{"id":53,"date":"2023-09-24T22:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mona"},"modified":"2024-08-01T02:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T02:51:59","slug":"wiap-featured-on-khol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/es\/wiap-featured-on-khol\/","title":{"rendered":"WIAP Destacado en KHOL"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"53\" class=\"elementor elementor-53\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4b6e956f elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4b6e956f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-58e131d9\" data-id=\"58e131d9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37dd2cc7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"37dd2cc7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p><strong>Originally posted on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/891khol.org\/jackson-immigrants-to-have-more-access-to-legal-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/891khol.org\/jackson-immigrants-to-have-more-access-to-legal-help\/\">Jackson Hole Community Radio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/891khol.org\/author\/hanna-merzbach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hanna Merzbach<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Sep 20, 2023\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/891khol.org\/jackson-hole-news\/immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Immigration<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-772e5db elementor-widget elementor-widget-audio\" data-id=\"772e5db\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-soundcloud-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<iframe width=\"500\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1621013268&#038;show_artwork=false&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;buying=true&#038;liking=true&#038;download=true&#038;sharing=true&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_playcount=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;color\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-83f2f3d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"83f2f3d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\">\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jacksonholecommunityradio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KHOL<\/a>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jacksonholecommunityradio\/jackson-immigrants-to-have-more-access-to-legal-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jackson immigrants to have more access to legal help<\/a><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Sitting on their family couch in Teton Valley, Cristy Liaw Gabel talked to her 4-year-old son, speaking in Indonesian.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Liaw Gabel\u2019s story sounds like that of many who\u2019ve moved to the Tetons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOriginally I thought, I\u2019m only going to live here for a year,\u201d Liaw Gabel said. \u201cSixteen years later, I\u2019m still here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But for a while, Liaw Gabel wasn\u2019t sure if she\u2019d be able to stay at all.\u00a0She\u2019s from the Indonesian island of Sumatra. And when she first came to Jackson to be near her sister and work in finance at St. Johns Health, she received a deportation letter over some incorrect paperwork.\u00a0She only had 60 days to figure it out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re in your early twenties, just graduated from college, that\u2019s the last thing you want to worry about and think about,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>So, Liaw Gabel turned to one of the only immigration lawyers in town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was finally able to hire Rosie as my attorney,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s worth every penny because I\u2019m here now, still with a family and a house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s referring to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu-wy.org\/en\/rosie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rosie Read<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a household name for many immigrants in Jackson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are about five of us, five immigration attorneys in the whole state,\u201d Read said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serving immigrants in the Tetons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back when she helped Liaw Gabel, Read was practicing immigration law at a private firm in town. But she said her goal was always to offer services for free or at a low cost.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s finally coming to fruition. Earlier this summer, she began launching a nonprofit legal center to help immigrants in Teton County.<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-130885\">Rosie Read, the founder of the Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Project, is a longtime immigration attorney in Jackson. (Courtesy of Rosie Read)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re definitely on the takeoff,\u201d Read said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say we\u2019re at cruising altitude yet.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a553642 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a553642\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/rosie-wide.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-320\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/rosie-wide.webp 795w, https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/rosie-wide-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/rosie-wide-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e96889 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e96889\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rosie Read, the founder of the Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Project, is a longtime immigration attorney in Jackson. (Courtesy of Rosie Read)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Currently in the fundraising stage, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyomingimmigrantadvocacy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Project<\/a>\u00a0has been in the works for over six years. Read got the idea around the time Former President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, after he ran a campaign centered around cracking down on border policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read said she saw a groundswell of support for immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started thinking maybe there\u2019s a way to create a vehicle to kind of channel that support and help out this population that was looking like they were going to need a whole lot more help in the very near future,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, Read launched part of the program at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu-wy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the state\u2019s ACLU<\/a>, focusing specifically on violations of civil liberties. Now, she\u2019s expanding that program, saying the scope of needs have become much broader as the immigrant population grows in Teton County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmigrants play a major role in making this place run,\u201d she said. \u201cBut also, immigrants are now your kids\u2019 friends. It\u2019s your neighbor. They\u2019re business owners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Filling a gap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lura Matthews leads Immigrant Hope, which has provided legal aid to immigrants in the region for about seven years. She said there\u2019s a big need here, but her organization can only help with specific cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, they might have married a U.S. citizen or people who have had DACA for a few years, need to renew their DACA, or people who have been green card holders for a while and need to apply for naturalization,\u201d Matthews said.