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The Summit Is a Great Chance for Better Cooperation on Migration
At the Summit of the Americas, leaders should take three steps towards a joint hemispheric approach to the crisis. By Betilde Munoz-Pogossian | Americas Quarterly | MAY 3, 2022 | Photo by Eva Marie for Getty Migration numbers in the Americas are staggering. More than 6 million Venezuelans have been ... -
Will Mexico’s influx of foreigners wear out expats’ welcome?
More and more foreigners are living like kings in Mexico; many Mexicans already find them a royal pain. Story and photo by Sarah DeVries | Mexico Daily News | MAY 7, 2022 No matter where you live in the world, you’re always faced with the task of picking your specific ... -
Senate Stalls Again on Immigration Relief
By Pablo Manriquez | Latino Rebels | MAY 6, 2022 | Photo by Shawn Thew WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) is expected to negotiate immigrant relief into a bipartisan immigration bill with Senate Republicans. “We haven’t given assignments yet,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) said on Thursday afternoon ... -
Biden, Mexican president talk immigration policy
Pressure is mounting over White House plan to end Title 42 expulsion authority. By Courtney Subramanian | Los Angeles Times | APR. 30, 2022 | Photo by Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Biden held talks Friday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a looming deadline to lift COVID-related restrictions ... -
How Cinco de Mayo Got Its Start Because of California's Mexican Americans
By Yvonne Condes | KCET | MAY 3, 2022 | Photo courtesy of LA Pubic Library In the spring of 1970, Dr. David Hayes-Bautista didn't know much about Cinco de Mayo other than the day commemorated the Mexican Battle of Puebla against the French. To him and his fellow UC ... -
Immigration reform withers as Democrats descend into border infighting
There's now "zero" chance for a comprehensive bill this Congress, one key senator said. But the party has some smaller ideas to fall back on. By Marianne Levine, Sarah Ferris and Laura Barron-Lopez | POLITICO | MAY 1, 2022 | Photo by John Moore The Democratic Party is consumed by ... -
Debit card is launched so that Mexican families receive remittances more securely
Migrants will be able to send more easily, better conditions and without commission to pay for their relatives who collect them in Mexico. By Araceli Martinez Ortega | La Opinion | APR. 12, 2022 The Mexican government launched the Remittances Paisanos card that will allow the families of countrymen to ... -
FLASHBACK PERSPECTIVE: 50 Years After The East LA Walkouts, We’re Still Fighting For Latino Students
Latino students must know about their history to push back against the narratives that limit them. By Irene Sanchez | Huffington Post | MAR. 2, 2018 | Photo by David McNew History repeats itself. I often tell my students this when I teach Latino studies every day at three different ... -
Honoring the life of Armando Navarro — scholar, activist and Chicano leader
By Alfonso Gonzalez Toribo and Jennifer R. Najera | Press-Enterprise | APR. 16, 2022 | Photo from UC Riverside The Inland Empire has lost an important scholar and activist. Armando Navarro, a retired UC Riverside ethnic studies professor, passed away from a heart attack on March 25, 2022. He was ... -
Rosario Ibarra, Mexico’s champion of the disappeared, dies at 95
The world mourns the loss of a tirelessly brave advocate for human rights. By Maria Verza | LA Times | APR. 18, 2022 | Photo by Marco Ugarte MEXICO CITY — Rosario Ibarra, whose long struggle to learn the fate of her disappeared son helped develop Mexico’s human rights movement and ...
