Carlos is a reporter at Injustice Watch covering police, politics and immigrant communities. Previously, he worked at the Chicago Sun-Times and Newsweek. Carlos was born in Chicago and lives in the city’s Lower West Side.
Activistas pro derechos de inmigrantes dicen que depende de legisladores estatales y locales proteger a indocumentados antes de que se conviertan en indigentes en su vejez.
Advocates say Illinois lawmakers should build welfare programs that mirror those for citizens, like food stamps and unemployment insurance.
With a high cost of living and no social safety net, undocumented seniors often depend on families and are at high risk of losing their homes. This is part three in a series with the Chicago Tribune on the growing population of undocumented seniors in Illinois.
Con un alto costo de vida y sin una red de seguridad social, los ancianos indocumentados a menudo dependen de sus familias y corren el riesgo de perder sus viviendas.
The program enrolled over 9,000 people in its first year, but doesn’t cover long-term care — a dangerous pitfall for many undocumented seniors.
El programa inscribió a más de 9,000 personas en su primer año, pero no cubre la atención a largo plazo, situación peligrosa para muchos ancianos indocumentadas y sus familias, dicen los defensores de la salud.
The number of undocumented immigrants ages 65 and over in Illinois is set to grow exponentially. Advocates say it’s a crisis in the making. Injustice Watch and the Chicago Tribune teamed up to report on the challenges facing Illinois’ aging undocumented population.
Trabajadores que pagaron impuestos y contribuyeron al Seguro Social envejecen en un sistema de servicios públicos al que no pueden acceder por ser indocumentados.
Los inmigrantes detenidos y sus familias, abogados y defensores cuentan lo que ha significado para ellos el fin de la detención de inmigrantes en Illinois.
Injustice Watch spoke to detained immigrants and their families, attorneys, and advocates to better understand what the end of immigration detention in the state meant for the people most affected by it.