Immigrant Heritage Month

Just yesterday I wrote about my lack of writing and today I have two posts. Today marks another Immigrant Heritage Month. In the current toxic political environment, heartless targeting of immigrants and separating families, it is important to remember my own family immigration story. So I do it once again, at the start of each June (see last year, 2016, 2015, and 2014).

Photo by Patrick Jones. Mural at Guisados Echo Park, Los Angeles. 19 May 2018.

Another generation back, my 2nd-great-grandfather, Vicente Plutarco Campuzano, supported immigrant rights in Liga Protectora Latina between 1913-1916 while he lived in Arizona. "Uno para todos, todos para uno" was the motto of the organization. In keeping with that spirit I am again supporting a few organizations that help immigrants such as the National Immigration Law Center and ACLU.

Photo by Patrick Jones. Mural at Guisados Echo Park, Los Angeles. 19 May 2018.