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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Unnamed Venezuelan Immigrant on Shelter Importance and Immigrant Contributions
4:38:47
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4 min
A Venezuelan immigrant shares their personal story and perspective on immigration, emphasizing the importance of shelters for newcomers and challenging negative stereotypes about immigrants. The speaker, who is currently living in a shelter, highlights their professional background and the potential contributions immigrants can make to American society.
- The testimony includes details about the speaker's family history, with parents who fled dictatorships in Cuba and Chile
- The speaker is a professor, currently studying English and living in a shelter
- They stress the importance of shelter support to help immigrants stabilize and integrate into U.S. society
UNKNOWN (via Spanish Interpreter)
4:38:47
I wanna thank you for the opportunity to express myself.
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I was a little child.
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I felt a great admiration for this beautiful country, the United States.
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I am I was born in Venezuela, of immigrant parents.
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My mother is Chile He's from Cuba, and he fled from the dictatorship of Castro.
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And My mom is from Chile, and she fled from the dictatorship of Finochett.
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And I had to use that country.
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Unfortunately, today, it's, ravaged.
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So I would like to make a request.
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Just like Trump says, we immigrants eat dogs, we eat cats.
4:40:01
We're already in the 21st century.
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Nevertheless There is a lot of good people here in the industry with the best foundations.
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Organization has allowed me to study.
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At the moment, I study English.
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And I'm doing other things as well.
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Okay.
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So What I'd like to say is important It's very important shelter.
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At the moment, I'm living at a shelter.
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That you don't faint with this idea of immigration because I am sure that I, as an immigrant, am a professional.
4:41:12
I cannot listen to you and talk at the same time.
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Sorry.
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Okay.
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I am a medical engineer.
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Professor.
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I'm a professor.
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I'm a teacher.
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Medium No.
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No.
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All immigrants that come here are burdened.
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We cannot generalize the full immigrants, all immigrants for one group, for once
UNKNOWN
4:41:52
more.
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I'll tell
UNKNOWN (via Spanish Interpreter)
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you again that it's very important.
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This if it is possible, this help with the shelters.
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At least, so that you can stabilize stabilize yourself
UNKNOWN
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and
UNKNOWN (via Spanish Interpreter)
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be able to integrate to this society, the of the United States.
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I am not
UNKNOWN
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sure that we will
UNKNOWN (via Spanish Interpreter)
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be a shelter.
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None of us want to live in a shelter.
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Cook our own meals.
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0 in a new country.
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And for my family and be the positive contributor to this country.
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Well, everything else has already been said.