POSITIVELY FILIPINO is the premier digital native magazine celebrating the story of the global Filipino. The POSITIVELY FILIPINO online magazine chronicles the experiences of the global Filipino in all its complexity, providing analysis and discussion about the arts, culture, politics, media, sports, economics, history and social justice.
Albert Samaha’s Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortune chronicles the rise and fall of his family's immigration project and weaves their stories within the complicated tapestry of Philippine history.
Read MoreOn June 22, 2020, President Trump issued a second proclamation "Suspending Entry of Immigrants Who Present Risk to the U.S. Labor Market During the Economic Recovery Following the COVID-19 Outbreak." This proclamation became effective on June 24, 2020 and will expire December 31, 2020.
Read MoreOn February 5, 2020, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published its Final Rule on Inadmissibility based on Public Charge Grounds (final public charge rule). This final rule was released after the Supreme Court of the United States, on January 27, 2020, ordered the stay of the last nationwide injunction. This decision has the effect of allowing the Department of Homeland Security to implement this Public Charge Rule in all States except the State of Illinois where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit still enjoins implementation of this public charge rule.
Read MoreOn June 17, 2019, President Trump tweeted that ICE raids will take place that weekend. Then, a day before the raids are to happen, he tweeted again to announce that the ICE raids are on hold for two weeks “to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border. If not, Deportations start!” The 2 weeks hold will end by July 6, 2019. Whether or not ICE will then begin the process of apprehending and removing immigrants who are unauthorized to stay in the United States, one must be vigilant about his/her rights.
Read MoreWhat a Filipino American writer learned about Filipino Christmas traditions, memories, and diaspora.
Read MoreWhy it’s much better to ask “What languages do you speak?” than “Where do you come from?”
Read MoreA Filipino deportee returns to America on its dime.
Read MoreAs much as I was going to graduate school, I was also escaping a dictatorship that was doing its worst to destroy my generation.
Read MoreImmigration lawyers have put out information just in case you get detained at the airport in connection with U.S. Travel Ban.
Read MoreA Q&A with Adonia R. Simpson, supervising attorney of Americans for Immigrant Justice’s Children’s Legal Program, on the future of the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy.
Read MorePOSITIVELY FILIPINO is the premier digital native magazine celebrating the story of Filipinos in the diaspora. POSITIVELY FILIPINO online magazine chronicles the experiences of the global Filipino in all its complexity, covering the arts, culture, politics, media, sports, economics, history and social justice. Based in San Francisco, California, POSITIVELY FILIPINO magazine is your window on the Filipino diaspora.
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