Sherin Innis: Opportunity Marred By Loss
Sherin Innis – Guyana from Distant Relatives Project on Vimeo. By Jose Bayona and Jonathan Camhi Sherin Innis’ family was broken apart by the stress of the immigration process. Her husband, Vernon Innis, died from a stress-related brain aneurism in 2008. Doctors told her it was stress-related. She is convinced the stress came from her […]
Victor Peñafiel: Uncertainty Comes Every Thursday
Victor Peñafiel – Ecuador from Distant Relatives Project on Vimeo. By Jose Bayona and Jonathan Camhi Every Thursday afternoon Victor Peñafiel has an appointment at the Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) office in downtown Manhattan. Peñafiel, who is an undocumented immigrant, has an active deportation order from ICE, but he hasn’t been told to leave […]
Nube Shirley Pullola: Raising Three Children By Herself
Nube Shirley Pullola – Ecuador from Distant Relatives Project on Vimeo. By Jose Bayona and Jonathan Camhi Nube Shirley Pullola dreams of going to college one day and getting a degree in education. As an undocumented immigrant, she wants to do it for herself and her four children of 8, 6, 4 and 2 years […]
Luis Toapanta: A Full-Time Remitter
By Vincent Trivett Luis Toapanta wants to move back to Ecuador to be with his two children, his wife, and his parents. Unfortunately, if he were to leave New York, Luis will no longer afford to send his children to school. He says that no matter how much he works in Ecuador, he would not […]
Ana: A Painful Waiting Game
Photo by Alissa Ambrose Ana is an undocumented immigrant, who asked that her face not be shown. By Alissa Ambrose Ana is one of millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States who hopes for immigration reform that would create a clear path to legal residency. Legalization would allow her the right to work, […]
Josette: A Family in Limbo
Josette is a Haitian immigrant who asked that her face not be shown. Her tourist visa expires this month. By Jonathan Vit Josette was lying in bed, sick with malaria, when the ground began to shake. She recalls watching the walls of her Port-au-Prince home shudder in the quake, swaying dangerously close to collapse. “We […]