A Mexican Mother’s Odyssey of Applying for Asylum – Mexican citizens are the largest group applying for political asylum in the United States, but though many apply, only a few end up winning. Last year, 9,000 Mexicans applied for asylum, and during the same period, only 124 managed to win cases from previous years. Among those who apply for asylum, there are Mexicans who were deported and their family members, who, when they returned to their country of oiring, became some of the most vulnerable victims of organized crime. Valeria Fernández brings us the odyssey of a mother trying to flee that violence.
Sheepherders Call for Fair Salaries and Treatment – A group of immigrant sheepherders is involved in a legal battle against ranch owners and federal labor authorities. The sheepherders accuses the ranchers of conspiring to keep salaries low and federal agencies of allowing salaries to fall to criminally low levels. Thousands of immigrants with H-2A visas, most from Latin America, work as sheepherders on ranches in the western U.S. Rubén Tapia has more.
The Longer in the U.S., the More Likely to Have Diabetes and Obesity – Thousands of health professionals and volunteers are organizing health workshops and fairs in coming days in consulates of Mexico and other Latin American countries, to assist immigrants without health insurance and offer vaccines and screenings for chronic diseases such as diabetes, all as part of the 15th Binational Health Week. At the forum organized to inaugurate the health week, it was announced that half of Latin American immigrants do not have health insurance, and many have diabetes and obesity, reports Zaidee Stavely.
