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Category: Immigration

Detainees wait to be processed at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto on Aug. 28, 2019. Because detainees are in federal custody, state health officials said last week that they aren’t sure who is responsible for vaccination at the detention centers. Photo by Chris Carlson, AP Photo
Posted inCoronavirus

Immigration detention centers showcase California’s vaccine chaos

Ana B. Ibarra by Ana B. Ibarra February 22, 2021

Who takes responsibility for vaccinating detainees? “I don’t know,” said California’s surgeon general. Facing such confusion, some county officials are sending doses to immigrant detention centers, while others are awaiting state guidance.

A housekeeper cleans a room at the Colonial Motel in Santa Maria on July 15, 2020. The motel is one of the locations where Alco Harvesting houses H-2A farmworkers. Photo by Len Wood, Santa Maria Times
Posted inCalifornia Divide

First county announces new COVID-19 protections for temporary ag workers

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts September 17, 2020
Earlier this week, the Legislature approved AB 826, which allows nonprofits, such as food banks, to distribute $600 prepaid grocery cards to each qualified adult regardless of immigration status. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Undocumented immigrants could qualify for $600 if Newsom signs pandemic assistance bill

by Jacqueline Garcia September 5, 2020
Posted inChildren and Youth

For some California teens, school closures led to work in the fields

Avatar by Elizabeth Aguilera June 22, 2020
DACA recipient Flor Martinez attends a rally following President Trump's rescinding of the program in 2017. Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled he could not halt the program, affects nearly 200,000 California 'Dreamers.' Photo by Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group
Posted inImmigration

Supreme Court bars Trump from ending DACA — what it means for California ‘Dreamers’

Mikhail Zinshteyn by Mikhail Zinshteyn June 18, 2020
A worker at the Firehouse Clinic looks out a window at a testing site for the COVID-19 virus along Huntwood Avenue near Fire Station 7 in Hayward. The state is now allowing all uninsured Californians to be tested and treated for COVID-19 at community clinics and health centers, regardless of immigration status. Photo by Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group
Posted inCoronavirus

California’s undocumented workers to get $125 million coronavirus disaster relief

Ana B. Ibarra by Ana B. Ibarra April 15, 2020
Posted inCalifornia Divide

For the greater good: Coronavirus border closure keeps immigrants from seeing families

by Kate Cimini April 1, 2020
Posted inCalifornia Divide

‘We live paycheck to paycheck’: Undocumented workers struggle as economy grinds to a halt

Jackie Botts by Jacqueline Garcia and Jackie Botts March 24, 2020
Censoteria, a card game developed at La Luz in Sonoma, is based off of the familiar La Loteria game and helps to engage community members with civics, the census and public services. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inImmigration

Coronavirus, citizenship and the census: California fears an undercount

Elizabeth Castillo by Elizabeth Castillo March 16, 2020
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Young immigrants face fee increase for DACA renewal

by Jacqueline Garcia February 12, 2020

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