An undocumented immigrant attending an anti-Trump “Palms Off!” rally on Saturday stated she was “unafraid” to flash her immigration standing and sexual orientation publicly.
“I’m an immigrant, I’m undocumented, unafraid, queer and unashamed,” Greisa Martinez Rosas, a longtime left-wing immigration activist, advised these in attendance on the Washington, D.C., demonstrations over the weekend, based on a report within the New York Put up.
The feedback come as protests in opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration and cost-cutting insurance policies have unfold throughout the nation in current days, with critics slamming the president for his push to hasten deportations and intestine federal businesses by way of the Division of Authorities Effectivity.
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Greisa Martinez Rosas (File)
Rosas is initially from Hidalgo, Mexico, however got here to the U.S. as a baby, the report notes, the place she ultimately grew up within the Dallas space. She has since gone on to function the chief director of United We Dream, a community of greater than 400,000 younger immigrants.
Her feedback had been made in entrance of tens of hundreds of protesters who attended the rally within the nation’s capital, certainly one of greater than 1,000 protests held across the nation on Saturday.
The report notes that Rosas’ feedback shortly went viral on social media, the place not all customers had been obsessed with her message.
Greisa Martinez Rosas (Jemal Countess/Getty Photos for Ladies of Colour)
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“Deport her. Now,” one consumer on X stated, based on the Put up.
“Lock her up,” one other stated.
Others quipped that her public declaration was prone to land her on the radar of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement company (ICE).
Greisa Martinez Rosas, proper, hugs Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., throughout a information convention on Capitol Hill on Feb. 16, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Photos)
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“The one factor she didn’t inform ICE is her house deal with,” one X consumer stated. “I’m assured they’ll look that up.”
“I suppose we’ll see her arrested later this week, thanks for coming ahead to let ICE know the place you might be,” added one other.
