Session 5: Ale Trillos’ story

The fifth stage of our “Storied Pilgrimage with Race” series, The Rev. Jani Wild interviews The Rev. Ale Trillos, rector of St. Paul’s-San Pablo Episcopal Church in Salinas, about her life and experience immigrating to America.

Additional Resources

ACTION

Apply for a green card and learn about the process.

REFLECTION

How does your legal status affect your sense of belonging and community?

RESOURCES

Watch a brief “Superstore” mashup video about Mateo, the show’s undocumented character, and his struggles with becoming a legal citizen and with ICE:

Related Superstore video – the employees’ “town hall” on racism goes off the rails:

Watch Paddington 2, a surprisingly poignant story about immigration. The immigrant, in this case, is Paddington himself, who finds himself the unfairly targeted suspect in a police investigation. The movie uses his outsider status as a way of demonstrating how systems of oppression impact immigrants.