‘They Still Need Care’: Why Migrant Workers Are Avoiding Medical Clinics
By Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters Posted December 4, 2025 On a scorching summer day, dozens of farm laborers paused their work picking banana peppers in a remote field 26…
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
By Mica Rosenberg, Mario Ariza, McKenzie Funk, Jeff Ernsthausen and Gabriel Sandoval Posted November 27, 2025 It was Friday, June 6, and the rent was due. As soon…
Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
by Melissa Sánchez, Jodi S. Cohen, T. Christian Miller, Sebastian Rotella and Mariam Elba Posted November 20, 2025 On the night of the raid, heavily armed federal…
Protesters Condemn Controversial Home Depot Raids
By Ryan Myers and Anyon Fak-McDaniels, Cronkite News Posted November 13, 2025 As the sun set over the desert horizon, community organizers handed out small electric candles…
Mass Deportations Under President Ensnare Military Service Members, Veterans
By Hannah Psalma Ramírez, News21 Posted November 6, 2025 In the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park kept in mind…
How The Tiniest Domestic Violence Survivors Heal With The Help of a San Diego Preschool
By Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters Posted October 30, 2025 Elizabeth Gibot’s son James was normally a quiet and well-behaved toddler. But she noticed he began to cry more and appeared…
Adelita Grijalva Swearing-In Standoff, Democrats Press Speaker Johnson On Epstein Files
By Nick Karmia, Cronkite News Posted October 23, 2025 More than four weeks after winning her late father’s congressional seat, Tucson Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva returned to the U.S….
‘I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore’: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in America
By Melissa Sánchez and Mariam Elba, ProPublica Posted October 16, 2025 She desperately wanted to get out of the country. It was mid-May and Pérez, a…
US Citizens Are Carrying Passports and Avoiding Spanish in Public
By Grace Berry and Isabella Gomez/Cronkite News For five years, Ricardo Reyes served the country of his birth as a Marine, pledging to sacrifice his life if…
The H-2A Visa Trap
By Max Blau, ProPublica, and Zaydee Sanchez, for ProPublica Posted October 2, 2025 In the darkness before dawn, Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. took the last drag of a…