Immigrant Advocates File Complaint Against Daly City
UPDATE: 8/7/2019: Jose Armando Escobar-Lopez has been released from immigration detention Since the start of August, activists have been protesting in front of San Francisco’s Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleOn A Corner In San Rafael, Day Laborers Wait — And Worry
You’ve probably seen them: groups of men looking for work, standing in front of Home Depot or waiting on corners of busy thoroughfares. These men are day laborers, looking for short-term work ranging...
View ArticleBay Area Counties Sue Trump Administration For Targeting Low-Income Immigrants
San Francisco and Santa Clara counties became the first in the nation last week to sue the Trump Administration over its controversial "public charge" rule.
View ArticleBay Area Tech Companies Face Pushback For Contracting With ICE
The Bay Area is home to some of the most powerful tech companies in the world, and many of them provide essential services to government agencies.
View ArticleTrump’s Policies Change The Way Money Flows From The US To Other Countries
President Trump’s had both strong rhetoric and policies on immigration during his presidency. One way that immigrants’ lives are impacted is through remittances — money sent from the U.S. to other...
View ArticleTime And Tradition: Calendar Keepers Preserve Maya Culture
Ethnic Maya from Central America are escaping gang-related violence and food insecurity and building new communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
View ArticleFor Aarti Shahani's Family, The American Dream Turned Into A Nightmare
Aarti Shahani is NPR’s tech reporter. You may have heard her stories over the years from Silicon Valley on everything from Facebook privacy policies, to H1-B visas, to the latest iPhone features and...
View ArticleInside The Fight Against Private Immigration Detention
Last month, California became the first state in the nation to abolish private prisons. Lawmakers include immigration detention centers in their bill — most of those are run by private companies. But...
View ArticleWill The Ninth Circuit Block Another Controversial Trump Immigration Policy?
The Trump Administration is expanding its Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a policy that says asylum seekers at the US-Mexican border must remain in Mexico while they wait for their hearings.
View ArticleWhy Have H-1B Visa Denials Skyrocketed Under The Trump Administration?
The H-1B is one of the most commonly-used work visas in the United States, and the Trump Administration is denying them at a record rate. Data reporter Sinduja Rangarajan spent eight months...
View ArticleFrontline Gives Us Rare Access Inside A Migrant Detention Shelter For Babies...
On this edition of Your Call, we discuss ‘Kids Caught in the Crackdown,’ a FRONTLINE documentary about the detention of children inside federally-funded migrant shelters.
View ArticleBay Area Families Open Doors to Refugees As Crisis Escalates
In 2019, the UN’s Refugee Agency reported that an unprecedented number of people had been forced to flee their home countries. Over 70 million people are currently displaced worldwide, and the global...
View ArticleWhen Local Governments Fail To Resettle Refugees, Citizens Open Their Doors
In 2019, the United Nations reported that an unprecedented number of people have been forced to flee their home countries. Over 70 million people are currently displaced worldwide, and the global...
View ArticleCalifornia Expands Healthcare For Young Adults Regardless Of Immigration Status
On January 1, California became the first state in the country to extend Medicaid benefits to all low-income adults, regardless of their immigration status. Over 100,000 additional Californians are...
View ArticleHow The Trump Administration’s Public Charge Rule Could Impact Bay Area...
Last January, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can begin implementing its expanded “public charge” rule, which could systematically deny green cards to low-income immigrants.
View ArticleAs California’s Wildfires Get Worse, Domestic Workers Fight For Protection
I n October 2019, a stretch of dry weather and strong winds sparked dozens of wildfires across California, killing three people and destroying hundreds of homes. For the low-wage immigrants who work in...
View ArticleWhen Fires Burn Though Neighborhoods, Some Immigrants Workers Become First...
Climate change is fueling devastating wildfires in California, and in some cases, low-wage immigrant workers are cleaning up after them. They sweep ash out of houses and strip debris from burned...
View Article"Migrating To Prison" Is An Urgent Call To Abolish Immigration Prisons
On this edition of Your Call, we speak with law professor, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, about his new book, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants .
View Article'Shelter-In-Place' Order Leaves Immigrant Workers Vulnerable
This story was updated with additional reporting on March 18, 2020 at 8:21pm. The Bay Area’s historic shelter-in-place order is intended to slow the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. But it...
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