Colorado Colleges Reaffirm Their Support of Immigrant Students on Campus
By Jason Gonzales Posted Jan. 9, 2025 Colorado public university leaders say they’re better prepared now to support the immigrant students on their campuses than they were during President-elect…
‘What’s Going to Happen to My Kids’: California Prepares to Resist Deportations
by Wendy Fry, CalMatters Posted Jan. 2, 2025 When he was 18, Chanthon Bun recalled, he was the lookout during a Los Angeles robbery in which no one…
California Banned Bilingual Education for Almost 20 Years. It Still Hasn’t Recovered
By Tara García Mathewson, CalMatters Posted Dec. 19, 2024 In 1953, Bárbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central…
Migrants Headed North From the Darién Gap Face Costly Barriers
By Carly Stoenner, Cronkite Borderlands Project Posted December 12, 2024 Yocelin Dayana Garcias Barrio and Gladys Yusberny Seijas Matute stand begging for money in front of a…
The Next Census Will Gather More Racial, Ethnic Information
By Tim Henderson Posted Dec. 5, 2024 The U.S. Census Bureau and a growing number of states are starting to gather more detailed information about Americans’ race and…
Low-Wage Workers in the Food Service Industry Can’t Afford to Eat
By Anisha Kohli Posted on Nov. 28, 2024 Workers in the food industry earn some of the lowest wages in the U.S. economy, and after a long day…
Housing Shortage Contributes to Children Entering Foster Care
By Kristin Jones Posted November 21, 2024 A shortage of affordable housing in Colorado has played a role in children being removed from their homes and placed into…
President Elect’s Deportation Plan Could Separate Millions of Families, Leaving Schools to Pick Up the Pieces
By Kalyn Belsha When immigration agents raided chicken processing plants in central Mississippi in 2019, they arrested nearly 700 undocumented workers — many of them parents of children…
‘Invisible’ Migrant Farmworkers Cope With Hurricane’s Aftermath
By: Nada Hassanein For the past month, farmworker Albertin Melo, his wife, Angelica García, and their three children have taken refuge under debris. When ferocious Hurricane Helene…
Worries Grow About Disinformation, False Claims and Even Violence as Election Nears
By Jennifer Shutt Posted October 31, 2024 A pro-democracy organization warned Monday that disinformation and violent rhetoric could make the weeks that follow Election Day especially fraught,…