Bill in California Would Allow Undocumented to Buy Obamacare Health Plans – This week a California law went into effect that expands the public health insurance program Medi-Cal to include undocumented children from low-income families. Meanwhile, the author of this historic law is back at it in the legislature with a bill that would allow adults without papers to buy health plans on the state insurance exchange Covered California, though without a right to a subsidy. From Los Angeles, Araceli Martínez reports.
When Reporting a Crime Doesn’t Pay Off – The case of an undocumented immigrant in San Francisco who was detained by immigration agents after reporting his car stolen, attracted attention because it shows a clear double standard: the act of reporting a crime to the police is applauded when done by a citizen, but when this undocumented immigrant did it, he was subjected to severe punishment. Fernando Andrés Torres has the details. This story is part of the series, “Hablando de la Raza”.
Passing-On Native Culture on the U.S.-Mexico Border – Now let’s go south of the border, to Baja California, and more precisely, to the indigenous town of San José de la Zorra, home to more than 200 Kumiai people, whose territory was cut in two when the U.S. took what is now California from Mexico. More than a century and a half after having been separated by the border, the Kumiai people are still struggling to get out of poverty and stop more land from being stolen. At the same time, they are deep in another struggle: to stop the pillage of their culture and language, which is in danger of extinction. Our correspondent Rubén Tapia visited this community in resistance.
