Cesar Vasquez, who has supported families of undocumented immigrants since age 14, has become a community lifeline \u2013 and a known ICE target<\/p>\n
While most 18-year-olds worry about college papers and spring break plans, Cesar Vasquez drives through coastal California<\/a> farm towns scanning for unmarked SUVs before dawn. He flips down his driver\u2019s seat visor to look at a taped list of license plates he has already identified as Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> (ICE) vehicles, and jots down a few new ones he suspects could be. His phone buzzes constantly \u2013 tips from neighbors, text chains from volunteers alerting to ICE activity \u2013 all in an attempt to keep his community safe from being swept up in federal agents\u2019 widening dragnet.<\/p>\n This is what organizing looks like for this son of undocumented immigrants. In his home town of Santa Maria<\/a>, a small farming town on California\u2019s central coast where over 80% of farm workers are undocumented, Vasquez has become both a crucial community lifeline and a known target of federal immigration<\/a> enforcement.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cesar Vasquez, who has supported families of undocumented immigrants since age 14, has become a community lifeline \u2013 and a known ICE target While most 18-year-olds worry about college papers and spring break plans, Cesar Vasquez drives through coastal California farm towns scanning for unmarked SUVs before dawn. He flips down his driver\u2019s seat visor … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}