Undocumented immigrants

About a quarter of construction workers are immigrants. They may be vulnerable at a time when more housing is needed across the country.

Work permits can increase wages, workforce participation and job potential for undocumented immigrants.

The people who most need the aid “have to jump the most hurdles to get it,” says Chabeli Carrazana, economy reporter at the 19th.

COVID-19 has disproportionately affected many groups, including undocumented immigrants. Lawmakers want them to be compensated.

New immigration bill would reform family-based immigration and visa programs and provide protections from exploitation.

We hear from one line cook who lost his job when the pandemic hit and has since been unable to find another restaurant job.

California will start taking applications in May for cash benefits.

Some workers are organizing to hand out food and supplies to members of their community in crisis.

Nearly 100,000 undocumented students graduate from high schools across the U.S. each year. Only a fraction enroll in college.

In 2010, shortly after Arizona had passed the controversial immigration law known as Senate Bill 1070, Jessica Gonzalez was riding a bus through downtown Phoenix when it passed a crowds of protesters and counter-protesters. Gonzalez remembers being the only person with brown skin on the bus. When the protesters spotted her through the window, she […]