Madeline's Story

It's hard to understand the human scale of politics, but one Oakland teenager gets straight to the heart of the immigration issue in this piece we collaborated on with KQED.

It's been years since Madeline, a senior at Oakland Tech High School, has seen her mother, a Mexican immigrant who was deported after overstaying her visa. Madeline and two friends made a short video about it, explaining the very real impact that immigration enforcement has had on her.