Record number of migrant kids in shelters; TikTok scams; El Salvador snubs
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#MustReads Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have had the highest rate of long-term unemployment during the pandemic, reports USA Today. “Many were hit even before shutdowns went into effect, losing business as customers wary of Asian links to the spreading virus shied away,” Marc Ramirez writes, noting one study found more than 233,000 Asian small businesses closed from January to March…
Overwhelmed and underprepared at CBP; New migrant kids shelters at military bases, convention centers, Christian camps; Borderless, Borderland love
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Love in the Borderland knows no borders. At least that was the case for El Paso Times reporter Lauren Villagran. …
Border Crisis? VP Harris leads on immigration; Asian American divide
Stuck in limbo in Ciudad Juárez, the 30 transgender women of Casa de Colores, most of them migrants from El Salvador, have built a community during the pandemic. Photo credit: Claudia Hernández for Borderless Magazine
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#MustReads “As details about the employees emerged, so too did another narrative: the story of the wealth divide among people of Asian descent in America —…
Is it a border crisis? Asian Americans speak up; Boise’s refugee secret sauce
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Why did the 17-year-old with her back swaddled on her back leave home in Guatemala to try and walk across the border? Why have so many other unaccompanied youth and families taken this treacherous journey in recent days? Reuters reporter Mimi Dwyer weaves a lucid profile to illuminate the larger phenomenon.
Who are the kids at the border? Why $$ to Central America falls short; Indians moving to Canada instead of US
Two high school students from American Falls, Idaho testify in favor of a bill providing driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants, identifying themselves as proud Future Farmers of America members and Hispanic citizens of the U.S. Despite support from agriculture, immigrant advocates, and faith groups, the measure failed to move forward, reports the Idaho Statesman. Photo by Nicole Foy.
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Kids at border test Biden; More Asian kids homeschooling; Immigrant cooks in Baltimore
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Jaywalking landed Javier Castillo Maradiaga, a DACA recipient, in immigration detention during COVID. Turns out he was caught in an “operational error,” Eric Lach reports in The New Yorker. But ICE is still working to deport the 27-year-old to Honduras. “It’s an indication that this is what our immigration system is. …
Climate migration myths; Kids in Cages again? Immigration reform support on the rise
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“Edgar López was devoted to two things: family and church. But life revolved around chicken plants.” Then he was arrested in 2019 when the Mississippi plant where he worked was raided and he was deported. When he tried to return illegally to the U.S. he was murdered as part of a massacre of Guatemalan migrants near the Mexican border. …
Frigid tent camps; What’s in the immigration reform bill? Remain in Mexico no more?
Freezing, no heat,” Monica Campbell tweets. Check out The World for more on Nidia and Imelda’s story Friday.
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#MustReads “Climate change and xenophobia are on a collision course,” Columbia’s Global Migration Project reports in an investigative feature based on 150 interviews published in The New Yorker. “Forced migration is increasing around the world, with global warming playing an alarming role in new displacement patterns; last…
Border crossings +; Pangas on the move; Nursing in the icebox
Migratory Notes is hosting tonight a Town Hall for Journalists on Covering Central America at a Crossroads.
Feb. 11 at 5:30 PT/ 7:30 CT/ 8:30 ET
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#MustReads As U.S. immigration enforcement has escalated, open water crossings are up as human smugglers, turned to pangas ferrying migrants from around the world, reports The New York Times Magazine. “The smuggling rings now carry…
¿Qué hicieron mal (y bien) los y las periodistas al cubrir las denominadas “caravanas”, la separación de familias, permanecer en México y otras restricciones de asilo bajo el periodo de Trump? ¿Qué desearían los periodistas centroamericanos que supiera el público estadounidense? ¿Para qué deben prepararse los periodistas al cubrir la administración de Biden y qué hay que esperar con las nuevas oleadas de inmigración?
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