The San Francisco Bay Area has always been a draw for International working for the summer. But after a tragedy this week in Berkeley that took the lives of 5 college students from Dublin, Ireland, young adults drawn to this area for school or work are feeling unsettled.
People should hear how and why other people risk their lives to come to the United States for their families wanting a better future.
How do you personally define the “American dream?” How do priorities like home ownership and access to higher education compare with your values? What will success look like for your future?
When I think about my brother and sister not knowing the language, I get annoyed, but I’m also annoyed at myself for not learning it all fast enough.
By Marisol Castillo/ MPR News Young Reporters I started learning English when I was four years old, when my parents…
President Obama addressed the nation yesterday to announce steps that would allow millions of undocumented immigrants to live and work in the U.S.…
How easy is it to gain refugee status as an unaccompanied minor? Youth radio reporters Isabella Ordaz and Adriana Champagne interviewed Stephen Kang, staff attorney at the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, to learn more about the legal process for minors attempting to enter the U.S..
I soon realized why that bus hadn’t come: walking to school my dad and I passed two white sheets lying on the ground, both of them stained with blood. We later learned the victims were two local kids killed after trying to run away from gang members who were chasing them. It was 2006. A month later I left El Salvador and headed north for the United States.
I needed a job after high school to help my family and to be able to pay for college. I…
