Immigration

The new Tennessee law requires government agencies to report those unlawfully in the United States to ICE if they are receiving government benefits. NASHVILLE – About 400 disabled immigrant children who are receiving lifesaving state-paid […]

HOUSTON — Before there were statistics, there was supper. There were tamales wrapped in family kitchens, Vietnamese pho simmering in strip malls, Nigerian jollof rice served at community gatherings, and generations of immigrants who arrived […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Charan Pallanaswami is a software engineer originally from Chennai, India who works in Northern California’s Silicon Valley. He is among more than 600,000 H-1B visa holders — the vast majority from […]

Most polling shows strong majorities of Americans oppose deporting people who were brought to the United States as children. Diego Acevedo’s family brought him to the United States from Mexico on a tourist visa when […]

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 […]