Team Projects

Project description: This project investigates the public charge rule change with three separate elements: a video about immigration, a video about public charge, healthcare, and the impact on the state of Colorado, and a slideshow with data related to the content in the videos.

Project authors: Julie Tran, Sam Colvett, Anayeli Mendoza and Robin Burke

Video 1 – Immigration

Video 2 – “Public Charge, Healthcare, and the Impact on the State of Colorado”

Data Slideshow

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Data sources:

• “Living in an Immigrant Family in America: How Fear and Toxic Stress are Affecting Daily Life, Well-Being, & Health” issue brief
• Public Charge Fact Sheet
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center public charge page
• “Colorado health system urges immigrants to remain in healthcare programs” article

Other relevant links: Ayuda Legal Colorado’s Facebook page

Project description: The project details the experience of unaccompanied children when they immigrate to the U.S. and are placed with a sponsor. The data utilized was based on statewide and county-wide research. The data utilized was based on statewide and county-wide research.

Project authors: Yesenia Robles, Hannah Brown, Jessie Kriebel and Kaley LaQuea

Data sources:

• Unaccompanied Alien Children Program Fact Sheet
• Office of Refugee Resettlement resource “Unaccompanied Alien Children Released to Sponsors By State“
• Colorado Media Project migrahack

Project description: In the debate over immigration policy, a commonly heard refrain is the demand for migrants to “get in line” or enter the U.S. “the right way.” But in recent years the path to legal immigration has become increasingly narrow, especially for those who live in countries fraught with poverty, violence and political instability.

Project authors: Esther Honig, Jackie Hai, Lauren Irwin, Grace Ganz, Sasha Shadrina and Jennifer Kempf

View the project on their website.

Data sources:

• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (UCIS)
• UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency USA
• UCIS “United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP)” flow chart
• Migration Policy Institute “U.S. Annual Refugee Resettlement Ceilings and Number of Refugees Admitted, 1980-Present” line graph
• The Colorado Department of Human Services “About Refugees” page
• UCIS Green Card page “Green Card for Refugees“
• Executive Office for Immigration Review “Myths vs Facts about Immigration Proceedings“

Other relevant links: KUNC Colorado’s Twitter profile

Project description: A flowchart depicting the complicated process and hard decisions an immigrant makes on their way to the United States. 

Project authors: Valeria Fugate, Dennise Solis, Kate Crowe, Nishat Hossain and Mike Clifford

Click here to view their video project.

Flowchart – Rough draft

Flowchart – Final Draft

Data sources:

• Migration Policy Institute “Refugee & Asylum Policy” topic page
• Valeria Fugate

Project description: The project provides insight into migration from the top countries with hazardous climates, in the last 10 years, to the U.S. in a variety of data visualizations that were created with python.

Project authors: Anshul Dabas, Noreen Shams, Hridith Sudev, Helaina Orn, Christof Demont-Heinrich, Sam Koebrich and Sarah Craig

Data sources:

• Migration Policy Institute data hub “State Immigration Data Profiles – Colorado” demographics & social page
• United States Census Bureau data “State-to-State Migration Flows” tables page
• Colorado annual refugee data
• Climate data
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis “A systematic review of empirical evidence on migration influenced by environmental change in Africa“
• Newswise “Mapping Human Vulnerability to Climate Change” article
• UNdata

Project description: As the uncertainty of DACA looms, we are looking at the alternatives to citizenship for DACA eligible youth. 

Project authors: Isaac Vargas, Hadley Sutter, Emma Finch and Tali Linton

Data sources:

• Pew Research Center “Key facts about unauthorized immigrants enrolled in DACA” fact tank
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Working in the United States subpage “Special Immigrant Juveniles”
• Sapochnick Law Firm U.S. Immigration Law Services subpage “U Visas & Green Card Based in U Nonimmigrant Visa Status for Victims of a Crime“
• Migration Policy Institute Programs subpage Data Hub “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Data Tools“
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Humanitarian subpage “Victims of Criminal Activity: U Nonimmigrant Status“
• Travel.State.Gov Legal Resources subpage “Nonimmigrant Visa Statistics“

Project description: An infographic describing the barriers that immigrant youth experience when going through the educational process.

