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1 week ago | eltimpano.org | Erica Hellerstein

Were you forwarded this email? Click here to subscribe. Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Thank you to everyone who has shared this newsletter with friends and colleagues. If you’d rather receive a monthly email from El Tímpano, you can change your email settings by clicking this link. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor and economics reporter.

2 weeks ago | eltimpano.org | Erica Hellerstein

Were you forwarded this email? Click here to subscribe. Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Thank you to everyone who has shared this newsletter with friends and colleagues. If you’d rather receive a monthly email from El Tímpano, you can change your email settings by clicking this link. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor and economics reporter.

3 weeks ago | eltimpano.org | Erica Hellerstein

Were you forwarded this email? Click here to subscribe. Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Thank you to everyone who has shared this newsletter with friends and colleagues. If you’d rather receive a monthly email from El Tímpano, you can change your email settings by clicking this link. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Erica Hellerstein, senior immigration, labor and economics reporter.

4 weeks ago | eltimpano.org | Jasmine Aguilera

Este reportaje se realizó como parte de la beca StoryReach U.S. del Centro PulitzerEl plomo ha formado parte de la vida de Silvia Guzmán, de 41 años, desde que era niña. Emigró con sus padres y dos hermanos a San Francisco en 1991. Aunque los detalles son borrosos para ella, dijo que recuerda a su madre inscribiéndola a ella y a sus hermanos en la escuela y diciendo a los administradores que su hermano menor dio positivo en las pruebas de plomo cuando vivían en México. Su respuesta la asustó.

1 month ago | eltimpano.org | Jasmine Aguilera

Lead has been a part of 41-year-old Silvia Guzman’s life since she was a child. She immigrated with her parents and two siblings to San Francisco in 1991. Though the details are fuzzy for her, she said she remembers her mother enrolling her and her siblings in school and telling administrators that her younger brother tested positive for lead when they lived in Mexico. Their response scarred her.