WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:01.380 --> 00:00:06.150 good afternoon say hello to lilian more or will she be Hispanic for county council 00:00:06.150 --> 00:00:09.930 from Montgomery today I am accompanied by the immigration attorney Liana 00:00:09.930 --> 00:00:13.320 Montesinos with whom we are going to be talking about a program that is 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:16.800 disposition of all those young people who have recently crossed the 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:21.599 border and are making their way into this country we're going to be talking about 00:00:21.599 --> 00:00:25.499 the project i am power of the united organization 00:00:25.499 --> 00:00:31.009 for united for social justice or united for justice for social justice 00:00:31.009 --> 00:00:34.530 lawyer, good afternoon, thank you for being with us 00:00:34.530 --> 00:00:38.790 Thank you very much to lilia thank you for having me very honored well honored i am 00:00:38.790 --> 00:00:43.170 I can see all the efforts that you are making on a personal level to 00:00:43.170 --> 00:00:47.040 also through this organization and this new project that promises a lot 00:00:47.040 --> 00:00:50.790 for young people who have only recently crossed the border and who have arrived 00:00:50.790 --> 00:00:56.760 this country are trying to settle down to understand how is the dynamics 00:00:56.760 --> 00:01:01.920 of this country and also how they will open the way to become 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:05.399 successful professionals so that's what you're all about 00:01:05.399 --> 00:01:08.560 doing but I would like you not to give details of what I know 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:12.640 about what the organization does too thank you very much lilian for giving us 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:17.800 this platform where we can educate the community about this valuable resource 00:01:17.800 --> 00:01:21.700 United First for Social Justice is a non-profit organization 00:01:21.700 --> 00:01:27.160 profit and over the last 12 years we have been committed to 00:01:27.160 --> 00:01:33.010 offer workshops on the university application process in the usa 00:01:33.010 --> 00:01:39.070 Unidos Mentoring Professionals Therapists Doctors Judges Lawyers 00:01:39.070 --> 00:01:43.810 because we want to demystify the professions to our students 00:01:43.810 --> 00:01:48.070 we want them to have that closeness to these top professionals 00:01:48.070 --> 00:01:54.490 In addition to the mentoring workshops we also have sources for scholarships 00:01:54.490 --> 00:01:59.380 opportunities to scholarships to internships that we provide to our students from 00:01:59.380 --> 00:02:03.960 just as we have scholarships for students in our program 00:02:03.960 --> 00:02:11.560 finally we also have a support network where students have their 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:14.920 soccer tournaments with others in their litter and so they go 00:02:14.920 --> 00:02:19.990 forging relationships that will bring opportunities in your circle along the way 00:02:19.990 --> 00:02:25.430 social and academic this new program I am power is in 00:02:25.430 --> 00:02:30.790 response to what is happening there are more than 20,000 undocumented youth 00:02:30.790 --> 00:02:35.990 detained in immigration custody and these youths when they have spread 00:02:35.990 --> 00:02:41.450 In the United States, we want to have a program that will offer a network of 00:02:41.450 --> 00:02:46.190 support along with mentoring workshops and scholarship resources then I am 00:02:46.190 --> 00:02:50.660 Power is a program in Spanish is an online program precisely for the 00:02:50.660 --> 00:02:57.290 young people who have just arrived in the us maybe it is crazy and to think that 00:02:57.290 --> 00:03:00.410 I have been arriving here as you are thinking about college without even 00:03:00.410 --> 00:03:07.010 I even speak English and it is the mindset that we want to put aside to give 00:03:07.010 --> 00:03:12.260 step to the new we are already in a country full of opportunities where there is only 00:03:12.260 --> 00:03:16.790 to snatch the clear this lawyer program and I understand that you are 00:03:16.790 --> 00:03:22.040 designed by people who know what happens in all these young people at the moment 00:03:22.040 --> 00:03:27.079 to come here whether you have crossed the border or have looked for other ways 00:03:27.079 --> 00:03:32.330 from arriving in this country, you know, you are an immigrant. 