first year of high 202 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 7: school in the program basically kind of came to a stop, 203 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 7: a sudden stop, and everything just kind of paused for me. 204 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 7: While I was like, whoa, oh, I might not have 205 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 7: a future. 206 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 4: What happened, of course, was that the Trump administration was 207 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 4: trying to end. 208 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 7: DACA, and I was just disappointed, sad, press fell into 209 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 7: a huge depression where I just didn't want to do anything. 210 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 5: I didn't have motivation to continue school. 211 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 7: I was a really good student, and all of a sudden, 212 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 7: my grades dropped and I kind of stopped caring because 213 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 7: I was like, what's the point of this. 214 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 4: She figured that without DACA, she wouldn't be able to 215 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,239 Speaker 4: pay for college, she wouldn't be able to get a job. 216 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 7: And I felt just heartbroken, And at that moment everything 217 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 7: kind of changed for me, my goals, my personality. If 218 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 7: it wasn't for my friends and teachers that found helping me, 219 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 7: I probably wouldn't have continued. So I had a lot 220 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 7: of teachers around me that were like, you're a really 221 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 7: good student, and I found a lot of trust in 222 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 7: them to tell them the situation. 223 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 4: Eventually, Andrea pulled her grades back up and she found 224 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 4: new ways to stay motivated. 225 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 7: Although you know, throughout my high school years it seemed 226 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 7: like nothing was going to change, there was this possibility 227 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 7: to know that one day it might because this president's 228 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 7: only there for four years, and so I held on 229 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 7: to that promise to hope. 230 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 4: Andrea ended up getting a full ride to Marrymount University 231 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 4: just outside DC, and she's now working on her DACA application. 232 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 4: But even now, DOACA is still not a sure thing. 233 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 4: The program is in court again and a judge could 234 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 4: rule that it's illegal. 235 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,719 Speaker 7: So there's still a lot of like holding back emotions 236 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 7: just because it's been a roller coaster this past three 237 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 7: years and you just never know. 238 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 4: So for months, Andrea put a ton of time into 239 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 4: another strategy that she hoped would help her and other 240 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 4: undocumented immigrants get a more permanent solution, which was to 241 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 4: help get Obiden elected. She worked with the organization United 242 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 4: We Dream to call thousands and thousands of voters leading 243 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 4: up to the election. 244 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 7: You know, sometimes you get really happy voters. Sometimes you 245 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 7: get people that are like, no, I hate immigrants. I 246 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 7: literally want you sent back, so sometimes better than others. 247 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 7: For sure. It's a very draining job, I say, but 248 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 7: it was completely worth it seeing the election results. 249 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 4: The reason Andrea made all those phone calls is because 250 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 4: Biden promised on the campaign that he would work with 251 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 4: Congress to protect dreamers and their families, which honestly seemed 252 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 4: like a long shot if the Democrats didn't win the Senate. 253 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 4: But now with the results of the runoff in Georgia, 254 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 4: some longer term solution seems like more of a possibility. 255 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 7: So I'm hoping that it's not just it doesn't end 256 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 7: with Okay, we won, we won the presidency, and you know, 257 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 7: now it's over. You got to stick to your promises, 258 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 7: you know, ringasaw A Daka. 259 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 5: You're not only that, but you're going. 260 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 7: To expand the program to hopefully give a pathway a 261 00:14:58,720 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 7: citizenship because. 262 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 5: DOCCA is not everything. I mean, it's a two year 263 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 5: permit where you can work for two years. 264 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 7: You got to keep applying, and that's not a solution. 265 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 7: That's not a way to live. And there's eleven million 266 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 7: undocumented people in this country that have no solution. 267 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 5: I mean, and I know them. 268 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 7: I have family members, my mom my, uncles, my aunts, 269 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 7: and it's not fair to them, d'ur in this country, 270 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 7: they're working and they want to be a part of 271 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 7: the society and they want to contribute. So we're going 272 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 7: to continue pushing for a permanent solution and they're going 273 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 7: to continue hearing our voices. We're going to continue going 274 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 7: to the steps of Congress, Supreme Court, whatever we have 275 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 7: to do. 276 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 4: So overall, how are you feeling in this moment as 277 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 4: there is this big change happening in our government. 