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My parents are refugees from El Salvador — my dad left before he could be recruited for the war while my mom followed because she was in love. They were lucky because they have their citizenship and so do my dad’s parents, but my aunt does not. She finally got approved for her green card and next year will be the first time she will go back to El Salvador in over 30 years. Coming from an immigrant family is a blessing in disguise, because you don’t take any opportunity for granted. I have friends who are Dreamers, know neighbors who just came from El Salvador escaping the gangs, and others who left their home country for different reasons. In my freshman Central American studies class I remember reading stories on assimilation and thinking of those times where I didn’t have to assimilate in high school, because my friends came from different backgrounds. That’s the benefit of living in Los Angeles. There’s two things I love: food and listening to people’s stories. I’ve been lucky enough to try different flavors and listen to people’s stories while growing up in Reseda. More and more restaurants pop up each day of different cultures expressing themselves, which means the new norm is definitely not assimilating but being different. Our Immigration issue cover story follows a group that educates immigrant communities about their resources and dispels fear from answering the 2020 census (pages 6-7). We take a look at this year’s freshmen common reading which is a book that discusses what it means to be an undocumented and unaccompanied minor in the U.S. (page 4) and a playlist to highlight the experience of undocumented immigrants looking for a better life (page 12). Politicians can say immigrants need voices to represent them. While they do on a federal level, they are already doing this in their own communities — so it’s time we listen to them.

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CONTENTS

“The Far Away Brothers” Page 4

Deja Magee

“Nigerian Athlete Joins Matadors on the Court” Pages 10-11

Alfonso Henry

“Pa’l Norte Playlist” Page 12

Ivan Salinas

Lauren Markham delivers an insightful look into what it means to be an undocumented and unaccompanied minor in the U.S.

Distribution Lead Brendan Reed-Crabb Distribution Nicole Benda Emilio Bravo Publisher Arvli Ward arvli.ward@csun.edu General Manager Jody Holcomb jody.doyle@csun.edu

Freshman basketball player Festus Ndumanya is ready to put the Big West on notice.

Enjoy these five songs that highlight the experience of undocumented immigrants looking for a better life in the U.S.

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IMMIGRATION

at a glance

By Gillian Moran-Perez

DACA RECIPIENTS THE TOP 3 STATES WITH THE MOST DACA RECIPIENTS:

660,880

DACA RECIPIENTS AS OF JUNE 2019

21-25

THE AVERAGE AGE OF MOST DACA RECIPIENTS

100 100 100 100 100100

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87% OF PEOPLE VOTED TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF JUDGES HANDLING ASYLUM CASES

FAMILY-SPONSORED IMMIGRANT WAITING LIST BY COUNTRY India 261,765

40 4040 40 4040

IMMIGRANT REMOVALS MADE BY ICE IN 2018

PUBLIC VIEWS ON U.S. ASYLUM POLICY 20 2020 20 2020

IMMIGRANTS LIVING IN THE U.S. IN 2017

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IMMIGRATION IN THE U.S. 4.44 million 256,085

TOP IMMIGRATION HASHTAGS #Funding #FoxNews #Borderwall #Trump #BuildTheWall

Phillipines 301,706 All Others 875,579

Vietnam 228,921 China mainland born 186,307

82% OF PEOPLE VOTED TO PROVIDE SAFE AND SANITARY CONDITIONS FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS

74% OF PEOPLE VOTED REDUCE NUMBER OF ASYLUM SEEKERS 69% OF PEOPLE VOTED TO PROVIDE MORE ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES WHERE ASYLUM SEEKERS ARE COMING FROM

Bangladesh 168,926 Dominican Republic 146,090 Pakistan 115,111

Mexico 1,227,897

Haiti 94,484

El Salvador 64 ,656

53% OF PEOPLE VOTED TO MAKE IT HARDER TO PROVIDE ASYLUM

EMPLOYMENT-BASED IMMIGRANT WAITING LIST All Others 19,541 China mainland born 45,212

Phillipines 301,706

Korea, South 3,851 India 36,806

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60% OF PEOPLE VOTED TO MAKE IT EASIER TO PROVIDE ASYLUM

Vietnam 228,921

PUBLIC VIEWS ON IMMIGRANTS 77% OF AMERICANS BELIEVE MOST IMMIGRANTS FILL JOBS U.S. CITIZENS DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T WANT

IMMIGRANTS ARE 73% BELIEVE AS HARDWORKING AS U.S. CITIZENS IMMIGRANTS ARE 69% BELIEVE NO MORE LIKELY THAN U.S.

