Sanders has proposed an amendment to the Laken-Riley Act, which he said would add more oversight to the H-1B visa program. In an interview with EMS, immigration attorney Kalpana Peddibhotla, executive director of the South Asian American Justice Collaborative, said the senator's claims were unsubstantiated.
The raids, a preview of the mass deportations that were a hallmark of Trump’s presidential campaign, have sent a chill across communities in the region.
One in three undocumented Koreans live in California. Many say they fear their information could be shared with the federal government if they enroll in Medi-Cal.
Journalist and author Rubén Martínez is the co-creator of the play, “Little Central America, 1984,” which recalls the Sanctuary Movement of that decade.