11 results for author: Lina Blanco
Housing organizer to oversee ‘future vision’ of disaster relief fund for undocumented locals
Press Democrat • Beatrice Camacho, 34, is the first director of Undocufund, the disaster relief organization created in the midst of the 2017 North Bay firestorm to help local undocumented families.
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Organizaciones denuncian que familias indocumentadas no reciben ayuda por coronavirus en el condado Sonoma
Telemundo 48 • Estadísticas indican que los latinos conforman el 70% de los casos positivos del condado.
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Escaping a Wildfire and Fighting to Stay Here
Mother Jones • In the wake of Northern California’s blazes, undocumented immigrants are living a doubly precarious existence.
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Community fund helps undocumented migrants rebuild after NorCal fires
KALW • After the destruction of the North Bay Fires, most Sonoma County residents could get financial assistance to help rebuild. But for the more than 40,000 undocumented immigrants living there, access to financial support has been limited.
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The Bay Area’s Housing Crisis Is Even Worse After the Wildfires
The Atlantic • In the weeks following the blazes, median monthly rent in Sonoma County jumped more than 35 percent.
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From Sonoma County’s Ashes, a Fund for Undocumented Immigrants Rises
Civil Eats • UndocuFund wants to build long-term support for the undocumented hit hard by the fires. But will it be enough to solve a looming housing and employment crisis?
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Some immigrant fire victims forgo aid, fearing language on FEMA forms
SF Chronicle • Members of the immigrant community displaced by the Wine Country fires are facing a new dilemma, fearing that information they provide on forms seeking federal disaster relief could be shared with immigration agents. And some say they will avoid applying altogether as a result.
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New Fund to Help Undocumented Immigrants Affected by Sonoma County Fires
Sonoma County Gazette • The UndocuFund is a project of the Graton Day Labor Center,North Bay Organizing Project,North Bay Jobs with Justice. The organizations are also coordinating their response efforts through the fund partnership.
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New fund to help undocumented immigrants affected by Sonoma County fires
Healdsburg Tribune • A coalition of immigrant service providers and advocates have launched the UndocuFund for fire relief in Sonoma County to provide direct assistance to undocumented Sonoma County residents who are victims of the Northern California fires.
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Undocumented immigrants face challenges after Wine Country fires
SF Chronicle • The lack of assistance for undocumented immigrants troubles advocates and attorneys who worry about the futures of these residents, some of whom are agricultural workers central to the economy of Wine Country, as they navigate an already expensive, housing-strapped region.
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