CARECEN SF, led by Lariza Dugan-Cuadra, works to support the Latinx youth community in San Francisco amid rising anti-immigrant sentiments. Dugan-Cuadra emphasizes the sustained challenges immigrants face across political administrations. She highlights the pervasive xenophobic narratives that dehumanize immigrants, describing the impact as psychological warfare on the community. With a background in community development and media outreach, Dugan-Cuadra is dedicated to confronting social injustices, focusing on systemic issues within the immigration legal system and the broader socio-political environment affecting Latinx individuals.
"What feels very different now is this very overt xenophobic, criminalizing, dehumanizing narrative and speech that just strips people who migrate from their humanity, and it feels really like a psychological warfare."
"The bottom line is that people who migrate from any corner of the globe have continuously faced barriers to access our legal system, our immigration legal system."
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