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San Mateo County Immigrant Relief Fund administrators say ‘need is tremendous’
Since its inception in July, San Mateo County’s Immigrant Relief Fund has awarded over $11 million in grants to immigrant families needing relief during the Covid-19 pandemic. The fund...Read More
Supes allocate additional $2 million for Covid-19 immigrant relief fund
San Mateo County’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday allocated an additional $2 million to the county’s Immigrant Relief Fund, which provides financial assistance to immigrants during the Covid-19 pandemic....Read More
Liccardo joins legal fight against Census exclusion of undocumented residents
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo announced Friday that he would be named a plaintiff and join a lawsuit with San Jose and other jurisdictions to prevent President Donald Trump...Read More
Federal anti-immigrant policies exacerbate Covid-19 impact on people of color
After months of proffering an often piecemeal and chaotic response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the federal government is still failing to extend protections to the nation’s vulnerable immigrant...Read More
Trump lashes out after 5-4 Supreme Court ruling blocks attempt to end DACA program
The U.S. Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protecting undocumented young immigrants from...Read More
Covid-19 update: Bay Area death toll holds for four days, several counties set to reopen retail, Newsom lays out...
Monday marks the fourth day in a row with no new deaths reported in throughout the nine-county Bay Area region. However, the national death toll surpassed 90,000. Seven counties...Read More
Bay Area leaders call on state to better help undocumented residents
A group of more than 140 Bay Area elected leaders and immigration advocates called for state action Monday to include undocumented residents in the state’s social safety net programs...Read More
Covid-19 update: DA opens probe into Gateway Care, SF surpasses 1,000 cases, Newsom tends to most vulnerable
As of Wednesday, there are more than two million confirmed cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus across the globe — the U.S. accounts for more than 30 percent of...Read More
Court affirms ‘safe and sanitary’ includes sleep, soap, toothbrushes, showers
A federal appeals court in San Francisco Thursday upheld a lower court order requiring that undocumented immigrant children being held in detention must be given soap, toothbrushes, showers and...Read More