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June 29, 2022 | Blog Post | Juan Carlos Gomez

Immigrant Workers Supplying our Food Chain Face Climate Threats, Unmet Needs

Threats to farmworkers, such as fewer worker protections and unsafe working environments, call for new federal policies and investments to protect all workers across the food supply industry, support immigration rights, and transform our agricultural system.

June 22, 2022 | Blog Post | Juan Carlos Gomez

How Environmental Injustices Harm Immigrant Families’ Health

Without access to critical programs like Medicaid and CHIP, many immigrants can’t afford the costly health care needed to treat chronic health conditions, which are often created or exacerbated by the environments they live in.

August 17, 2021 | Blog Post | Juan Carlos Gomez

25 Years of Immigrant Exclusion from Public Benefits

Access to food, cash assistance, health care, and housing are pathways to economic justice that everyone deserves—no matter their citizenship status. However, federal restrictions enacted 25 years ago interfere with the ability of immigrants to secure critical benefits with significant consequences to their and their…

July 18, 2021 | News Clip | Juan Carlos Gomez

Expanded Child Tax Credit and Immigrant Families

Juan Gomez appeared on Telemundo/Philadelphia to discuss the expanded child tax credit.

May 21, 2021 | Blog Post | Juan Carlos Gomez

A Q&A with the HANA Center: White Supremacy’s Impact on AAPI Communities

CLASP spoke with Taneka Hye Wol Jennings of HANA Center to discuss how families and young people in their community have been impacted by heightened xenophobia and attacks against the AAPI community.

November 23, 2020 | News Clip | Juan Carlos Gomez

Renewal of Hudson jail ICE contract would be approval of negligence | Opinion

In this op-ed, Juan Carlos Gomez explains how the renewal of a county jail in New Jersey -- where he grew up -- would be approval of negligence.

October 23, 2020 | Blog Post | Juan Carlos Gomez

Three years later, and at least 545 children are still separated from parents 

The Trump Administration's strategies to intimidate and terrorize immigrants are causing unimaginable harm to children, families.

September 22, 2020 | Blog Post | Juan Carlos Gomez

ICE Must Stop Enforcement during the Pandemic

Given the effects of COVID-19 on immigrant communities, ramping up enforcement during a pandemic is particularly reprehensible. 

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