Protecting Students and their Families from the Threat of Deportation
Session Type(s): Training
Training Tag(s): Movement Health & Operations
Starts: Friday, Aug. 11 2:30 PM (Eastern)
Ends: Friday, Aug. 11 3:45 PM (Eastern)
More than 750,000 individuals adjusted their immigration status through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The AFT and its partners across the country are on the frontlines fighting to keep families and communities together while President Trump keeps his campaign promise targeting undocumented and refugee immigrants. Join us for a candid conversation about immigration and ICE raids. Learn about the tools and resources available to community members, allies, and schools to help undocumented students prepare and fight back against the attacks and defend DACA.
This training is for all audiences.
Trainers
Mateo Guerrero-Tabares
Mateo Guerrero-Tabares recently graduated from Hunter College with a B.A. in Political Science and Africana, Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies, and is currently working as the Leadership Development Coordinator at Make the Road NY. Mateo is originally from Cali, Colombia, however, after a financial hardship in his country, his family and him decided to come to the United States in search of a better future. Since then, Mateo has come out and embraced his identities as a trans and queer immigrant in order to organize and fight for immigrant and LGBTQ rights, as well as advocating for intersectional politics that recognize the complexity of our communities regarding race, class, gender, and age.
Cesar Moreno Perez
César Moreno Pérez is the Associate Director of the Human Rights and Community Relations Department at the American Federation of Teachers-a union representing 1.6 million pre-K through 12th-grade teachers; paraprofessionals and other school-related personnel; higher education faculty and professional staff; federal, state and local government employees; nurses and healthcare workers; and early childhood educators. Mr. Moreno-Perez currently oversees the AFTs work on immigration, unaccompanied and refugee children, US child labor, and is an integral part of the team that guides the AFTs policy and programs for families and educators of English Language Learners (ELLs). Part of his portfolio includes strategic partnerships with National Hispanic, AAPI and immigrant rights organizations. He has led several national and statewide issue campaigns on social and economic justice issues. Prior to joining the AFT national staff, he was the co-executive director for the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute and the Deputy Executive Director for the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA). Mr. Moreno-Perez has been on several delegations investigating civil rights violations in South Africa, South and Central America, Europe, Cuba and Mexico. Mr. Moreno-Perez is a native of the central valley of California and a graduate from the University of California Berkeley. He serves on the LCLAA national executive board; Maryland Governor’s Commission on Hispanic Affairs; advisory board of National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators and was the US Representative and immediate past President of the Youth Committee of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas- the regional body of the Global Labor Federations-ITUC.