Fernanda Marroquin, Undocumented Protester Arrested In Alabama, Speaks Out Against HB56

"My name is Fernanda Marroquin, and if you're watching this I've been arrested," the young undocumented protester begins her YouTube testimony.

Marroquin, who was one of the 13 protesters of HB56 arrested in Alabama's capitol on Tuesday, says in her video that she's "undocumented... unafraid... and unapologetic."

Alabama's new strict immigration law requires that all schools verify the immigration status of children enrolling for the first time and can even prohibit immigrants residing illegally in the United States from obtaining utilities such as gas and water in their homes. Critics say the law has pushed many Latinos out of the state in the past month.

Growing up in Pennsylvania, Marroquin says she was brought to the United States by her parents eleven years ago so that she might receive a better education. When the young undocumented woman discovered how her status would restrict her opportunities upon graduation from high school, she "lost the hope that I had for the future," she says in the video.

The young Marroquin is now an activist because after "living in fear" for many years, she wants people in her position to know that "they are not alone."

"It's time to take a stand," she says. "For our human rights, for our dignity, for our families, for our communities, and to fight back."

Comments

[hawaiianstile]

06:55 PM on 11/22/2011

its so disgusting that the natives got invaded by violent barbarians who ushered in genocide and Holocaust, and then the very same society now meets peaceful migrants with racists policies, hate, and violence. how that society can possibly feel justified is a complete mystery to me.

[Armando Cedillo]

04:47 PM on 11/20/2011

Fernanda Marroquin is an illegal alien. She should realize this and take her parents with home to Mexico. To do otherwise brings shame and dishonor but all latinos in America who abide by our nation's laws.

[Maggie K]

01:33 PM on 11/22/2011

Fernanda is an intelligent, bright, courageous young woman with her whole future ahead of her. The only ones who are shameful are those who continuously demean her for something which was beyond her control.

[ddpalmerr]

12:34 PM on 11/23/2011

You forgot the fact that she isn't an US citizen and has no right to be in the US.

So why doesn't she take her intelligence, brightness and courage back to her home country and try and improve it?

[Babybinks15]

01:02 PM on 12/15/2011

your so nice, TOTALLY AGREE!

[hawaiianstile]

06:49 PM on 11/22/2011

either you're a fake account set up for the purpose of bringing immigrants down. or you're a sell out of your own people. i do hope its not the later.

[Penny Dreadful]

10:46 PM on 11/26/2011

wouldn't a patriot rather have her brains and talent improving his home country?

And he's clearly either an American or a LEGAL immigrant. How is she a part of his community?

[Picosa]

11:59 AM on 11/20/2011

"It's time to take a stand,"she says "For our human rights, for our dignity, for our families, for our communitie­s, and to fight back."

SHE DID, AND SHE PRIVALED

Fernanda took a stand, for human rights, for dignity, for families, for communities, and bravely fought back against those who want to keep her oppressed.

Unjust laws are wrong and meant to be broken, it’s called civil disobedience, and it’s a great American tradition. Without it, we would still have slavery, segregation, and child labor, to name just a few things. In fact, without it, we would still be living under the British crown.

quote:
Don't let the fact that the term "illegal aliens" does not appear in the U.S. Constitution lead you to believe that its rights and freedoms do not apply to them. The courts have held otherwise. Actual cases are shown at this link.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/rightsandfreedoms/a/illegalrights.htm

[David Carson]

12:10 PM on 11/21/2011

what is unjust about expecting someone to immigrate LEGALLY

[Picosa]

03:35 PM on 11/21/2011

Not providing a way for them to immigrate legally when you ransack their country and steal their opportunity to work to feed themselves with forced U.S. policies like NAFTA.

Current unjust Immigratio­n laws allow American corporatio­ns to use radio spots and newspaper adds to lure Mexicans and others in their countries, to the U.S., by promising a job regardless of their immigratio­n status if they can make it across the border to come here.

Current unjust immigratio­n­­ laws allow immigrants to work, and the IRS provides them with an ITIN number so they can pay taxes, even though they have no representa­tion within our government system and they are ineligible for public benefits like food stamps, Medicaid, SSI, and housing assistance­.

Current unjust Immigratio­n laws allow them to get married, have children, open a bank account, buy a house and set down roots in this country, but does not provide a way for them to fix their immigratio­n­­ status.

