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Dreamers’ Sense of Belonging Fell 15% in 2021, Finds Boundless Report
A Boundless report looks at how DACA recipients have benefited from the 2012 program, as well as the challenges they still face in 2022. Report by Boundless | MAY 24, 2022 As the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program enters its tenth year, a Boundless report analyzes public data to get ... -
Lalo Alcaraz and the Long Journey of a Latino Political Cartoonist
Does winning a prestigious award mean that Alcaraz is now accepted by the mainstream? By Graciela Mochkofsky | The New Yorker | MAY 18, 2022 | Photo from Alcarez's Instagram Like many prestigious awards that recognize great accomplishment in this country, the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, created in 2004 ... -
Senate moves to preserve site of segregated ‘Mexican’ school
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske | Los Angeles Times | MAY 19, 2022 | Photo by Justin Hamel DALLAS — The U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation co-sponsored by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) to turn a formerly segregated, “Mexican” school in west Texas into a historic site, the first of its kind. “We’ve taken an important step ... -
Increased immigration could help fix the U.S. labor gap: Goldman Sachs
By Adriana Belmonte | Yahoo! Finance | MAY 23, 2022 | Photo by Mario Tama Increasing immigration into the U.S. could potentially fix the country’s growing labor force participation gap, according to a new note from Goldman Sachs. “The gap between the number of available jobs and the number of ... -
Mexico: 100,000 Disappeared and Missing People
By Stephanie Brewer | WOLA | MAY 16, 2022 | Photo by Eduardo Verdugo Mexico has reached the tragic figure of 100,000 disappeared and missing people since records have been kept; that is, today these 100,000 people’s whereabouts remain unknown. What does this moment mean for the country and what are some ... -
California can’t take immigrants for granted
By Thai V Le and Manuel Pastor | Orange County Register | MAY 20, 2022 | Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz With sold out “Help Wanted” signs and businesses resorting to greater incentives to recruit and retain employees, it is clear that California’s labor shortage is real. Less acknowledged is that ... -
'Everybody uses us as bargaining chips': N.H. Latino advocates question their alliance with the Democratic ...
Story and photo by Gabriela Lozada | NHPR | MAY 20, 2022 During the past month, activists and advocates have gathered at a series of rallies across the state to criticize two of New Hampshire’s Democratic members of Congress, Senator Maggie Hassan and Representative Chris Pappas, for their support of a policy ... -
“Bad Mexicans”
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández on Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. Interview with Amy Goodman | DemocracyNow.org | MAY 10, 2022 Watch the video below to learn about the origin story and history of our namesake, Los Magonistas! -
What the Summit of the Americas Mess Really Tells Us
Latin American governments are keen to show Washington it’s a new era. But this is also a tale of democracies in decline, writes AQ’s editor-in-chief. By Brian Winter | Americas' Quarterly | MAY 12, 2022 | Photo by Yamil Lage The whole controversy has a distinctly post-imperial feel to it: ... -
Mexican president threatens to skip Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles
By Fabiola Sanchez & Joshua Goodman | Los Angeles Times | MAY 10, 2022 | Photo by Yamil Lage MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president said Tuesday that he would not attend next month’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles if the Biden administration excluded Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua — adding his voice to ...
