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'I want to send more money home’: Remittances are a sign of sacrifice, resilience in immigrant communities during pandemic from 2021-06-17T10:18:25
This story was reported in collaboration withEl Tímpano, a news outlet designed for and with Oakland's Latino and Mayan immigrants.
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ICE contracts at local, regional level spark contentious debate from 2021-05-21T16:10:14
On a Tuesday in May, several dozen people gathered in front of an administrative building in Woodstock, Illinois, a town of about 25,000 people, 54 miles northwest of Chicago.
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Inside a migrant shelter for men: Untold stories of trauma, challenges from 2021-04-27T12:27:21
It had been 15 years since Alfonso, 60, last crossed the US-Mexico border.
He never dreamed he would be back, but Alfonso sat eating rice and beans at a migrant shelter in Sonoyta, a town ...
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Cuban Americans make plea to Biden administration for help on immigration limbo from 2021-04-16T13:48:22
In November 2019, about 40 people packed into a conference room at the Westchester Regional Library that sits at the heart of Miami-Dade’s suburban Cuban American community.
The group whis...
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Refugees stuck in limbo over Biden's inaction to restore admissions program from 2021-04-13T16:30:32
There's been a steady focus on migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border. But refugees — less in the spotlight — have seen their chances of entry to the US grind to a halt, leaving them in unexp...
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Seasonal workers have long faced gender and pay discrimination. Now there’s a way to file direct complaints. from 2021-04-08T16:53:03
Adareli Ponce tried for 20 years to get an H-2A visa allowing her to work on farms across the US.
But Ponce said that time and time again, farm labor recruiters in Mexico told her farm wo...
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After Texas freeze, immigrants play critical role in repairing tens of thousands of homes from 2021-03-12T13:57:38
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Immigrants, rights activists call on Biden to end private detention from 2021-02-10T17:34:51
Last month President Joe Biden instructed the Department of Justice to end contract renewals with private prisons as a first step to end racial disparities and pave the way to fair sentencing. <...
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This Latina landed a seat on the powerful San Diego County Board of Supervisors — a first for her community from 2021-02-05T16:58:16
It was a rare rainy morning in National City, California, just a few miles north of the border between the United States and Mexico.
A therapists'network supports immigrants, advocates during pandemic from 2020-12-22T13:51:07
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BLM is increasingly a voter issue for Latinos in Georgia from 2020-09-30T12:56:41
This story is part of"Every 30 Seconds,"a collaborative public media reporting project tracing the young Latino electorate leadi...
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For Latinos ineligible to vote, US census offers a path to political power from 2020-09-02T22:07:41
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This Afro Latina says identity will always be important when she votes from 2020-08-25T13:03:02
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The DNC touted a diverse lineup. But some Latino leaders feel left out. from 2020-08-18T17:38:23
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As Election Day nears, it's not just about winning the'Latino vote.'It's about making a real connection. from 2020-08-11T16:33:35
To be Latino during an election season can feel like landing on a movie set of a suspenseful, high-stakes drama. It’s a story of contradictions. You are a star of the show — Latinos are projecte...
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Farmworkers are getting coronavirus. They face retaliation for demanding safe conditions. from 2020-07-29T17:13:07
Ernestina Mejía knew people were getting sick all around her this spring. She heard co-workers coughing in the bathroom at work. Others whispered about colleagues looking feverish.
Mejía w...
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Canada judge rules sending asylum-seekers back to the US violates their rights from 2020-07-27T16:59:17
Jonathan, an asylum-seeker from Haiti, has a collection of bus tickets from his trip last fall from Florida to the US-Canada border. The last bus dropped him off in Plattsburgh, New York, a litt...
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The pandemic upended this Latino teen's senior year. Now it's upended his politics. from 2020-07-21T17:02:43
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Trump, Biden boost efforts to reach Texas Latino voters from 2020-07-15T17:24:37
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He's out of prison and has COVID-19. But he's still sheltering from ICE. from 2020-07-14T15:55:06
After spending almost his entire adult life in a cell, Chanthon Bun was released from San Quentin State Prison in California earlier this month. Officials dropped him off at a bus stop three mil...
