Tag: Immigration
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Under the Travel Ban, a Qualcomm Engineer Has Struggled to Bring His Sick Father to the U.S.
Sawyer Mirage, an engineer at Qualcomm, was able to successfully bring his mother from Iran to the United States. But his father’s visa has been held up in limbo, leaving the 75-year-old man alone in Iran with no one to care for him.
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The AjA Project to Confront Migrant Debate With Airport Mural
The AjA Project interviews and photographs a refugee woman living in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego in this undated photo. | Photo Courtesy of The AjA Project By Megan Burks With the fatal terrorist attack in San Bernardino Wednesday and the massacre in Paris earlier this month, Americans are taking a hard look…
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Why Immigrant Spouses Are Uniquely Vulnerable to Domestic Violence
By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico Looking back to when her nightmare began at age 32, Mariel Cota said she never thought she would become a victim of domestic violence. “But the circumstances of me thinking that I could lose my son really and truly put me into this situation that I put…
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Lawmakers Drop Effort to Open Covered California to Immigrants Here Illegally
By Kenny Goldberg A legislative effort to allow people who are here illegally to buy Covered California health plans has been shelved. State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) removed a section from his bill (Senate Bill 4) that would have let those immigrants buy unsubsidized health insurance through California’s insurance exchange. An estimated 2.7 million…
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‘Maletas Migrantes’ Exhibit Explores the Immigrant Experience
Andurriales del corazón (The Detours of the Heart), 2012 by Bana Fernández Rolfi from “Maletas Migrantes,” an art exhibit on display at the New Americans Museum in Liberty Station from July 23 through Oct. 2, 2015. By Megan Burke and Maureen Cavanaugh On the surface, a simple suitcase may not seem to have much artistic…