The Nikki Clarke Radio Show is transforming lives, one story at a time.
Special guest, Dr Mario Mendoza.
In 1981, at 7 years of age, Dr. Mendoza traversed the US-Mexican border on foot over 12 hours overnight. He ran across the Mexican desert- with a coyote, escaping life-threatening circumstances in a civil war-torn El Salvador. His mother had been working to improve teachers’ rights, and so was being threatened by the government, and the family’s political asylum application was denied. Mario and his family’s pathway to citizenship was through the 1986 IRCA/Amnesty Act – the only one of it’s kind in US History.
Dr. Mendoza is the Founder of the nonprofit organization, Lifeundocumented.org, and the executive producer of a self-funded documentary (An Undocumented Immigrant Story: Immigrant Data and 1986 Amnesty) that speaks to his personal story as an undocumented immigrant and to published data on undocumented immigration. The documentary is an official selection of the 2019 Toronto Documentary Short Film Festival and the 2019 Oaxaca Film Festival.
His mission through Lifeundocumented.org is three-fold: to speak up for and to humanize the undocumented immigrant through their stories and real world data; to add inspiring undocumented immigrant stories and real world data to the media rhetoric, and to support immigration policy that is humane, holistic, data-based, and globally responsive.
Mario Mendoza, MD, MS
Founder, Lifeundocumented.org
Healthcare and Medical Affairs Consultant @ BorderBioMed LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmariomendoza
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