Working at a nonprofit often involves the ability to change hats. But Rita Mancera’s dedication to the community of immigrant and migrant farmworkers on San Mateo’s South Coast goes beyond that of a single costume change. Since 2006, Mancera has worked at Puente, a nonprofit that provides a safety net of health, legal and educational services to Latino families living on the South Coast. Mancera, 34, who holds a bachelor’s ......
Immigrant rights advocates joined San Francisco city officials for a vigil outside City Hall Wednesday in protest of a controversial Arizona state law being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court. SB 1070, passed in Arizona in April 2010, required local police to determine the immigration status of people they reasonably suspected to be in the country illegally. The U.S. Department of Justice challenged the constitutionality of the law and a ......
By Bay City News Service 4/25/12 4:58 p.m. PDT
For a generation that grew up during the War on Terror, it's no surprise that fear is a big narrative in their lives. For some, the effects of this decade of fear are tangible. Beatriz Herrera says the War on Terror has had a direct impact on the immigrant community that she is a part of. "The War on Terror is a term used to justify xenophobia," says Herrera. "A ......
By Citizen Reporters 9/09/11 1:03 p.m. PDT
The Obama Administration announced Thursday that it would no longer spend resources trying to deport illegal immigrants who came to the United States as young children "and know no other home," according to news reports. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wrote in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that the government wants to focus its "enforcement resources on high-priority" criminal cases. But Napolitano added the change in ......
By Bay Citizen Staff 8/18/11 5:27 p.m. PDT
Jose Antonio Vargas, former SF Chronicle writer and S.F. State alum has made waves today, as he came out as an undocumented immigrant in a long New York Times Magazine story that hit the web earlier this morning. Vargas, who came to Mountain View as an 11 year-old, used a falsified Social Security card to gain employment at the Chronicle, the Washington Post, and the Huffington Post. He kept his ......
