Voices for Utah Children Articles
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Today we are celebrating nine years of DACA by sharing more information about this program and HR6: The Dream and Promise Act. Who are Dreamers? Dreamers are immigrant youth, who entered the U.S. before their 18th birthday. This name comes from the...
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- Author: Abigail Pina & Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Senator Mitt Romney, We Urge You To Take Action On Major Immigration Reform!
Senator Mitt Romney Washington, DC 20510 April 1, 2021 Dear Senator Mitt Romney: Last week, two major immigration bills HR6: The Dream and Promise Act and HR1603: The Farmworker Modernization Act passed the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives!...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Voices has supported and continues to support SB214 “Official Language Amendments”
During the 2021 legislative session, Voices has supported and continues to support SB214 “Official Language Amendments” as a positive initial step forward to ensure highly impacted communities can receive the information they need. In the last days of...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Great news, the Public Charge rule has been halted!
Great news, the Public Charge rule has been halted! Earlier this week, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a new temporary injunction that bars the DHS Public Charge rule. What does this mean? It means that the Public...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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LEFT OUT: Adding Up the Cost of Excluding Undocumented Utahns from State and Federal COVID-19 Relief
Voices for Utah Children and Comunidades Unidas Release New Report: "LEFT OUT: Adding Up the Cost of Excluding Undocumented Utahns from State and Federal COVID-19 Relief" Salt Lake City - This morning, July 28, 2020, two Utah nonprofit organizations,...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Voices' Statement on Supreme Court's ruling regarding DACA
“We commend the Supreme Court’s decision finding the current administrations rescission of DACA as unlawful. We fully support the diverse group of more than 700,000 young immigrants (Dreamers) who are instrumental to our society including the...
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- Author: Moe Hickey
- Category: Updates & Blog
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How Will The Coronavirus Impact Immigrants In Our State?
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our communities in so many ways. Unfortunately, for many immigrant families this has disproportionately created more obstacles in their lives. Mixed-status and undocumented immigrants were largely left out of the...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Let’s Keep All Families Covered: New Report Finds Number of Uninsured Latino Children in Utah on the Rise 2020 Utah Legislature Made Strides to Help All Children Stay Covered Decades of progress improving health coverage rates for Latino children has...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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Statement Opposing Supreme Court Ruling on Public Charge
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States voted in favor of the Trump Administration’s “Public Charge” Rule. With a 5-4 split vote, we understand how dividing this decision is, however, the Public Charge ruling will have negative impacts on...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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What’s in a name? The woodwork vs. welcome mat effect for kids
Voices for Utah Children is dedicated to increasing coverage and care for all Utah kids. With this comes the responsibility to rethink how our language can be more welcoming and inclusive. When referring to children who are eligible-but-unenrolled in...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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A Conversation (Focus Group) with Former Undocumented Children
If you would like to read this blog post offline, please scroll to the bottom to download a copy of the PDF version! During the third week of November, we held a focus group with Dreamers and children of immigrant parents to discuss what health care...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
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100% Kids Covered: Patricia and Sara the Dreamers
Patricia and her family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah when she was fifteen after living in Texas for a couple of years. She attended West High School and is now an undergraduate at the University of Utah. She and her sister are two of thousands of...
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- Author: Ciriac Alvarez Valle
- Category: Updates & Blog
