Francisco Segovia

And what we did or what we created the organization was to better the quality of lives of Latino families in Minnesota.

But then right after we began, COVID came in.

And so that it was then when we created the helpline that we have now.

So supporting families across the state to support.

keep healthy.

But our main mission is to better our communities through a range of activities that we do.

One of them is a worker center.

We have a worker center where people come to look for jobs, careers, youth and adults.

We also support people who have been victims of wage theft, which is pretty common in some industries.

And we have offices as well that we have opened in two other cities, Rochester and Mankato.

Yeah, the most that we could have done is to refer that person to a lawyer.

So we didn't have, obviously, the level of ICE activity that we have now, but most of our work would have been someone was arrested, what do we do?

Okay, let's connect that family or that person with a lawyer, and the lawyer will take it from there.

That's how much we did.

So my country was going through a civil war.

I am a teacher by trade.

And so in 1990, there was a major, actually 89, there was a major military offensive.

And some priests were killed by the army.

And so that situation was unbearable.

And I couldn't be in El Salvador anymore because of many,