FEMA aid could soon come to storm-ravaged regions in California, but undocumented victims can’t get a slice of the pie.
PAJARO — Dozens of angry flood victims marched down Salinas Road on Thursday to demand respect and dignity for the storm-ravaged town’s about 3,000 inhabitants, raising alarms about alleged government discrimination — based on immigration status — against people seeking aid and demanding that all those suffering be treated equally.
Jose, an undocumented resident who declined to give his last name, told the Bay Area News Group he had spent the last three weeks crammed in a double-bed hotel room in Watsonville with his wife and two children, 13 and 10 years old, paying over $100 a night out of his life savings. Unable to get any financial help from the government, he said for the first time since he emigrated to this United States 14 years ago he was “completely alone” and at his “lowest.
, others worried about the health effects of bathing in the water that officials have deemed unsafe to drink. Still, what some called the two-tiered system of help that puts people with legal immigration status above those without drew most of the anger Thursday. “Everyone’s lives have been turned upside down the same way,” Jose said. “Why am I being discriminated against?”Pajaro residents demanded answers and attention at the Justice for Pajaro march as they try to figure out their next steps on Thursday, March 30, 2023.
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