Sarah Horton on COVID-19 Response Issues for Undocumented Populations

Published: May 14, 2020

Sarah Horton, Associate Professor of Anthropology, weighs in on why public officials must open state and county emergency rental assistance funds to all residents, regardless of legal status.

Guest Post: Provide Colorado's immigrant families rental relief
Colorado Independent, May 1

She also writes that the federal stimulus payment program ignores the hardships that the pandemic poses for mixed-status families, arguing that the stimulus bill's exclusion of undocumented immigrants is saddling the citizen children of undocumented immigrants with unequal life chances.

Citizen Children Left Out of Coronavirus Relief Efforts Deserve a Lifeline
American Prospect, May 7