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Bay Curious

What Help Is There for California’s Undocumented Immigrants?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9999 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Listener Russ Johnson asked how coronavirus is impacting undocumented Californians, and if leaders are working to help them. An estimated 2 million Californians are undocumented. Whether they're essential workers or have recently lost employment, none of them are eligible for federal aid right now. State and local governments, and non-profits are filling some of the void, but many are still left struggling. Resources mentioned in the show: Ask your COVID-19 questions in English, or in Spanish. Haga clic aquí para obtener información importante de KQED e historias en Español. Reporting by Farida Jhabvala Romero. This episode was produced by Ericka Cruz Guevarra, Devin Katayama, Alan Montecillo, Olivia Allen-Price and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey and Vinnee Tong.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From K-QED.

0:02.0

Hey everybody, it's Devon Kadiyama with the Bay.

0:06.0

And I'm Olivia Alan Price with Bay Curious.

0:09.0

Now, both of our podcasts have been doing a lot of coverage about how the Bay Area is handling

0:13.7

coronavirus and one of the things that we've learned is that some people are

0:18.0

much worse off than others. We're talking about older people, black and brown people, and people who don't have a lot of support from the government right now, like undocumented immigrants.

0:28.5

At Bay Curious, we're all about answering audience questions.

0:32.0

And we recently got this one from Russ Johnson in Menlo Park.

0:35.7

And my question was about how this is affecting the undocumented immigrant community

0:42.3

and is there any support or sympathy from

0:44.9

Sacramento as they develop their policies?

0:47.3

To answer Russ's question, we first wanted to hear from those struggling with this directly.

0:51.3

Maria and Arrelio lost all of their income

0:54.5

because of the pandemic.

0:56.3

And now they're worried about how they'll pay bills

0:58.8

and rent for their family's one bedroom apartment

1:01.3

in East Oakland.

1:02.3

Orita, what I'm going to spend. only's one bedroom apartment in East Oakland. They asked that we only use their first

1:04.0

to

1:05.0

to gait the rent to all the bills that

1:07.0

that have been.

1:08.0

They asked that we only use their first names

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