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Undocumented immigrants
How California's expansion of health coverage is affecting low-income undocumented immigrants
Jan 8, 2024
The eligibility expansion benefits the immigrants but may also bring savings to the entire system.
In some states, undocumented students miss out on in-state tuition
Apr 19, 2023
In Indiana, an undocumented student might pay almost $17,000 more per year.
Some undocumented immigrants aren't getting their child tax credit payments
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Anais Amin
Sep 29, 2021
The people who most need the aid “have to jump the most hurdles to get it,” says Chabeli Carrazana, economy reporter at the 19th.
New York creates fund for undocumented workers
Apr 12, 2021
COVID-19 has disproportionately affected many groups, including undocumented immigrants. Lawmakers want them to be compensated.
How roadmap to citizenship would affect unauthorized immigrants and the economy
Feb 18, 2021
New immigration bill would reform family-based immigration and visa programs and provide protections from exploitation.
Undocumented workers who lost restaurant jobs struggle to get relief
Feb 18, 2021
We hear from one line cook who lost his job when the pandemic hit and has since been unable to find another restaurant job.
With no federal aid, undocumented immigrants look to states, philanthropy for support
by
Andy Uhler
May 1, 2020
California will start taking applications in May for cash benefits.
For public good, not for profit.
Day laborers in Southern California struggle as work dries up due to COVID-19
Apr 24, 2020
Some workers are organizing to hand out food and supplies to members of their community in crisis.
The economic impact of low college enrollment by undocumented students
Jul 11, 2019
Nearly 100,000 undocumented students graduate from high schools across the U.S. each year. Only a fraction enroll in college.
For one immigrant who returned to Mexico, a long road to opportunity
Mar 20, 2019
In 2010, shortly after Arizona had passed the controversial immigration law known as Senate Bill 1070, Jessica Gonzalez was riding a bus through downtown Phoenix when it passed a crowds of protesters and counter-protesters. Gonzalez remembers being the only person with brown skin on the bus. When the protesters spotted her through the window, she […]