Posted on 02/04/2024 3:22:33 PM PST by george76
Illegal immigrant youths protesting for more rights traveled from the elite Brophy College Preparatory school to the state capitol on Wednesday.
The march was coordinated by Aliento, a pro-illegal immigration activist nonprofit, as part of the organization’s annual Education Day. The illegal immigrant activists advocated for free college and drivers licenses for illegal immigrants, as well as occupational and professional licenses.
Among Aliento’s featured illegal immigrants was Esveidy Rodriguez Melendez, a 20-year-old justice studies sophomore at Grand Canyon University (GCU) as well as an intern with Aliento. In a press release, Melendez complained that she had faced “major barriers” to her dream of becoming an immigration attorney, citing her inability to obtain in-state tuition, federal financial aid, or a driver’s license.
“I realize the profound impact and cycle that surrounds me due to my legal status and believe in the power of change,” said Melendez. “I aspire to be a driving force in breaking barriers and fostering a more inclusive society. This is why I’m active with Aliento, and this is why I am attending the Capitol today.”
In addition to Melendez and other GCU students, there were students from Benedictine University, Arizona State University (ASU), University of Arizona (UArizona), Northern Arizona University (NAU), Phoenix College, Pima Community College, and Catholic University of America in Tucson.
In addition to Brophy College Prep, students from other high schools also took the school day to protest for illegal immigrant rights: Carl Hayden High School, Mountain View High School, Glenview College Prep, Xavier College Preparatory, Mesa High School, Sierra Linda High School, South Ridge High School, McClintock High School, and Bioscience High School.
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Aliento was one of the principal bodies behind the passage of the proposition granting in-state college tuition and state-funded scholarships to illegal immigrants.
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The vast majority of their leadership consists of illegal immigrants, including their founder/CEO/director, Reyna Montoya (Sandoval), who received seed funding from George Soros to facilitate her illegal immigrant activism.
Montoya also served as a director of Chicanos Por La Causa and the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar. Montoya’s prime achievements include the unprecedented prevention of deportations, including that of her own father.
“In 2013, [Montoya] was the lead organizer, who prevented an immigration bus of undocumented immigrants from deportation in Phoenix, AZ for the first time in the nation’s history. In the same year, with the help of the community, she stopped her father’s deportation,” reads Montoya’s bio.
As CEO, Montoya made over six figures in the 2022 fiscal year. Her domestic partner per tax filings, José Patiño, serves as the vice president of education.
From 2016 to 2018, Soros’ Open Society Institute gave Montoya $132,200 “to organize people directly affected by the immigration detention system to generate narratives that emphasize the humanity of those in detention and to create policy recommendations for reform.”
In the 2022 fiscal year, Aliento reported a revenue of just over $2.1 million for the 2022 fiscal year. Aliento doesn’t disclose its donors.According to data sourced from other organizations’ tax filings, Aliento’s top donors that year included: Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation ($250,000, Arizona), Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors ($208,000, New York), Pharos Foundation ($150,000, Wyoming), Satterberg Foundation ($150,000, Washington), Arizona Community Foundation ($107,500, Arizona), Burton Family Foundation ($100,000, Arizona), Tides Foundation ($100,000, California), Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund ($50,000, California), League of Conservation Voters ($10,000, D.C.), The Vilcek Foundation ($5,000, New York), and Skoll Foundation ($5,000, California). Those donations only amounted to $1.1 million, leaving the remaining million unidentified.
JUST what American citizens need——
MORE TOTALLY INCOMPETENT PERSONS HANDING OUT ADVICE.
We are SO doomed. Only deportation of 20 million of these parasites could possibly stop the final demise. How can ANY logical, common sense, law abiding person put up with this crap?
When do we start OUR invasion to repel theirs?
I am so sick of this sh!t.
Gee.
Three generations of my family paid taxes in Arizona to support those schools.
They still charged me out of state tuituion when I moved back after some years of being gone.
But the entitled Pochos say they should be blessed with citizenship cuz they say so.
Umm...why?
Grab all the little twerps and deport them.
More rights? More free stuff + more privileges = more rights. For people who shouldn’t even be here.
And those Aliento folks sure have a good racket going.
Get them the hell out of my country.
My grand dad was part of that group!
They have one right, to LEAVE.
Arrest and deport them!
locals do not get free college, free licenses and free certificates
we pay for them, earn them, and test for them
Awesome! He’d be sickened by what we have let happen.
Can’t wait until this gets implemented by our new neighbors
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/13/this-land-was-your-land-venezuela-land-reform-chavez-maduro/
Ah! Land reform. Can you outvote them? (Unconstitutional ? Haha!)
Friend with family in Mexico said they were forced from their home by a gang of immigrants. Police wouldn’t help. They finally just left after a bit.)
We’re living in Bizarro World, where these criminals aren’t arrested and deported, but instead demand free stuff from US taxpayers.
They already have rights that average Americans don’t. Ship the ingrates home.
Call in the buses!
I’m confused. They already have the right to pay instate tuition even though they’re not here legally. So either the headline is a lie or they truly want to pay nothing for college, which is absurd.
Reyna holds bachelor's degrees in Political Science and Transborder Studies and a Dance minor from Arizona State University; she also holds an M.Ed in Secondary Education from Grand Canyon University. She recently completed an executive education program from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
She has engaged in local, statewide and national platforms to advance justice for immigrant communities. In 2013, she was the lead organizer, who prevented an immigration bus of undocumented immigrants from deportation in Phoenix, AZ for the first time in the nation’s history. In the same year, with the help of the community, she stopped her father’s deportation.
She was also recognized as 2017 #NBCLatino20 and the Muhammad Ali Center as the 2018 Humanitarian Recipient for Spirituality. She hopes to share her talents and skills with the community to co-create healing spaces, political change, and leadership development of our immigrant youth and mixed-status families. In her volunteer time, she also serves as a member of the Leadership Council for ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation and is a Board Member at Chicanos Por la Causa (CPLC). She enjoys going on long walks, reading, and spending time with her two fur babies!
Jose became involved in the Immigrant Rights and Dreamer Movement in 2009. Ever since then Jose has been standing up against the injustices that undocumented immigrants face. He stopped a bus of undocumented immigrants who were set to be deported, engaged in a direct action where he interrupted President Obama’s speech, and has lobbied for the DREAM Act and Immigration Reform.
Due to Jose’s activism he was featured in The Washington Post, MSNBC, NPR, Univision, Telemundo, Buzzfeed, Think Progress, among others. He was also featured in the documentaries The Dream is Now and Underwater Dreams.
Jose leads Aliento’s efforts to gain instate tuition & access to scholarships for all Arizona students regardless of immigration status. He is proud to serve his community and believes in giving back and one of his most recent accomplishments is the he co-founded a scholarship named after him to support undocumented students access to higher ed.
He also serves in the National DACA Advisory Board for Teach for America as the Chair of Advocacy Committee. He is also a member of the Arizona Department of Education School Safety taskforce and a member of the City of Mesa Census 2020 taskforce.
Incredible we allow these enemies of the USA in, isn’t it?
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