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This young Afro Latino teacher and voter wants to be a model for his students from 2020-07-10T16:01:34
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Universities scramble to help international students stay in US after new visa restrictions from 2020-07-08T16:47:23
Monday brought disappointing news for Harvard University sophomore Noah Furlonge-Walker.
Due to the coronavirus, all of the university’s undergraduate classes will beListen
Visa restrictions on Chinese students will disadvantage US, says Queens College president from 2020-07-08T15:35:24
For American universities, catering to international students is big business. Each year, more than 1 million come here to study. About a third are from China.
But come fall, many may be a...
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US seafood workers fight unsafe job conditions amid pandemic from 2020-07-06T13:08:07
For the past four years, Reyna Isabel Alvarez Navarro has reported to work at a crawfish processing plant in Crowley, Louisiana, bundled in two pairs of pants, two sweaters and a hat. She spent ...
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Black Lives Matter protests are shaking up how this young Latino voter views US politics from 2020-07-01T15:42:39
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These DACA recipients hit a ceiling in the US. So they left. from 2020-06-30T12:29:45
Two years ago, after living in the United States for more than two decades, Madai Zamora headed to the airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, and boarded a one-way flight to Mexico.
She’d ...
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SCOTUS rules some rejected asylum-seekers can't challenge decisions from 2020-06-25T14:49:26
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that immigrants denied asylum under streamlined proceedings cannot contest those decisions in court.
The case involved a Sri Lankan farmer named Vijayakuma...
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Colleges brace for steep drop in international enrollment this fall from 2020-06-24T10:36:11
Pavithra Rajesh, a Northeastern University sophomore from India, frantically packed her bags and boarded a plane home when the college abruptly shut down in March.
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This Latina first-time voter ‘can’t stay mute’ about racism from 2020-06-18T16:10:29
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In Ciudad Juárez, a new'filter hotel'offers migrants a safe space to quarantine from 2020-06-18T16:01:36
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SCOTUS ruled in favor of DACA. A permanent solution is still needed, advocates say. from 2020-06-18T13:42:08
In a major blow to the Trump administration, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program can continue.
The program was created by former President Ba...
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Trump proposes harsh asylum rules disqualifying many applicants from 2020-06-11T16:31:27
On Thursday, the Trump administration issued aproposalthat would dramatically reshape the asylum system...
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In Georgia, a young Latina reluctantly casts her primary vote for Biden from 2020-06-09T14:46:48
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Somali Americans share in the grief and pain over George Floyd’s killing from 2020-06-02T13:40:12
Malika Dahir, a Somali American and mother of three in Minneapolis desperately needed an outlet to talk about George Floyd’s killing and everything that has happened since.
Floyd is a blac...
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The pandemic canceled her graduation. But this DACA holder still got her moment to shine. from 2020-05-20T16:31:01
College seniors are feeling especially wistful this May. For many, walking across the graduation stage would have represented the culmination of a lengthy struggle. But the coronavirus pandemic ...
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Foreign students face uncertainty as Trump administration mulls suspending training program from 2020-05-20T15:31:44
Earlier this spring, Renan Pereira, an international student from Brazil, was wrapping up his bachelor’s degree in finance at The University of Utah and deciding between two job offers at a bank...
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Little Manila's'Meal to Heal'effort brings food to Filipino health workers from 2020-05-15T14:34:01
People of Filipino descent play an outsize role in the US health care workforce. They’re 1% of the US population, but compriseListen
Pandemic disrupts remittances, leaving immigrants'families without lifelines from 2020-05-04T17:35:18
For years before the coronavirus hit, Sergio Armas hustled to support his parents back home in Nicaragua. By day, he helped manage a small housekeeping business in San Francisco. At night, he se...
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Can Biden turn out Latinos to vote? Advocacy groups aren't sure. from 2020-04-29T17:29:47
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COVID-19 shakes up international student life — and university budgets from 2020-04-28T13:59:35
When the novel coronavirus pandemic forced US university closures in March, Julia Jing, a sophomore at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, wasn't sure if she should return home to Beij...
