Graciela Carrillo has lived in the U.S. for nine years and shares a common feeling with many immigrants from western Guatemala about living in their adopted homeland. “We are invisible,” she said. Carrillo identifies as Mam, an indigenous ethnic group that would be...
For many immigrant and first-generation families in the US, hunkering down to protect each other in a crisis can be an all too familiar experience. Massiah said growing up in a household of migrants from Antigua and Barbuda, she always “learned to be prepared for the...
In the Bay Area, grassroots financial relief pops up for undocumented immigrants. The efforts come as local and state lawmakers debate proposals to provide economic relief to undocumented immigrants. By Erica Hellerstein Like tens of thousands of Californians,...
SAN FRANCISCO – Marcos Saul Aurora Gonzalez and his girlfriend both haven’t worked for the last three weeks. He’s a day laborer. She cleans houses. His construction jobs were not deemed essential when San Francisco, other Bay Area counties and then the state of...
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a deferred action policy implemented by the Obama administration in June 2012. It is aimed at protecting qualifying young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, temporarily shielding them from...
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