From Here | The Power of Identification
Clip: Season 11 Episode 5 | 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Tania Mattos shares her expertise with undocumented immigrants on necessities to survive.
Tania Mattos, an activist and organizer, speaks to other immigrants like herself who are undocumented in the United States. She shares her knowledge of the everyday necessities they all need to survive every day, including possessing a legal form of identification which would allow them to do things that Americans take for granted.
Major funding for America ReFramed provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by Open Society Foundations,...
From Here | The Power of Identification
Clip: Season 11 Episode 5 | 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Tania Mattos, an activist and organizer, speaks to other immigrants like herself who are undocumented in the United States. She shares her knowledge of the everyday necessities they all need to survive every day, including possessing a legal form of identification which would allow them to do things that Americans take for granted.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWhat is it that we need in our lives that are basic necessities?
One is work authorization, right?
Everyone needs to work.
Everyone needs to earn a decent living wage.
Okay.
Two, to access to a driver's license or state ID.
I don't have an ID.
It's really difficult.
Many of us know exactly what that's like, right?
The simplest things that no one can think of.
You can't even go to the post office to take out a package.
So these are the basic things that we are asking for and we feel these are basic necessities.
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