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. In previous years, when Californians celebrated the March 31 holiday formerly known as César Chavez Day, the Brentwood-based nonprofit Hijas del Campo opted out of the festivities. The organization, which […]
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Latino, Bay Area lawmakers want to restore health care for immigrants. Can they do it?
New legislation introduced by Latino and Bay Area lawmakers would restore Medi-Cal access for immigrants and reject stricter work requirements for those who want to remain in the program.
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Thousands of East Bay immigrants will lose food stamps beginning April 1
The change comes from a provision in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” signed into law by President Trump last July.
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A NorCal DACA recipient was deported to Mexico. She’s not the only one
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. Like many of our Bay Area colleagues, we are closely following the case of Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez. A Hayward-based asylum seeker, Rodriguez Gutierrez was deported last week to Colombia along […]
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Thousands of mixed-status California families could lose housing under proposed federal rule
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. For the past year, this newsletter has tracked the local impacts of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, often focusing on policies and ICE tactics targeting undocumented immigrants. But the consequences […]
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State of the Union kicks off immigration fight as midterms loom
The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Vanessa G. Sánchez, senior health equity reporter. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump delivered his annual State of the Union address, which became the longest in history at 108-minutes. I sat down with pen and paper to hear […]
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Daffodil J. Altan joins El Tímpano as Managing Editor
The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Daffodil Altan, El Tímpano’s new managing editor, filling in for Erica Hellerstein this week to introduce myself. A few years ago I was co-teaching a course called Undocumented America at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and on […]
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The Bay Area bears witness in Minneapolis
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. We’re leading today’s edition with the Trump administration’s announcement on Thursday morning that the immigration crackdown that has paralyzed life in Minneapolis will come to an end. The news came […]
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Bay Area to ICE ahead of Super Bowl: We’re ready
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. There are many things we don’t know about the upcoming Super Bowl at Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium on Sunday. When I say there are things we don’t know, I am […]
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Alameda County approves ICE-Free zones to counteract immigration enforcement
The Weekly Dispatch Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Vanessa G. Sánchez, senior health equity reporter. We are ending the week with immigration enforcement escalations nationwide and concerns about excessive use of force by immigration agents in Minneapolis, where civilians Renee Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti were […]