278 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 7: I'm feeling hopeful. I think I see the light at 279 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 7: the end of the tunnel where we've we've had to 280 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 7: endure these four years of bigotry and these races rhetorics 281 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 7: against immigrant communities, the damage that has been caused to 282 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 7: mental toll. No one talks about the mental health of 283 00:15:58,880 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 7: immigrant communities. 284 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 5: It's been impacted heavily. 285 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 7: So in this moment, I see hope that we organized 286 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 7: and we won, and if we continue organizing, we're going 287 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 7: to continue to win and sometimes no good trouble it's necessary. 288 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: And finally, we're going to talk about student debt with 289 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: Jennifer Laysan. She's an adjunct professor of marketing, and she 290 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 1: runs a small company that does graphic design and illustration. 291 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: Plus she's also a freelancer. 292 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 9: Technically, if we count them all, I have like three 293 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 9: or four jobs at once, but I'm used to it. 294 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 4: Plus being a mom, be a mom. 295 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 6: Yes. 296 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: Jennifer lives in her hometown of Chicago, where she's the 297 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,239 Speaker 1: co coordinator of the local chapter of the Debt Collective, 298 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: which is a group that wants to cancel student debt. 299 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: Here's Alisa Escarce with that story. 300 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 4: Jennifer is first generation a lot of things. She's first 301 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 4: generation Mexican American on her dad's side and Puerto Rican 302 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 4: American on her mom's. Plus she's the first in her 303 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 4: family to graduate from both high school and college. 304 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 9: I grew up in a single parent household. We were 305 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 9: pretty much in poverty, but my mom really instilled us 306 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 9: kind of rising above that. And she didn't even graduate 307 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 9: high school because she was pregnant with me at seventeen. 308 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 9: She had me at eighteen, so she dropped out, and 309 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 9: because of that, she really believed that, like pursuing higher 310 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 9: education would kind of help break that cycle of poverty 311 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 9: and trauma that our family experienced. 312 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 4: Jennifer says, her mom's out. College is a kind of 313 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 4: magical thing. 314 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 9: But the thing was, she didn't have the money for it. 315 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 9: She didn't have a college savings. We lived paycheck to paycheck. 316 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 4: Jennifer had to navigate the whole getting into college process 317 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 4: by herself. And when a for profit art school came 318 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 4: to Jennifer's high school to students, Jennifer thought that it 319 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 4: seemed like a good idea. She was interested in a 320 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 4: career in fashion. 321 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 9: I remember the day that I went for like the 322 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 9: campus tour and everything. They like take you through the 323 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 9: school and mind you, this was in downtown Chicago, was 324 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 9: in a gorgeous building like it like you know, you 325 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 9: would think like, oh my god, these people have everything together. 326 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,479 Speaker 9: They're telling me all of these stats like oh, you 327 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 9: have a ninety eight job placement rate. That was a lie. 328 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 9: Or you're gonna make eighty five to ninety five thousand 329 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 9: dollars a year when you're done with, you know, with 330 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 9: a career in this field. That was a lie. 331 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,680 Speaker 4: The school that Jennifer went to, the Art Institute, shut 332 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 4: down a couple of years ago after the federal government 333 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 4: accused it of fraud. 334 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 9: And then when it came to talking costs. Here, I 335 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 9: am this, you know, eighteen year old kid. I don't 336 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 9: have a parent who knows squad about finance, what the 337 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 9: heck is Sally May who is a FAFSA, And so 338 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 9: they're walking me through this and I should have like, 339 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 9: I'm all about listening to your intuition now as an adult, 340 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 9: but in my early twenties, I was like I was 341 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 9: a you know, do wide puppy, not knowing any better. 