'The immigrant community in Michigan is facing a crisis and we need our voices and our demand to be heard.'
, demanding an apology to the immigrant community, as well as a commitment to ending all detention and deportation if he is elected president.reached out to both the Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee for comment on Movimiento Cosecha’s recent activities, but did not hear back.
Cosecha organizers felt the Democratic candidates had paid insufficient attention to immigration thus far in the campaign. Cosecha’s organizing around the Detroit debate was two-fold: to provoke a response from the presidential candidates and to shed light on the issues faced by the state’s large immigrant community.
“There are over 100,000 undocumented immigrants here in the Michigan community,” Brenda Valladares, a representative from Movimiento Cosecha, told. “They are experiencing the same levels of harassment as people at the southern border.” “The fact that no one is addressing the idea to end detention and deportations on day one, it’s sickening. For our community, there is no debate. Our community needs a statement from the candidates saying we commit to doing this,” Michigan Cosecha organizer Nelly Fuentes told. “What they are not seeing is that we are not a topic, we are human beings.
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