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Plus: New York City immigrant parents demand diverse school curriculum, and backlog grows as immigration courts stay closed.

Plus: Immigrant farmworkers dissect discriminatory practices, Minnesota teacher honored for understanding immigrant students, and more.

New York City Trying to Improve Latinos’ Low COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Plus: Tax documents are keeping undocumented workers from relief funds, bill would end ICE contracts with local governments, and more. When Myrna Lazcano, a community activist from Mexico who lives in East Harlem, got COVID-19, her symptoms dragged on for months. This long-haul illness drove Lazcano to get the COVID-19 vaccine and to share her experience to encourage other Latinos to get it as well. Latinos have been twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as whites and had the highest infection rates in New York City. But...

Plus: Harris counts on Guatemala to partner on migration reform, and advocates want to provide free legal representation to immigrants.

Migrant Parents Feel Forced to Send Children Across the Border Alone Many migrants are sending their children to the U.S. alone because those with older children are being rapidly expelled. Marely traveled for 13 days with her mother from El Salvador toward the U.S.-Mexico border. But once they made it to a raft to cross the Rio Grande, the 12-year-old found out her mother wasn’t coming with her. Marely had to then turn herself in to Border Patrol agents in La Joya, Texas. Her mother is among many migrants sending their children to the U.S. alone because migrant families with older children...