East Bay Sanctuary Covenant

The fate of more than a quarter of a million American children and their parents hangs in the balance as the status of Temporary Protected Status-designated countries expires this year. 

Twenty-six delegates from the East Bay and Northern California will join the National Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, Alliance and more than 50 other groups from around the nation in Washington, D.C. in a national summit to fight for a legal solution and pathway for permanent status for TPS recipients.

At the start of each workday, Shiori Akimoto crosses a parking lot, descends a flight of outdoor stairs and enters the Trinity United Methodist Church basement through a red door marked with the words East Bay Sanctuary Covenant.

East Bay Sanctuary Covenant refugee rights advocate Lily Woo is applying for her third Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, or DACA, renewal, which will protect her from deportation for another two years. She is able to do so, at least for now, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision to reject the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court ruling regarding DACA on Monday.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup from San Francisco temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA on Jan. 9. Here’s what you need to know about resources available for students renewing DACA.

A California federal judge temporarily prevented the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, on Tuesday.

Although dozens of UC Berkeley students protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have submitted their applications for renewal by the Oct. 5 deadline, uncertainty looms in the undocumented community about the future of the program.

The University of California sent a letter to students and faculty Tuesday urging undocumented students under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to renew their permits if they are set to expire between Sept. 5, 2017 and March 5, 2018.

In the past year, immigration policy has continued to be pushed further into the limelight.