Assistance for Migrant Mom’s Search of Better Life
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This is how we discovered a student and family in need. We are connecting the family with resources to get mother and two small children asylum status. We would like to help them get their $11000 funds replaced. This is impacting so much in this student's life who has chosen to work instead or prioritizing school. Once you read this story, you will understand why!
Student and Father traveled from Guatemala to the US in November, 2020; leaving behind the student's mother and two younger siblings (5 &12 years old). Student’s mother followed shortly after, because she was being harassed by a man that had sexually assaulted her.
Mother and two children made it to Texas but were detained by ICE, transported to San Diego, and then deported to Mexico. Mother was staying in a shelter in Tijuana and was approached by a woman that offered to take her to a better shelter ran by a church. However, mother was deceived, instead she was taken to a motel and held against her will. The abductors demanded $15,000 from the father here in Los Angeles, in order to be reunified with his wife and two children. Through loans the father was able to gather $11,000. However, when the father paid the money, the abductors disappeared, never providing his wife or children. Two day later he was finally contacted by his wife and she explained that she had been dropped off in a mountainous area in Mexico in the middle of the night, she and the two children had to walk for several hours to find people to borrow a phone from.
This traumatic event has left the student and father really shaken up, additionally they are worried about paying rent, covering for basic needs, and repaying the loans they made from friends.
This is how we discovered a student and family in need. We are connecting the family with resources to get mother and two small children asylum status. We would like to help them get their $11000 funds replaced. This is impacting so much in this student's life who has chosen to work instead or prioritizing school. Once you read this story, you will understand why!
Student and Father traveled from Guatemala to the US in November, 2020; leaving behind the student's mother and two younger siblings (5 &12 years old). Student’s mother followed shortly after, because she was being harassed by a man that had sexually assaulted her.
Mother and two children made it to Texas but were detained by ICE, transported to San Diego, and then deported to Mexico. Mother was staying in a shelter in Tijuana and was approached by a woman that offered to take her to a better shelter ran by a church. However, mother was deceived, instead she was taken to a motel and held against her will. The abductors demanded $15,000 from the father here in Los Angeles, in order to be reunified with his wife and two children. Through loans the father was able to gather $11,000. However, when the father paid the money, the abductors disappeared, never providing his wife or children. Two day later he was finally contacted by his wife and she explained that she had been dropped off in a mountainous area in Mexico in the middle of the night, she and the two children had to walk for several hours to find people to borrow a phone from.
This traumatic event has left the student and father really shaken up, additionally they are worried about paying rent, covering for basic needs, and repaying the loans they made from friends.
Fundraising team (3)
Lupe Carrasco Cardona
Organizer
Wellington Heights, CA
Janet Monzon
Team member
Melina Melgoza
Team member