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Only a handful of Latinas in the entertainment industry took a public stand during last year’s uproar over U.S. immigration policy, while tens of thousands of marchers in Southern California took to the streets to protest restrictions on undocumented workers. Yareli Arizmendi, who wrote and starred in “A Day Without a Mexican,” was one of those who demonstrated.
“There is a lot of fear of ‘what could happen’ that would rob them from being citizens and fully participating,” Arizmendi explains about Latinas whom she describes as being in some kind of “lethargic state.”"*
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