What Alejandra Oliva does — and she is quick to point out — is far from unique; she is one of many translators across the country helping migrants complete paperwork to explain their life stories.
Chicago author and activist Alejandra Oliva has a new book,"Rivermouth," that details her experience working with immigrants on the Mexico border.
“Plus Texas wouldn’t even say when buses would be here,” Ramos recalled, “and whenever we tried to make a deal with the bus company to get a little notice, Abbott’s office would push back.”Oliva, who is now 30 and lives on a quiet Sauganash neighborhood street in a classic Chicago bungalow, was among the first to greet the migrants.
What Oliva does — and she is quick to point out — is far from unique; she is one of many such translators across the country helping migrants complete paperwork to explain their life stories. After he sued the government for violating his right to due process and not supplying proper protection during a pandemic, he was released and then asked to speak about his experience for a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on immigration and citizenship. “Alejandra has no legal power,” he said in an interview.
She moved to Chicago in 2019 to work with the NIJC, but grew up in Massachusetts and Texas. Her mother was born in Brownsville, Texas, at the border; her father is from outside Mexico City. He earned a doctorate in business and worked for Harvard Business School; the family was well-off, she said. “So there was never difficulty with their paperwork.” Money, of course, buys good lawyers.
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