Young Immigration Activists of Atlanta
Our Story
Hi. I’m Emma Schwartz. After Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, I became concerned about the misguided anger in our country towards immigrants. Through El Refugio, I began to organize groups of students to visit the Stewart Detention Center (A privately owned immigration detention center), in Lumpkin GA to visit men who wanted visitors and to teach others about immigration. This project had support, so I founded my school’s Immigration Activism Club. We visit the detention center multiple times a year, do service work, host donation drives with various organizations, engage in political advocacy through letter writing and calling events, and work to educate others. Two years after getting started as a school club, we are expanding to become Young Immigration Activists of Atlanta, so we can engage in political advocacy, educate others, and help individuals on a larger scale.
Our Goals
We are a group of young people who will not buy into the narrative that immigrants are the enemy. We strive to create change through political advocacy and helping individuals and through educating others by showing the human side of the debate on immigration.
How to Get Involved
If you are a high schooler who lives in the Atlanta area who would like to become a member or are an adult who is involved in immigration activism who wants to help or if you have any questions about what we do, email me at schwartz.emma@paideiaschool.org. Also please subscribe to our blog which features student writing on the topic of immigration from members of our group.
Hi. I’m Emma Schwartz. After Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, I became concerned about the misguided anger in our country towards immigrants. Through El Refugio, I began to organize groups of students to visit the Stewart Detention Center (A privately owned immigration detention center), in Lumpkin GA to visit men who wanted visitors and to teach others about immigration. This project had support, so I founded my school’s Immigration Activism Club. We visit the detention center multiple times a year, do service work, host donation drives with various organizations, engage in political advocacy through letter writing and calling events, and work to educate others. Two years after getting started as a school club, we are expanding to become Young Immigration Activists of Atlanta, so we can engage in political advocacy, educate others, and help individuals on a larger scale.
Our Goals
We are a group of young people who will not buy into the narrative that immigrants are the enemy. We strive to create change through political advocacy and helping individuals and through educating others by showing the human side of the debate on immigration.
How to Get Involved
If you are a high schooler who lives in the Atlanta area who would like to become a member or are an adult who is involved in immigration activism who wants to help or if you have any questions about what we do, email me at schwartz.emma@paideiaschool.org. Also please subscribe to our blog which features student writing on the topic of immigration from members of our group.
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