Viridiana Martinez has been on the front lines in the debate over immigration reform, organizing protests and getting arrested in acts of civil disobedience. But when the president announced a policy allowing young people like her to temporarily avoid deportation, she was anything but elated.
Date: Oct 27, 2012
Category: U.S.
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Young activists wary of delayed deportation policy
One of them is Viridiana Martinez, who has been on the front lines in the debate over immigration reform, organizing protests and getting arrested in acts of civil disobedience. She says the policy shift is all political theater.
Date: Oct 27, 2012
Source: Google
Feds accuse North Carolina sheriff's office of racial profiling
"We applaud the feds for conducting the investigation and its findings," said Viridiana Martinez of the local advocacy group NC Dream Team. "But there are still six other counties in the state that participate in the 287(g) program, which is at the bottom of this problem."
Twenty-five-year-old Viridiana Martinez of Raleigh says she's lived illegally in North Carolina since she was 7 and some legislators seem intent on driving people like her out of the state she considers home.
Date: Feb 29, 2012
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Arrested DREAMers Won't Be Deported, Authorities Say
The other seven arrested, Cynthia Martinez, Marco Saavedra, Alicia Torres-Don and Angelica Velazquillo, Mohammad Abdollahi, Isabel Castillo and Viridiana Martinez, were released on bond Thursday. They will all appear in court in October on misdemeanor charges of civil disobedience and impeding traff
Viridiana Martinez (1997-2001), Amy Burkhardt (1998-1999), Guadalupe Farias (1991-1995), Lloyd Smith (1993-1997), K P (1976-1980), Robert Same (1946-1950)
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AVID San Diego II Summer Institute 2013.
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Viridiana Martinez, North Carolina Dream Team
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Viridiana Martinez
On November 9, 2012, Viridiana Martinez spoke at the University of New...