Vanessa Cajina
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June 2, 2010
Advocates for low-income California immigrants exhaled a temporary sigh of relief as both Assembly and Senate Budget Committees voted to reject the Governor’s short-sighted and damaging proposals to eliminate safety net programs for legal immigrants. Over the past several weeks, Budget Committee members in Sacramento have been meeting with advocates to hear about how these proposals would affect immigrants, as well as the larger programs in which they’re incorporated. For the most part, the Budget Committees have acted in the best interest of low-income working families, seniors and persons...
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January 27, 2010
For as long as I live, I will never forget Maria and her children. She left her home one day while her husband was at work, packed up what she could in her beat-up mini-van, took her children and left. Her first stop was the family service agency in a small city in northern California where I was working at the time. She left because her husband beat her. The husband who was sponsoring her for citizenship. The husband who literally held her and her children’s lives with one hand, while he would abuse them with the other. For a brief period after she left her home, Maria and her kids lived in...
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June 1, 2009
In response to federal cuts, California stepped up and developed three life-saving programs for lawful immigrants. These include the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI), the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP), and full-scope Medi-Cal for lawful immigrants who have been in the United States for fewer than five years. State legislators, both Democrats and Republicans, have consistently voted to keep these services up and running since they were established. They’ve done this because they understand how critical these services are. To those who follow the California budget...
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