Lea Landaverde has set up its US exit strategy since Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2024. Just a few weeks ago, she visited El Salvador’s Consulate General in Las Vegas to start the process to get her double nationality. Landaverde says Trump’s attack on changes in policy against immigrants, Attacks against LGBTQ communities and threats against women’s rights have renewed its urgent need to leave the country.
“It’s been a month since he was in the office and with all the executive commands, everything feels like they collapse. My wife and I think of our safety first. When Trump was elected, I told my parents that all my siblings and I need a double citizenship,” Landaverde told Rier. “What happens if I can’t protect my rights here? Because I am queer, latina, and a woman, as a triple minority, with freaks out. ”
Landaverde is one of the many Latinos in all the US who thinks of a temporary or permanent movement from the country due to concern about how Trump’s policies affect their economy, their careers, their rights and their means of living.
“Everything feels like they collapse.”
Lea Landaverde
As a personal funding teacher and founder of RacityA culturally relevant financial education platform, Landaverde says its business has already taken a major blow. Her regular planning has slowed down Trump’s cuts in diversity, equality and integration (Dei) have been translated into funding for Dei programs in universities and corporate companies. While Landaverde will prioritize the double policy exit plan for herself and her family, she says her goal is to continue to push for economic equality for under -perpetuated communities, even if she needs to temporarily move from her home to Texas, a democratic state in a democratic state.
“The gap of wealth is expanding in real time. Economic education is a form of resistance, it is a form of activism, so it feels like struggling against the granules when you tell people to protect their wealth, to save emergency situations to create a security fund to protect them. “This combined with an exit strategy and a double nationality. You can make moves with confidence and not from rarity.”
Natalia* has also personally experienced headwinds in its field as a Dei consultant for US and international companies. After living abroad for more than six years, he returned to the US in 2024, but with Trump now on office, he wonders if he made the right decision.
“With an exit strategy and a double citizenship, you can make moves with confidence and not a shortage.”
Lea Landaverde
“For me, it is obvious that Dei is just a scapegoat. The government is aiming for political rights. They aim for racial equality and are trying to disassemble decades of working for communities with disabilities, color people, black communities, and all of them. “They are all scary, not only because of what it means right now, but the impact that will have this to future generations.”
Natalia is already a double citizen of the US and the Dominican Republic and while enjoying the study and work abroad throughout her career, the restrictions on the basis of income and work theorizers-and how they are rarely translated to direct trails to citizenship- Now that it has settled back to American Natalia, evaluating how to insist during this provocative climate for dei.
“I left the US for Trump’s first term of office for fear of security as Latina and the understanding that this hate rhetoric would affect the overall climate of many areas in the US,” Natalia’s shares. “This time, my thoughts to leave are just as linked to my safety as Latina, but also my professional career, as it seems less safe for me to share with any law enforcement member, for example, border patrols, what I am really working on that there are” dei watchlist “.
“My thoughts to leave are just as linked to my safety as Latina and my professional career, as it seems less safe for me to share with any law enforcement member, for example border patrols, what I am really working on now that there are” dei watchlist “.
Natalia
Nancy Diaz, who is a Mexican American and initially from Arizona, also left during Trump’s first term. Having experienced a redundancies, exhaustion and split at that time, he says Trump’s hatred only offered an injury and made a decision to buy a one -way ticket to Australia, where 2019 remains easier. Despite a sense of guilt in removing her family in the US, she acknowledged that her move was fueled by her desire for security and stability, as well as her parents asked for the US when they left Mexico decades ago.
“We don’t really get to the stars or set goals that we could easily achieve because of things such as Marianismo and Machismo in our cultures, because they may require the placement of the second family or the position of a partner,” he says. I have a better life here. We have gone so much, so the really healing thing for us is to be able to make very different decisions that will help the next generation. “
Diaz is now a permanent resident of Australia where he works remotely as therapist. He says he is able to support other family members who may want to move to Australia. Meanwhile, in half of the planet, she is worried about her family.
“I have a better life here. It’s just an easier life and you can relax more. You can feel safe.”
Nancy Dimaz
He recalled a mass shooting of 2019 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where more than 20 people were killed a few minutes after the perpetrator shared a manifesto full of hatred that said his attack was “an answer to the Spanish invasion of Texas”. At that time, critics rushed to gather comparisons The repeated use of trump incendiary words such as “invasion”, “criminal” and “animal” when talking about immigrants in and out of the US
“For weeks later. I wanted to tell my parents and family to live in Phoenix not going to Walmart, and then I was like, This is so stupid. They live in a city that has many immigrants and no matter where they go or live, they could also target. So this was the kind I was really scared would happen when he was elected, “Diaz says.
Despite his ephemeral complaints against hate, Trump still uses xenophobic language in his second term, including one of his own Latest Executive Orders to “protect the American people from the invasion”. As a result, Americans continue to suffer from the consequences of harmful rhetoric that encourages violence against immigrant families. In February, 11 -year -old American Jocelynn Rojo Carranza She was committed to suicide after being tortured by classmates who threatened to call immigration and ICE so that her relatives would be deported.
Stefanie gonzalezA personal funding and strategy lawyer now lives in Portugal after living outside the US since he left Texas in 2018. He reports several similar concerns about safety, firearms violence and increased racial inequality as her two children.
“If we returned to the US because we wanted to develop our business faster or bigger and put this need over the security department and it didn’t work and something happened, we would never forgive ourselves.”
Stefanie gonzalez
“When we think about why we moved here [to Portugal] – Safety, Health, School for Children, our Lifestyle, building a viable business wherever we are – at the end of the day, the security department always comes to the top, “says Gonzalez.” If we returned to the US because we wanted to develop our business faster or greater,
Gonzalez and her family put her roots in Portugal, where she is now a relocation consultant with her husband through their business Move me to Portugalabout two years ago. For those planning to leave the US, Gonzalez emphasizes the importance of examining the impact of tax, financial and means of living when moving.
“An output strategy is a big deal, and to really honest with yourself for what you want is important, because the sky forbid you go to move to a country that does not mark your boxes,” Gonzalez advises. “It takes a lot of financial support to get to the point where you go later. It gets a very emotional tax. You literally uproot everything. And it sounds so bougie, but if you are going to make that decision, think about your ideal lifestyle design.”
“America could have been great, but honestly feels like we go back in time.”
Lea Landaverde
For beginners, Gonzalez recommends that you have an emergency fund and to understand the costs of living, the types of visa needed to live or work there and what you need to buy or rent real estate. Before a big move, however, Gonzalez recommends talking to a professional or community of people who have already made a similar move.
Landaverde, the Texas -based personal finance teacher, has already examined many of these points, and works with her parents to submit her documents on Salvador’s citizenship. Although her parents traveled thousands of miles on foot to leave El Salvador Civil War in the 1980sThe country as it knows today is, for her, a safe choice of backup selection. When he hears the slogan of Trump’s campaign, “make America again,” he says he makes her want to cry.
“Make America great? I thought we were going in good direction. However, my nationality, my sexuality and my identity as a woman are challenged almost every day in a place where my parents sacrificed so much of their energy to be here and raise me here, “says Landaverde.” It feels defective, it feels almost like a lie. America could have been great, but honestly feels like going back in time. ”
*Last name was omitted to protect identity.
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