Cristina Jiménez Moreta recounts her story being an immigrant to the United States: “Coming here, being an immigrant, living undocumented with my family, I have experienced the best of this country, and I've also experienced the worst of this country.”
, that have improved our country, that have also been exploited in this country for many, many years.So we have been in this journey as a country to really live up to the best of the ideals that founded this country: of justice, of equity for everyone. And I think of immigrants in that same place. Through the history of this country, we've had immigrants that have shaped our democracy, that have improved our country, that have also been exploited in this country for many, many years.
Cristina Jiménez Moreta as a baby with her mother, Ligia Moreta Mancero. Jiménez Moreta celebrates becoming a U.S. citizen last fall with her mother. She says her parents sacrificed a lot to make a better life for their family. Cristina Jiménez Moreta, left, and Ady Barkan, in wheelchair, lead a small delegation to the office of California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, urging the Democrats to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in Los Angeles, Jan. 3, 2018.I remember learning about the civil rights movement and learning about people like Rosa Parks, who righteously refused to go to the back of the bus.
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