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“THE FAR AWAY BROTHERS” BRINGS IMMIGRATION CLOSE TO HOME

Lauren Markham delivers an insightful look into what it means to be an undocumented and unaccompanied minor in the U.S.

by Deja Magee / Photo Illustrations by Elaine Sanders Immigration is an incredibly significant issue happening in the U.S. and has been a part of the country’s history since its inception. From the Asiatic immigrant wave of the early 20th century to today’s discussion of undocumented immigrants and the DACA program, it is an issue that is a major topic among CSUN’s student body that houses a portion of undocumented students. Before the start of every school year, CSUN’s Freshman Common Read Selection Committee, made up of students and faculty, pick a book relevant to a topic that is happening in the world for the incoming freshman to read in their University 100 seminars and additional English classes for freshmen. That book is then read and discussed throughout the semester so students can have a better understanding of the environment around them. This year, the committee picked “The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life” by Lauren Markham. Markham is a journalist, essayist, and author, as well as an advocate for causes that center around migration, youth, and California. She also worked at Oakland International High School as a coordinator for their after school programs. Her position at the school led her to the two main protagonists of the book: the Flores brothers, two boys that made the journey from their small town in El Salvador to escape MS-13 and the other gangs that inhabit the small Salvadorian towns. Markham’s main mission while writing this novel was

to understand the circumstances behind why the unaccompanied minors, who successfully made it across the border, came to California. “In the VQR story, I had focused on the children who were caught, but I soon found myself chasing another story: What happened to the children that weren’t caught?” she said. The story opens with Ernesto and Raul Flores, two 17-year-old boys who, with their brother Wilbur acting as their guardian, try to make it to a court case in an attempt to stay in the U.S. They are without a lawyer and are stuck in downtown San Francisco traffic, thus arriving an hour and a half late to court. Markham paints a grim picture of the early lives of the brothers, who were two children in an 11-person household in El Salvador trying to live amidst the strife and warfare from the local gangs surrounding them. Because of this, their brother Wilbur was the first one to leave, putting a hefty debt on the family’s shoulders. After seven years away, Wilbur paid off his debt and ended contact with his family in their home country. However, after some turn of events, Ernesto had to emigrate north to escape his uncle’s goons from an in-town gang. Because Raul is Ernesto’s twin, his family decided that it was best if he went as well to not get mistaken for his brother and, in turn, get killed. Markham won the 2018 Ridenhour Book Prize, the Northern California Book Award and the California

Book Award with the release of this book. “The Far Away Brothers” offers an insightful and first-hand look into what it’s like to be an undocumented and unaccompanied child in America who escapes a country filled with gang violence in search for a better life. Markham shines a light on specific struggles of immigration that aren’t as touched upon, such as mental illness, alienation and the disillusionment of what the north means to immigrants versus what their actual experiences are like once they get to the U.S. The Flores twins have their reality rattled when they realize living in the north is a lot more difficult than what they thought it would be. While trying to live with their brother and his girlfriend, they succumb to night terrors, panic attacks and anxiety because of their long trek into the U.S. Both develop habits that silence their anxieties like drinking and smoking marijuana. It also shows how their eyes are opened when their perspectives change on what it means to be in America in a time when, during the Obama administration, immigrants were getting deported at higher rates in the past, while the unknowing threat of what a Trump presidency means for their future in America looms over them. As one of its final thoughts, the book states: “Trump represented the dark but very real sides of the U.S. that are filled with subtleties of racism, classism, and xenophobia only immigrants could see.” If you want to know more Lauren Markham check out her profile for Face Of Immigration.