Then 10, 15, years later those same unjust broken immigratio­n laws allow American families be ripped apart by the deportatio­n­­ of a mother or father of American citizen children or American citizen spouse. These unjust broken immigratio­n­ laws that violate the Constituti­­on of the United States of America need to be changed or fixed. Only a bigot would support them.

[ilysaportax3]

12:35 PM on 11/19/2011

God this is disgusting.
The American sense of entitlement has even bleed into the veins of non-Americans. Deport NOW!

[CrawfishFestival]

02:25 AM on 11/19/2011

Reminder:

Obama gave an ETHICS WAIVER to the Vice=President of LaRaza to come work for the Obama Administration - devising a "new" department of Intergovernmental Affairs -
in which funding of US taxpayer money - to LaRaza - has increased more than Ten-fold.

If there was not a GROSS CONFLICT of INTERESTS - or another abuse of our US taxpayer money, there would be no reason for an ETHICS WAIVER.

[Picosa]

02:01 PM on 11/20/2011

Re your post, "2) Illegal migrants will no longer be jailed. They will be taken to a facility run by the Instituto Nacional de Migracion (INM) where they will be fed, clothed, given medical care and the ability to contact their families in their country of origin."

AND YOU LEFT OUT #5
5) Illegal migrants can be given the opportunit­y to regularize their status and obtain a work/resid­ence permit.

THEN YOU CLAIM:
*****
That is what Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been doing -
and getting lawsuits filed against him - by Holder and Obama - and also colluding with the ACLU and ACORN to file separate lawsuits.
www.Judici­alWatch.or­g

NO, THIS IS WHAT JOE ARPAIO HAS BEEN DOING:

Joe Arpaio, Arizona Sheriff, To Pay $200,000 In Racial Profiling Case
9/7/11
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/08/joe-arpaio-arizona-racial-profiling-immigration_n_893227.html

Sheriff Arpaio Sued Over Racial Profiling Of Latinos In Maricopa County July 16, 2008
http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/sheriff-arpaio-sued-over-racial-profiling-latinos-maricopa-county

[CrawfishFestival]

02:36 PM on 11/20/2011

check out what Judicial Watch discovered about it - with Eric Holder as US AG colluding with the ACLU and ACORN to file separate lawsuits.

It is a Con Game - and you are showng it.

[CrawfishFestival]

01:32 AM on 11/19/2011

"It's time to take a stand," she says. "For our human rights, for our dignity, for our families, for our communities, and to fight back."

***********

Hey, Fernanda,
That is what American citizens are doing - because we are tired of taking care of ILLEGAL ALIENS and their extended families - who have overwhelmed our States' budgets - with their constant demands for entitlements - on the backs of US taxpayers - but have no concern about respecting our country, The United States of America - to come to our country - Legally - to work and pay for your own education - like US citizens have to do.

We owe you NOTHING!

[Picosa]

01:57 PM on 11/20/2011

Re your post, "I think the US citizens living in the Border States - being subjected to home invasions, having their neighbors and loved ones killed for reporting drug traffickin­g routes on their property - can give a better view of RACIAL DISCRIMINA­TION - when Illegal liens are getting a Free Pass for their crimes and criminalit­es."
~
You and those citizens living in border states are barking up the wrong tree. Before the Mexicans took over the drug trade it was the Colombians who controlled it. After the Mexicans it will be someone else filling the demand.

The major force driving the violence and drug trade in the U.S. are Americans who have an insatiable desire to consume illegal drugs. Go after the users, if they didn't consume illegal drugs there wouldn't be anyone involved in violence due to drugs in the U.S.

[Penny Dreadful]

10:53 PM on 11/26/2011

wow, you're stupendously naive.
Say you want to stop people from eating doritos. Do you post an agent outside the house of everyone in America, or do you pull them from store shelves?

I'm assuming you're not in favor of going after those who employ undocumented too instead of undocumented themselves, right? Because it's the same argument.

[Ladder 1]

01:45 PM on 11/18/2011

"It's time to take a stand," she says. "For our human rights, for our dignity, for our families, for our communities, and to fight back."

======================================================================

Best be checking Mexicos version of those...because you are not a U.S. of A Citizen.

[Ted229]

01:44 PM on 11/18/2011

Fernanda Marroquin, illegal alien Arrested In Alabama, Speaks Out Against HB56

-----------------------

There you go, I fixed the title.

[ilysaportax3]

12:32 PM on 11/19/2011

How politically incorrect of you.

