Our Muertos Never Rest In Peace
7:23 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Washington DC
26 Jun 2009
Between last night and now there are cries all over the internet about letting the dead rest in peace. When the reality is that our dead never get to rest in peace.
Take the death of Ana Fernandez, a mujer who lost her life on the DC Metro when it crashed earlier this week. Fernandez, who left behind six children, doesn’t get the benefit of resting in peace. Instead her last name and image has made her suspect in the eyes of many who have begun calling her bereaved family about her immigration status.
Her family gathered outside her Hyattsville apartment Wednesday. A crying woman who identified herself as Ana’s sister said the accusations aren’t true.
“Right now, the whole family is in pain. She was here legally, and all her children are legal. They were born here.”
Now why does a mourning family have to deal with this on top of the pain of loss and helping 6 children who now have no mother? Are the anti-immigrant haters angry that they didn’t get to claim Ana’s life, the way they claimed Brisenia, her father, Marcelo Lucero, Luis Ramirez, José Sucuzhañay?
Image Via / NBC Washington
- Tags: Ana Fernandez, DC Metro Crash, Immigration
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6 Responses to Our Muertos Never Rest In Peace
The Sucuzhanay Family
June 26th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I’m So Upset To Know That They Are Questioning Their Immigration Status. Whoever Is Making Those Kinds Of Questions Is Instead Of Questioning Whether Those Children’s Will Have A Safe Future Without Their Mother Is INTOLERANT, RACIST, HEARTLESS, PITILESS, INHUMANE, INHUMAN, Etc
I’m The Brother Of Jose Sucuzhanay And I Know The Pain For Which
The Fernandez Family Is Going True. My Deepest Condolences To The All The Ana Fernandez Family; Especially To The 6 Orphan’s!
To Be An Immigrant Is Not Crime; It Is An EXAMPLE OF LIFE. People For Millions Of Year Have Move From One Place To Another Looking For Better Opportunities and Because of Imigrations we have the America today. Please make no mistake. We are all Imigrants.
Sincerely,
Diego Sucuzhanay And All The Sucuzhanay Family. We Can Be Reach At Sucuzhanay@Gmail.Com
Maegan la Mala
June 27th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Diego and Familia,
Mil gracias por tomar unos minutos para estar aqui y dejar un comentario.
My sincere condolences to your family.
We will be in contact.
Dee
June 28th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Maegan,
This is awful!
I am going to post your article on my blog, and show you as Guest Voz.
Thank you for your excellent reporting.
To the Sucuzhanay Family,
All PRO Immigration Bloggers are so sorry for your loss.
We hope to stop all of the hate by blogging and also to ensure that those that commit these hate crimes are punished to the fullest extent of the law!
Maegan La Mala
June 29th, 2009 at 6:32 am
Gracias Dee! Un abrazo
Vicente Duque
July 1st, 2009 at 11:38 am
Thanks to “Maegan la Mamita Mala” and Dee ( from Texas, Immigration Talk with a Mexican American ) I knew of this grave event and the Despicable People that throw insults to the suffering family for having lost a Loving Mother.
This is very sad and I join you in my protest against this bad behaviour.
After the horrible death of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah Pennyslvania there has been also a lot of Racism and Hatred against the Widow and the Latinos in that town.
That People are so mean and so low that they have no respect for the pain of a grave loss in a family. A Loving Father in the case of Luis Ramirez. We always feel a lot of sympathy and never forget Ms Crystal Dillman that has to raise now three children being alone.
We also remember Jose Orlando Sucuzhany and Marcelo Lucero, and their families and will never forget them.
That is why I want to greet Diego Sucuzhanay and make company to the two Ecuadorean Families in remembering those Great Hard Working Men that disappeared so sadly.
I will use my site RACIALITY.COM to make sure that Ramirez, Lucero and Sucuzhanay will never be forgotten. And to prevent futher occurrences of these Racial Murders.
With my heart :
Raciality.com
Vicente Duque
LongIslandWins
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
This report released today authenticates the systematic problems that Latinos in Suffolk County still face. Sadly, not much has changed (for the better) since the Lucero murder.
http://bit.ly/qWOyX