COMMENTARY: My safe place will be taken away from me if McFarland city officials grant GEO’s appeal

April 21, 2020 / By Kern Sol News
Tags: Coronoavirus, COVID-19, GEO, GEO Group, ICE, immigrant, Immigration, immigration detention centers, mcfarland

BY AIMEE

McFarland city officials have decided to give GEO Group another chance this week to bring in immigration detention facilities to my hometown.

OUR VIEW: Time to protect our ‘essential’ farmworkers and not double up on oppressing them

April 20, 2020 / By Kern Sol News
Tags: Coronoavirus, COVID, COVID-19, farm workers, farmworker, GEO, ICE, immigrant, immigration detention centers, Kern County, mcfarland, Mesa Verde Detention

There is a small farm working community in Kern County where essential workers risk their lives everyday by going to work amid the COVID-19 pandemic to provide the nation with the food we eat. 

Kern High School District approves policies that protect immigrant students and families

October 3, 2018 / By Elizabeth Sanchez
Tags: education, immigrant, kern high school district

Compelled by state law passed last year, Kern High School District board members voted Monday to enact a slew of policies that bolster protections to immigrant students and their families.

GBLA to host free Civil Rights and Immigrants Conference

September 28, 2018 / By Kern Sol News
Tags: civil rights, GBLA, Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistance, Hodels, immigrant

The Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistance will host a free Civil Rights and Immigrants Conference to address the current policies and issues immigrants in Kern County face.