Unless you’re Ohlone, Bay Miwok and/or Delta Yokut, you’re an immigrant to the East Bay. My family and I are no exception. We emigrated to the United States from the Philippines in 1981 when I was five years old. by Francis Mendoza I remember spending a lot of time...
A woman whose case drew national attention last year when immigration officials tore her from her children and her job as a nurse in Oakland and deported her to Mexico has a chance to beat the odds and return to the Bay Area, thanks to a lottery drawing and a...
At Thanksgiving the motto is “the more the merrier.” With food-laden tables and everyone clamoring for the last slice of pumpkin pie, it’s hard to imagine the fourth Thursday in November without friends, family, and turkeys, but for more than 40...
On July 1, 2015, a single gunshot rang out on San Francisco’s Pier 14, fatally wounding 32-year-old Kate Steinle. By July 3, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was tweeting about it. By Tal Kopan WASHINGTON — An undocumented immigrant and five-time deportee who...
Naser al-Shimary is waiting at the arrivals gate at Baghdad’s international airport. He says he’s so nervous his “heart is skipping beats.Last time I held my wife and son was May 2017,” says Shimary, 29, speaking English with an American...
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