El galardonado poeta Ricardo Ruiz se centra en contar las historias de su comunidad, para su comunidad. Read More
Maria Luz Oppen, right, and Harriet Weber at their StoryCorps Northwest recording. Listen (Runtime 4:27) Read Moving 400 miles isn’t easy. Now, imagine it was on horseback and by foot. […]Read More
As COVID-19 spreads in detention, ICE documents shared with NPR reveal new details about the health care provided to two immigrants who died in 2017. Those facilities now face coronavirus outbreaks. Read More
News and information on the COVID-19 pandemic released by state and local governments is primarily in English. And though health districts and emergency management offices translate some of that information into Spanish, immigrant communities in places like the Yakima Valley still struggle to access that information. Read More
For as long as he can remember, Angel has missed the beginning of the school year in Texas because his family stays in North Dakota through the harvest. It's weather-dependent, so there's no hard end; all Angel knows is they'll head home to Texas sometime in October or November.Read More
The housing shortage in Yakima is coupled with a farm labor shortage. When workers do come, where do they live? The largest farmworker complex in the state opened in Yakima this month. The revamped FairBridge hotel now hosts 800 beds for temporary farm workers. As it opens, critics think it may set a dangerous precedent: Other farmers might start buying up area housing for Read More
In Roslyn over this Memorial Day weekend, the sound in the cemetery is not the sound of silence. It's the sound of the past meeting the present. This weekend, people from around the state and country came to celebrate a new monument in the town’s historic cemeteries.Read More
Nearly 20 percent of people in Washington and 15 percent in Oregon speak a language other than English at home. Emergency managers from around the West are grappling with how to reach people in foreign languages in the midst of a disaster, at a time when a new Washington state law is seeking to raise the bar.Read More
In Canadian public schools, the children of new immigrants do as well as native-born children within three years of arriving. Read More
A group of immigrant-rights advocates is calling for the head of Washington's Department of Licensing to step down.Read More
Listen Orondo, Washington, lies on the Columbia River between Chelan and Wenatchee. Its population fluctuates with the growing season as migrants work surrounding fruit orchards. This small town’s school district […]Read More
