Health Reform Means Not Going to Mexicali for Care

May 13, 2013 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Alejandra Alarcon, Coachella, Eastern Coachella Valley, Mexicali, New America Media, Ronnie Cho

[Translate]                           ALEJANDRA ALARCON/Coachella Unincorporated   COACHELLA — Like a lot of other families living in the Eastern Coachella Valley, when one of our family members fell sick, it meant driving about a hundred miles across the border into Mexico, to the City of Mexicali, to get taken care of by a doctor.

The Diary of Joaquín Magón: The Incredible Story of Griselda

September 10, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Baja California, Calexico, Coachella, Coachella Unincorporated, community organizer, coyotes, Eastern Coachella Valley, El Norte, El Salvador, Farm Workers, Guatemala, Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix, jesus valenzuela, Joaquin Magon, Mexicali, migrant workers, north, Oaxaca, Salton Sea, Sinaloa, strawberry, strawberry fields, UFW, United Farm Workers

[Translate]     Entry 18: The Incredible Story of Griselda, A Migrant Farm Worker   I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes I slept on the ground in the light of the moon On the edge of the city you’ll see us and then We come with the dust and we go with the wind -Pastures of Plenty, Woody Guthrie   Griselda left, as many of them do.

Student Reaches for Dreams with Deferred Action

August 16, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: amnesty, Atlixco, barack obama, brenda rincon, California State University, Childhood Arrivals, Coachella, Coachella Unincorported, college of the desert, Deferred Action, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Deferred Action scams, DREAM Act, Eastern Coachella Valley, immigration lawyer, Jose Chiquito, Leaders of Tomorrow, Mecca, Mexicali, Obama Administration, Puebla, Russell Jauregui, thermal, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, University of Laverne, USCIS

[Translate]   By Brenda Rincón, Coachella Unincorporated   COACHELLA, Calif. –  Cris* was only 12 years old when she left Atlixco, Puebla, with her brother and sister to join their parents in the United States.