Maru Mora-Villalpando is a community organizer with NWDC Resistance, a grassroots group working to end the detention of immigrants and stop all deportations. Maru also is a founding member of MiJente, a national political home for Latinx communities across the U.S.

She is a single mother who has been targeted by ICE and put on deportation proceedings due to her work bringing to light the inhumane conditions at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash. Maru is a regular CBNR contributor on immigration.

Immigration, Hispanic Heritage, Political Diversity, Social Justice, Social Activism, Human Rights,