Tina Vásquez

Tina Vásquez

182 posts
Immigration raids expected to escalate in North Carolina as locals organize to protect their neighbors
Immigration

Immigration raids expected to escalate in North Carolina as locals organize to protect their neighbors

As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities

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11 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
She managed to get a temporary farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse and exploitation.
Economy & Workers' Rights

She managed to get a temporary farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse and exploitation.

A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program, and when they are granted visas, they report being funneled into non-agricultural labor where they face sexual violence and trafficking

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29 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
ICE raids in Los Angeles are a declaration of war, and Angelenos are primed for battle
Immigration

ICE raids in Los Angeles are a declaration of war, and Angelenos are primed for battle

Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent the city a message when its agents showed up in full force, and that message was responded to in kind by the people of LA

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4 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
Anti-trans bills in Kentucky target health care for incarcerated people
Crime, Reform & Abolition

Anti-trans bills in Kentucky target health care for incarcerated people

SB 2 and HB 5 largely mimic an executive order from the Trump administration that strips incarcerated trans people of gender-affirming care and subjects them to dangerous conditions

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6 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr., Tina Vásquez
This union can’t be crushed
Economy & Workers' Rights

This union can’t be crushed

Low-wage workers at the Union of Southern Service Workers’ summit are ready to go toe-to-toe against their employers, racist labor laws, and the Trump administration

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5 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
Young women look at their phones while standing in line to vote.
Politics & Democracy

Former DACA recipients may break new ground in state elections 

Cindy Nava of New Mexico and Luis Mata of Tennessee are paving a new path for immigrants seeking public office

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8 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
A man, woman and child smile at the camera as they stand next to a red car in a parking lot.
Climate & Environment

Immigrants in western NC face a long road to recovery after Hurricane Helene

Immigrant and Latinx-serving organizations in the region have become a lifeline, offering information, language access, donations, and other crucial services

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10 Min
By: Julio Tordoya, Tina Vásquez
A woman sits on the street in front of a police officer; she's holding up a sign that says, "Secure Communities = Living in F
Immigration

We’ve all played a role in the rightward shift on immigration 

If elected president, Harris will join a long line of Democrats all too willing to irreparably harm immigrant communities for political gain

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6 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
Rewriting the immigration narrative: How one teacher is transforming classroom discussions
Education

Rewriting the immigration narrative: How one teacher is transforming classroom discussions

A high school teacher in New Mexico discusses how literature can help young people make powerful connections to modern struggles for immigrant rights

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10 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
color photograph of H-2A workers standing in a field wearing personal protective equipment
Economy & Workers' Rights

New protections empower H-2A agricultural workers to organize

Agriculture is rife with labor violations and abuse, but thanks to a new rule going into effect this month, the industry’s most vulnerable migrant H-2A workers now have better protections to organize against unfair treatment from American employers. The H-2A Temporary Agricultural Program allows American employers to bring migrant

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6 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
color photograph of a press conference for the six migrant workers who died in Baltimore. children of varying ages wear yello
Economy & Workers' Rights

We heroicize migrant workers in their deaths and deny them dignity in life

The men who died in the Baltimore bridge collapse join hundreds of other migrant workers who’ve died toiling in dangerous conditions on U.S. job sites

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4 Min
By: Tina Vásquez
Supreme Court doesn’t appear swayed by arguments in baseless abortion pill case
Gender & LGBTQIA+

Supreme Court doesn’t appear swayed by arguments in baseless abortion pill case

Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA seeks to ban mifepristone, the safe and effective pill used in a majority of medication abortions

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4 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

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