Arianne Betancourt

I managed two boat operations.

I did walking tours, private tours, the bus tours.

Since I freelanced, I pretty much worked for everyone.

I had like a pretty busy schedule.

So in January, I quit my job.

I went to Chicago to a protest outside of Broadview.

My dad was taken to Mexico in those days.

That's when I quit my job.

They tried to deport him.

But when he got to Mexico, they had denied his insulin already for a full week.

So when he told the Mexican officials he hadn't had insulin in a week, they were like...

We can't accept his entry.

We have to deny his entry because it's a liability.

It's a three day commute to where he has to go on different buses and there's walking involved.

I went to Minneapolis.

No, the dildos happened a few days into being in Minneapolis, but I went to Minneapolis and I got to see

like ice on the streets.

I saw, I saw the terror, but I also saw the solidarity.

I saw people coming together.

I saw moms walking around with a trail, like a, a line of kids, kids that aren't even their kids, but they're like, they're gonna be safer with me than having their own parent come out.