For immigrant families, a “Christmas of immense pain”

December 26th, 20250 By Araceli Martinez Janeth López, a mother of three kids, is desperate. Her fiancé, Fredy Sandoval, was deported to Nicaragua after being held in detention for three weeks. “I wouldn’t wish on anyone a Christmas like the one we will have this year,” said López, 39, a resident of Paso Robles, located along California’s...

Outside Washington, a ‘more powerful’ immigrant rights movement emerges

May 19th, 20170 SAN FRANCISCO — Immigrant rights advocates say that despite the cloud of fear hanging over communities in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, there is also a growing and increasingly organized resistance. "We are seeing an increase in the number of people apprehended for removal," Melissa Chua, immigration director of...