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“Antonio and I decided we weren’t going to die in Oaxaca.”
Natalia Mendez, age 48, is chef-owner of La Morada, a Oaxacan restaurant in the Bronx that she runs with her husband and children. Under a banner that reads “No Deportaciones / No Deportations,” the...
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“I’d always worked in kitchens because without papers that’s all I thought I...
Ivan*, age 28, a community garden coordinator in Central Florida, migrated to the United States from Mexico with his parents and two younger brothers. He was 13 years old at the time. In 2014, he...
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America cannot eat without immigrant food workers. These are their stories.
Update, 4:42 p.m., EST: According to the Associated Press, the Department of Defense (DOD) has said it will send 5,200 active-duty troops to the border this week, to “harden” it against the approaching...
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“They used to make $200 a week from mozzarella. After I started it went up to...
Skender, age 64, migrated to the United States from Kosovo in 1997, at the height of the armed conflict between Kosovar Albanians, ethnic Serbs, and the government of Yugoslavia. He left his wife,...
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“I was the first Hmong student to attend Yale.”
Pakou Hang, 42, was born in Thailand, but she’s been an American for all but two weeks of her life. Hang, the child of Hmong refugees resettled in the United States and grew up in Wisconsin, where her...
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“I don’t understand why man created borders.”
When Jaime Ortega, age 45, undertook the dangerous journey to the United States, he had never left the small town in Northern Mexico where he was born. He was no stranger to agriculture, having worked...
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“Being a citizen, I feel free.”
Fausto Sanchez, age 49, is a community worker for California Rural Legal Assistance, a nonprofit serving farm workers and other low-wage workers, regardless of immigration status. A trained interpreter...
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Where are they now?
Okay, we admit it: This started as a more conventional year-end roundup. By now, it’s a familiar trope of digital media to close down the holidays with a backward glance, giving one last bump to the...
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How Central American migrants helped revive the U.S. labor movement
It’s well-known that the American food system wouldn’t run without immigrant workers—people born elsewhere, who now call this country home. When they aren’t on hand, or aren’t allowed to contribute,...
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