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MAY DAY 2022: Essential & United for Justice!
New details released for upcoming nationwide protest march on International Workers' Day Sunday, May 1, 2022. The California-Mexico Studies Center is mobilizing a contingent of Dreamers to participate in this year‘s May Day march in Downtown Los Angeles to promote our Campaign for a Presidential Pardon for all undocumented immigrants ... -
North Long Beach welcomes the Ronald R. Arias Health Equity Center
New Community Health Equity Center in North Long Beach is named for a tireless Chicano advocate of more than 50 years. By Harry Saltzgaver | Long Beach Press-Telegram | APR. 4, 2022 | Photo provided by the Arias Family A $5 million upgrade and a new name had city officials ... -
Biden weighs phased out end of Trump-era deportation policy
The administration is looking at an end to Title 42 that could prioritize families first. By Laura Barron-Lopez, Sarah Ferris and Adam Cancryn | POLITICO | MAR. 30, 2022 | Photo by Eugene Garcia for AP The White House is planning to revoke a Trump-era deportation policy for migrants arriving ... -
U.S. immigration agency moves to cut 9.5 million-case backlog and speed up processing
USCIS received more than $400 million to address processing delays and application backlogs. By Camilo Montoya-Galvez | CBS News | MAR. 29, 2022 | Photo by Paul Bersebach for Getty The Biden administration on Tuesday is announcing three measures to reduce a growing multimillion-case backlog of immigration applications that has ... -
Biden expected to end Title 42 border expulsion policy in late May
Trump-era policy could soon meet the same fate as its odious creator. By Camilo Montoya-Galvez & Ed O'Keefe | CBS News | MAR. 30, 2022 | Photo by Salwan Georges for Getty The Biden administration is planning to end a pandemic-era emergency rule known as Title 42 that allows U.S. immigration authorities ... -
After officials bulldozed a Tijuana tent camp, migrants ended up in shelters, apartments and more ...
By Kate Morrissey | San Diego Union Tribune | MAR. 28, 2022 | Photo by Alejandro Tamayo Ever since she and hundreds of other asylum-seekers were forced from a camp outside the San Ysidro Port of Entry in Tijuana, Vanessa has worked two jobs — attendant at both a laundromat ... -
Opinion: We Must Act to Protect Documented Dreamers
From the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District. By Rep. Deborah Ross | MAR. 29, 2022 | Newsweek | Photo by Kena Betancur Shristi Sharma is an exceptional young woman. She grew up in Fairfield, Iowa and is currently excelling as a Robertson Scholar simultaneously studying at Duke University and ... -
Jorge Gonzalez’ “Good trouble” for Dreamers
By Professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, President and CEO - The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) March 29, 2022 This week I lost a great friend and Dreamers lost an advocate who will live in history as a colossal legal icon, comparable to the late Marco Antonio Firebaugh. Like Marco’s AB-540 landmark legislation, ... -
Op-Ed: What can we do about the Latino undercount in the 2020 census?
By G. Cristina Mora & Julie A. Dowling | LA Times | MAR. 11, 2022 | Photo by J. Scott Applewhite On Thursday, the U.S. Census Bureau released a long-awaited report estimating the 2020 census undercount. Given the challenges of conducting a census in a pandemic, undercounts had been expected ... -
Local politicians, academics talk economic state of Long Beach’s Latino community
Long Beach City College Superintendent-President Mike Muñoz spoke at a Latino Economic Roundtable discussion at LBCC last Friday. Story and photo by Pierce Singgih | Long Beach Press-Telegram | MAR. 18, 2022 Long Beach politicians, academics and leaders of local organizations sought to understand how they can best address the ...