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Andrea Reynoso, 25, a Dreamer/DACA student, says her parents never filled out the census and expresses itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for people in her community to get educated on the census and other resources.

One of the many signs hanging in the Pacoima City Hall office advertising the 2020 Census.

A map that represents the San Fernando Valley region. The shaded areas are hard to count communities, where response rates to the census in the past have been low. These are the areas Pacoima Beautiful plans to educate about the census.

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2020 CENSUS:

EXPLAINING AWAY FEAR Why it’s important to educate immigrant communities about their resources and dispel fear from answering the census. by Gillian Moran-Perez / Photos by Logan Bik Inside the glass offices of Pacoima City Hall, a Latina in a yellow cardigan was instructing representatives from different organizations across the San Fernando Valley on how to organize themselves for the upcoming United States 2020 census. In a matter of minutes, small groups were spread across the room, each one representing the different areas of the Valley they would cover, from North Hollywood to Van Nuys to Reseda. The San Fernando Valley Complete Count Committee meets a few times a month to plan for the upcoming Census 2020. They’re getting ready to educate their community about the census, especially since their area is known as a “hard to count community.” “We are here as a complete count committee to make sure that everyone gets counted and that we go out into our communities and make sure that we inform people, we educate people and we create awareness and motivation to make sure that everyone gets counted,” said Margarita Lopez-Pelayo, community organizer of Pacoima Beautiful. About seven months ago Pacoima Beautiful, a grassroots organization in Pacoima, paired up with local organizations with representatives of elected officials from the Los Angeles Region to create a plan on how to make sure their communities get counted for the census. There’s over 25 members representing different areas in the San Fernando Valley coming together to talk about different outreach efforts to target their communities. The San Fernando Valley region is known as a “hard to count community” that has high low responsive scores, said Lopez-Pelayo, “meaning in previous census efforts, these communities were not responding to filling out the form compared to other communities.” But there’s a reason for these low responses. Cities like Pacoima are filled with immigrants or sometimes only Spanish-speakers, “who might not have a full understanding of what the census is, or due to the citizenship question being proposed on the census form might fear answering or participating on the census form and have little to no trust in the government,” said Lopez-Pelayo. According the United States Census 2020 site, information filled out by the people is protected under Title 13 of the U.S. Code to keep information confidential. Data is protected by law and cannot be used against an individual by any government agency or court, including law enforcement. The response scores throughout the Valley vary from 0-60% mail return rate or 60-65%. During the meeting, a map of the Valley was propped up to show the low response rates and where the members were going to cover. Some of these areas include Northridge, San Fernando and Pacoima. “That’s the goal — to fill the gaps and get everyone counted, children counted, family counted, immigrants counted, anyone, whether they’re homeless or not, even students,” said Lopez-Pelayo. She explains that this upcoming census is unique because residents will receive a postcard with a code to register and fill out the application online. However, this is a challenge because not everyone has internet access. The census will mail

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out a paper form to those who do not register online, but even that does not guarantee everyone will fill it out. Lopez-Pelayo said that the census is really important for their communities to get the proper funding for hospitals, schools, parks — any public space. “We have to have an honest reflection of how many people live in this community,” she said. “If we don’t, we are at risk at losing essential funding that our communities need.” For now, the committee has been working on a timeline of events to attend in their communities where they can educate people about the census. Any event from a church function to a cultural festival is an opportunity for them to spread the word and prepare their communities.

