Y’all want a thread on how a certain immigration rights org protects abusers? Ya girls feeling chismosa

Alright so I’ve done a thread about this before but let me do one again:

So I joined an immigrants right org almost 5 years ago! I won’t be naming the “the largest group of undocumented youth in the country” or hint that they love orange or anything.

Anyway when I joined them 5 years ago I was a very shy 16 year old who was honestly super lame in school and felt really cool here because they immediately accepted me into their group and pushed me into roles I felt valued in.

It’s important to tell y’all why I left after 2 years of constant work and campaigns since I’ve heard they tell people I left because I was petty and didn’t get offered a paying role despite doing over 900 hours of community service with them.

I left the Unnamed Orange Group because I witnessed first hand how they take advantage of volunteers, how they misuse funds and how favorites are a huge role in the org.

But ultimately I left because during the summer of 2016, I was asked to help in a campaign to free a detained dad. I jumped on board to help organize a art fundraiser.

I didn’t drive at the time so a volunteer. Let’s call him Ivan. Offered to give me a ride to a meeting space.

Ivan had always given me super ugly vibes but I ultimately agreed to go on condition that my sister would go with me.

When she got into the car he suddenly became defensive and was surprised I wasn’t alone.

The car ride to the meeting consisted of a lot of “so are you single” and “why are you single” type questions to “I don’t have a problem with gays as long as they don’t talk to me”

Upon arriving at the meeting spot he offered to buy me a drink. I declined since I was “working” and was also 18. He offered again a few times, then suddenly got angry and started to yell and grab me saying “don’t make me cause a scene and get mad in front of all these people”

“Don’t say no and get a drink! I’m doing you a favor”

There where 4 other adults in the space and the only person to step in was my 16 year old sister.

I saw him a few weeks later, where he forced me to hug him because “hugs are the polite way to great your friends “

Again I saw him months later when I visited the office space and he followed me into the basement bathroom to “talk”

I finally decided to tell someone (a staff member) what happened. This was a staff member I had met the first day I joined the org and whom was like a brother to me.
He basically told me “You’re over reacting that’s just how he is”

And “maybe if you didn’t act like a victim all the time you would see he was being nice!”

I tried to leave the org for a while after this but since my actual paying job worked with them it was hard to do so.

Fast forward to December 2017: I joined a bus of Houstoians on a caravan to DC to help fight for the DREAM ACT. For a week I was surrounded by awesome immigrants who I’m grateful to have met.

Everything was great until the last night when a kid named Abe approached me and asked if I could talk to him in private. In the hallway he told me if I didn’t follow him to his room he would probably commit suicide that night.

Not knowing what to do I told staff I was going to speak to Abe in the hallway (there was a group of members hanging in my room). For about 3 hours this kid shared with me some dark ass shit.

He talked about abusing his ex, about wanting to kill his dad, about his cats??? And other crap all while repeatedly trying to touch me. I was scared and eventually was able to make an excuse to leave (after 3 fucking hours no one came to look for me. At 3 am...)

I left but not before he repeated grabbed and asked me if I wanted to hookup bc if not he might kill himself.

I left. and cried in my hotel room til it was time to leave at 7am. Again I reported it this time to a female staff member. She didn’t immediately act on it but said we would address it when we arrived in Houston.

I had to figure out how to cause a huge scene because this guy was about to get on a bus with us (he thought I was a minor btw). Thankfully he “fainted” and “lost his memory” and couldn’t remember what he said last night.

They sent him home on a plane with my roommate. Who I later found out he had cornered and yelled at the same night he locked me into the room.

My issues where addressed two weeks later where I was informed he was banned from the space. After this I quit my job to try to get away from this org

Recently I found out that the org had a registered sex offender on staff. After sharing my story with people I found out numerous women have reported abuse from male memebers of the org and it goes unnoticed.

I mean why would they address volunteer harassment when they have a whole child molestor as a staff member???

Anyway this is just my story about times I was harassed in a “safe space” and was told it was my fault by their staff. My advice if you’re planning to join this stupid ass org. Don’t

I’m not saying the org as a whole is shit all I’m saying is that when I asked for help I was told they would handle it yet I was harassed on numerous occasions