Tag: Refugees

  • Tweet City Heights: The President’s Budget on Immigration and Refugees

    By Megan Burks The President’s Budget on Immigration and Refugees President Obama released his 2013 budget proposal this week. It includes several changes for departments handling immigration enforcement and refugee assistance. Michael E. Hill, an immigration reporter on Capitol Hill, laid out the details this week. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would see a 4 percent cut…

  • GAO: Leadership Needed To Help Immigrants Integrate

    By Jill Replogle A recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found efforts to integrate immigrants into this country lacked coordination and direction from the federal government. The GAO interviewed leaders promoting citizenship awareness and civic integration across the country. They found a unanimous call for a national immigrant integration strategy, or, at least, federal coordination of integration efforts.…

  • Tweet City Heights: More on CalWorks and Help for Mixed-Status Families

    By Megan Burks The Fallout From Brown’s Proposed Welfare Cuts This week, we took a look at how Gov. Jerry Brown’s state budget proposal may impact City Heights residents. The proposal calls for deep cuts to CalWorks, a welfare-to-work program many families in the neighborhood rely on. HealthyCal.org published a good explainer on the proposal…

  • U.S. Bank Shuts Down Money Wiring Service to Somalia

    By Maureen Cavanaugh and Patty Lane Abdulmalik Buul in Somalia | Photo courtesy of KPBS Franklin Bank was the only U.S. bank that still facilitated money-wire transfers to Somalia – until now. The bank is shutting down the service. Franklin says continuing the transfers was too risky; there’s a fear that the bank could be…

  • Behind the Scenes: Teen Producers Highlight Crawford Garden

    By Brian Myers Youth learning to produce documentaries released three short videos about a local school garden program this summer. The diverse group of students between the ages of 12 and 18 are part of the Teen Producers’ Project, a 10-year-old program of the Media Arts Center San Diego. Students of the TPP visited the…