Adelina Nicholls is a sociologist and one of the co-founders of the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR). She advocates and protests for the protection and extension of rights for immigrants in America, with particular focus on those from Latin American countries. She marched in

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in protest against an

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law,

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in 2011. In addition to being opposed by Nicholls and GLAHR, the law was also protested by the

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. She has also marched to the

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(ICE) building in Atlanta. She has collaborated with

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. She has worked with the activists and police officers in Warner Robins, Perry City,

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, Fairburn, and Albany. She attended the

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. She was a teacher in rural México before moving to the United States where she became a community organizer.

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