Please Help My Friend Salvador
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“There is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.” -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
My friend Salvador Gomez is living with the agony and uncertainty of having his family split apart by ICE just three days ago and I have an opportunity to act.
“Before the sun rose today, on June 27th, 2018, ICE was already raiding homes and orchards…ICE and police hid out behind Basin City Elementary School that I and all my siblings attended.” -Salvador Gomez
Salvador is my co-worker and friend, a fellow teacher at Highland Middle School. He was my “critical friend” this year – a professional confidante - and I learned so much from his energy and perspective. He just finished his first year of teaching and has already shown a commitment to educational justice for all students that is hard to find.
“These amazing farm workers, parents of peers I have grown up with celebrating graduations and other special events…have now been hurt by having their family members separated.” -Salvador
Right now we have the chance to support Salvador as he hires an attorney to gain the release of his brother Leo who has lived here since he was 1-year-old, attended school in Basin City and graduated from Lower Columbia. We also can help their mother Mirna in her residency process. Both Leo and Mirna are pictured above.
“At 6:20am today, I woke up to a loud knock on the door…they asked if they could see my brother Leo Gomez. They wanted to enter my home but I did not grant them permission. I asked if they could leave…they said, with big grins on their faces, ‘also, we have your mother in custody.’” -Salvador
I am tired of feeling powerless as great people have unnecessary pain inflicted upon them by our government. I want to make a difference with the help of my friends and family for the Gomez family that has contributed immensely to their community and mine. Salvador’s brother and mother should be home celebrating Salvador’s first year of teaching and living free in Basin City. Instead, Leo is in custody in Tacoma and Mirna is unsure of what ICE will do next to gain leverage over her family.
“Later in the day ICE contacted my brother through my mom’s phone and informed him that in order for us to get our mother back, Leo had to turn himself in…My mother, who taught us what it means to respect and love others as we would like to be respected and loved, was one of many who was chained up by her wrists, ankles and waist, as if she had committed a huge crime.”-Salvador
If you can, please dig deep to support Salvador and his family. They need legal help to navigate a system that has already deceived them, using a mother as leverage over a son. Salvador estimates that this process will cost his family more than $20,000 before it is over. I am hoping to raise $3,000 in a week so his brother can return home and use legal counsel to convince our judicial system that he deserves to remain in Basin City with his family, in his full-time job, supporting his mother and father. Donations will also help Mirna through her process of gaining residency, a process that has been set back immensely by the deceitful acts of ICE.
This is a clear opportunity to make a difference in the lives of great people. I see moral clarity in this situation and I hope you do too.
-Zack Daniels
My friend Salvador Gomez is living with the agony and uncertainty of having his family split apart by ICE just three days ago and I have an opportunity to act.
“Before the sun rose today, on June 27th, 2018, ICE was already raiding homes and orchards…ICE and police hid out behind Basin City Elementary School that I and all my siblings attended.” -Salvador Gomez
Salvador is my co-worker and friend, a fellow teacher at Highland Middle School. He was my “critical friend” this year – a professional confidante - and I learned so much from his energy and perspective. He just finished his first year of teaching and has already shown a commitment to educational justice for all students that is hard to find.
“These amazing farm workers, parents of peers I have grown up with celebrating graduations and other special events…have now been hurt by having their family members separated.” -Salvador
Right now we have the chance to support Salvador as he hires an attorney to gain the release of his brother Leo who has lived here since he was 1-year-old, attended school in Basin City and graduated from Lower Columbia. We also can help their mother Mirna in her residency process. Both Leo and Mirna are pictured above.
“At 6:20am today, I woke up to a loud knock on the door…they asked if they could see my brother Leo Gomez. They wanted to enter my home but I did not grant them permission. I asked if they could leave…they said, with big grins on their faces, ‘also, we have your mother in custody.’” -Salvador
I am tired of feeling powerless as great people have unnecessary pain inflicted upon them by our government. I want to make a difference with the help of my friends and family for the Gomez family that has contributed immensely to their community and mine. Salvador’s brother and mother should be home celebrating Salvador’s first year of teaching and living free in Basin City. Instead, Leo is in custody in Tacoma and Mirna is unsure of what ICE will do next to gain leverage over her family.
“Later in the day ICE contacted my brother through my mom’s phone and informed him that in order for us to get our mother back, Leo had to turn himself in…My mother, who taught us what it means to respect and love others as we would like to be respected and loved, was one of many who was chained up by her wrists, ankles and waist, as if she had committed a huge crime.”-Salvador
If you can, please dig deep to support Salvador and his family. They need legal help to navigate a system that has already deceived them, using a mother as leverage over a son. Salvador estimates that this process will cost his family more than $20,000 before it is over. I am hoping to raise $3,000 in a week so his brother can return home and use legal counsel to convince our judicial system that he deserves to remain in Basin City with his family, in his full-time job, supporting his mother and father. Donations will also help Mirna through her process of gaining residency, a process that has been set back immensely by the deceitful acts of ICE.
This is a clear opportunity to make a difference in the lives of great people. I see moral clarity in this situation and I hope you do too.
-Zack Daniels
Organizer and beneficiary
Zack Daniels
Organizer
Seattle, WA
Salvador Gomez
Beneficiary