In this letter to the editor of The New York Times, Archi Pyati, Tahirih Chief of Policy and Communications, writes about the impact of COVID-19 on immigrant survivors and why they are especially vulnerable during the pandemic.
Pyati writes:
The overwhelming gaps in the immigration, health care and public benefits systems work together to make immigrant survivors more vulnerable to abuse in the current environment.
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“I hope my story is helpful to someone else…and can inspire many women to be stronger. We need to help young women identify toxic relationships, so that there are fewer Camilas that go through such difficult things, let alone have our children suffer.”
When I was 15 years old, I left my parents’ home in Mexico. I was sexually abused by my stepfather, and I thought I would be safer moving out with […]
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