[ UPDATED] The court date for Dolores Bustamante, an undocumented worker facing deportation, has been postponed to May 8. Advocates had originally planned for a day-long vigil for Tuesday, December 19, at the Buffalo Federal Detention Center in Batavia, during her immigration trial. Bustamante and her then-3-year-old daughter fled Mexico in 2004, and she ultimately settled […]
Rochester Immigration Issues
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For undocumented workers, a rock and a hard place
Many undocumented farm laborers are in the country looking for real, hard work — and our agricultural system has come to crucially depend on them. Others, like Dolores Bustamante, have fled a dangerous situation. But undocumented immigrants face a lot of barriers, and it’s creating a situation of isolation
