During a fraught election cycle filled with fear and immigration crackdowns, preliminary special election results show how San Francisco’s Latino-heavy neighborhoods voted.
Category: Immigration
Posted inFood Systems, Immigration
‘Back to Pandemic Levels’: Bay Area Food Programs Brace for SNAP Shutdown
Facing suspension of federal food assistance benefits next week, Bay Area nonprofit distributors are bracing for a surge in demand. Grassroots programs fill a critical niche in the region’s food security system.
Posted inImmigration, Labor
She Once Translated for Her Father. Now She Speaks for Janitors Like Him.
When Ying Shan Mei started working as a janitor in 2011, it helped her and her family to navigate life in a new country after moving from China. As a union rep, she helps other immigrants navigate changes in the labor market.
Posted inImmigration, Law & Justice
In Chinatown, Immigration Raids No Longer Feel Like a Distant Threat
For months, Jose Ng visited Chinatown storefronts, handing out information on residents’ rights in interactions with federal agents if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Protection show up. Suddenly, the threat feels real.
Posted inCommunity, Economy & Business, Immigration, Neighborhoods
Young People Once Avoided Chinatown. Now They’re Coming Back
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, local leaders were looking for ways to keep local culture alive as older entrepreneurs retired without successors to carry on their legacies. They supported new galleries and festivals to fill the gap left by the loss of tourism, while trying to protect the neighborhood’s status as a home for low-income immigrant families and seniors. As new arrivals, each with their own motivations, look for their place in the neighborhood, they must engage with an already established and diverse community.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Immigration, Law & Justice, Public Safety
SFPD Training for Responding to ICE Activity Is Sparse, Records Show
As federal agents detain more immigrants in San Francisco, and activists protest and sometimes intervene in arrests, records shed light on the limited training that local police receive to address at times volatile confrontations.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Health, Immigration, LGBTQ+, Social Justice
SF’s Transgender Residents Still Face Threats, Even in Sanctuary City
As the Trump administration attacks transgender rights and care, some who moved to San Francisco for protection face the very challenges they tried to flee.
Posted inCommunity, Immigration
Cómo prepararse ante acciones de control migratorio
The Public Press ha recopilado consejos tras extensas entrevistas con cuatro abogados y defensores de inmigrantes, así como de varios talleres y conferencias de prensa sobre derechos de personas migrantes.
Posted inCommunity, Immigration
如何准备应对移民局执法
在深入采访四位移民律师与维权人士、并参加多个移民权利研讨会和记者会之后，The Public Press整理出以下建议。
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Immigration, Social Justice, Social Services
如何準備應對移民局執法
在深入採訪四位移民律師與維權人士、並參加多個移民權利研討會和記者會之後，The Public Press 整理出以下建議。