Luis Oyola has over a decade of organizing experience, including coordinating the community response to the Unite the Right rally and anniversaries in Charlottesville, Virginia; building a multi-racial coalition against Immigration Center’s of America’s private immigration detention center in Farmville, Virginia; pressuring Charlottesville officials to increase efforts to investigate the disappearance of Sage Smith; demonstrating in solidarity with Black Lives Matter; advocating for a living wage at the University of Virginia, and much more. At the Legal Aid Justice Center, he led the De-ICE Virginia campaign, helping to bring an end to local government contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), exposing the Norfolk sheriff’s secret contract with ICE, passing legislation paving the way to inspect Farmville, and supporting mutual relief efforts at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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