Were you forwarded this email? Click here to subscribe. The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor and economics reporter. On Monday morning, Californians awoke to the news that Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pope, had died after a weeks-long […]
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What the IRS/ICE agreement means for immigrants—and California’s economy
Were you forwarded this email? Click here to subscribe. The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor and economics reporter. This week, millions of people across the country filed taxes with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), participating in the storied American ritual known […]
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What the data really tells us about Trump’s deportation agenda
Were you forwarded this email? Click here to subscribe. The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Thank you to everyone who has shared this newsletter with friends and colleagues. If you’d rather receive a monthly email from El Tímpano, you can change your email settings by clicking this link. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly […]
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Bay Area immigrants are worried about going to court hearings. We asked a lawyer to weigh in.
Were you forwarded this email? Click here to subscribe. The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Thank you to everyone who has shared this newsletter with friends and colleagues. If you’d rather receive a monthly email from El Tímpano, you can change your email settings by clicking this link. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly […]
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Trump cuts legal aid for unaccompanied minors, leaving thousands in California at risk
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“It may be too late”: How Oakland addresses lead contamination puts children at risk, medical experts say
This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship. Lead has been a part of 41-year-old Silvia Guzman’s life since she was a child. She immigrated with her parents and two siblings to San Francisco in 1991. Though the details are fuzzy for her, she said she remembers her mother enrolling […]
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Proposed food stamp cuts could hit Latino and immigrant families hard in California
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“I’m not a criminal; I am only a mother”: A grueling journey from Venezuela to the United States ends in uncertainty
When my daughter, Ana, was born, she came out crying. It was the most beautiful sound I had ever heard. Just moments before, I thought I would have to bury my child next to her father, the man who helped me build a life in the United States. Her heart had stopped for five minutes, […]
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Soaring housing costs make life even more challenging for Oakland’s unaccompanied minors
Amid staggering cost of living and debt, young migrants’ mental health needs take a back seat.
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New rules aim to protect California farmworkers after extreme heat cut last year’s work short
For the past fourteen years, Ximena has spent her early mornings in the fields of Brentwood, a quiet agricultural community at the eastern edge of Contra Costa County. The work begins before most people are awake. By dawn, the 47-year-old has been up for hours, preparing the farm’s soil for crops such as beans, tomatoes […]