As protests erupt across the country against the Trump administration’s raids and mass arrests of migrants by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ), música Mexicana singer Ivan Cornejo showed his support for his community by helping raise funds for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA).

“In 1986, my dad was one of the 3 million undocumented immigrants to receive amnesty from Ronald Reagan, allowing him to have legal status in the U.S. President Reagan and other former presidents have recognized the value that immigrants bring to this country,” began Cornejo in his statement posted to social media on Tuesday. “We have and continue to contribute not only economically but culturally and have been doing so forever.”

“America was built on the backs o

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