by Dhivya Sridar | May 24, 2022 | Health, Urban Indian Healthcare
May 2, 2022 – Edwina Valdo found herself on the receiving end of a desperate phone call last year on the suicide crisis line at Acoma Pueblo Behavioral Health Services in New Mexico. Valdo, whose regular job is as a grant manager, was filling in because the pandemic...
by Dhivya Sridar | Apr 13, 2022 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — In 2021, CBP carried out over 1.6 million apprehensions at the border –– a level not seen for 20 years, according to a March report by the American Immigration Council. As the crisis at the southern border worsens, immigration advocates and...
by Dhivya Sridar | Feb 18, 2022 | Featured, Social Justice
WASHINGTON — In January, Black Lives Matter restarted its #BlackWomenAreDivine project, asking people to nominate Black women or femme-identified people, 20 of whom will be honored by Black Lives Matter in March. “We are the sacred mamas, builders, teachers, and...
by Dhivya Sridar | Feb 15, 2022 | Immigration
Nearly 5,500 unaccompanied migrant children were relocated to Maryland between October 2020 and September 2021, the highest number in the past six years, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Refugee Resettlement. The year before, this...
by Dhivya Sridar | Feb 8, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
Atia Iqbal, an attorney in Afghanistan, arrived in Spokane in 2015. Before coming to the U.S., her husband taught inmates how to sew at a jail belonging to the U.S. military at Bagram base in Afghanistan, she said. At one point, most of the people in the jail were...
