Monica Campbell
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Berkeley, CA, United States
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Farmworkers are now deemed essential. But are they protected?
Compelled to keep working amid the coronavirus pandemic, many U.S. farmworkers lack face masks, sanitizers and paid sick leave – and are blocked from accessing federal aid. → Read More
This historian’s new book on Mexican migration is perfectly timed
Stanford historian Ana Raquel Minan’s “Undocumented Lives” focuses on how policy shifts in both Mexico and the United States have changed the daily lives of Mexican migrants for decades. → Read More
This migrant is done with the US. Instead, he's choosing to live undocumented in Mexico.
After years of a migrant's life, Daniel Vega, from Guatemala, is ready to put down roots in Mexico. But being "undocumented anywhere is never easy." → Read More
How this undocumented lawyer is breaking more ground with no safety net
“I think it's more important than ever to be open about who we are,” says Lizbeth Mateo, who made news this month for being one of the few undocumented residents to be named to a statewide post in California. → Read More
It’s Trump versus California, but immigrants and employers already feel the fallout
Calls to hotlines to assist immigrants are skyrocketing, while employers brace themselves for more inspections. → Read More
Why a recent Supreme Court decision on bonds is a ‘red flag’ for immigrants in detention
A battle is on over the constitutionality of indefinite immigrant detention. → Read More
The quest for coffee from a war zone
Mokhtar Alkhanshali is sourcing some of the world’s best ranked beans from Yemen — and arguing that we should rethink just how much we pay for our daily brew. → Read More
A court ruling offers some relief to this Texas high school student. But will it last?
Indira Marquez Robles has lived in the US since she was six months old. She knows deportation is a reality, but refuses to feel haunted by it. → Read More
After 17 years of 'legal life' in the US, a family considers its next move
The Trump administration is removing temporary protected status for El Salvador, a program that has permitted the Velasco family to live and work in the US since 2001. That puts them — and 200,000 other like them — at a tough crossroads. → Read More
US immigration arrests rise — and neighbors sign up to witness ICE operations
Rapid response networks, being replicated in cities across the US, are one neighborhood reaction to President Donald Trump's push to step up deportations. → Read More
Immigrants face impossible choices in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey
For the last several weeks, headlines have been dominated by hurricanes and floods, causing devastation from India and Nepal to the Caribbean. Hurricane Irma is just the latest in a ferocious season of natural disasters. With long-term recovery in mind, I partnered with the BBC World Service to produce "Seeking Refuge in Houston," which focused on Houston and what happens in the aftermath of a… → Read More
Young, undocumented and trying to 'keep my sanity'
"You don’t feel safe anymore. It always feels like we’re tiptoeing our way to 2020, we’re tiptoeing our way to, hopefully, a new president.” → Read More
More and more talented people are saying ‘farewell Venezuela, hello Mexico’
Venezuelans are leaving their country in crisis and building communities elsewhere. → Read More
A German went to Mexico and turned the border into a musical instrument
This month in Mexico, Markus Rindt, a German symphony conductor who grew up in East Germany under Communism, brought his "Tear Down This Wall!" tour to Mexico, and the US-Mexico border. Things got complicated. → Read More
Musician Lila Downs fights back
When performing her latest single, “Peligrosa,” Downs says she thought about women who are seen as “dangerous because we think, because we have opinions, because we want to go to school, because we want to be independent.” → Read More
Mourning a journalist in Mexico who said 'no to silence'
The killing of a high-profile reporter, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, has sparked outrage throughout the country. → Read More
From facing Islamophobia, to creating a hit website that fights Muslim caricatures
The creator of MuslimGirl.com reflects on how "this little thing that I started in my bedroom when I was a teenager has really grown to take on a life of its own." → Read More
Immigration law experts say workplace raids don't really work
History and data tell us large-scale deportation operations don't make much of a dent in the undocumented population. → Read More
The novel ‘Lucky Boy’ and a timely story of immigration and motherhood
Shanthi Sekaran’s novel, a Global Nation Book Club pick, delves into privilege, motherhood and immigration, legal and not. → Read More
Why Mexico City's bad air can't be ignored — or easily fixed
The Mexican capital worked hard to shed its image as one of the world's most polluted cities. Are those efforts now backsliding? → Read More