Table 3.
Summary of reasons to file a formal complaint of immigration-related mistreatment among Arizona and transnational farmworkers of Mexican descent.
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| Arizona farmworkers | Transnational farmworkers | |
| Prevention of future mistreatment | ||
| Prevent the abuse of others | Para evitar que vuelva a pasar una injusticia/to prevent an injustice from happening again | Para que ya no sigan abusando ni maltratando las personas/so they stop mistreating the people |
| Receive better treatment | Para evitar las injusticias para que no les pase lo mismo/to prevent injustice from happening so it does not happen Para prevenir maltratos en el future/to prevent future abuse Para que no nos sigan tratando mal a las personas/so they (immigration officals) will stop mistreating people Para tener un mejor trato!/to be treated better! Para ayudar a parar la discriminacion/To help stop discrimination Para que nos trate mejor y seamos escuchados/so we are treated better and they listen to us |
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| Raise awareness of immigration-related mistreatment | Para dar a saber las cosas que estan pasando/to make people aware of things that are occurring De esa forma dariamos a saber el maltrato que se les da a las personas/through this (formal complaint) we make known the mistreatment that they (immigration officials) enact on the people Para que se enteren los superiores de lo que esta pasando/so that the leadership or supervisors (immigration officals) know what is occurring |
Para evitar las malos frutos/to eliminate the bad apples (immigration officals) Para que las autoridades mas altas se den cuenta de las injusticias que cometen/as so the upper level immigration officals understand the injustices that are being committed |
| Encourage corrective action | Para que un oficial abusivo sea castigado/so an abusive officer will be punished Para correjir el maltrato de los oficiales/to correct the abusive behavior of the officers No deben permitir que se maltrate a las personas/maltreatment should not permitted Para evitar las malos frutos/to remove the bad apples (immigration officials) |
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| Eliminate systems of discrimination | Para componer el sistema/to fix the system Para que no nos descriminen/so they (immigration officals) will stop discriminating us Para que haiga mas democracia en este lugar/so there is more democracy in this place’ Para que se acabe toda la discriminacion/to stop the discrimination Porque estan legales/because they [people being mistreated] are “legal” (authorized to be in the US) |
Por injusticias por descriminacion/because of injustice and because of discrimination Si no comete uno algo malo, no tienen por que tratarnos mal/if you have not done anything wrong then they (immigration officials) have no reason to treat you badly Todas somas iguales; debemos ser tratados por igual/we are all equal and should be treated equally |
| Protection and well-being | ||
| Recognition of rights | Porque tenemos derechos si tengamos documentos o no/because we have rights, whether we have papers (US citizenship or legal permanent residency documents) or not Porque somos personas igual que ellos/because we are people just like them (immigration officials) Porque roban a la gente de sus derechos/because they (immigration officials) rob the people of their rights Tenemos los mismos derechos que un ciudadano/because we have the same rights as a US citizen Todos somos legales somos humanos con los mismos derechos/because we are all authorized to be in the US with same rights (as any US citizen) Porque nadie tiene derecho de maltratarte/because no one has the right to mistreat you |
Tenemos derechos y hay que reclamarlos/we have rights and we must reclaim these rights Por el humanismo; por que no debe haber injusticias/because of humanism, because there should not be such injustices Somos person/as y tambien tenemos derecho/we are people and we also have rights |
| Well-being of the individual and the collective community | Por el propio bien de uno/for ones own good | Por el bien de nosotros mismos/for the good of all of us |
| Individual and community resistance | Para que nos escuchen y no se nos siga ignorando/so they (immigration authority) listen to us and stop ignoring us) Para que nos respecten mas; y debemos defender nuestros derechos/so they (immigration authorities) respect us and we should defend out rights Deberiamos hablar para defender nuestros derechos; no ser atropellados/we should speak up to defend our rights, and not be overtaken |
Para que sepan que la gente sabe sus derechos/so they (immigration authority) know that the people know their rights Por que debemos quejarnos, todos somos iguales/because we should complain, because we are all equal |
| Mistreatment and abuse | ||
| Es algo illegal si se debe reporter/its illegal (mistreatment) and it should be reported | Abuso de autoridad/abuse of power | |
| Porque en ocaciones abusan de las personas y los intimidan/because on occasions immigration officials abuse the people and intimidate them | Por violencia, abusos verbales,falta de respeto, abuso fisico/because of violence, verbal abuse, lack of respect, and physical abuse | |