{"id":389624,"date":"2026-07-07T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389624\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:22:08","slug":"remember-your-moms-tanda-young-latinos-are-giving-it-a-tech-savvy-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389624\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Your Mom\u2019s \u2018Tanda\u2019? Young Latinos Are Giving It a Tech-Savvy Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, however, tandas are becoming more modernized, drawing interest from younger generations of Latinos in the Central Valley.\u00a0The\u00a0Education and Leadership Foundation<\/a>, based in Fresno, partnered with\u00a0Mission Asset Fund<\/a>, a Bay Area nonprofit, more than three years ago to expand access to these traditional lending circles. Both organizations use the model as a way to help communities build savings and access small, no-interest loans through structured, community-based programs.\u00a0Special Projects Manager at the ELF, Vianey Barraza, explains how tandas work.\u00a0\u201cYou get a group of people, usually between six and 10 individuals, and they decide to lend to each other. They decide on an amount, and usually every week or every two weeks, one person will get the full loan amount, and everybody will be paying in, including the person that receives it,\u201d Barraza said.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, participants knew each other; they used to have family members, neighbors, friends, and coworkers within the tanda. Trust is essential because a person is less likely to take the money and never return.\u00a0In the system operated by ELF, participants do not know each other.<\/p>\n

And although this method of saving money is not widely heard of, it also is not totally new; in fact, it is a very old technique.\u00a0Ra\u00fal Hinojosa-Ojeda, a professor of Chicano studies at California State University, Los Angeles, says that the origins go back centuries.\u00a0\u201cThey\u2019re not new,\u201d Hinojosa-Ojeda said. \u201cThere\u2019s multi-thousand year old roots of communal labor in Mexico, there\u2019s 1000-year-old roots in Asia of communal work and communal savings and lending.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Sunnyvale carpenter who was rushed to the emergency room during an\u00a0immigration arrest<\/a>\u00a0last year is suing the Trump administration, saying violent treatment by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and months of\u00a0medical neglect in ICE detention<\/a>\u00a0left him seriously disabled.<\/p>\n

Ulises Pe\u00f1a L\u00f3pez, who was\u00a0deported to Mexico<\/a> in October after eight months in custody, said ICE officers beat him until he lost consciousness, despite the fact that he and his wife warned them that he\u2019d been diagnosed with a life-threatening condition. ICE denies the allegations.\u00a0Today, Pe\u00f1a L\u00f3pez, 32, said he\u2019s paralyzed on the right side of his body and walks with a cane, his vision and hearing are impaired, and he can\u2019t work to support himself or pay for the medical care he needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I want more than anything, I can\u2019t get back: to recover my health, to be with my wife and daughter, and to be able to work again,\u201d he said in a recent phone interview from an aunt\u2019s home in Michoac\u00e1n, where he lives now.<\/p>\n

His U.S.-born wife, Aby Pe\u00f1a, who has remained in California with the couple\u2019s now-5-year-old daughter, Emily, said she doesn\u2019t understand how ICE officers could treat another human being as her husband was treated.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s just inhumane,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it also affects children because they\u2019re being separated, and it\u2019s a damage that is irreversible.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed Monday, his lawyers say the arrest, on Feb. 21, 2025, led to \u201ca cascade of harms,\u201d including lasting trauma for Pe\u00f1a and their daughter, who witnessed it.\u00a0By law, the complaint said, ICE \u201cbears responsibility for the safety and well-being of individuals\u201d it detains. Yet court records indicate the arrest triggered a heart attack and stroke. And the lawsuit said ICE and private prison contractors failed to get Pe\u00f1a L\u00f3pez critical follow-up care, including an urgent neurological workup and physical therapy.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit also alleges that staff at both facilities where he was held \u2014 Golden State Annex and California City Detention Facility, both in Kern County \u2014 denied him disability accommodations, such as glasses and hearing aids, as required by law.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages to compensate Pe\u00f1a L\u00f3pez and his family and to punish the government.<\/p>\n

In a statement emailed to KQED, an unnamed Homeland Security spokesperson said ICE arrested Pe\u00f1a L\u00f3pez \u201cduring targeted operations.\u201d It said \u201che resisted multiple lawful commands made by ICE officers,\u201d but it didn\u2019t address the lawsuit\u2019s allegations that he was beaten. At the time of the arrest, an ICE spokesman\u00a0told KQED<\/a> the allegation that officers beat Pe\u00f1a L\u00f3pez was \u201cabsolutely inaccurate.\u201d\u00a0The ICE statement said, \u201cAny claims of subprime medical care at ICE facilities is FALSE,\u201d and reiterated boilerplate language asserting that the agency provides comprehensive care that \u201cfor many illegal aliens \u2026 is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, however, tandas are becoming more modernized, drawing interest from younger generations of Latinos in the Central Valley.\u00a0The\u00a0Education…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-389624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}