Herminia
speaker
67 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Herminia’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hi.
It's been a few years, but it sounds like it was yesterday. I remember your voice now.
Yeah, same to you.
Yes, I am. I just got home from work.
Michael, this is the question that anyone wants to hear. How am I? Scared, worried, but praying God that nothing happened to us. But it's a hard question to start.
I mean, ask someone that is undocumented in this country for more than two decades, you know, trying to do the right thing, paying taxes, working, raising my kids. And then someone come and, you know, threatening people like me, families that can be separated. I'm having nightmares. I'm not sleeping well. I'm not okay.
I mean, I'm not okay because I know next week it's going to be hard for a lot of people.
In 2000, she had traveled to the United States from Nicaragua, where she said that the political situation had made it impossible for her to find work and to support her family.
At the end of the year in 2006, I received a letter from immigration with the asylum case that it was denied. I appealed, but the judge denied again.
It was the summer of 2019, just as President Trump, then in his first term, ordered nationwide raids to round up and deport undocumented immigrants
The window is down, you know, it's closed. The TV is going to be really low. The light in the living room is going to be off.
There was no way to fix my situation. A lot of people say, but why you didn't fix your immigration situation? It's not easy. You think I want to be like this?
When finally we had the results of the presidency, remember we had to wait for a few days.
I used to pray every day for Biden to win. When finally that notice came up through CNN, I was watching TV. I started crying. Giving God thanks for this. I opened my windows. I removed the signs. Now I have to put the sign back.
Don't open the door.
Yes, of course. I actually, for four years, my window was closed all the time.
Yes. I say, okay, it's time for the light come back to this house. And I removed the sign, and I went, I mean, it was, everything was different. I felt protected. I knew that even if I have immigration in front of me, nothing was going to happen to me.
With Biden, yes. I went to Washington. I went to Chicago. I went to different places.
I went like two or three times to New York. I go to the airport and I show my passport.
It was not harmful for me.
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