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Why This Essential Worker Continues to Fight Amid the Pandemic

by Tomás Antonio Mier on October 6, 2020 0

Hay que seguir luchando. “I need to keep fighting.” That’s what 58-year-old Laura Pozos reminds herself every day at 5 am as she leaves for her job at a Monterey Park fast food restaurant. She recently took a leave from work to care for her daughter who lives with an intellectual disability—but now she’s back […]

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A Nightmare Come True: What It’s Like Living in Fear of ICE

by Tomás Antonio Mier on August 13, 2019 0

On an uncharacteristically hot weekday in September, my stomach growled with hunger as I made my trek home from an expectedly dull day of middle school. Like so many days of my childhood, I was eager to know what my mom would make for dinner. As I headed home to our crowded one-bedroom apartment, I […]