Arizona Immigration Activist Hired to Work for Bernie Sanders campaign
Source: Phoenix New Times
BY GRISELDA NEVAREZ
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has hired a high-profile Arizona immigration activist to assist his campaign with outreach to Latinos, an increasingly important voting bloc.
Erika Andiola, a 28-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, will join the Sanders campaign as a Latino outreach strategist for the Southwest. She starts work for the campaign today. Her boyfriend, Cesar Vargas, a prominent immigration activist from New York, also recently was hired by the Sanders campaign to work on Latino outreach.
Andiola is one of the most respected and well-known immigration activists in the country. She was 11 years old when she and her family came to the United States illegally to escape domestic violence. She now has a work permit and protection from deportation, thanks to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but she still doesn't have a lawful status.
Through a Facebook post, Andiola said she trusts that Sanders will put families before politics, take executive action on immigration when possible or needed, stop the incarceration and deportation of immigrants, and work to find the “right solutions regardless of corporate pushback.”
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Erika Andiola (right) helped stop the deportation of her mother (left) in 2013. Starting today, the 28-year-old immigration activist will work for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.
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