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Immigrant Labor Pains: Frontline Essential Workers are Poorest in NYC
By Marivir R. Montebon New York – They deserve more than a pat on the shoulder. Immigrant workers, including the undocumented ones (age 16 and older), comprise the majority of frontline essential workers who continued to operate in-person throughout the pandemic here. According to the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA)’s fourth Annual Report, […]
Sen. Padilla of California pushes for US citizenship of undocumented essential workers nationwide
By Marivir R. Montebon New York – Democrat Senator Alex Padilla of California is pushing for a law that would provide essential workers in the US a road to citizenship. In a press conference called for by the Ethnic Media Services (EMS) on April 16, 2021, Padilla said that it was time to honor immigrant […]
Unlike Nepal and Haiti, the Philippines Never Obtained Temporary Protected Status
By Licelle Cobrador, Esq.* New York – Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) is one of the United States government’s significant humanitarian programs enacted to assist individuals in need of shelter or aid from disasters, oppression, emergency medical issues and other urgent circumstances. Under the program, the secretary of homeland security decides when a country warrants the designation […]
WICCAFE: Multiculturalism, not racism for Americans
The American Immigration Story Part 6 (of 6) Today is America’s tipping point and social threshold as a result of the enactment of the 1965 Hart Cellar Immigration Act which allowed entry of non-white immigrants from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. While it has reason to acknowledge and celebrate its diversity, it is also reeling […]
WICCAFE: US rises to be a great nation, colonizer; women’s movement continues
American Immigration Story Part 5 (of 6) The birth of the USA was through war against the British and the natives. It is ran by the labor of black slaves and consequently post-modern immigrants. The Founding Fathers designed the ‘American experiment’, that is to separate the Church and the State to avoid the bloody religious […]
WICCAFE: Women oppression, women leadership
American Immigration Story Part 4 (of 6) All throughout American colonial history, women oppression and suppression was evident. But gradually, women rose to question these inequalities – starting from Anne Hutchinson to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and many more. Women have championed on the abolition of slavery and their right to […]
WICCAFE: The Puritans create a ‘New England’ on Wampanoag, Pequot lands
The American Immigration Story Part 3 While the Dutch prosperously conducted business in their new found land in New Amsterdam, the Puritans began to pour into New England or what is now known as Massachusetts. The first immigrants from England came on board the Mayflower in 1620. It was believed that the Puritans had a […]
WICCAFE: The Dutch establishes New Amsterdam, native tribes disintegrate
The American Immigration Story Part 2. In 1609, Englishman Henry Hudson began the colonial foothold of the Dutch (for East Indies Company) in New Amsterdam or what is now known as New York. Finding the ‘New World’ came as an accident, for Hudson was assigned to look for a short route to Indonesia and the […]
WICCAFE: American natives live more equitable lives before Dutch, English colonizers
The American Immigration Story Part 1. The Natives of North America Before the Dutch and English colonizers came to what is now known as the East Coast of the US (particularly the old colonies of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island), the native tribes who existed for over […]
Filipino Americans condemn hate crimes vs. Asians, most recently in Atlanta
By Marivir R. Montebon New York – The pandemic has played up the ugly head of racial hate on Asians with the surge of Asian race-related crimes lately. A Filipino organization condemned the mass shooting in Atlanta which killed eight people in two Asian spas Tuesday. The Filipino Voter Empowerment Project in a press release […]
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