December Local Media Roundup
Each month, VAAP endeavors to collate local media coverage of Vermont and nearby immigration justice issues of interest to our constituency. This month:
Tankhun Thongjunthoug on growing up in an immigrant family in the American class system (Vermont Public, December 20)
Know your rights education efforts launch across Vermont with help from Vermont Language Justice Project (Vermont Public, December 20)
Housing violations story reveal roles of immigrant workers in non-agricultural industries in Vermont (Seven Days, December 18)
VT Construction Company’s employee housing violations reveal role of migrants in Vermont trades (Seven Days, December 18)
Deb Bucknam publishes an open letter to the Vermont Bar Association condemning VAAP’s upcoming continuing legal education program at the Vermont Bar Association’s Mid-Winter Thaw Conference in January (Caledonian Record, December 17)
Governor Scott does not sign the Republican Governors Association’s joint statement expressing unwavering support for Trump’s immigration plan (Rutland Herald, December 14)
VT Agricultural Worker Labor and Employment Laws Study Committee recommends minimum wage, overtime for Vermont farmworkers (Vermont Public, December 12)
CVOEO calls for state protections for undocumented immigrants in VT (VT Digger, December 12)
BridgesNotBorders letter to the editor on Quebec/VT border issues (The Gleaner, December 11)
Vermont Construction Company admonished for substandard housing sheltering migrant workers who are, ironically, constructing housing (WCAX, December 11)
Department of Homeland Security’s Vermont Service Center begins mass layoffs (VT Digger, December 4)
Refugee resettlements expected to pause during second Trump administration (Vermont Public, December 3)
The Department of Homeland Security is building border surveillance towers along the Vermont/Canada border (VT Digger, December 2)
Schools brace for upheaval as a result of Trump’s promised mass deportations (Rutland Herald, December 2)
