America Ferrera begrüßt die Einwanderergeschichte von Real Women Have Curves inmitten von „Horror und Schrecken“ für Menschen ohne Papiere

> „The scale of it, not just the horror and the terror that it’s reigning on people’s lives, but how it’s also eroding the very fabric of our society and the very fabric of what we were taught our country was meant to be. It’s devastating on so many levels,“ Ferrera says, adding that she remembers dealing with racism and xenophobia as a child.

> „I grew up in Los Angeles, the daughter of immigrants, Honduran immigrants. I remember in [1994] being in maybe third grade and Prop [187] was kind of one of these anti-immigrant propositions on the ballot that was all about kind of taking any kind of social services away from undocumented families and their children, including education for kids in elementary school,“ recalls Ferrera. „I just remember being in third grade and having my mom pull me aside and say, ‚You know, you might get asked questions about where you’re from or where your parents are from, and you’ve done nothing wrong and you belong here, and you were born here and you’re raised here and it’s not your fault and you’re not in trouble.‘ And I just remember the fear of that, the sheer fear and confusion and not understanding why.“

It hurts to see how many people hate you just because of what you look like. It hurts to see what they’re willing to destroy because of that hate. They don’t even know us 🙁