00:03:32.330 --> 00:03:37.400 I have been an immigrant but perhaps in a different way the two of me 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:42.380 visa you understand and sharing some time with us 00:03:42.380 --> 00:03:46.640 you had crossed the border then you have a clear idea of ​​the challenges 00:03:46.640 --> 00:03:50.989 facing not only not only the moment of crossing the border but 00:03:50.989 --> 00:03:54.970 also when arriving in that country 00:03:55.490 --> 00:03:59.550 exactly liliam and the point is that these young people are going through many 00:03:59.550 --> 00:04:04.320 needs and we understand why we have experienced firsthand what 00:04:04.320 --> 00:04:07.400 that they are going through and obviously all circumstances are different 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:13.140 but throughout our work with young people we have known that these 00:04:13.140 --> 00:04:17.940 young people have other priorities some have to work at the same time 00:04:17.940 --> 00:04:21.000 they are going to school to put food on the table some do not have 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:25.620 support from mom and dad or family with the us others have to be 00:04:25.620 --> 00:04:28.790 pending their immigration case because they are in deportation proceedings 00:04:28.790 --> 00:04:34.200 others have families so we want to give these young people support 00:04:34.200 --> 00:04:38.910 and the resources they need to give them the true and valid choice of 00:04:38.910 --> 00:04:43.320 go to university because we know that even the institutions of 00:04:43.320 --> 00:04:47.490 upper secondary school in the us are very limiting for young people 00:04:47.490 --> 00:04:51.210 undocumented and that is why this non-profit organization was founded 00:04:51.210 --> 00:04:56.490 to open roads to undocumented youth and as you said 00:04:56.490 --> 00:05:01.680 we want every young man who is hungry for success what kind 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:06.509 resources can find the kids who enroll in this program that is 00:05:06.509 --> 00:05:10.560 completely free if I'm not wrong lawyer that's what the program is 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:16.410 totally free for young people and start June 12 it will be on Saturdays 00:05:16.410 --> 00:05:23.190 from 11 in the morning to noon and we will have it 12 on July 26 10 on 31 00:05:23.190 --> 00:05:28.710 August 7 and August 21 and the idea is that this summer program that includes 00:05:28.710 --> 00:05:34.740 mentoring workshops scholarship opportunities and a support network serve them 00:05:34.740 --> 00:05:39.090 as an emphasis to join our larger program than what 00:05:39.090 --> 00:05:44.310 we have the whole year so that they can be part of the conversation 00:05:44.310 --> 00:05:49.259 we have with other students where we bring experts from all over the US 00:05:49.259 --> 00:05:55.090 that they are have dedicated their entire lives studying how the 00:05:55.090 --> 00:05:59.280 undocumented students acquire scholarships in the end even if we bring 00:05:59.280 --> 00:06:04.450 different experts who come to give workshops to the students and well 00:06:04.450 --> 00:06:08.380 we have a lot of respect for immigrant students because we know 00:06:08.380 --> 00:06:14.260 that in their lives they are going through many difficulties and how you 00:06:14.260 --> 00:06:18.790 He said I come from a very small town in Honduras and there I was from 1st to 6th grade 00:06:18.790 --> 00:06:24.990 but if you missed school there would be no one who was going to put one 00:06:24.990 --> 00:06:30.250 judicial situation to his family because the value of education is secondary 00:06:30.250 --> 00:06:35.470 because there are other priorities and other shortcomings in our countries and if I 00:06:35.470 --> 00:06:40.180 I would have liked to go to university, and the school was not accessible. 00:06:40.180 --> 00:06:44.500 but after school you had to go to a city far from there and in 00:06:44.500 --> 00:06:49.900 reality that marks and limitations in the mentality that we have about the 00:06:49.900 --> 00:06:53.780 education now many of these students have had 00:06:53.780 --> 00:06:58.910 who work at an early age and have had interrupted education we 00:06:58.910 --> 00:07:03.380 We understand this and we want despite everything that has happened in your 00:07:03.380 --> 00:07:09.440 past we want to give you options if you have the hunger to want to be successful 00:07:09.440 --> 00:07:14.790 this is the program for you before or in some conversation 00:07:14.790 --> 00:07:20.890 We were talking about how many of the boys who come to this country enter the system 00:07:20.890 --> 00:07:27.730 school but they end up dropping out and you are focused on helping them 00:07:27.730 --> 00:07:34.150 