342 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 4: Jennifer ended up taking out about seventy five or eighty 343 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 4: thousand dollars in loans to cover that undergrad degree, and 344 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 4: now because of interest, that debt has grown to ninety 345 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 4: thousand dollars. Jennifer also had the bad luck of graduating 346 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 4: in two thousand and eight, which was the year of 347 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 4: the Great Recession. She had just had a baby. 348 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 9: I was able to have my you know, like I 349 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 9: want to say, maybe she's like six months old, my 350 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,919 Speaker 9: six month old kiddo on my hip while I'm walking 351 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 9: in graduation. And I was really excited and hopeful, right, 352 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 9: So I was really lucky. 353 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 4: Right out of college. 354 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 9: I landed like a job at a small business, and 355 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 9: then six months into that first job, I got laid 356 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 9: off because That's when the recession hit. 357 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,880 Speaker 4: And her student loan payments started coming due. 358 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 9: I was getting hit with like one thousand dollars payment, 359 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 9: and I was like, I got laid off, I have 360 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,239 Speaker 9: a kid, and you want how much for me? Like 361 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 9: I even think back then, I don't even think I 362 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 9: was paying that much in rent. 363 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 7: Like they wanted. 364 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:19,239 Speaker 9: Something that was like more than like the apartment I 365 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 9: was living in, or the house that I was like 366 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 9: sharing with a roommate and paying half for, and like 367 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 9: it just blew my mind. 368 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 4: Jennifer started freelancing and working retail, which paid minimum wage, 369 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 4: and she says that when she'd call her lender to 370 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 4: try to get some relief, these people. 371 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 9: Would be like, well, get another job, and I'd be like, 372 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:42,640 Speaker 9: I already have another job. I was sad, I was angry, 373 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 9: I was frustrated. I was depressed, Like how am I 374 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 9: ever going to pay this off? I feel like a failure, 375 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 9: Like if I think about it, like my mom not 376 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 9: going to school was better off financially than me pursuing 377 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:00,160 Speaker 9: higher education in hopes of getting a well paid position. 378 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 4: Jennifer thought she might be able to dig herself out 379 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 4: of this hole by going to grad school so she 380 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 4: took out another loan. 381 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 9: And then I love teaching, so I was like, Oh, 382 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 9: I can become a professor, I could become tenured. Yeah, 383 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 9: that doesn't happen anymore. 384 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 4: Altogether, Jennifer has one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars 385 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,679 Speaker 4: in debt, all of it is student loans. 386 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,120 Speaker 9: Well, what's crazy is that my story isn't unique. There's 387 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 9: a lot of people just like me, a lot of Latina's, 388 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 9: a lot of black women, a lot of people from 389 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 9: the VIPOC community who you know who carry this debt 390 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 9: load no matter the school. Yes I got I went 391 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 9: to a for profit school. They were fraudulent, They've been 392 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 9: in the news, they were sued a million times. But 393 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 9: there are people who've gone to places like Brown University 394 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 9: or New York University, and because of their race, because 395 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 9: of the background that they come from, they hold heavy 396 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 9: loads of debt because they don't have generational wealth that 397 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 9: allows them to pursue education on a level feel with 398 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 9: someone like, you know, a person in the white community. 399 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 4: So for the last couple of years, Jennifer has been 400 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 4: volunteering with this group called the Debt Collective that's advocating 401 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:14,120 Speaker 4: a pretty bold idea. They want to cancel everybody's student debt. 402 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 4: Biden did address the issue of student debt during the campaign, 403 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 4: but what he's committed to is a little less bold. 404 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 4: He's basically said that he supports for giving ten thousand 405 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 4: dollars of debt for each person with student loans, which 406 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 4: would not make a huge debt in Jennifer's loan. Other 407 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 4: Democrats and Hungress have been pushing for a bigger number. 408 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 4: They've introduced resolutions that push Biden to forgive up to 409 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 4: fifty thousand dollars per person, but Jennifer isn't satisfied with 410 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 4: that either. What is the number that you would want 411 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 4: to see all of it? 412 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 9: One hundred percent? 