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The Immigrant Experience and the Effects of Intergenerational Trauma

Virginia IsaadJune 30, 2022June 30, 2022

by Virginia IsaadJune 30, 2022June 30, 202203911

Dr. Lisette Sanchez is a bilingual licensed psychologist and founder of Calathea Wellness, a virtual practice providing individual therapy in California. She has a passion for working with BIPOC folxs and first-generation professionals. The immigration experience is often a traumatic one. We...

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7 Real Ways To Help In The Effort To Reunite Immigrant Families

Priscilla BlossomOctober 16, 2018September 22, 2020

by Priscilla BlossomOctober 16, 2018September 22, 202003680

Immigrant families in the U.S. have always suffered in numerous ways. The simple act of having to flee your home and homeland, of starting over in a new country where you might not even speak the common language, is hard...

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Mom Is Finally Reunited With Daughter, 55 Days After Being Separated at the Border

Araceli CruzJuly 6, 2018September 21, 2020

by Araceli CruzJuly 6, 2018September 21, 202011356

Now that the Trump Administration has been forced to reunite families that have been separated at the border, we’re finally seeing heartbreaking videos of families seeing their children for the very first time. Angelica Gonzalez-Garcia, a 31-year-old mother from Guatemala,...

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal Arrested With Other Women For Protesting ICE

Johanna FerreiraJune 29, 2018October 1, 2020

by Johanna FerreiraJune 29, 2018October 1, 202001189

More than 2,000 women gathered at the Women’s March on Thursday in Washington D.C. to protest the Trump administration’s family-separation of immigrant families at the border and zero-tolerance policy. Close to 600 women were arrested for “mass civil disobedience.” Among...