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Column: Gen Z has good reason to be angry. Will they burn it all down?
By Jean Guerrero | Los Angeles Times | APR. 3, 2023 | Photo by Irfan Khan Generation Z seems like a paradox: far more open to diverse viewpoints and compromise than older Americans, but also in some ways more dogmatic. Will young people extinguish the flames of political polarization or fan them? As their values ... -
In reversal, Biden considers detaining migrant families
By Colleen Long & Elliot Spagat | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 7, 2023 | Photo by Evan Vucci for AP WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering detaining migrant families who cross into the U.S. without permission as it prepares to end COVID-19 restrictions at the border with Mexico, according to ... -
He deported thousands of people, then learned he was undocumented
By Catherine E. Shiotchet | CNN | FEB. 26, 2023 | Photo by Veronica G. Cardenas San Benito, Texas — Raul Rodriguez says he’ll never forget the moment he realized his life was built on a lie. He was so shaken that he felt the blood rushing to his feet. In a ... -
Is the renewed ‘Dream Act’ more than a tease this time?
Bills to give legal residency to immigrants brought to U.S. as children have been floating around Congress for more than two decades. Column by Michael Smolens | The San Diego Union-Tribune | FEB. 15, 2023 | Photo by Lynne Sladky You have to give backers of the Dream Act this: ... -
USF study finds DACA immigrants struggle with poor mental health
A team of researchers conducted the study on 50 Tampa Bay residents living in limbo as threat of deportation looms. By Lauren Peace | Tampa Bay Times | NOV. 2, 2022 | Photo by Olivier Douliery In 2016, University of South Florida researcher Elizabeth Aranda was wrapping up a project ... -
Lives Cut Short: COVID-19's Heavy Burden on Older Latinos
The coronavirus pandemic has eaten away at the Latino edge in life expectancy in staggering fashion, and taken a disproportionate toll on older members of the community compared with whites. By Ruben Castaneda | U.S. News & World Report | JUN. 1, 2022 | Photo by Jessica Pons LOS ANGELES ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 | ... -
White House supports permanent legal status for families separated at border
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the Biden administration is pushing Congress to pass legislation that would help the families. By Jacob Soboroff & Teaganne Finn | NBC News | FEB. 1, 2022 | Photo credit: Twitter WASHINGTON — The White House said this week for the first time that ...