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Vanessa Rancaño

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Vanessa Rancano is the Central Valley reporter for The California Report.


Boarding school

‘We’ve been there’: Native Americans remember their own family separations

August 13, 2018

It was the mid-1920s when Connie Reitman’s mother heard a knock on the door. A US official was there to inform her family that she would need to go to school hundreds of miles away.

Saber Askar in East Porterville, California

For one Yemeni American, the long wait to bring his family to safety

May 3, 2017Conflict

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