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Rebecca R. Rojer

Rebecca works as a freelance web designer, illustrator & filmmaker under the moniker Beccatron.

Ashley/Amber, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011 and has since screened around the world. You can watch it online at www.ashley-amber.com.

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Throughout my childhood I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys, but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood was haunted by the fear that they would be deported. If I didn’t see anyone when I walked in the door after school, I panicked.

And then one day, my fears were realized. I came home from school to an empty house. Lights were on and dinner had been started, but my family wasn’t there. Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

“My parents were deported” by Diane Guerrero in the LA Times

2014, November 17 rebecca Leave a comment
I wrote a layperson’s introduction to Modern Monetary Theory in this month’s issue of The New Inquiry.

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2014, April 2 rebecca Leave a comment