PALO ALTO — Applications for the H-1B visa, the program that allows companies to hire skilled immigrants, grew 3.2 percent during 2017 in the San Francisco Bay Area. That may not seem like much, but it bucks a national decline in H-1B visa applications since Donald Trump was elected president.
Bucking the national trend, H-1B visa applications continue to grow in the Bay Area Read More »
SAN JOSE – In early 2017, Kinjal Zaveri and her husband were excitedly preparing to buy a house in San Jose when President Trump’s administration announced it would revoke her work permit.
Dos meses después, una comunidad de inmigrantes indÃgenas mexicanos, a menudo ignorada, siguen luchando para recuperarse de los estragos por los incendios fatales del Wine Country de California.
SANTA ROSA — Two months later, an often-overlooked community of indigenous immigrants from Mexico is still struggling to recover from the deadly Wine Country fires .
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SANTA ROSA — Sonoma County leaders are pointing to inadequate Spanish-language communication and fear as key barriers that prevented immigrant communities from seeking aid following the most destructive fires in California’s history.
SAN JOSE – Activists at San Jose State University are organizing a demonstration on Nov. 15 to request a path to citizenship for undocumented individuals brought to the United States as children.
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SILICON VALLEY — Silicon Valley workers want to form a union, but unlike the cafeteria workers and security guards who won official recognition this summer, this time it’s the product designers, software engineers, and mid-level managers who are coming together to organize.
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SAN MATEO – In a wide-ranging interview with the Peninsula Press at her San Mateo district office Oct. 30, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-14th) also said that Democrats would have to accept some Republican demands if they want to protect undocumented youth immigrants from deportation, that she planned to introduce legislation to make it easier for Congressional staffers to file sexual assault claims and that social media companies could face regulation beyond laws forcing them to disclose political advertisers’ identities.
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SAN JOSE — As immigration enforcement agents pick up the pace of arrests in Northern California, local rapid response networks have grown in membership and sophistication throughout the Bay Area.
Grassroots rapid response networks expand throughout Bay Area as ICE arrests increase Read More »
