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Mexico to pay $1.5 billion for US border security and processing, source says
The collaboration signifies something of a reset between Mexico and the U.S. By Ben Gittleson and Armando Garcia | ABC News | JUL. 12, 2022 | Photo by Sandy Huffaker Mexico on Tuesday agreed to contribute $1.5 billion to a joint initiative with the U.S. to improve infrastructure along the ... -
'You hit this glass ceiling': Undocumented US students returned to Mexico struggle to continue their ...
By Max Rivlin-Nadler | KPBS | JUL. 18, 2022 | Photo by Jean Guerrero Nancy Landa, who was born in Mexico and came to Los Angeles as a child, excelled in school and was the first-ever Latina student body president at California State, Northridge. After college, she went on to ... -
10 years later, DACA recipients in San Jose fear the future
By Annalise Freimarck | San Jose Spotlight | JUL. 14, 2022 | Photo by Miguel Santiago For the first time in 24 years, Miguel Santiago met his family in Oaxaca, Mexico. He crossed the border to create an ethnography report on his heritage and see his grandfather before he passed ... -
Here’s the Camera. Go!
The L.A. Rebellion film movement, born at UCLA in 1969, enabled minority student directors — Black, Chicano, Asian American and Native American — to tell the world about their communities. By Hugh Hart | UCLA Film, History and Journalism | JUN. 14, 2022 | Photos by Jessica Pons At the ... -
Column: A speech and debate team that dominates with a squad of immigrant kids and ...
By Frank Shyong | Los Angeles Times | JUN. 24, 2022 | Photo by Derek Yuill What Southern California institution has won five championships over the last two decades and has never failed to make the postseason? Hint: It’s not the Lakers, Clippers or Dodgers. I’m speaking of the speech ... -
The Los Angeles Declaration Could Represent a Big Step for Real Migration Cooperation across the ...
By Andrew Selee | Migration Policy Institute | JUNE 2022 | Photo by Freddie Everett The Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection signed by leaders from countries across the Western Hemisphere at the conclusion of this week’s Summit of the Americas commits their governments to expand legal migration pathways, ... -
Reflections on Uvalde and historical Latino burdens
Opinion by Emilio Zamora | Austin American-Statesman | JUN. 5, 2022 | Photo by Eric Gay My wife Angela and I drove down to Uvalde last Saturday and Sunday to pay our respects to the families suffering unimaginable losses to gun violence and incompetent authorities. The grief and sorrow were palpable as ... -
Why the Children of Immigrants Are the Ones Getting Ahead in America
Excerpt and Book cover by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan | TIME | JUN. 1, 2022 In April 2020, the New York Times ran a special feature called “I Am the Portrait of Downward Mobility.” “It used to be a given that each American generation would do better than the last,” the piece began, ... -
Women, Black and Latino workers underpaid by California State University, study finds
By Nathan Solis | Los Angeles Times | JUN. 8, 2022 | Photo by Jason Armond for LA Times Women, Black and Latino workers are paid less than their white male counterparts at California State University, according to a union study. Union officials say the disparities among nonfaculty members highlight ... -
Biden arrives at Summit of the Americas intent on demonstrating focus on region despite snubs
Is the U.S. losing sway in Latin America? By Kevin Liptak | CNN | JUN. 8, 2022 | Photo from CNN Los Angeles (CNN)President Joe Biden arrived here Wednesday to play host to nearly two dozen leaders from Latin America, hoping to use new economic and migration announcements to demonstrate cohesion in ...