413 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 4: This idea is a little controversial. Some critics say that 414 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 4: forgiving the debt of somebody like a doctor or a 415 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 4: lawyer who's making a high salary isn't a good way 416 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 4: to spend taxpayer money, though Jennifer says there are a 417 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 4: lot of people like her who've ended up with these 418 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 4: huge debts but without a really lucrative degree. What would 419 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 4: you do if all of your student debt, or if 420 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,120 Speaker 4: some of your student debts suddenly got canceled? 421 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 9: Like, what would that do for you? I would cry. 422 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 9: It's like, I know it's cheesy to say, but I 423 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 9: would probably cry because we carry these burdens in silence 424 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 9: often and I have to be strong, right, and I 425 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 9: feel like that would be lifting a part of that 426 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 9: burden off of me. 427 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 6: Right. 428 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,880 Speaker 9: I carry this over in my head and I try 429 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 9: not to let it get to me, but there is 430 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 9: an emotional component. My hope isn't that it's only partial. 431 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 9: My hope is that all of it's canceled, and then 432 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 9: I can begin to build up that generational wealth for 433 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 9: my kids and for their future. You know, we could 434 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 9: buy a house with you know, I could buy a house, 435 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 9: like I could buy a house. I could start saving 436 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 9: to buy a house. 437 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 4: In terms of the Biden inauguration specifically, like the fact 438 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 4: of Biden getting inaugurated, how do you feel about that? 439 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,959 Speaker 9: I feel hopeful, but I have a lot of and 440 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 9: I hate to have expectations of anyone, but honestly, I 441 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 9: have high expectations of him. I think Biden knows everybody 442 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 9: right now, and it's his opportunity to make amends. You know, 443 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 9: we can't get our student debt discharged in bankruptcy court. 444 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 9: Why because of policies that he implemented many many years ago. 445 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 9: So he's got to follow through. 446 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 10: He has to to close out our episode today, Dear listener, 447 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 10: we asked you what changes you're hoping to see President 448 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,679 Speaker 10: Biden make over the next few months and years. 449 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 1: Here are a few of your responses. 450 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 8: My name is Elena Solano, and my hope for Biden 451 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 8: is that he tears down the damn wall. I think 452 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,400 Speaker 8: the wall is very, very destructive to Latinos on both 453 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 8: sides of the border. I think it's very very bad 454 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:59,360 Speaker 8: for mental health. I'm a licensed professional counselor and I'm 455 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 8: also a school counselor, and I see the border wall 456 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 8: as very destructive to the mental health and well being 457 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 8: of people on both sides of the border. 458 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,959 Speaker 11: My name is Timilon Plalist. I'm calling from Chicago. I 459 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 11: work as an immigration paralegal for the National Immigrant Justice Center, 460 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 11: and my concern with the Bidamin administration going forward is 461 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 11: if the administration is going to decriminalize marijuana, it affects 462 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 11: immigrants for example, you know, if people are trying to 463 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 11: get different forms of relief their health, different standards when 464 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 11: it comes to weed, and there's a lot of places 465 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 11: where weed has been decriminalized, you know, statewide, but just 466 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 11: not at the federal level. 467 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 12: My name is Alex I am a US citizen, but 468 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 12: my partner is an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. And within 469 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 12: his first hundred days in office, I'm really hoping to 470 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 12: see a tangible, concrete, achievable plan for a pathway to 471 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 12: citizenship for the eleven plus million undocumented immigrants that are 472 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 12: already in the US. And within his four years in office, 473 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 12: I would really like to see an end to the 474 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 12: three and ten year bars of re entry, which has 475 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 12: personally been a huge obstacle to obtaining legal status for 476 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 12: my partner. 477 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 8: Education is also very important to me. I work in 478 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 8: a very, very high need area in Detroit and Latinos 479 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 8: suffer a great deal in education, and I really hope 480 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 8: Biden addresses the disparity in education between those who have 481 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 8: and those who do not have. 482 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone who shared their hopes for the new administration, 483 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 1: will be keeping an eye out for all of these 484 00:26:50,880 --> 00:27:07,360 Speaker 1: issues over the next four years. This episode was produced 485 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: by Alisa Scarce and Julia Rocha with help from Trenaldo 486 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: Leanos Junior. It was edited by Andrea Lopez Russado. 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