{"id":18879,"date":"2022-11-02T00:51:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T00:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=18879"},"modified":"2024-08-29T08:17:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:17:25","slug":"hispanicares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/02\/hispanicares\/","title":{"rendered":"HispaniCares"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY MONICA CARRILLO<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

OUR VOICE COUNTS<\/b><\/p>\n

After a full year of housing concerns, a continuous surge of people in the Valley has made community organizations and members complain about \u201cwhy they are coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Herbert Romero, community organizer in the Wood River Valley and founder of both the Hispanic LatinUS Leadership Task Force and Neighbors Helping Neighbors, believes this is a one-sided story to a scenario with multiple situations at hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are paying attention more about the border and getting here to the Valley, but they aren\u2019t just leaving \u2018just because,\u2019\u201d said Romero, who is helping seven families directly. \u201cThis place has a deep history for the Peruvian community \u2014 shepherding as one of the reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also mentioned that they are coming from Peru, from Central America, \u201calready traumatized and victimized.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was an ongoing issue for the Wood River Valley and there was \u201ctalk\u201d about bringing workers from other places.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lack of workers, but now that\u2019s not true,\u201d Romero said. \u201cThere was a lack of systems with employers that couldn\u2019t work with undocumented people; now there are places that are making exceptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reality is that people were and are still not prepared for the amount of people that have come to this Valley. Regardless of if they come here legally or not, community members, including Latinos, are complaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been happening in Seattle, in Chicago, in so many places,\u201d Romero said. \u201cThey\u2019ll come here seeking asylum or with a visa, and still, people aren\u2019t happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

People like Margie Gonzalez, executive director of Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs, and Alejandra Hernandez, executive director of UNITY Alliances Idaho, have come to Romero to assist in magnifying the problem going on in the Wood River Valley and bring light to this humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

A meeting will be held within the next week with Hernandez to present ways to help these families to come from the Valley.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in emergency mode,\u201d Romero said. \u201cWe need to understand this from the Latino perspective and from Latino leaders here in Idaho.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, St. Thomas Episcopal Church and the Protestant church are coming together to help assist families through hard times, providing use to the bathrooms, kitchens and shelter.<\/p>\n

NUESTRA VOZ CUENTA<\/b><\/p>\n

Despu\u00e9s de un a\u00f1o lleno de preocupaciones en materia de vivienda, un aumento continuo de personas en el valle ha hecho que las organizaciones y miembros de la comunidad se quejan de \u201cporque vienen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Herbert Romero, organizador de la comunidad y fundador del Grupo de Trabajo de Liderazgo Hispano LatinUS y de Neighbors Helping Neighbors, cree que esta es una historia unilateral de un escenario con m\u00faltiples situaciones a la mano.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrestamos m\u00e1s atenci\u00f3n a la frontera y a llegar hasta el valle, pero no s\u00f3lo se van \u201cs\u00f3lo porque,\u201d dijo Romero, quien est\u00e1 ayudando a siete familias directamente. \u201cEste lugar tiene una profunda historia para la comunidad peruana, el pastoreo como una de las razones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tambi\u00e9n mencion\u00f3 que vienen de Per\u00fa, de Centroam\u00e9rica, \u201cya traumatizados y victimizados.\u201d<\/p>\n

Personas como Margie Gonz\u00e1lez, directora ejecutiva de la Comisi\u00f3n de Asuntos Hispanos de Idaho, y Alejandra Hern\u00e1ndez, directora ejecutiva de UNITY Alliances Idaho han conectado para ayudar a magnificar el problema que est\u00e1 ocurriendo y traer luz a esta crisis humanitaria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Una reuni\u00f3n se llevar\u00e1 a cabo dentro de la pr\u00f3xima semana con Hern\u00e1ndez para presentar maneras de ayudar a estas familias a venir del valle. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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