JoAnna Mendoza, Democratic Congressional Candidate for Arizona: “Undocumented People Deserve a Path to Citizenship”

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The smell of the tortillas that were cooked on a griddle woke up every morning to JoAnna Mendoza (Arizona, 1976). It was four o’clock in the morning and her mother was already preparing the family’s breakfast: burritos. Shortly afterwards, everyone was on a bus to the agricultural fields of Arizona. Mendoza was then nine years old, but also participating in the hard days of work. The family survived with the help of a government food aid program…