Refugees who arrived in the Bay Area around the time shelter-in-place orders were issued, as well as those who have been here for an extended period, are struggling to stay afloat, organizations who serve them said.
Category: Immigration
Posted inCoronavirus, Education, Immigration
Teachers Pledge to Funnel Crisis Checks to Undocumented Neighbors
Teachers in San Francisco have begun pledging their federal coronavirus relief checks to undocumented members of their communities.
Posted inCommunity, Immigration, Labor, LGBTQ+, Neighborhoods
Latinos in This Liberal City: From San Francisco’s Big Strike to Gay Liberation
Years before charting the evolution and diversity of Latino political life in the city, a historian came here to become an activist. His book recalls major battlegrounds from the 1930s to the 1970s: union campaigns; civil rights organizing; elections; Great Society mobilizations; and feminist, gay and lesbian activism. Read an excerpt from “Latinos and the Liberal City” by Eduardo Contreras.
Posted inBay Area, Government & Politics, Immigration, Law & Justice, News, Public Safety
Why Privacy Needs All of Us
One American city has gone further than any other in creating a workable solution to the current inadequacy of surveillance law: Oakland, which has pushed a pro-privacy public policy along an unprecedented path. Its Privacy Advisory Commission acts as a meaningful check on city agencies — most often, police — that want to acquire any kind of surveillance technology.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Immigration, Labor, Public Safety
Immigrants Legally Here for Years Fighting to Stay After Trump Ends Protections
They are the latest immigrants whose fortunes have changed for the worse under President Donald Trump: More than 200,000 people from Central America and the region who are losing Temporary Protected Status after legally living, working and raising families in the United States for years.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Immigration, Public Safety
Trump Ends Legal Protection for 200,000 Salvadoran Immigrants
The Trump administration on Monday ended a three-decade program that provided temporary legal protection to more than 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants who built lives in the United States after fleeing civil war and devastating earthquakes.
Posted inEconomy & Business, Government & Politics, Immigration, Labor, Public Safety
Central Americans Tense as U.S. Ends Temporary Protection for Some Migrants
Thousands of Salvadorans, Hondurans and Haitians who fled natural disasters or violence await final decision on whether their Temporary Protected Status will be extended or ended. Nicaraguans must leave in 2019 or face deportation.
Posted inCity Hall, Government & Politics, Health, Healthy SF: Who Pays?, Immigration
As Healthy S.F. Serves Mostly Spanish Speakers, City Vows to Shield Undocumented Clients
Ten years after it was launched, Healthy San Francisco today predominantly serves Spanish speakers and people living in the city’s southeast neighborhoods. Because some clients may be here illegally, city officials have vowed to shield them if the Trump administration launches a deportation campaign.
Posted in2016 Non-partisan Voter Guide, Education, Elections, Immigration
Proposition N: Enabling Non-Citizen Parents to Vote in School Board Elections
This Charter amendment would allow non-citizen parents, legal guardians and caregivers of children 18 years old or younger who reside in San Francisco to vote for school board candidates. These new voters, who would register with the city’s Department of Elections, would need to be at least 18 years old and not be otherwise disqualified from voting under the California Constitution or state statute.
Posted inImmigration, Law & Justice, Public Safety, San Francisco 2015 Nonpartisan Election Guide
Candidates: Sheriff
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is facing two challengers in his bid for re-election: Vicki Hennessy, who spent three decades in the department and served as interim sheriff in 2012 (after Mayor Ed Lee suspended Mirkarimi over a domestic-violence case involving the new sheriff and his wife) and John Robinson, a retired sheriff’s commander.