[Ladder 1]

01:43 PM on 11/18/2011

says in her video that she's "undocumented... unafraid... and unapologetic."
========================================================================

Then you shouldn't care how I feel about you being sent home...to your home.

Because I will not be apologetic or sympathetic. Good Bye.

[nasknit]

02:10 AM on 11/18/2011

"Unapologetic"? Who died & made you "Queen of the Universe"? The majority of Americans are in favor of OUR Immigration Laws being Enforced! I don't care where Illegal Aliens are from. IF they are NOT in this country legally, & they NEED to leave or be deported!

[alpina]

06:33 PM on 11/17/2011

I think its disgraceful that organizations like la raza are prostituting and taking advantage of these young children for their own political agenda. She said "we came down from Pennsylvania..." who is WE exactly? The bottom line is that once Fernanda turns 18, she is in this country illegally and should be deported. If she has a problem with that, she should sit down and discuss it with her parents. The people of Alabama and laws like hb 56 are in the right and individuals like this girl are being used to promote an illegal agenda. For every Fernanda, you could post a weepy you tube video of some poor crying girl who's mother was killed by an illegal alien drunk driver or some infant shot in a mexican drug cartel gang drive by.

This is propaganda, plain and simple and speaks more to illustrate how outside forces are being imported or should I say immigrated into Alabama to create a false illusion of dissent, when in fact this legislation has overwhelming support among residents.

In Alabama in the last 10 years, the number of illegal immigrants has more than doubled. Make no mistake, the taxpaying, law abiding, American citizens of Alabama are fighting off nothing less than an invasion by foreign nationals.

[RafaleMirage]

09:04 AM on 11/18/2011

You're surprised that a group called "The Race" has no scruples?

[Maggie K]

01:40 PM on 11/18/2011

More accurately: in the context it is used it does not mean "the race", but rather "the people".

In the context that NCLR uses it, “La Raza” it means “the people,” or “the Hispanic people of the New World”[7] — people of Chicano (i.e. Mexican American) and Mexican descent and the Hispanic world, as well as mestizos who share Native American or national Hispanic heritage.[citation needed]. The concept of inclusiveness was initially promoted by Jose Vasconselos as part of the phrase and title of his essay, "La Raza Cosmica", the mixing of white, black, and native, in the Western Hemisphere. [8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_La_Raza#Definition_of_the_phrase_.22La_Raza.22

[Ed Baker]

01:39 PM on 11/17/2011

If she wants to "take a stand" for her community, that's a great idea - go back to your country and do that. Make it a place people want to stay.

[CrawfishFestival]

01:41 AM on 11/19/2011

Illegal Alien Fernanda, the propogandist/activist, can get on her soapbox in her own country - and demand the same things =

"It's time to take a stand," she says. "For our human rights, for our dignity, for our families, for our communities, and to fight back."

***

It is a DISGRACE that she is demanding this from a country that she is not a citizen!

[Ed Baker]

07:46 PM on 11/19/2011

She broke into her neighbor's house, and not only does she want food and shelter, but she wants to sit in his recliner and have the remote too.

[Ed Baker]

01:35 PM on 11/17/2011

Deport her.

[Babybinks15]

01:05 PM on 12/15/2011

OFF WITH YOUR HEAD -.-

[sstevens37]

01:02 PM on 11/17/2011

why do these illegal aliens seem to think they are citizens? you are illegal, don't blame us...blame your parents for bringing you here illegally

[gx5000]

03:24 PM on 11/17/2011

What is it about people that flaunt the law then complain ?

[Satirist1]

11:22 AM on 11/17/2011

Fernanda is "undocumented... unafraid... and unapologetic."

No need to apologize, Just return $100,000 we spent on your educaiton+ the cost of flight to your country of birth. One way, of course.

[Maggie K]

03:37 PM on 11/17/2011

You don't know what her family has contributed in taxes, not to mention the contribution this intelligent young woman would make over the course of her lifetime here that would more than make up for it. Short-sighted thinking.

[Vivicca Whitsett]

08:37 PM on 11/17/2011

She and her parents are criminals who have taken more than they have given to this country -- which, by the way, they do not have a right nor the authority to be in.

[nasknit]

02:13 AM on 11/18/2011

She & her family contributed $100,000 in taxes? Stop the Presses! She may be in the top earning 1%, & now fair game for the Occupy Wall Street crowds. BTW, 11 years education where I live would come to about $110,000.