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The way of Tenoch Huerta It hasn’t been easy in acting, especially since she realized that she no longer wanted to tolerate the common places and the stigmatization of the roles she was asked to play and decided to make the fight against discrimination and racism a personal cause. But now he is at his best and at the peak of his popularity with his participation in the upcoming Marvel film “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”.
In La Opinion Hoy, Huerta told us about his new podcast, ‘potato’along with Mexican actress and model Stephanie Sigman.
“Potato” is a 6-episode miniseries that follows Abigail Smith (Sigman), a mixed-race US customs agent who has never felt comfortable in her own skin. When she was a child, her brother, Pedro, called her “potato” (potato): brown on the outside, white on the inside, while Pedro never had a problem being himself.
“This project, this podcast, portrays the life of a Mexican-American family of migrants, but particularly these two brothers and the conflict that occurs, when one of them, who is my character, has problems with migration”, detailed the actor.
The also activist explained that the sister, who is “totally accustomed to american culture“, you must deal with this situation.
Huerta alleged that he does not like the word ‘Hispanic’ because it leaves out “our compadres from Jamaica or our compadres from Brazil”.
More than 40,000 immigrants are in detention
More than 40,000 immigrants are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention (ICEfor its acronym in English) and the Office of Customs and Border Protection of the United States (CBP, for its acronym in English), according to a recent report on arrests, but also indicated an increase in the integration of new citizens into the system alternative detention, which already adds almost 500,000 migrants.
“The customs agency continue with the operations to detain immigrants, many of those who arrive in the United States continue to be detained by the Agency and others are detained in prisons that are managed by private contractors, but by the command of ICE,” explained Jesús García, an immigration expert at La Opinion.
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