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 30% of Wyoming\u2019s Teton County community is estimated to be Latino,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/891khol.org\/mexican-government-to-open-immigrant-resource-center-in-jackson-hole-to-help-reunite-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">many who\u2019ve immigrated from Mexico.<\/a>\u00a0Read said Central Americans also travel here seeking asylum, and Eastern Europeans come for summer work in the region and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/891khol.org\/thirty-immigrants-become-citizens-at-grand-teton-national-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">often decide to stay.<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04d8360 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"04d8360\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sworn-in-immigrants.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-321\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sworn-in-immigrants.webp 795w, https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sworn-in-immigrants-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sworn-in-immigrants-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f5600e8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f5600e8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">More than 30 immigrants became citizens in August during an annual ceremony at Grand Teton National Park. (Hanna Merzbach\/KHOL)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to Matthews, Immigrant Hope can\u2019t help with all the cases the region sees since it doesn\u2019t have attorneys on staff. She said she welcomes the new nonprofit addressing that need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a gap for more complicated cases and more difficult situations,\u201d Matthews said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Immigrant Justice Center, immigrants are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/immigrantjustice.org\/issues\/access-counsel#:~:text=Immigrants%20who%20are%20not%20detained,according%20to%20the%20AIC%20study.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">five times more likely<\/a>\u00a0to win their case and be able to stay in the U.S. with an attorney.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read said she gets calls from people asking for help all around the state, in places like Casper and Laramie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just hoping people feel less desperate about getting that information,\u201d she said, \u201cfinding someone that can sort of walk alongside them in the immigration journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read said launching the Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Project has been overwhelming, but that the community \u2014 and donors \u2014 have been supportive so far, as it\u2019s been a long time coming.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I\u2019m able to sort of pause and lift my head up from all of that, I kind of can\u2019t believe this is finally happening,\u201d Read said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018I survived to be here\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in Liaw Gabel\u2019s house in Victor, Idaho, she said \u2013 in the late 2000s \u2013 Read helped relieve a lot of her anxiety when she got that deportation letter. Liaw Gabel got a green card shortly after, and in 2015, she officially became a citizen of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-130886\">Cristy Liaw Gabel sits on the porch outside her house in Teton Valley. (Hanna Merzbach\/KHOL)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dc9d402 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"dc9d402\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cristy-gabel-by-hannaMerzbachKHOL.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-322\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cristy-gabel-by-hannaMerzbachKHOL.webp 795w, https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cristy-gabel-by-hannaMerzbachKHOL-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cristy-gabel-by-hannaMerzbachKHOL-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0c174b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f0c174b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cristy Liaw Gabel sits on the porch outside her house in Teton Valley. (Hanna Merzbach\/KHOL)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI survived that whole immigration ordeal, and I survived to be here. It\u2019s a huge accomplishment personally, and now [for] us as a family,\u201d Liaw Gabel said, sitting next to her husband on the couch.<\/p>\n<p>Their son, Asher, squatted in the corner of the living room, playing with green toy garbage trucks, wearing a traditional batik shirt from Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Liaw Gabel said she\u2019s trying to raise her son bilingual to have ties to her native culture, adding that she\u00a0hopes Read can help more immigrants have a success story like her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a big need for it in this community and in the country, and I\u2019m very thankful that I\u2019m done with that chapter of trying to get documentation and paperwork and all that stuff,\u201d Liaw Gabel said. \u201cNow I can live the life and raise our kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Project is slated to begin accepting new clients next spring. And while it\u2019s mainly focused on Teton County, Read said the goal is to help immigrants across the state down the line.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rosie Read is a former board member at KHOL.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUna Nueva Organizaci\u00f3n Sin Fines de Lucro, Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Program, Ofrecer\u00e1 Asistencia a la Comunidad En Crecimiento en el Condado de Teton.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-blog","8":"category-wiap-news","10":"with-featured-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingiap.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}