Ladies Making Comics

OFF-TOPIC POLITICS AHOY!

stefi-leekx:

Don’t Deport Manolo

dancingonembers:

dreamactnow:

Sign the petition to stop Manolo’s deportation. It’ll takes less than a minute.

from the site:

“Manolo is a young person who would be eligible for the DREAM Act. He is a Chinese-American who has lived in Tennessee for almost his entire life. He graduated from high school with honors, and earned a bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University.

Manolo’s family brought him to the United States from Venezuela when he was very young. And that’s where ICE now wants to deport him to—even though Manolo has no friends or family there and doesn’t speak Spanish.

It gets worse—if they are forced to leave the US, Venezuela may send Manolo’s parents back to China. Meanwhile, Manolo’s younger brother, who is a US-born citizen, would stay in Tennessee.”

I work at an immigration firm.

My boss has had a client who raped his nieces be permitted to remain in the country.

And he’s had a client who is an engineer be deported, even though the facts of his case were identical to his brother’s, who was granted permanent residency.

Our immigration system is broken, and anyone who attempts to reduce it to “fortresses along the Rio Grande” can be certain to earn my unceasing wrath.

(via designatedwife)