Richmond Pulse South Kern Sol The Know Fresno[Translate] Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of three reports on the DREAMer movement. Part one can be read here and part two can be read here. The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 29: The Dreamer Chronicles, Part 3 Approved for DACA, Mayté and Lamber Can Finally Pursue their Dreams I first […]
[Translate] Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of three reports on the DREAMer movement. The first part can be read here. The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 28: The Dreamer Chronicles, Part 2 SALINAS — By the time Alma Torres turned 12, her father had been back and forth between the family’s home in […]
[Translate] Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of three reports on the DREAMer movement The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 27: The Dreamer Chronicles, Part 1 It was 2010 and the Immigration movement was at a crossroad— continue advocating for comprehensive immigration reform, or support the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors […]
[Translate] The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 26: Five Generations of Sinaloa My great grandmother, Maria, never wrote anything down. Her stories came with laughter and dance as she told me about her mother, who died at 100 years of age, and her father, a small indigenous man from the sierras of Chiricahueto, Cosalá, Sinaloa, who shrunk year […]
[Translate] The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 25: A Familiar Scene in Bakersfield Bakersfield, CA –The movement for immigration reform brought over 1,000 supporters to Bakersfield last week to put public pressure on House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy – the new “whipping boy” on immigration as Politico newspaper has so dubbed him. We gathered in Bakersfield to […]
[Translate] The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 24: The Deportation Chronicles, Part 3 Raul: Those Who Said Goodbye In 2010, there were an estimated 387,000 “removals” according to Department of Homeland Security documents. My high school friend Raul was one of them. He has been living in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, for three years now. He has been […]
[Translate] The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 23: The Deportation Chronicles, Part 2 Mayte: The Haves and the Have Nots of Immigration One of the greatest fears is driving. With Operation Stone Garden Police officers were able to ask for citizenship and it became commonplace to have police officers radio in immigration officers to pick up the […]
[Translate] The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 22: The Deportation Chronicles, Part 1 The year 2012 has come to a close and the numbers of those removed from the United States are released – 409,849 individuals caught, trapped, nabbed, thrown into the patty wagon and kicked out with a boot – a record high. For the Eastern Coachella […]
[Translate] The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 21 Coachella En El Corazón: Reflections on A Home Town I am back home in the Coachella Valley. I drove last night through a California wet with rain, lettuce fields with mud, cows, the huge towering lights of Los Angeles, and the quiet darkness of empty space between Beaumont and […]
[Translate] The Diary of Joaquin Magon Entry 20 About a month ago, I was talking to workers on strike at Nob Hill, a chain of high-end grocery stores, trying to figure out what moved them to take this major step. The majority of the workers picketed outside the store in spite of the big sign on the front doors: […]
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