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Courtesy of The New York Times, we learned that President Joe Biden’s administration is considering reviving one of the most controversial practices of the Trump era: the detention of migrant families at the border. Although no final action has been taken, the leak to one of the most influential...
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FREMONT, CA – Bay Area Community Health and On Lok, two of the Bay Area’s leading community healthcare organizations, are presenting on November 15th a special screening of the award-winning documentary short film Campesinos: America’s Unsung Heroes which tells vivid, compelling stories of California farmworkers during the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Tapachula, Mexico – Stepped-up surveillance on Mexico’s southern border has not halted the stream of migrants, mainly from Central America, who have chosen to travel north by secondary routes in search of their American dream. After four years during which migrants had ceased to travel on the freight train...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service CONCORD, Calif. – A coalition of health, labor and environmental groups is asking the Trump administration to release specific locations for immigrant detention centers to be built on military bases – sites that may be polluted. President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy at the border...
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EFE Mexico City – The United States immigration policy of separating migrants’ children from their parents violates human rights, Mexico’s foreign secretary said Tuesday. “I wish, on behalf of the government and people of Mexico, to express our most categorical and energetic condemnation of this cruel and inhumane policy,”...
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SCCOE SAN JOSE, CA Nineteen high school students from the Santa Clara County Office of Education’s (SCCOE) Migrant Education Program visited our nation’s capital from June 12 to 18 as part of the Close Up “Program for New Americans.” The program consists of a week-long trip to Washington D.C.,...