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Los soñadores
Por: Andrés Fabregas Puig, Chiapas Paralelo ~ 6 septiembre, 2017 En 1823 se fundó el primer consulado mexicano en los Estados Unidos, en la ciudad de Nueva Orleans, en La Luisiana, porque hasta allí llegaba el territorio norteamericano antes de la guerra de 1846-1848 mediante la que México fue despojado de ... -
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra's Office Calls Upon the CMSC Testimony In Support of Advance ...
By CMSC staff, November 2, 2017 The California Attorney General's office has filed a brief for a preliminary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security's decision to cancel DACA on September 5, 2017. The CMSC was called upon to provide a declaration in support of the brief filed by the ... -
CMSC Holds Successful California-Mexico Dreamer Network Summit
By CMSC staff, November 2, 2017 LONG BEACH, Calif.- On Saturday, October 28th, the CMSC successfully brought together alumni from the California Mexico Dreamer Study Abroad Network from throughout the state as well as members from outside of California to express concerns, views and to advance in next strategic ... -
Alex Alpharaoh put his own DACA story onstage, and the audience keeps on growing
By: Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times ~ Sept. 23, 2017 She had been walking for weeks across the Mexican desert, holding her 3-month-old boy to her chest. At 15 she had never left Guatemala before. When she ran out of water, she drank from puddles — if she could find them. ... -
CMSC petitions for an injunction to block the cancellation of DACA's Advance Parole
On September 17, 2017, the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) sent the letter below to Governor Jerry Brown, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and UC President Janet Napolitano, requesting for them to petition in federal court for an injunction that would prevent the cancellation of Dreamers' applications for Advance Parole (AP) under DACA. Notwithstanding that DACA's termination is not effective until March 5, 2018, the ... -
The 2nd Annual Marco Antonio Firebaugh Dreamers Fund Drive
The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) has successfully provided the unique opportunity to study abroad in Mexico to over 160 Dreamers since 2014, through the CMSC’s California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program. However, due to the termination of DACA, the CMSC will not be able to continue the program, aborting the applications ... -
Truncan a dreamers las visitas a México
Por: Silvia Garduño, Reforma ~ 7 Septiembre 2017 Cd. de México.- Con la cancelación del Programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA, por sus siglas en inglés), los jóvenes dreamers ya no podrán obtener permisos para viajar a sus países de origen, confirmó Armando Vázquez Ramos, presidente ... -
Trump’s decision leaves ‘Dreamers’ unable to travel
By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times ~ Sept. 7, 2017 Last month, California college student Miriam Juan stepped off a plane in Guadalajara, Mexico, and hugged her grandparents for the first time in 17 years. She had no words at first, just smiles and tears. An immigrant brought to the ... -
Judge temporarily blocks immigration enforcement law
A federal district judge on Wednesday ruled against the state of Texas and halted major provisions of a controversial state-based immigration enforcement law just days before it was scheduled to go into effect. By: JULIÁN AGUILAR , The Texas Tribune ~ AUG. 30, 2017 U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia granted a preliminary injunction ... -
Hearts divided: U.S. Dreamers search for their past in Mexico
By: Sandra Dibble, San Diego Tribune ~ Aug. 21, 2017 Mirian Juan had no recollections of her central Mexico hometown. Yet returning this month for the first time in 18 years, “the moment I landed felt like home,” said the 21-year-old math major at Cal Poly Pomona. “It filled a big hole in my heart.” ...