so that they do not make that decision true and seek this help later than what 00:07:34.150 --> 00:07:39.220 way you intend to reach them and are also serving locally in 00:07:39.220 --> 00:07:44.200 your nationwide program as it is an online program is a nationwide program 00:07:44.200 --> 00:07:49.840 national now we have and work with many organizations without 00:07:49.840 --> 00:07:55.690 profit in our surroundings because the truth is that being able to fulfill 00:07:55.690 --> 00:08:00.190 with the needs or to be able to reach out to help the students in all 00:08:00.190 --> 00:08:07.510 financial mental health and immigration needs in short is not 00:08:07.510 --> 00:08:13.180 something we can do we help with the academic system but we 00:08:13.180 --> 00:08:16.990 we refer students to those resources to organizations that are 00:08:16.990 --> 00:08:21.760 specify in helping them in different areas where they may have needs 00:08:21.760 --> 00:08:27.280 so even though our focus is academic we do not close the 00:08:27.280 --> 00:08:31.180 ears and eyes to other needs because we know those are 00:08:31.180 --> 00:08:35.380 why these youngsters are dropping out of high school once they 00:08:35.380 --> 00:08:40.229 They enter because the schools do not have the resources to be able to 00:08:40.229 --> 00:08:45.310 help them with those needs that are priorities for many students 00:08:45.310 --> 00:08:50.860 of them have no family to go to, many of them have commitments that 00:08:50.860 --> 00:08:55.180 want to comply before putting studies as a priority is to work or 00:08:55.180 --> 00:08:59.649 maybe pay the person who crossed it who loaned them the money to stop 00:08:59.649 --> 00:09:04.660 be able to arrive and his priority the last classroom that he has in his priority is the 00:09:04.660 --> 00:09:09.310 education how you guys could help these guys who are in this 00:09:09.310 --> 00:09:13.959 that maybe they want to dream everyone wants to dream of becoming X's or 00:09:13.959 --> 00:09:17.080 It is what we have always thought to be since childhood but maybe not in the seventh 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:21.190 capable as you could help those children who have all the 00:09:21.190 --> 00:09:26.060 commitments and all these challenges yesterday where the role of the role of the mentor 00:09:26.060 --> 00:09:31.790 is critical because the mentor is going to work with the student on a line 00:09:31.790 --> 00:09:36.050 of time where are the student's goals and where are the 00:09:36.050 --> 00:09:39.740 setbacks of that student if the student says is that I can not 00:09:39.740 --> 00:09:43.580 spend time because I have to work to pay my immigration case and my 00:09:43.580 --> 00:09:47.900 rent that is where we are going to refer the different student 00:09:47.900 --> 00:09:52.160 Suddenly appeals to a lawyer who can give you the job for free or give you 00:09:52.160 --> 00:09:55.730 can give the job at a lower price can give you a payment plan so that 00:09:55.730 --> 00:09:59.990 student is not with the overwhelming financial concern of paying him a 00:09:59.990 --> 00:10:04.670 lawyer and you can make a little more space to come to our workshops at 00:10:04.670 --> 00:10:08.960 what I am going with this is each case will be different because each student goes 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:13.280 to have different circumstances but that is where the mentor will work with 00:10:13.280 --> 00:10:18.770 the student to forge a plan we are not here to save the 00:10:18.770 --> 00:10:23.900 student is no we do not believe in that we are here to serve as 00:10:23.900 --> 00:10:29.660 company and guide listen to them and give you the resources that are accessible 00:10:29.660 --> 00:10:33.650 and we are going to give the hand that we did not expect the student to take the 00:10:33.650 --> 00:10:38.240 bull by the horns and put performance and make you want because this 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:42.700 your future as we know in the time to come 00:10:42.700 --> 00:10:47.650 and to arrive in that country we will be children of all ages who are serving 00:10:47.650 --> 00:10:52.930 you specifically we focus on students who are 00:10:52.930 --> 00:10:57.490 in high school to college-age students if 00:10:57.490 --> 00:11:02.500 We put it in more concrete terms would be from 13 years to 23 25 years 00:11:02.500 --> 00:11:10.030 because our program requires a certain kind of seriousness and maturity then and 00:11:10.030 --> 00:11:13.360 that is the age at which students begin to think about 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:17.980 university ten of our goal to direct students to go 00:11:17.980 --> 00:11:22.240 to higher education in the usa how can they 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:27.820 contact you where you can register for your services we have a 00:11:27.820 --> 00:11:35.850 application and this application can be found on the website which is www 14 00:11:35.850 --> 00:11:44.950 sj point or heretic we also have two telephones and telephone numbers on 57 17 00:11:44.950 --> 00:11:53.620 66 84 75 and my cell phone on 70 33 89 78 83 us 00:11:53.620 --> 00:11:56.710 We leave messages they say they are calling regarding the program I am 00:11:56.710 --> 00:12:01.570 power now if the app is too overwhelming for you send 00:12:01.570 --> 00:12:07.290 an email to contacts as contact but if the o 00:12:07.290 --> 00:12:13.630 new forest yale point or heretic 14 sj point or heretic 00:12:13.630 --> 00:12:16.660 let's say you want to be part of the program I am able and in this way 00:12:16.660 --> 00:12:20.830 We will be able to register it for people who do not have access to the 00:12:20.830 --> 00:12:25.270 internet you can be on a phone number they will attend you in Spanish 00:12:25.270 --> 00:12:30.760 I really imagine a lawyer that's how she is and the program is entirely in Spanish and yes 00:12:30.760 --> 00:12:34.390 They cannot read or write because that is also one of the challenges they face 00:12:34.390 --> 00:12:39.340 our young people or all the migrant who come not all but a large percentage of 00:12:39.340 --> 00:12:43.960 immigrants who cross and arrive in this country is the challenge of not knowing how to read or 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.980 write then I called by phone and they will help you 00:12:48.980 --> 00:12:53.389 the form and also because they cannot connect you with organizations that 00:12:53.389 --> 00:12:57.470 can help you fulfill the dream of learning to read and write then what 00:12:57.470 --> 00:13:03.529 important is to look for opportunities to snatch them and take advantage of them for the 00:13:03.529 --> 00:13:07.670 future they have in this country they have already made the biggest challenge that is 00:13:07.670 --> 00:13:12.019 arrive then and what comes from now on is to learn English and 00:13:12.019 --> 00:13:17.600 focus on where your goal is and how you are going to get there and have this program 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:21.620 that will help you with mentors and connections to the different resources that 00:13:21.620 --> 00:13:27.500 there are in different states so if you have a child who has just arrived 00:13:27.500 --> 00:13:34.399 recently to the area please call and apply for this help if you do not have a 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:38.540 child or a close friend and knows someone shares that information because it is for 00:13:38.540 --> 00:13:42.889 everyone helps you at the national level is the most important thing that everyone can apply 00:13:42.889 --> 00:13:46.579 the people who want there is some limit of perfect participants 00:13:46.579 --> 00:13:51.199 clean we don't have any limits because this program is going to be online 00:13:51.199 --> 00:13:56.950 so we have the capacity then you know share the 00:13:56.950 --> 00:14:01.780 information I invite you to make it change the life of another person and now 00:14:01.780 --> 00:14:04.750 on the road also to excellence in this country 00:14:04.750 --> 00:14:09.430 lawyer, I thank you for everything you do, everything you do for our children who 00:14:09.430 --> 00:14:13.450 have already arrived here also for those who are on the border we know that their 00:14:13.450 --> 00:14:16.420 work has been hard and he does it from the heart so on behalf of all 00:14:16.420 --> 00:14:20.380 immigrant community I have to thank you for the work you do and 00:14:20.380 --> 00:14:25.360 what do you plan to continue doing is my pleasure lilian thank you for 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:29.170 be an excellent spokesperson for our community and I hope more people 00:14:29.170 --> 00:14:33.820 Empower and join this program that is totally free 00:14:33.820 --> 00:14:38.590 Thank you very much thanks to you who are listening to us at home, you see, you have the 00:14:38.590 --> 00:14:41.860 route right now we are putting the graph again with the number of 00:14:41.860 --> 00:14:47.230 phone the web page where you can apply for this program you already know 00:14:47.230 --> 00:14:50.440 we are here to serve you, I invite you to join us on our page 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.370 facebook montgomery county council council in this instance will 00:14:54.370 --> 00:15:00.180 write with the letter c i am read slogans until next time