“There’s a reason why I was placed in this role, and it’s because I feel passionate about it and only someone who is passionate about their work can engage others to follow, to engage and to be present and to incorporate themselves into this complete count,” said Lopez-Pelayo. Lopez-Pelayo grew up in Pacoima after moving from Mexico City at the age of six. She has worked for non-profits for over 20 years and this experience has helped her in her leadership role in the Complete Count Committee. “There’s a reason why I was placed in this role, and it’s because I feel passionate about it and only someone who is passionate about their work can engage others to follow, to engage and to be present and to incorporate themselves into this complete count,” said Lopez-Pelayo. She said conversations among the community and even her family have started about the census because of that threat of the citizenship question being on the census. “It’s like an evil in disguise that has cost irreparable damage, creating a lot of fear but also lead to people asking questions, what is the census, what does it mean, how does it affect me,” said Lopez-Pelayo. According to NBC news, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration cannot add the citizenship question to the 2020 Census, saying that although the government has a right to ask the citizenship question, the court majority ruled that the justifications were “contrived” or forced. Over 90 members of the community meet in the evenings to get informed and they have 50 youth from their Youth United Towards Environmental Protection learning about how the census affects

their family. They are encouraging their parents to participate and will eventually do phone banking and go door to door informing families about the census. “Youth are very intelligent and motivated in making sure that we have a fair count because it affects them, it’s their future, 10 years for someone who’s about to graduate means a lot, in 10 years they could get their degree, get married, have children and it will affect them directly,” said Lopez-Pelayo. Andrea Reynoso, 25, a Dreamer and a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals student at CSUN, says her parents have never filled out the census because they speak only Spanish and they work so they don’t have the time to get educated. She remembers when she was filling out the DACA application after high school, and her friends were scared for her because she was putting her personal information on there. “You need to stop being fearful,” Reynoso had told them. “If I don’t take the risk, I’m not gonna move up in life.” She found out she was undocumented during her senior year of high school when she was supposed to be applying for colleges. Her teacher explained to her she couldn’t get financial aid because of her status. “Why am I so different?” she had asked. “You grow up thinking you’re so like everybody and then you realize, in a moment of your life, you are not privileged to have that,” said Reynoso. To this day she says she walks on “a thin piece of paper” knowing any risky move could remove her DACA status. But that doesn’t stop her from informing others. As treasurer for Hermanas Unidas, a non-profit organization at CSUN, she says she looks for scholarships for other DACA students and tells them where to renew their application. Reynoso will be graduating in the spring with a bachelor’s in liberal studies and a bachelor’s in Chicana/o studies. She wants to be a math teacher and work for low-income communities, hopefully at her old school, San Fernando High. She sees herself starting a club for Dreamers and other DACA students, informing and gaining trust from their parents about resources in the community, even about the census. “As a community we have to keep pushing, speak up so we can be heard. If we don’t fight, things are going to be reversed back, we want to fight for justice, for something that’s going to benefit us and our future kids,” Reynoso said. “We have to break those stereotypes. People say ‘si se puede,’ but no, it’s ‘si se pudo.’ We have come a long way in our history but as long as we get educated, we are able to overcome these struggles.” Lopez-Pelayo looked at all the members at the Complete Count Committee meeting and thanked them for coming out, motivating them to talk to their communities. She tells them it’s important they get their community engaged. “We all need to get counted, we cannot allow fear tactics from Trump’s presidency allow us to be put into the shadows and that this is a safe process and that we have organizations like Pacoima Beautiful that people can come to for support,” she said.

FACES OF Paola Suarez

President of Dreams to be Heard by Alexia Mersola

Photo courtesy of Paola Suarez

Paola Suarez is the president of Dreams to be Heard, a campus organization that provides support to immigrant students. Like the students she serves, Suarez is also undocumented. She first got involved in Dreams to be Heard when she was just a freshman, where she began as a general member before becoming secretary and then vice president. “I worked to become president because I have a lot of ideas and wanted to work along with a board that is just as passionate as I am,” she said. Suarez has big goals for Dreams to be Heard and how they can make positive change at CSUN. “My goal for the organization is to create a strong network of members, alumni, faculty, staff and allies,” she said. “With the help of our board, we want to help provide a sense of community to

this highly resilient population so they do not feel alone in their struggles.” Part of seeking justice for the immigrant community involves creating a safe space for them at CSUN. Dreams to be Heard recently asked the CSUN administration to bar Customs and Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland and Security from recruiting at CSUN because it causes many students to feel unsafe at their own campus, Suarez explained. “I want to make sure that folks know that they have access to spaces that allow them to come together and bond not just over our shared struggle as immigrants but also to show one another our multidimensionality as students and human beings in general,” she said.

