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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 ... -
Mixed message from Trump on DACA sparks frustration from Dreamers as well as critics of ...
By: Cindy Carcamo , Los Angeles Times ~ July 17, 2017 Ever since Donald Trump was elected, Melody Klingenfuss has known her time in the United States could be limited. The 23-year-old has temporary immigration relief under President Obama’s landmark Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which seemed imperiled amid Trump’s ... -
The U.S. and Mexico: Education and understanding
By: Earl Anthony Wayne and Sergio M. Alcocer, The Conversation ~ May 29, 2017 Last week, officials from the U.S. and Mexico revitalized their commitment to fight cross-border smuggling of drugs, arms and money. U.S. officials recognized America’s demand for drugs as “the magnet” that feeds drug smuggling, and Mexico committed to tackle jointly the ... -
Regardless of the uncertain status of DACA, the CMSC-COLEF collaboration moves forward ~ Newsletter May ...
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) features an interview with Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos on this summer's California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program and Conference, which will take place at the COLEF's main campus in Tijuana from August 1st through 21st, 2017. Watch Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos' interview and learn more about the history ... -
Inicia El Colef Encuesta de Integración Escolar y Migración en 85 escuelas de Tijuana
Tijuana, B.C., a 4 de abril de 2017.- En el contexto del reciente retorno de migrantes mexicanos de Estados Unidos (EUA) a México, la incorporación de sus hijos al sistema educativo mexicano se ha convertido en un tema prioritario. Los niños inmigrantes de EUA pueden enfrentarse a dificultades para el ... -
Will Mexico Get Half of Its Territory Back?
By ENRIQUE KRAUZE, New York Times ~ APRIL 6, 2017 MEXICO CITY — The United States invasion of Mexico in 1846 inflicted a painful wound that, in the 170 years that followed, turned into a scar. Donald Trump has torn it open again. Among the many lies that he has constructed, ... -
Deported Students Find Challenges At School In Tijuana
By: Claudio Sanchez, NPR ~ April 3, 2017 As President Trump moves to fulfill his campaign promise to deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally, they'll most likely include Mexicans whose children were born in the U.S.. Over half a million of these kids are already in ... -
U.S. Appetite for Mexico’s Drugs Fuels Illegal Immigration
By RON NIXON and FERNANDA SANTOS, New York Times ~ APRIL 4, 2017 LUKEVILLE, Ariz. — Each year, Mexican drug cartels rake in billions of dollars in profits from the sale of heroin, methamphetamines and other drugs in the United States. The money has to make its way south somehow. Though the ... -
Centro de Estudios California-México busca credencializar a DREAMers para que voten
El voto en el exterior ha sido uno de los más criticados desde su primera aplicación en 2006… POR GARDENIA MENDOZA, la opinion ~ 31 MARZO 2017 http://laopinion.com/2017/03/31/centro-de-estudios-california-mexico-busca-credencializar-a-dreamers-para-que-voten/ CIUDAD DE MÉXICO.- Tras dejar su país cuando eran niños, la mayoría de los DREAMers –como se conoce a los jóvenes beneficiados del programa DACA- ... -
Churches answer call to offer immigrants sanctuary in an uneasy mix of politics and compassion
The protesters screamed into bullhorns every Sunday for a year after Liliana Sanchez de Saldivar moved into the United Church of Christ in Simi Valley. They told her to go home. It was 2007 and U.S. immigration agents had shown up at her home in Oxnard to take her away. ...
