by Anabel Mendoza | Jul 21, 2020 | Coronavirus
As COVID-19 uproots businesses and lives across the country, Wisconsin’s essential front-line workers, including thousands of immigrants, remain among the most vulnerable. Many immigrant workers must decide: Stay at home and risk losing a paycheck or go to work but...
by Anabel Mendoza | Jul 21, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
When Nichole Szarenski was forced to temporarily close the 1 and Only Barbershop in Frederick city in late March, a list of concerns spiraled in her mind. “How in the world are we going to feed our kids, take care of our family [and] take care of our health?” said...
by Anabel Mendoza | Jul 17, 2020 | Immigration
The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded an order from Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week that required international students attending online-only U.S. colleges in the fall to either transfer to schools with in-person instruction or leave the...
by Anabel Mendoza | Jul 14, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
Last week, when ICE announced that international students attending online-only U.S. colleges in the fall must either transfer to schools with in-person instruction or leave the country, Amr Mecca felt the fear and shock so many international students have been...
by Anabel Mendoza | Jun 30, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
The Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are an issue of “partisan politicization,” said Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund on Monday. “What we...
