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Let's Change the Picture

  • Hilde Hartnett
  • Dec 13, 2019
  • 2 min read

Updated: Feb 3, 2020




We created Graphic Defense to shed light on the lives of vulnerable, often voiceless people struggling with injustice. We present their stories in graphic narrative form and provide both source materials documenting their experiences, and clear and effective ways that readers can act on their behalf.


Our aim is to educate, motivate and mobilize our community to help change these pictures.


Started by former journalists and comic book creators, Graphic Defense collaborates with artists, lawyers, academics, writers, activists and others. Our calls to action are concrete and aimed at achieving results.




Help Change Their Picture



Our First Story


“Fighting For America: My Family’s Separation Story”, is told by 17-year-old Pamela Juarez, a high school senior from Florida who has been working for more than a year to reunite her family. Her mother, a Mexican immigrant who crossed the border as a teenager, was forced from the country and permanently banned despite her nearly two decades of marriage to Pamela’s father, a U.S. citizen and veteran of both the Marine Corps and Army who served in combat in Iraq. Pamela, her 10-year-old sister Estela and their father need help to bring Alejandra home.


How to Help


Please sign the petition, which will be presented to members of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Please share it with everyone you can.


U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla, has introduced two bills that would help the Juarez family and prevent what happened to them from happening to others. The Protect Patriot Spouses Act, HR 557, would enable immigrant spouses of those who have served honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces who meet certain requirements to be eligible for resident status. The other bill, HR 581, is specifically aimed at allowing Alejandra to return to her family. Please contact your representatives in Washington, D.C., and ask them to support these bills, and ask your friends and family to do the same. Click here to find your representatives.


American Families United has a petition calling for the U.S. Senate to enact legislation that would protect the spouses of all U.S. citizens who have not violated any non-immigration laws. Similar waivers and exemptions have already been passed in the U.S. House of Representatives for people brought as children and have been proposed for agricultural workers. Please sign this petition, and again, we ask that you urge others to do the same.


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Find Out More


There are thousands of other veteran and active military families facing circumstances similar to those of the Juarez family. Here are just a few of their stories. The first is about an active duty soldier taking a short leave to say goodbye to his mother before her impending deportation.






LET'S SEE JUSTICE TOGETHER.



 
 
 

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