Housing is a Human Right

Housing is a Human Right by Felipe Zurita

About 3 years after I graduated from university as an international student, I was working for an organization that decided to not sponsor my working visa anymore. For those that don't know about immigration law in the USA, once your visa ends, you have 6 months to find a new employer to sponsor a new visa, or you must go back to your country. You are not able to work until you have a new visa, so you are caught in a tough position in which you must work and get paid "under the table", income that you can't report. While I was looking for jobs, I did everything and anything I could to stay afloat. I started tutoring math, English, Spanish, and sciences. I did [...] Read more.

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