Roberto Valdez, Thermal, California: "We are like chess pieces that politicians move around"
Shearod McFarland, Jackson, Michigan: "Cage on top of cage"
Farida Fernandez, Los Angeles, California: "Underfunded, understaffed, underresourced"
Hanima Eugene, Oakland, California: "Formerly incarcerated people are struggling"
Raul Luna Gonzalez, El Paso, Texas: "It was impossible for us to protect ourselves"
Claudine Katete, Roanoke, Virginia: "I'm the only one working"
Soledad Castillo, San Francisco, California: "How are we going to pay these bills?"
Blaine Wilson, Tsartlip First Nation: "I feel like it's the old days"
Gabriel Méndez, San Francisco, California: "Even in a pandemic, we're still a minority"
Michael "Zah" Dorrough, Corcoran Prison, California: "Fighting too hard and for too long to go out from a virus"
Emmanuel Rodríguez, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico: "Getting money was such a relief"
Nina Gonzalez, San Mateo, California: "We're in survival mode right now"
Hunter R., Albuquerque, New Mexico: "Online sex work is not easy money"
Anastasia Bravo, Bronx, New York: "Millions of us contribute to this country without having any status here"
Yusufu Mosely, Chicago, Illinois: "You feel a lot of anxiety coming from people"
Mohammed "Mike" Ali, Bay Area: "There's six of us living in a three bedroom"
Oscar Ramos, Salinas, California: "Two of those missing students are from my class".
