Immigration

July 30, 2014

Over the past few weeks the stories of child refugees fleeing unspeakable violence in Central America, as well as their uncertain fate in the hands of U.S. policymakers, has been the focus of headlines around the country. What has been more difficult to follow is what is happening to the influx of refugee mothers who have recently fled to the U.S. with their children, many just toddlers and babies.

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Wendy Cervantes

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July 15, 2014

Putting faith over fact, 5 conservative Catholic men on the Supreme Court have opened a Pandora’s Box: your boss now gets to interfere with your birth control decisions. In its sharply divided 5-4 ruling in Hobby Lobby, SCOTUS ramps up the War on Women.

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Roberta Riley

Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

July 11, 2014

What’s going on in Texas? Jails in the state are endangering pregnant women and their fetuses, despite the state’s professed interest in “unborn babies.” In May, a woman named Nicole Guerrero filed a lawsuit against the Wichita County Jail for ignoring her when she was in labor. Locked alone in a...

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Rachel Roth

Immigration

July 11, 2014

Este blog se publicó originalmente en Lanugo: Latino de Corazón. Tristeza, ansiedad, depresión y angustia son parte de los sentimientos que viven miles y miles de niños, Americanos y Latinos de Corazón, mientras atraviesan la pesadilla de quedarse huérfanos debido a la deportación de sus padres...

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Carla Curiel

Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

June 30, 2014

“Sister, you and your fellow nuns have clearly gone rogue!" -- Stephen Colbert Sister Simone Campbell was 18 years old when she joined the convent and 21 when she took her nun vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Her younger sister and best friend was dying of Hodgkin’s disease. It was the 1960...

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Melissa Regan

Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

June 30, 2014

Today the Supreme Court voted in favor of Hobby Lobby's "religious freedom" to decide not to abide by the Affordable Care Act and deny contraception coverage to their employees.

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Melissa Regan

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June 27, 2014

I never thought sending a Facebook “Friend Request” could impact me they way it did. One day on my Facebook wall, I noticed an organization called “DREAMers Moms”, so I sent them a friend request. I quickly received a response that they wanted me to come to a meeting in Miami, Florida. I was...

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Jose Antonio Vargas

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June 24, 2014

On Sunday, June 29th, my story in the form of the film “Documented” will be told to the nation on CNN. A large part of my story is that I haven’t seen my mother since August 1993.

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Jose Antonio Vargas

Immigration

June 23, 2014

While I was thinking about writing you this note, I remembered that when my daughter was a little girl she'd run to the door to hug me when I came home from work. Her smiles lit up the room as she'd chant, "Yay, mommy's home, mommy's home!" She never doubted I'd return home at the end of the day...

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Mary Olivella

Immigration Politics & Policy

May 14, 2014

Last Sunday, for the eleventh year in a row, I called my mother and wished her a “Happy Mother’s Day,” but I wasn’t able to see her. I’m one of the estimated 12 million people living in the United States without documentation. As much as I want to see my mother, going home to Honduras could mean I...

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