What's happening to immigrant families at the border?
On this special edition of Your Call, we get an update from a nonprofit working with immigrant families at the US-Mexico border. What do we know, and what information is missing, about separated...
View ArticleFilmmaker Mimi Chakarova highlights stories of resilience
On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Still I Rise, a new documentary short series that pays homage to Maya Angelou’s poem by the same name by celebrating people who persevere in spite of their...
View ArticleRevisiting 'Jorgito's Journey' with Karen de Sá
As the nation has been following for weeks now, thousands of migrant children coming to the United States are separated from their families at the Southern border.
View ArticleOakland-raised Maya are bridging the Mam language gap in local courts
A new generation of Oakland-raised Maya are working to give their communities a voice in their native tongues.
View ArticleWhat happens to children separated from their parents seeking asylum?
We’ve heard about kids sent to camps and detention facilities and we’ve seen the images of children in cages, wrapped up in foil blankets. One question we’ve been asking is—what happens to them after...
View ArticleFarmers behind barbed-wire fences: Japanese Americans remember incarceration...
Last month in San Francisco, an estimated 30,000 people protested against President Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, which has led to the incarceration and separation of children from their...
View ArticleSan Francisco poet reflects on his journey to an immigration detention center
As thousands of migrant children wait to be reunited with their parents, images of them in detention centers continue to rock the country. Poet and activist Tongo Eisen-Martin traveled to McAllen,...
View ArticleWhat would it mean to abolish ICE?
In the past few weeks, the Bay Area has had one protest after another over the country’s immigration policies. There were thousands of people who took to the streets to march in protest of family...
View ArticleTravel ban waivers: in place, but hard to get
When the travel ban was first announced, many people were outraged — nationally and here in the Bay Area. At SFO, people brought signs and stood in the arrivals hall chanting to make their point...
View ArticleA family divided: a Yemeni family struggles after travel ban
The Supreme Court upheld President Trump's travel ban preventing nationals from 5 majority-Muslim countries, plus North Korea and Venezuela, from entering the US. The administration put the policy in...
View ArticleImmigrants, refugees, and U.S. teens connect in the Sierras
The California Global Youth Peace Summit brings together immigrants, refugees, and US-born youth for a week of community-building and reflection.
View ArticleICE empties Contra Costa detention center of detainees. Now what?
Nearly two hundred undocumented immigrants facing deportation for violating federal immigration laws were detained at West County Detention Center in Richmond, awaiting hearings to decide their fates....
View ArticleFighting Notario Fraud in Santa Clara County
When people migrate to the US, they have to deal with lots and lots of paperwork, to be able to live and work in the country. When you’re here and you’re petitioning for your spouse or children to join...
View ArticleThe AP reports: Deported parents may lose kids to adoption
On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the lasting ramifications of the “zero tolerance” immigration policy that separated more than 2,000 children from their parents.
View ArticleHow a network of East Bay women navigate the threat of deportation
President Trump yesterday called for an end to due process rights for immigrants who enter the country illegally. That comes after last week’s flurry of reports that thousands of families have been...
View ArticleWhat's happening to immigrant families at the border?
On this special edition of Your Call, we get an update from a nonprofit working with immigrant families at the US-Mexico border. What do we know, and what information is missing, about separated...
View ArticleFilmmaker Mimi Chakarova highlights stories of resilience
On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Still I Rise, a new documentary short series that pays homage to Maya Angelou’s poem by the same name by celebrating people who persevere in spite of their...
View ArticleRevisiting 'Jorgito's Journey' with Karen de Sá
As the nation has been following for weeks now, thousands of migrant children coming to the United States are separated from their families at the Southern border.
View ArticleOakland-raised Maya are bridging the Mam language gap in local courts
A new generation of Oakland-raised Maya are working to give their communities a voice in their native tongues.
View ArticleWhat happens to children separated from their parents seeking asylum?
We’ve heard about kids sent to camps and detention facilities and we’ve seen the images of children in cages, wrapped up in foil blankets. One question we’ve been asking is—what happens to them after...
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