Why Have H-1B Visa Denials Skyrocketed Under The Trump Administration?
The H-1B is one of the most commonly-used work visas in the United States, and the Trump Administration is denying them at a record rate. Data reporter Sinduja Rangarajan spent eight months...
View ArticleFrontline Gives Us Rare Access Inside A Migrant Detention Shelter For Babies...
On this edition of Your Call, we discuss ‘Kids Caught in the Crackdown,’ a FRONTLINE documentary about the detention of children inside federally-funded migrant shelters.
View ArticleBay Area Families Open Doors to Refugees As Crisis Escalates
In 2019, the UN’s Refugee Agency reported that an unprecedented number of people had been forced to flee their home countries. Over 70 million people are currently displaced worldwide, and the global...
View ArticleWhen Local Governments Fail To Resettle Refugees, Citizens Open Their Doors
In 2019, the United Nations reported that an unprecedented number of people have been forced to flee their home countries. Over 70 million people are currently displaced worldwide, and the global...
View ArticleCalifornia Expands Healthcare For Young Adults Regardless Of Immigration Status
On January 1, California became the first state in the country to extend Medicaid benefits to all low-income adults, regardless of their immigration status. Over 100,000 additional Californians are...
View ArticleHow The Trump Administration’s Public Charge Rule Could Impact Bay Area...
Last January, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can begin implementing its expanded “public charge” rule, which could systematically deny green cards to low-income immigrants.
View ArticleAs California’s Wildfires Get Worse, Domestic Workers Fight For Protection
I n October 2019, a stretch of dry weather and strong winds sparked dozens of wildfires across California, killing three people and destroying hundreds of homes. For the low-wage immigrants who work in...
View ArticleWhen Fires Burn Though Neighborhoods, Some Immigrants Workers Become First...
Climate change is fueling devastating wildfires in California, and in some cases, low-wage immigrant workers are cleaning up after them. They sweep ash out of houses and strip debris from burned...
View Article"Migrating To Prison" Is An Urgent Call To Abolish Immigration Prisons
On this edition of Your Call, we speak with law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández about his new book Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants .
View Article'Shelter-In-Place' Order Leaves Immigrant Workers Vulnerable
This story was updated with additional reporting on March 18, 2020 at 8:21pm. The Bay Area’s historic shelter-in-place order is intended to slow the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. But it...
View ArticleDomestic Workers Learn From Past Disasters In New Labor Rights Fight
Domestic workers are using lessons learned from California’s wildfires to support their communities through the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re also pushing for legislation that could protect workers in...
View ArticleAttorneys Fight For Detained Immigrants During Pandemic
Because of the coronavirus, justice is moving more slowly in California. Jury trials have been suspended, and hearings have been delayed. But immigration courthouses are still open. In this interview,...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Testing Exposes Race And Class Divisions In San Francisco’s Mission...
In April, nearly 4,000 Mission District residents volunteered to get tested for COVID-19 and its antibodies. Unidos en Salud released the results of that testing on Monday, which raise difficult...
View ArticleDreamers Celebrate Supreme Court Ruling. What Will It Take To Create A Path...
On this edition of Your Call, we're discussing last week's Supreme Court decision to block the Trump Administration from ending DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
View ArticleThese Border Residents Wanted to Save Lives. The Government Accused Them of...
Most religions teach people to help those in need. But what happens when that mandate clashes with how the government views the law? In this story from The Spiritual Edge , we hear how federal...
View ArticleHatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, And The White Nationalist Agenda
On this edition of Your Call, investigative journalist Jean Guerrero discusses her new book Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda .
View ArticleSeparated: Inside An American Tragedy
On this edition of Your Call, we’re speaking with NBC/MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff about his new book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy . In 2018, Soboroff exposed the living conditions of...
View ArticleFarmworkers Risk Smoke, Heat, And COVID-19 As California Burns
From Santa Rosa to Salinas, farmworkers are harvesting as California burns. Workers are risking heat, smoke, and COVID-19 to pick grapes and harvest strawberries. Activists worry that 2020’s historic...
View ArticleSeparated: Inside An American Tragedy
On this edition of Your Call, we’re rebroadcasting our conversation with NBC/MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff about his new book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy . In 2018, Soboroff exposed the...
View ArticleYLR: Business Immigration
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A COMPANY WANTS TO SPONSOR AN EMPLOYEE FOR IMMIGRATION PURPOSES? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A TOP EXECUTIVE, OR A SPECIALIZED ENGINEER HAS TO LEAVE TO VISIT HIS HOME COUNTRY; AND, SUDDENLY...
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