Valeria Fernández is an independent journalist from Uruguay with more than a decade experience as a bilingual documentary producer and reporter on Arizona’s immigrant community and the US-Mexico borderlands.
Valeria Fernández is an independent journalist from Uruguay with more than a decade experience as a bilingual documentary producer and reporter on Arizona’s immigrant community and the US-Mexico borderlands.
Her award-winning, independent reporting has focused on topics ranging from migrant kidnappings to racial profiling. Fernández also contributes with Radio Bilingue, CNN Spanish and Al Jazeera English, and has been published by newsrooms such as The Associated Press. In 2012, she produced the documentary “Two Americans,” which contrasts Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and a 9-year-old US citizen trying to stop her parents’ deportation. In 2014, she was a director in the international award winning web documentary “Connected Walls,” about life along the US-Mexico and Morocco-Spain borderlands.
In 2015, she was a producer and reporter for the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting on a project that cast light on the economic and social impacts of a mine spill in Northern Mexico that broadcast in PBS, San Diego. The multi-media project won an Arizona Press Club recognition for environmental reporting.
This year she is a fellow of the "Bringing Home the World" fellowship of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).
The country's Plan Ceibal program had already been supplying students with tablets and computers for 15 years.
The president of Mexico told people deported from the US, “You’re not alone.” But Omar Blas Olvera felt alone trying to restart his life and put his family back together in Mexico.
The Trump administration wants immigrants to stop using public benefits, but many immigrants are already severely restricted from receiving assistance with food, health and child care. Even when they are at their most vulnerable.
“We surrendered to a journey that was wonderful but forced upon us,” says Katerina Barron. She and her two children were born in the US and moved to Mexico after her husband was deported.
Speakers lined up to tell the mayor and council members what happened when they protested a Trump rally on Aug. 22.
Here’s what one family will do to stay together. We’re following their story.
Federal authorities had previously granted Guadalupe Garcia permission to stay in the US. There is a federal civil rights case against Phoenix’s former sheriff and the types of raids that she was swept up in.
Mexico is becoming a destination for Central American migrants who apply for “humanitarian” visas to avoid deportation and secure employment. But the promise of higher-paid work in the US remains a powerful lure.
Mexico detains most unaccompanied migrant children in jail-like facilities, even though the country’s laws forbid it.
After two weeks of skipping meals, the women are taking a short break. But they say will resume if the government does not consider their pleas to be released.
Even short-term stays in immigration detention can be harmful to children, say mental health experts. So why does the US government still hold young asylum-seekers?