Immigration

LOS ANGELES – Viridiana has been in agony these past few months, wondering if at any moment she might lose her job, her health insurance, maybe even be deported. A DACA recipient, Viridiana (who asked […]

California lawmakers alarmed by the treatment of people brought to hospitals by federal immigration agents want to strengthen protections for detained patients receiving care at medical facilities, including by making it easier for their families […]

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – Few people have as much reason as farmworkers to celebrate the contribution their labor makes. As they often say, “Without us, you have no food on the table.” Yet few have as much […]

Last week, Building Healthy Communities (BHC), in partnership with the United Farmworkers Foundation (UFWF), hosted the Unidos Valle Central Summit, bringing together more than 200 leaders to strategize ways to support immigrant communities in Kern […]

I find myself returning to Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace these days — almost instinctively, as if the novel’s vast emotional terrain offers clarity in a moment when the world feels unsettled. Tolstoy wrote about Russia’s struggle […]

REDDING, Calif. — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Redding, about 160 miles north of Sacramento in largely rural Shasta County, has been detaining noncitizens for years, federal government data shows.  The data […]

This cannot be reduced to a single case file. Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot and killed by an ICE agent on a residential street in Minneapolis, and with her death, a wound that the […]

Janeth López, a mother of three kids, is desperate. Her fiancé, Fredy Sandoval was deported to Nicaragua after being held in detention for three weeks. “I wouldn’t wish on anyone a Christmas like the one […]

School safety plans deal with an array of frightening scenarios, from shootings to bomb threats to fires. This year, Shoreline Unified, which serves communities in Marin and Sonoma counties, has added another emergency category to […]

To ensure schools throughout California are on the same page when it comes to dealing with immigration enforcement, Attorney General Rob Bonta has released updated guidance for schools to follow. The updated guidelines are modeled […]