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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 ... -
Increíble pero cierto: hay cerca de un millón de niñas, niños y adolescentes estadunidenses en ...
Por Primitivo Rodriguez | El Magonista | FEB. 14, 2022 Las niñas y niños ocupan un lugar privilegiado en el corazón y la mente del pueblo estadunidense. Resguardar su dignidad y derechos es una de nuestras principales responsabilidades, así como gozar de su compañía es uno de nuestros mayores privilegios. ... -
Migrants Have Right to Truth Commission and Reparations for Abuses at US Border
[Family Reunification taskforce] created by Biden’s February 2021 executive order is a necessary but sorely insufficient step toward broader remedies that correspond to Trump-era cases of family separation. The administration’s duty to take these steps is being drastically undermined by its current policies. By Camilo Perez-Bustillo | TruthOut | FEB. 7, 2022 | ... -
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 ... -
Op-Ed: When an asymptomatic, COVID-positive doctor is still treating patients, we’re losing a war
As Omicron cases surge, hospitals are having to make unprecedented choices. Opinion by Mark Morocco | LATimes | JAN. 15, 2022 | Photo credit: Irfan Khan I’ve been dodging COVID since March 2020. Back then, I would have been appalled at having asymptomatic doctors and nurses infected with COVID treating patients, ... -
As hospitals reel, California tells COVID-positive medical workers to stay on the job
Omicron is surging in huge numbers, a wave bred in the unvaccinated, the uneducated and the uncaring. By Hayley Smith | LATimes | JAN. 12, 2022 | Photo credit: Christina House Daylong waits in the emergency room. No one to answer the phones. No one to take out the trash. ... -
Fostering inclusion in Mexico: La pobreza en Mexico se ha disparado durante la Pandemia
New study argues for higher spending on social programs to combat skyrocketing poverty. By Swarnali Ahmed Hannan | International Monetary Fund | JAN. 24, 2022 | Photo credit: Getty stock Mexico has long suffered from high poverty and social exclusion. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has likely exacerbated these problems, an ...
