Derechos Herencia is a Spanish app for iPhone/iPad and Androids that includes menus for different law enforcement agencies specifically with information about deportation and immigration laws.
These menus include info about the Border Patrol, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as well as local police. The app was created by a 21 year-old undocumented immigrant, Deyvid Morales, with help from Subsplash.
According to The Salt Lake Tribune, Morales created the app after a personal experience with immigration officials. When he was detained by the Border Patrol in June of last year after being stopped and searched on a bus, he told people in English and Spanish on the bus what their rights were.
Then he got to thinking:
“I can’t be in every bus telling them their rights, but I could make something that would be like if I was in the bus and telling them what their rights were,” Morales said. “So I thought of an app.”
Read more about Derechos Herencia at the Tribune or the app’s Facebook Page.
Sara Inés Calderón is a journalist and writer who lives between Texas and California. Follow her on Twitter @SaraChicaD.
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