Kayla Young
Race & Equity ReporterKayla Young is a Report for America corps member covering issues involving race, equity, and immigration for WFAE and La Noticia, an independent Spanish-language news organization based in Charlotte.
Young has worked as a multimedia journalist in Grand Cayman with the Cayman Current, the Center for Investigative Journalism, the Economist Intelligence Unit and ABC News.
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We contacted all 50 members of the North Carolina Senate about their opinions on House Bill 10. We asked what impact they thought the bill would have on public safety and the relationship between law enforcement and immigrant communities. We received written responses from nine of them — eight Democrats and one Republican.
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The annual gathering kicks off Sunday at noon in Charlotte. It is held the last week of July to mark Peru’s independence from the Spanish Empire.
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Two companies, Old North State Masonry and Friends Masonry Construction, were fined more than $130,000 over nine allegations of serious labor violations.
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A national foster care agency, Bethany Christian Services, is working on opening a second facility in Charlotte that would process unaccompanied children, sent in large part from the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Interns from Into the Fields appealed to state senators to oppose HB10, a bill that would obligate sheriffs to collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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An investigation has been opened into Wednesday's deadly fire at a construction site in SouthPark by the North Carolina Department of Labor. Immigrant workers are sometimes wary of such investigations.
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Taken as a whole, Latinos in the United States represented the world’s fifth-largest GDP in 2020, according to researchers. Part of U.S. Latinos' economic standing comes from a high labor participation rate that persisted throughout the pandemic.
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Charlotte-area nonprofits say they’re already seeing an increase in new arrivals from the border and that more support is needed to provide emergency services.
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An obscure legal tool used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been used to probe elementary schools, news organizations and abortion clinics about matters seemingly unrelated to customs issues.
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Remaining tenants must vacate the site by June, and a property broker is now advertising the historic landmark as an “extremely rare” development opportunity.