Tag Archives: Immigration
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 PROGRAM # 8731 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. Bipartisan congressmembers unveil at Capitol Hill a new bill, the Farm Work Force Modernization Act, which allows farmworkers to earn legal status if they stay in agriculture and revise the H-2A guest worker program. The bill is the result of an unlikely compromise between […]
California’s New Protections for Young Immigrants. Also, Colorado Plans Public Health Care Option.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 PROGRAM # 8728 12:00 PM PT California’s New Protections for Young Immigrants. California’s Medicaid program will now cover young undocumented adults, first state in the nation to extend health care coverage to that population. The law will go into effect on 2020. Another new state law will give tax credits for middle-class […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 PROGRAM # 8726 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. After legal experts demanded full disclosure on the process, he Trump administration reversed a decision to impose huge fines against immigrants who sought refuge in sanctuary churches. On other story, in Pomona, young organizers talk about their efforts to get local public schools to […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 PROGRAM # 8721 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. California is banning private prisons and for-profit immigrant detention centers, forcing the federal government to close four jails for migrants in the state. Analysts comment on this historic state law, preceded by a similar one in Illinois, and on the hunger strike by immigrant […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15 PROGRAM # 8716 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. The Trump administration’s public charge rule, scheduled to go into effect today, has been blocked this weekend by a federal district court in New York. As reports of widespread fear among immigrant families continue, an analyst joins this program to address concerns and dispel […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8 PROGRAM # 8711 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. Civil rights groups demand access to the records from the Trump administration on the huge civil fines against immigrants who have taken sanctuary in churches to avoid deportation. On other news, five asylum-seeking mothers and their children who were separated sued the Trump administration […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 PROGRAM # 8701 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. The Trump administration is planning to make it harder for immigrants to appeal deportation cases by drastically raising the fees to onerous levels when they request to reopen their cases. On other news: Democratic congressmembers introduced a bill to strengthen protections for immigrants survivors […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 PROGRAM # 8696 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. The leader of a human rights organization in Honduras visits the US to talk about the US and Canadian foreign policies that exacerbate poverty and corruption and fuel the exodus of refugees from Honduras. Also, housing, transportation and wages protections for H2A migrant farmworkers […]
“Public Charge”: The Chilling Effect.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 PROGRAM # 8693 12:00 PM PT “Public Charge”: The Chilling Effect. A new rule that expands the government’s definition of “public charge” targets millions of legal immigrants who are enrolled in social programs. Immigrants who use benefits like food stamps, Medicaid, and public housing would be at risk of being denied entry […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 PROGRAM # 8691 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. Activists from the San Francisco Bay Area culminated a month-long campaign to protest immigrant detention centers, “30 Days of Daily Actions to Close ICE Camps,” and support legislation to ban contracts with for-profit private prisons. On other news, musicians from California launched a series […]
