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Mercy Sosa CalMatters While witnessing a rise in deportations across the country, college-bound high school seniors with immigrant parents in California had to decide this spring whether to submit a federal financial aid application. Their fear: The federal government will use sensitive personal information from the application to identify...
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Wendy Fry & Sergio Olmos CalMatters Los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza trasladaron sus operaciones hacia el norte el jueves 17 de julio, a la capital de California, teniendo como objetivo un Home Depot en Sacramento, esta vez a más de 800 kilómetros de la frontera. El viernes, un juez de...
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Los terapeutas están intensificando sus esfuerzos para ayudar a los estudiantes indocumentados a lidiar con el miedo generalizado generado por las continuas redadas de ICE de la administración Trump. El grupo Immigrants Rising ofrece una línea gratuita de consejería para estudiantes indocumentados en California de entre 18 y 45...
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Therapists are stepping up to help undocumented students deal with the pervasive fear created by the Trump administration’s ongoing ICE raids. The group Immigrants Rising offers free online counseling to undocumented students in California, ages 18 to 45. Mayra Barragan-O’Brien is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and the...
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Yue Stella Yu CalMatters Para los progresistas de California, la candidatura de Zohran Mamdani a la alcaldía de Nueva York ofrece una especie de fórmula a seguir. Cuando el socialista democrático de 33 años logró una histórica victoria en las primarias del mes pasado, los progresistas del Golden State...
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Yue Stella Yu CalMatters For California progressives, Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral bid offers something of a formula to follow. When the 33-year-old democratic socialist pulled off a historic upset in the primary last month, Golden State progressives rejoiced. Some deemed his victory a sign that they do not...
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With federal protections for immigrant students threatened, California has a lifeline: the California Dream Act Application (CADAA). Last spring, the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) — the state agency responsible for distributing over $3 billion in financial aid — reported a 38% drop in CADAA applications and a 14%...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters In Kern County, the first rule in counting homeless students is not saying “homeless.” Instead, school staff use phrases like “struggling with stable housing” or “families in transition.” The approach seems to have worked: More families are sharing their housing status with their children’s schools, which...
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Tara García Mathewson & Carolyn Jones CalMatters California school districts are short hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grant money they had already budgeted for this year. While Congress approved the funds as part of its 2025 budget, the Trump Administration today refused to release them, sending districts across the...