Alvaro Castillo

Academic Adviser for Matador Advising Hub by Leticia Barcenas Navarro

Photo by Tim Strong

When he was in high school, Alvaro Castillo didn’t believe he could apply to college since he was undocumented. Instead, his plan was to get a job and to help support his family. During a conversation with a friend, however, he found out that he could in fact go to college. From there he enrolled at Pierce College, and thus began his college career. Three years later, Castillo transferred to CSUN, where he was determined to make up for lost time. Because he was a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals student, his academic adviser suggested that he intern at the DREAM Center. Castillo got the internship, which was his first job that wasn’t construction and gardening. He went on to hold numerous jobs and internships on campus, including stints at the College of Humanities, the Learning Resource Center — where he worked as a writing instructor — and a graduate senator for Associated Students. Castillo went on to earn his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English with an emphasis in creative writing at CSUN and today, he works as

an academic adviser at the Matador Advising Hub, where he is still pushing for student success. “Students teach me how to support them ... I never had that support,” Castillo said about his own years as an undergraduate. “And at the same time, the students teach me more about myself.” Originally from Nayarit, Mexico, which is located on the Pacific Coast west of Guadalajara, Castillo was brought to the U.S. at the age of three by his parents, who were in search of a better life. As his friends started getting licenses and jobs, Castillo soon realized that his undocumented status kept him from those things. When the DACA program was announced, he was skeptical but his parents encouraged him to apply. The program allowed him to experience academic opportunity without living in fear. “They call us dreamers. But I mean, that doesn’t mean we fantasize about what we want our lives to be,” Castillo said. “Being a dreamer today is about looking at how you’re going to accomplish your goal, being realistic about it and never losing hope that you can do it.”

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IMMIGRATION Brenda Montes

Assistant Director of CSUN Student Legal Support Clinic

by Luis Vasquez

Photo by Shae Hammond

When she was younger, Brenda Montes, the assistant director of CSUN’s Student Legal Support Clinic, wanted to serve immigrant communities through a career in journalism. Her passion for social justice was kindled by Univision’s Jorge Ramos because she admired his ability to tell stories about the issues Latinos in the United States face. Montes, whose parents received amnesty through Ronald Reagan’s Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986, was encouraged by her mother to fight for others’ rights. “I wanted to become the next Jorge Ramos, but my mother preached the importance of education and encouraged me to help my community through advocacy,” she said. Montes switched her dreams to law and graduated from UCLA’s School of Law in 2011. In addition to practicing law and helping at the Student Legal Support Clinic, she is also a part-time Chicana/o studies professor.

The Clinic provides CSUN students with legal consultation and information about their legal rights. It also provides referrals to pro-bono or low-cost legal services. Montes believes that the law can protect people from oppression, but she also believes the policies of the current presidential administration are inflicting harm on immigrant communities. Because of this, she dedicates her energy as an attorney and teacher to those who have been hurt by Trump’s immigration policies and champions those who believe they don’t have a voice. “Teaching at CSUN allows me to contribute by preparing students in being politically aware, providing value to those who cannot vote or have no status in this country,” she said. “Giving them hope that someone is out there advocating for you ... The worst thing we can do is turn our backs to those who are in dire need of our help, we have to do more, our work is not complete.”

