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Jacqueline Ramirez

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My DACA Story: 'It Saved My Life' - Boyle Heights Beat

My DACA Story: 'It Saved My Life' - Boyle Heights Beat

Boyle Heights Beat — Editor's note: This is one of a series of community profiles by Boyle Heights Beat youth reporters in response to President Trump's decision to rescind the DACA program announced Sept. 6. Elsy's mother brought her to this country when she was four years old to pursue what she believed to be the "American Dream."
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BHB Youth Radio Project: Homeless and in college - Boyle Heights Beat

BHB Youth Radio Project: Homeless and in college - Boyle Heights Beat

Boyle Heights Beat — This is a script from a story by a Boyle Heights Beat journalist that's part of KCRW's Boyle Heights youth radio project. You can listen to the story here: 23 year-old Jaci Cortez is retracing her steps of her freshman year in college. Right down to the bathroom she used.
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BH Youth Radio Project: Future of DACA worries community college student - Boyle Heights Beat

BH Youth Radio Project: Future of DACA worries community college student - Boyle Heights Beat

Boyle Heights Beat — This is a script from a story by a Boyle Heights Beat journalist that's part of KCRW's Boyle Heights youth radio project. You can listen to the story here: Ambient 1 Sound of "No hate no fear, immigrants are welcomed here" Chant On a recent Sunday afternoon, hundreds of people crowd MacArthur Park.
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My DACA Story: 'It Saved My Life' - Boyle Heights Beat

My DACA Story: 'It Saved My Life' - Boyle Heights Beat

Boyle Heights Beat — This is one of a series of community profiles by Boyle Heights Beat youth reporters in response to President Trump's decision to rescind the DACA program announced Sept. 6. Elsy's mother brought her to this country when she was four years old to pursue what she believed to be the "American Dream."
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Q&A with immigration lawyer: too early to speculate on DACA under Trump presidency - Boyle Height...

Q&A with immigration lawyer: too early to speculate on DACA under Trump presidency - Boyle Height...

Boyle Heights Beat — In 2012, President Barack Obama signed an executive order - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) - that allowed undocumented immigrants who arrived before June 2007 when they were 16 or younger to apply for permission to remain in the United States legally for a renewable two-year period.
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Top students of 2015 share their secrets to success - Boyle Heights Beat

Top students of 2015 share their secrets to success - Boyle Heights Beat

Boyle Heights Beat — As students enter high school freshman year, there's one thing that most of them look forward to: graduation. The long wait for the class of 2015 has finally arrived! High school graduation isn't just the end of an era, but also the beginning of a new phase of life.
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BH Bridge Runners: Running for their lives - Boyle Heights Beat

BH Bridge Runners: Running for their lives - Boyle Heights Beat

Boyle Heights Beat — When Lizette Pérez started running at age 13, it was mainly to get away from her siblings and clear her head. Now, 16 years later, she continues to run, but for different reasons. Pérez can be found every Wednesday night on First Street in Boyle Heights among 80 other runners eagerly ...
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PTSD strikes children, not only a military problem - Boyle Heights Beat

PTSD strikes children, not only a military problem - Boyle Heights Beat

Boyle Heights Beat — Some people believe that only war veterans develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). But anyone can develop a disabling reaction to trauma. In fact, children and teens are at high risk of developing PTSD if they are exposed to traumatic events early in their lives.
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Boyle Heights breakdancers thrive in new home - Boyle Heights Beat

Boyle Heights breakdancers thrive in new home - Boyle Heights Beat

Boyle Heights Beat — For an hour every week, four-year-old Samantha Guerrero comes to Boyle Heights to dance her heart away. On a recent Tuesday evening at Boyle Heights Technology Youth Center, Samantha crisscrossed, jumped and spun in a series of steps to an electric beat.
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Neighborhood leaders, residents push to curb pet waste problem in Boyle Heights - Boyle Heights B...

Neighborhood leaders, residents push to curb pet waste problem in Boyle Heights - Boyle Heights B...

Boyle Heights Beat — While many Boyle Heights residents may not think picking up after their pets is necessary, others say it should become a habit. The Neighborhood Council has taken up the issue because residents are concerned about the health problems that pet waste can cause in the community.
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New program helps Boyle Heights families get low-cost infant care - Boyle Heights Beat

New program helps Boyle Heights families get low-cost infant care - Boyle Heights Beat

Boyle Heights Beat — The California Children's Academy has transformed one of its schools into an infant care program that serves low-income families. Located near the corner of César Chávez and Breed, its Lucía Rivera Early Learning Center can provide day care to as many as 40 infants from eight weeks to two years old.
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Assemblyman Miguel Santiago speaks out - Boyle Heights Beat

Assemblyman Miguel Santiago speaks out - Boyle Heights Beat

Boyle Heights Beat — Early in October, California enacted what is being called the nation's strongest net neutrality law, which allows for equal access to the internet. The law prohibits internet service providers from favoring or blocking websites.
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