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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 ... -
Op-Ed: Cuts to COVID relief programs are coming
Once again Latinos will bear the brunt of the effect. By Arturo Vargas Bustamonte | LA Times | MAR. 25, 2022 | Photo by Alexandra Mendoza Last week President Biden signed a new government spending bill into law. The roughly $22.5 billion for emergency funding for COVID-19 response efforts that the White ... -
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 ... -
How Millions of Lives Might Have Been Saved From Covid-19
This article is part of Times Opinion’s reflection on the two-year mark of the Covid pandemic. By Zeynep Tufecki | NY Times Opinion | MAR 11, 2022 | Photo & Illustration by the New York Times We cannot step into the same river twice, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus is said ... -
2020 Census Undercounted Hispanic, Black and Native American Residents
The Census Bureau said that the overall population total was accurate but that counts of minorities were skewed. Advocacy groups threatened to go to court. By Michael Wines & Maria Cramer | New York Times | MAR 10, 2022 | Photo by Christian Monterrosa WASHINGTON — Saddled with daunting logistical ... -
Steve Salas, co-founder of the pioneering Eastside Chicano rock band Tierra, dies at 69
Steve Salas with his brother Rudy - may they both rest in power. By Andrew J. Campa | L.A. Times | FEB. 16, 2022 | Photo credit: Joanna Salas Steve Salas, a founding member of the pioneering Eastside rock band Tierra and an early-day Chicano rights activist, has died at ... -
'This system is failing an entire lineage:' COVID's impact on US immigration services
Some DACA applicants are reporting improved wait times while others are seeing arbitrary delays with no explanation from USCIS. By Mallory Cheng & Kobe Brown | NPR-Milwaukee | FEB. 8, 2022 | Photo credit: Dongyu Xu Late last year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released preliminary data on how their ... -
Amid Slowdown, Immigration Is Driving U.S. Population Growth
A declining birthrate and pandemic deaths helped drive U.S. population growth to historic lows. But immigration appears to be back on the rise. By Miriam Jordan & Robert Gebeloff | New York Times | FEB 5, 2022 | Photo credit: Stefani Reynolds Overall, 2021 will go down as the year ... -
La Casa Blanca apoya dar un estatus legal permanente a las familias separadas en la ...
“Estamos abogando ante el Congreso para que le dé a estas personas un estatus legal; eso requiere un cambio de estatus”, dijo Alejandro Mayorkas, secretario de Seguridad Nacional, en entrevista exclusiva con NBC News. Noticias Telemundo | La Opinion.com | FEB. 2, 2022 | Photo credit: Anna Moneymaker Por primera ... -
Here's how to get free N95 masks from pharmacies or community health centers
Pharmacies across the country will be giving out free N95 masks. By Jacqueline Howard | CNN | JAN. 25, 2022 | Photo credit: Bebeto Matthews The rollout of free N95 masks for the public began this week across the United States, with some pharmacies already handing out the masks and others expecting ...