Lauren Markham

Author of “The Far Away Brothers”

by Natalie Schetritt

Photo courtesy of Lauren Markham

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Journalist, educator and advocate for immigrants and refugees Lauren Markham was the author behind CSUN’s 2019 freshman common reading book, “The Far Away Brothers.” She was also the keynote speaker at CSUN’s 2019 Freshman Convocation. Through her story about twin brothers who escape El Salvador by making their way across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert to California after being threatened by gangs, Markham hopes to instill a clearer understanding of immigration and the struggles many migrants face today. “I felt that it was important to give young immigrants the opportunity to see themselves centered in a story,” Markham said. Markham has worked with migrant youth at an Oakland high school that serves recently-arrived immigrants from 35 countries. She was able to help many of her students gain access to social services support, mental health care and legal counsel. The school’s philosophy holds that students are not going to be successful if there are significant external stressors in their lives, such as a lack of access to medical or legal services if they were facing a deportation hearing,

said Markham. “If they have a pending deportation hearing and no lawyer — of course that is going to be a massive distraction from math class,” she said. While working at the school, Markham recognized the growing population of unaccompanied minors coming from Central America. A pivotal moment in her career was when several of the unaccompanied minors she was covering in her stories as a journalist began enrolling at the school where she worked. At that moment, she realized that she was standing at the intersection of the major themes in her life: immigration, education and journalism, and that led to Markham write her book. “I used journalism to think about larger questions of migration dynamics and social justice and injustice dynamics happening on a larger scale,” she said. Markham urges people to think about the complexities of root causes that lead to forced migration, rather than just the fact of someone crossing a border. “The attack on immigrant individuals and the institutions and legal frameworks of protection within the immigration system is pretty unprecedented,” she said.

NIGERIAN ATHLETE JOINS MATADORS ON THE COURT Festus Ndumanya is ready to face the Big West By Alfonso Henry / Photography by Sonia Gurrola

Portrait of Festus Ndumanya before practice on Oct. 15.

The best advice that men’s basketball freshman Festus Ndumanya has received in his life is “no pain, no gain.” The 6-foot-7-inch forward had never been tested by these words more than when he emigrated from Anambra, Nigeria to San Juan Capistrano, California at the age of 16. It was a tough transition for Ndumanya, coming to the United States as a sophomore in high school with French as his only language. “The cultures between Nigeria and the United States are very different,” he said. “When I moved to the

United States it took me a while to get used to the culture, but I am used to it now.” However, Ndumanya found comfort on the basketball court. He joined the basketball team at Capistrano Valley Christian School, where he averaged a double-double in his junior and senior years. As a junior he averaged 14 points and 10 rebounds per game, and in his senior year he averaged 18.9 points, 13.3 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game. In each season with the CVCS Eagles, he shot 67%. Ndumanya led his high school team to their first

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ever California Interscholastic Federation - Southern Section Boys Basketball Championship last season, something he looks back on as his biggest accomplishment so far. He won several awards following his senior season such as Orange County Register All-County Second Team recognition and CIF-SS Division 3A Player of the Year. He also received recognition from his team by being named captain prior to his senior season. The Eagles won 47 games in their last two seasons under Ndumanya’s leadership, including six CIF-SS playoff victories that culminated in a championship ring. Ndumanya describes his playing style as athletic, versatile and geared toward defense. He models his game after Shaquille O’Neal, his favorite player. “Shaquille O’Neal always had that toughness and was not afraid of anybody,” Ndumanya said. “He was very tough to guard.” In addition to O’Neal, Ndumanya also looks up to current Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo and Orlando Magic forward Al-Farouq Aminu, two athletes with Nigerian roots that have careers in the NBA. He grew up a big Chicago Bulls fan, but he was more drawn to Dennis Rodman than Michael Jordan. “While living in Nigeria, the Chicago Bulls were the only NBA team that I knew about,” Ndumanya said. Just like his favorite players, Ndumanya prides himself on his defense and is more than willing to make the big stops late in the game. “When the game is on the line during the last minute, I can be counted on to make the defensive stops that are needed down the stretch,” Ndumanya said. When he is not in class or at practice, Ndumanya can still be found working on his game. While his biggest impact on the game is felt with his pure athleticism and physicality, he acknowledges where he feels his game

