America's Ethnicity History

This some 50 minute podcast takes a different turn on the Me Too movement, and focuses on women in lower levels of society and more specifically, women janitors. ABM is the main company being talked about here, and it talks about how the women who clean our buildings in the woo hours of the night often experience sexual harassment, and even rape, by their male supervisors. Yet, several of these victims, not only in ABM but in the other industries, have a difficulty speaking up against the terrors they have experienced. One of the speakers in the podcast urged us to think about "the systemic barriers that keep night shift janitors and others from coming forward and from reporting this, and from seeking legal help." Maria Magana, one of Vazquez's victims, decided to stay in ABM even after she had been assaulted because she needed the money. And this is where immigration may or may not come in. Another speaker talked about how a lot of "janitors are immigr...

Santos Garcia, 35,   and Marcelina Profecto, 33, had six children together and were farmworkers in the Central Valley. The two were killed in a car crash last March as they were trying to flee ICE officers who mistakenly went after them.   The couple was dead at the scene, after “the driver of the SUV… lost control of the car as he was speeding, veered onto a dirt shoulder and rammed into a power pole.” ICE went after the couple after seeing Garcia, a man who matched “the target’s description,” leave his house in an SUV.   However, Garcia was not the guy they intended to arrest. They couple pulled over after being followed,   but drove off after seeing it was ICE.   Garcia was a Mexican citizen who was removed from the country last year for the third time, but has not encountered ICE in the past nor had a final active order to be removed.   Over 20 dozen people mourned the death of the couple which took place in Delano, California, wh...

Estrellita Nable-Miranda, 64, and her husband Jerry, 63 were professionals in the Philippines, as they both worked as bank tellers (Estrellita even worked for the government before this job).   However, since moving to this US in 2011, they consider themselves a “a low-income family here.” Right before migrating here, Jerry retired while Estrellita switched from being a banker to a businesswomen “selling surgical stainless cookware, Tupperware, Avon products, even insurance plans, and buying and selling apparels.” Unfortunately, her business did not do well, but the couple stayed resilient. Their son eventually petitioned them after he married and was petitioned by a Filipino American and US navy service member. Jerry moved to San Diego in 2011 and Estrellita moved in 2012, which is not uncommon for Filipinos as San Diego is “the fourth city with the most Filipino immigrants in the United States.”   Estrellita said she admired the environment in the US but o...