Immigrants
Health care for older immigrants experiences momentum among states
July 26, 2021Most mornings, 62-year-old Maria Elena Estamilla wakes up with pelvic pain and dread that she faces the same fate as her mother and grandmother: fatal cervical cancer.
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California Assembly bill aims to remove derogatory term ‘alien’ from state law
May 28, 2021Assemblywoman Luz Rivas’s (D-Arleta) Assembly Bill 1096 was approved by the California Assembly Thurs., May 20, with bipartisan support and will now move on to the State Senate.
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Biden’s immigration reform should roll back exploitative ‘guest worker’ programs
May 13, 2021The current system prioritizes agricultural growers' profits over immigrants' and workers' rights.
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Abandonment of COVID protections puts farm workers in a stranglehold
May 11, 2021“The Farm Workforce Modernization Act is the dream of the industry,” says union activist Edgar Franks.
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Farmworkers need families, not deportation and exploitation
April 12, 2021During the Trump administration, the U.S. deported an average of 275,725 people per year.
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