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2022-05-17T16:56:31.027Z


Being cleared of the crime did not end Sandra Castaneda's nightmare. Also, the language barrier in mental health, and clicking through to a food 'desert': read our Axios Latino newsletter with the most important news for Latino communities.


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Topic 1: At Risk of Deportation for a Crime You Did Not Commit

A woman who spent 19 years in prison before being exonerated is now being held captive in an immigration detention center and faces deportation even though she no longer has a criminal record.

Why it matters

: Advocates say thousands of asylum seekers and even immigrants with legal status, like Sandra Castaneda in California, have been deported for criminal records that had already been expunged, because the immigration system doesn't take those types of exemptions into account. .

  • Immigration lawyers and activists are calling for reforms.

What's Happening

: Castaneda, who had a

green card

, was convicted of murder in 2002 after someone she was riding in a car with fired a gun, killing one person.

She was the only person involved to be convicted.

  • California Governor Gavin Newsom pardoned her in late 2020 following a reform of the indirect homicide law for which Castaneda was convicted.

  • A judge overturned his life sentence last year.

  • Castaneda, 40, was released from prison last July but was detained by ICE that same day and transferred to a detention center in Georgia, her attorneys say.

  • An immigration judge ruled in favor of Castaneda in November in his bid to stay in the US, but federal authorities have appealed to continue his deportation.

    A hearing is scheduled for the end of this May.

Illustration: AĂŻda Amer/Axios

Her lawyer

says deporting her to Mexico, a country she hasn't been to since she was 9 years old, is "a terrible mistake."

Big Picture

: Thousands of immigrants whose criminal charges have been dropped have been deported or face deportation, activists say.

Although Axios Latino contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), they did not receive a response.

2. The range of food in a 'desert'

Online

food delivery

services

have the potential to transform the lives of people living in so-called food

deserts

...

but only if broadband is available to those who live there.

Why it matters

: Latinos are much more likely to live in areas with insufficient supermarkets and grocery stores, and to face food insecurity and poor internet access. 

Overview

: Access to healthy food is closely related to economic security and public health.

And while many low-income neighborhoods don't have large supermarkets, they do have access to the four most prominent food delivery platforms: AmazonFresh/Whole Foods, Instacart, Uber Eats and Walmart.

What's happening

: A new report from the Brookings Institution finds that 93% of citizens have access to "fresh food or prepared food delivered quickly" through at least one of four

online

providers , including 90% of residents of

food deserts

.

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Visuals

  • But those services tend to be expensive.

  • And without reliable broadband service and digital dexterity and online food-ordering devices, many people can't use them, writes Axios reporter Joann Muller.

  • “Delivery services are not a panacea,” Adie Tomer of Brookings Metro told Axios.

  • The potential for these services to improve the lives of low-income people should “promote policymakers to modernize their approach to issues like the price of delivery services and broadband, or how small businesses can compete in the market.” field of digital platforms.

The gap between access to food

and broadband coverage is more acute in certain urban areas such as Chicago, with a high Latino population.

Bottom

line: The pandemic changed the way citizens buy food in the digital age.

  • Food comes to us, but only if we have a broadband connection, a smartphone or computer, digital literacy skills, and the money to pay for it all.

3. No help available in Spanish

Mental health services in Spanish are declining even as the Latino population continues to grow, a study warns.

Why it matters

: Spanish is the second most widely spoken language in the United States, and the number of Latino households where it is spoken grew from 24 million in 2000 to 39 million in 2019, according to the Pew Research Center.

Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios

Big picture:

More than 40% of Latino adults reported symptoms of depression during the pandemic, compared to 25% of non-Hispanic whites, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). in English).

  • However, only about 33% of Hispanics with a mental health disorder receive treatment, compared to 45% of non-Hispanics, according to the Department of Health.

  • And only 7% of psychologists identify as Latino, according to the American Psychological Association, while even fewer, 5.5%, are able to provide services in Spanish.

The stat

: Between 2014 and 2019, the proportion of centers offering mental health treatment in Spanish dropped nearly 18%, according to a May study in the journal Psychiatric Services.

  • In 2019 there were 1,163 fewer Spanish-speaking mental health centers.

    In contrast, the Hispanic population grew by 5.2 million people nationally during the same time period.

In their own words

: “In the last decade, disparities in risk factors for health issues have also increased and are very similar to the overall growth of the Hispanic population,” the authors wrote.

4. Summary of key news in Latin America and the Caribbean

El Salvador yesterday organized a conference on bitcoin

with bank representatives from 44 countries.

  • The meeting focused on how the country has fared since it was the first to consider it legal tender, in September.

  • Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has dismissed concerns that the recent devaluation of cryptocurrencies could affect the country's finances.

A Ghanaian Central Bank official reviews a system for using bitcoin during a meeting in El Salvador on May 16. Alex Peña/Anadolu Agency / via Getty Images

Cuba has a new criminal code

that experts warn will further stifle dissent and independent media.

  • The code includes laws to criminalize "acts against the security of the state" and was approved unanimously on Sunday, almost a year after mass protests in which hundreds of people were arrested and sentenced to prison.

  • Groups with international funding face up to 10 years in prison if they are considered propagandistic or dangerous to the state (as the Cuban regime considers many independent media outlets and NGOs).

    People who insult public officials face up to three years in jail.

  • Supporters of the new code say it needs to be updated to include new penalties for breaking environmental laws and against discrimination and gender-based violence.

5. 🪡 Farewell smile: sewing a future

A project in Brazil seeks to provide job opportunities to newly arrived refugee women by training them as seamstresses and industrial textile workers.

Sewing opportunities: the Brazilian project that seeks to help refugee women

May 2, 202201:53

Details

: The intention is to facilitate the social integration of women and promote their economic independence with the workshops, which include seminars on mental health and financial planning.

  • The project is called Sewing Opportunities, and was established last year with help from the UN's International Organization for Migration.

  • Most of the nearly 200 women who have taken part in the workshop come from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti and Venezuela.

Thanks for reading us!

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