falls short the most. “One thing that I am improving on is my jump shot so that I can have that in my arsenal,” Ndumanya said. “A jump shot is very important to have, especially when games come down to the wire.” When it came time for Ndumanya to decide on a college, UC Irvine, UC Riverside and California Baptist University expressed interest, but CSUN was the only school to offer him an athletic scholarship. His decision to become a Matador was based not only on that, but also because of how comfortable he felt with the players, some of whom he played against in high school and the Amateur Athletic Union, during his visit. “I really like the coaching staff and the environment at CSUN. They see a lot of potential in me,” Ndumanya said. Becoming a Matador meant that Ndumanya would have to relocate once again, this time from Orange County to the San Fernando Valley. When he left for college, his parents had mixed emotions but were ultimately proud of how far their son had come. Ndumanya knew it was time to branch out on his own. “It was my time to get away from home. Living on your own is always a great experience,” Ndumanya said. “You grow a lot by getting out of your comfort zone.” Ndumanya, who is majoring in art, has set a goal to make the most of his opportunities at CSUN and see how far basketball takes him. He said that he would play overseas or in the NBA if he’s given the chance. When asked what his advice to young people is, he said, “Whatever you are doing in life right now, love what you do and don’t give up.” Ndumanya and the rest of the men’s basketball team start their season with an exhibition game on Oct. 28 against CSU Dominguez Hills at 7 p.m. at the Matadome.

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Calle 13

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La Santa Cecilia

Puerto Rican rapper Calle 13 takes on a rebellious and positive approach to the experience of many immigrants. Highlighting the strength and resilience of people looking for a better life, the lyrics state: “Being an immigrant, that is my sport. Today I go up north without a passport without transport. On foot.” The music video heavily centers on immigrants who have to cross the desert, walking for long hours. The lyrics also reference the Catholic faith with the Virgin of Guadalupe. The Mexican people adopted “Santo Toribio” as the immigrant saint for border crossers.

In this song, La Santa Cecilia references the Immigrant Customs Enforcement Agency of the U.S. and portrays it as a dark entity loose on the streets. The band sings of characters Jose, Eva, and Marta as they go about their day while fearful of not returning back home for simply going to work, driving, or going to school. The final line of the song, “One stays here, one stays over there,” captures the separation of families by ICE, when parents are undocumented but their children are citizens.

The bohemian lyrical tone from the French-Spanish musician Manu Chao tells the story of a clandestine immigrant “lost in the grand Babylon,” as the lyrics describe, giving the protagonist a wanderer-like feeling to the song. His background story is said in one line of the song: “My life, I left it between Ceuta and Gibraltar.” The line is a metaphor of the dual or “inbetween” state of mind many immigrants experience. It is also referencing two cities in Morocco and Spain which are regions divided by the Mediterranean and Atlantic Oceans where a lot of undocumented immigration occurs. From Ceuta and other African countries, many immigrate north to Gibraltar, Spain and the rest of Europe.

PA’L NORTE PLAYLIST

These five songs highlight the experience of undocumented immigrants looking for a better life. Spanish-speaking artists tell the painful and resilient stories of people migrating from South to North America and from Africa to Europe. Check out the full playlist on Spotify THE SUNDIAL

Frijolero Molotov

Mexican rap rock band Molotov takes on another popular derogatory term to highlight the violence, racism and political issues between Mexico and the United States. The song combines norteño music and the western “cowboy” mood, showing that the two are very similar cultures. Drummer Randy Ebright, who is from the United States, was inspired to write this song after an incident in an American airport. TSA agents tried to check his daughter’s diaper for drugs simply because she had Mexican traits and was with Ebright, who is AngloSaxon.

Tres Veces Mojado Los Tigres del Norte The Mexican norteño group dedicates this song to immigrants who have to cross three borders, from El Salvador to Guatemala, Mexico, and finally the U.S. It tells the story of an immigrant leaving El Salvador given the corrupt political and economic situation, as the song says, “For many there’s no other solution than to leave their country.” The word “mojado,” which translates to “wetback,” is a derogatory term for undocumented immigrants that refers to the multiple rivers they had to cross.

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