October 28, 2011 | 12:00 PM | By

America’s Mixed-Status Familes

If you haven’t been following our sister blog Multi-American‘s series on mixed-immigration status families, start. Now. Readers submitted their stories to KPCC’s Public Insight Network, chronicling what life is like for families in which some members are American-born, some legalized immigrants and some undocumented immigrants.

The latest story in the series comes from Andrew Baron, who works with children for a Portland, Ore. nonprofit.


Many of my students have a lot of sad issues with their cultural identity, stemming from the kind of hateful things they hear all the time about them and their families. The undocumented population in Portland is pretty big, so there’s not as much fear or secrecy as there are kids growing up having to listen to their neighbors and the media speak about their parents as if they were sub-human. That causes lasting damage to kids, and it sucks.

Read more at: multiamerican.scpr.org