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There’s an App for that: iPhone and Android Take on Immigrant Rights

There’s an App for that: iPhone and Android Take on Immigrant Rights

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Want to know the rights entitled to undocumented immigrants? There’s an app  for that.

With apps for everything from finding a date to 3-D maps, it seemed  inevitable, if perhaps a bit unusual, that apps would start popping up that deal  with immigrant rights.

One of the latest on this growing list – which includes everything from  border crossing times to answers in the U.S. citizenship test – is “Derechos  humanos”- an app that gives information on the rights of immigrants in both  Spanish and English.

The apps’ creator, Deyvd Morales, was inspired by his own experience with the  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In the country without any documents, Morales was arrested and detained by  the U.S. Border Patrol in June of last year.

For Morales, a college student pondering a future as a lawyer, the experience  showed him how so few of his peers know the rights afforded to them.

“That’s when I knew something had to be done,” Morales told Fox News Latino. “There’s other immigrations apps, but they are not in Spanish or about knowing  your rights.”

Launched in November, the app has been both physically and financially  demanding for Morales.

“Even though it was hard,” he said. “I knows it’s worth it.”

Working with two lawyers to verify that the information on the app is  accurate, for a while Morales was not sure that Apple would approve the  project.

“The waiting process was stressful.”

The free app has been downloaded by over 2,000 users.

But not everyone thinks the apps are useful.

The anti-illegal immigrant group, United Patriots of America, said apps that  help undocumented immigrants should not be accessible to the public.

“Undocumented immigrants have no rights,” founder Ron Bass told Fox  News Latino. “Facebook has it wrong, the president has it wrong, and the media  has it wrong.”

Despite what critics say, the growing number of Latinos using smartphones  makes it likely that more apps will be created dealing with these types of  issues.

According to a March 2012 Nielsen study, 57.3 percent of Latinos are using  smart phones.

“I know a lot of Latinos use their phones and not a computer to access the  Internet,” Lizett  Arias, of the DREAMers of Virginia, told Fox News  Latino.

A report published by Mobile Future and the Hispanic Institute shows that  Latinos are 17 percent more likely to use cell phones to access the  Internet.

Arias said she had never heard of any immigrant rights apps, but she thinks  the idea is “perfect.”

 

 

 

By Kacy Capobres

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