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Xenophobia ‘takes its toll’ as Trump works to curb immigration from 2020-04-22T15:32:45
Immigration to the US often suffers when the country faces a disaster, whether it is a disaster of war, economy or public health.
The novel coronavirus pandemic has already prompted the Tr...
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From Mexico, tales of a Russian socialite and a small-town witch from 2020-04-21T16:59:56
One of the most controversial novels of the year, “American Dirt” by author Janine Cummins, is now also one of the most successful.
US-based publisher Flatiron Books paid Cummins a seven-...
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This Latino teen voter worries about prom, graduation — and the economy from 2020-04-21T14:12:09
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Caribbean community mourns Gil Bailey,'Godfather of Reggae Radio' from 2020-04-21T11:05:58
Broadcast legend Gil Bailey, who brought Caribbean music to the tri-state area and whose career spanned 50 years at four different local radio stations, Listen
Indians stranded in the US due to coronavirus face poverty, eviction from 2020-04-17T15:19:07
Just before most global travel stopped and India went into lockdown because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Ujwalla Tate’s J-1 visa to work and learn hospitality services at a hotel in Florid...
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Detroit needs Canadian nurses. But coronavirus threatens their cross-border travel. from 2020-04-17T14:38:54
Patients admitted to hospitals in Detroit, Michigan, are often cared for by Canadian nurses. Some 1,600 nurses in Ontario, Canada, cross the border every day to work in the US health care sector...
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Young Latino voters in Seattle view November election through lens of pandemic from 2020-04-15T15:34:16
Across the United States, people of color are likeliest to be considered “essential workers” and must still go to work despite stay-at-home orders. Blacks and Latinos areListen
US deportation flights risk spreading coronavirus globally from 2020-04-14T16:19:26
While many countries, including the US, have limited international commercial aviation because of the COVID-19 pandemic, planes deporting people from the US are still taking off.
DACA health workers risk their lives to fight COVID-19 while they await SCOTUS ruling from 2020-04-13T14:29:09
Jessica Esparza has spent the past few weeks caring for COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit at Central Washington Hospital and Clinics in Wenatchee, about two hours east of Se...
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Mutual aid groups respond to double threat of coronavirus and climate change from 2020-04-13T13:20:10
When Indigenous community organizer Valentina Harper co-founded theCareMongering mutual aid Facebook groupin Toronto ...
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Farmworkers are now deemed essential. But are they protected? from 2020-04-13T12:30:28
An estimated 2.5 million farmworkers across the United States are now deemed essential workers — exempt from shelter-in-place restrictions to keep the country’s food supply flowing. Yet at a time w...
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Amid coronavirus, grassroots groups move online to capture Latino vote from 2020-04-07T17:05:23
An estimated 32 million Latinos will be eligible to vote in November. Registering them to vote requires a substantial in-person effort that grassroots groups can't do right now because of the coron...
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International doctors can help the US fight COVID-19. But can they get here? from 2020-04-03T17:03:42
The COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges for doctors on visas who are already in the US, and for international physicians who are supposed to arrive in the US to start work at US hospitals in a fe...
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Pandemic makes social justice issues more personal for this young Florida voter from 2020-03-31T19:42:36
Yaneilys Ayuso, who will vote for the first time in November, has spent much of the last year trying to encourage Florida youth to get involved in politics. Now, Ayuso's efforts are on hold as the ...
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A California hospital is translating coronavirus information for immigrants from 2020-03-27T17:39:57
Critical information on the coronavirus outbreak is not always available in languages other than English. A hospital in California's rural heartland is producing PSA-style videos to reach immigrant...
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For this young Latina voter, pandemic highlights the need for 'Medicare for All' from 2020-03-24T18:12:10
As a home health aide who does not have health insurance herself, Leticia Arcila, a 19-year-old voter, thought Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ "Medicare for All" plan sounded appealing. As the coronav...
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This Mexican American immigrant wants the US to win gold in the 2024 Olympics — for breakdancing from 2020-03-24T15:29:09
Antonio Castillo, a Mexican American immigrant and breakdancer, is behind an effort to field the first Team USA for breakdancing — which could debut as an Olympic sport as soon as the 2024 Summer G...
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