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California Immigrant Organizations Advocating For and Serving Immigrants in Disaster
The First-Ever UndocuFund Summit hosted by 805 UndocuFund, UndocuFund, and Latino Community Foundation, Calling for Equitable Disaster Relief
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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Sonoma County immigrant advocates call for more financial help for Latinos struggling during pandemic
Sonoma County immigrant rights advocates on Wednesday urged local elected and public health leaders to respond with greater urgency to the devastating health care and economic setbacks area Latinos have suffered during the coronavirus pandemic.Although the disparity has been clear for months, Latino residents, many of them immigrants, are still contracting the infectious disease at a rate three times that of other county residents. Some of them are undocumented, but have lived and worked in the community for years.
"We feel frustrated and angry and with no more ...
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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