Project authors: Alessandra Brunton, Dr. Johnny C. Ramirez, Maggie Benn and Norbert Peyfuss

Click here to view their infographic.

Data sources:

• 2018 Kids Count in Colorado! Colorado Children’s Campaign, 2018.
• Colorado Department of Education. Colorado Graduation Rate Dashboard. 2018, http://www.cde.state.co.us/code/graduationrate. —.
• Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners in Colorado. 2016. —.
• ESSA Revised Final Allocation. Office of Grants Fiscal Management, 2019. —. Schoolview Data Center. 2018, https://edx.cde.state.co.us/SchoolView/DataCenter/reports.jspx?_adf_ctrl         state=pac20phbp_4&_afrLoop=1458851313462822&_afrWindowMode=0&_adf.ctrl-state=jzwlkkw8v_4. —.
• Title III Immigrant Set-Aside. Jan. 2019. Denver Public Library.
• Denver Resource Guide for New Americans. 2019. Sugarman, Julie, and Courtney Geary.
• English Learners in Colorado: Demographics, Outcomes, and State Accountability Policies.
• National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Aug. 2018. Turcios, Esther.
• The Impact of Deportation on Mental Health, Education Outcomes, and Economic Opportunity for Colorado Kids. Colorado Fiscal Institute, 2018, https://www.coloradofiscal.org/deportation-detention-and-aggressive-immigration-enforcement-harms-children-and-families/.
• U.S. Census Bureau, 2012
• American Community Survey, 2012.

Project description: Our team focused on answering the question of how the population of immigrants shifted over time, and how rural economies are boosted and sustained by immigrant employees. We focused on looking at four rural counties: Eagle, Pitkin, San Miguel and Yuma to see what percentage of immigrants live there, what percentage are in the workforce and what industries they are in.

Project authors: Eric Lubbers, Tony Medrano, Jessica Silva, Jose Vasquez-Zarate, Erin McIntyre, Kailyn Lamb and Nina Petrovic

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Data sources:

• U.S. Census Bureau
• Data USA
• Migration Policy Center
• Exchange Visitor Program

Other relevant links: @ColoradoSun‘s Twitter

Project description: Moving U.S. forward is a research effort to study the implications of SB-251 driver’s licenses (for immigrants who cannot prove lawful presence or can only prove temporary lawful presence). We studied macro-level effects in different aspects of public health and safety. As well as individual testimonies of SB-251 license recipients and activists. Since Colorado started implementing this program in 2014, it has become a model for other states that are following suit.

Project authors: Francisco Cabral, Priscilla Cabral, Ally Brassette, Alyson Edelstein, Savannah Wadstrom, Jennifer Anclien and Erika Maldonado

Click here to view their project.

Data sources:

• United States Census Bureau
• Colorado Health Institute surveys
• Google search data
• Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network data
• American Property Casualty Insurance Association #HeadsUp “Vehicle accidents on the rise in Colorado“
• The Stanford Open Policing Project findings
• https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF (data unavailable)
• Colorado Independent article “Colorado’s backlogged immigrant driver’s license program faces further cuts. Two Republican lawmakers want to prevent that.“
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America research article “Providing driver’s licenses to unauthorized immigrants in California improves traffic safety“
• Colorado Fiscal Institute document “The Impact of Allowing All Immigrants Access to Driver’s Licenses“

Project description: Infographic on “Unaccompanied Alien Children” in Colorado. Key takeaway: 216% growth in Colorado of children released to sponsors.

Project authors: Areeb Albayaydeh, Chuck Murphy, Allison Sherry, Kareem Eldamanhoury, Kevin Beaty, Victoria Valenzuela and Natalia Navarro

Data sources:

• Administration for Children & Families
• The United States Department of Justice
• Unaccompanied minors data
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
• Colorado Department of Human Services
• Lutheran Family Services