immigration facts
The farm workers movement we studied to learn more about immigrants in the Central Valley.
What is The Delano Grape Strike?
The term that describes a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
What is a Refugee?
What is Empowering Marginalized Asian Communities?
The immigration workshop that El Concilio led.
What is the Know Your Rights Workshop?
This student organization is dedicated to advocate and empower undocumented and immigrant students and their families at Delta. Also known as the club's former name.
What is Yo Soy?
From Stockton, CA, this individual is one of the key players in creating the United Farm Workers Union.
This term describes someone who is seeking international protection but whose claim for refugee status has not yet been determined.
What is an asylum seeker?
EMAC's mission is to serve the Asian community, with a specialty focus in other marginalized communities and this subgroup of Asia.
Who are Southeast Asians?
El Concilio has been providing _____ and low-cost bilingual citizenship preparation and immigration legal services since 1968.
What is free?
An individual who entered the U.S without inspection or with fraudulent documents, or someone who entered legally as a nonimmigrant but then violated the terms of is or her status and remained in the US without authorization.
What is an undocumented student?
This law makes it impossible for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S as children under the age of 16 to obtain deferred deportation, work permits, Social Security cards, and drivers' licenses.
What is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals? or DACA
Stockton has the highest concentration of Southeast Asian refugees in California, including these two ethnicities.
Who are Cambodian and Lao refugees?
A group or organization that cares about a problem pleads the cause on behalf of the group affected by the problem.
What is advocacy?
Police should have this before they can search your home or personal living space
What is a warrant?
Police cannot search your home without a warrant unless you give them permission. If they do not have a warrant, tell them they must get one before they search your home. If your roommate gives law enforcement permission to search, police still cannot search your personal “living area” (ie room) without your permission or a warrant
An action to take now to make change for an issue you are passionate about from the comfort of your own home.
What is writing letters?
Trump's controversial travel ban on noncitizens from 13 countries.
What is the muslim ban?
This is one of the six services APSARA provides to the community.
What is...?
Community Advocacy, Education Assistance, Health Care Access, Environmental Justice, Affordable Housing and Family Supports, and Art & Culture
Bringing people together to use their power to win improvements in people's lives and challenge the pyramid of power.
You should speak to this person when filling out any government documents that disclose your immigration status
Who is an attorney?
nibar@elconcilio.org
(209) 644-2600
The conference intended to connect Undocumented Status Students with on and off campus resources, and to empower students and their families to pursue higher education regardless of their immigration status.
What is the Dreamers Conference?
Countries have a legal obligation to protect refugees under this law.
What is the international law?
APSARA built a safe community with affordable housing, purchasing Park Village Apartments for this low cost.
What is $1?
The 3 steps on the roadmap to community organizing.
What is "getting started", "action planning, or strategizing to win", and "take action"?
What is one new immigration policy introduced by the Biden administrations?
What is (revsering muslim ban, fortifying DACA, US Citizenship Act, overflow migrant facilities for unaccompanied minors, etc)?
Biden’s administration quickly introduced several policies that demonstrated a departure from Trumps’ staunch anti-immigrant stance; however, he has failed to halt deportations and continued the detention of minors.
This exempts certain students from paying nonresident tuition (higher than resident tuition) and allows them to apply for different types of California Dream Act financial aid.
What is AB540?