After almost six years of living in the United States, my dream for 2020 was to complete my citizenship process on time to vote. But COVID-19 hit the country and more delays were added to the USCIS (the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) backlog, making me realize I wouldn’t be participating in this most important part of being an American. After watching the presidential debate, I must confess my enthusiasm has waned.
In this video, the Honduran father and son describe how they advocated for themselves — and how other Latinos can, too.
At the start of the pandemic, Martínez-Bianchi and a small cohort of Latina doctors and medical professionals in North Carolina came together to form a coalition to flatten the curve within the state’s Latino community. They call themselves the Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19, known as LATIN-19.