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University for Indigenous languages to begin classes in 2023
By MND Staff | Mexico News Daily | FEB. 27, 2023 | Photo by Presidencia A new national university that will teach Indigenous languages will begin classes by September, Mexico’s National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI) announced. Adelfo Regino Montes, INPI’s general director, signed the foundational documents for the University ... -
The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression
Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people. By Becky Little | History Channel | JUL. 12, 2019 | Photo by Dorthea Lange In the 1930s, the Los Angeles Welfare Department ... -
Mexican protesters see electoral overhaul as a threat to democracy
By Leila Miller & Cecilia Sanchez | Los Angeles Times | FEB. 26, 2023 | Photo by Fernando Llano MEXICO CITY — Juan Manuel Martinez remembers the days when he would vote in Mexico’s elections with no confidence that they were being run fairly. For decades, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as ... -
Opinion: Searching for a way forward on immigration
Opinion by Jaime Dupree | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | FEB. 23, 2023 | Photo by Susan Walsh for AP Not since 1986 has Congress solved the puzzle of bipartisan legislative action on immigration reform — and the past two weeks only reinforced the difficulty both parties will have in making any ... -
Amid Major U.S. Labor Market Needs, the Biden Administration Could Facilitate the Migration of Needed ...
By Michelle Mittlestadt | Migration Policy Institute | FEB. 23, 2023 | Photo by Manuel Balce-Ceneta WASHINGTON — With the United States recording more than 10 million job openings each month since mid-2021 and the unemployment rate hitting a 54-year low in January, the U.S. economy is hungry for more ... -
A Trump-like border wall is about to be built — unless Biden stops it
By Jean Guerrero | Los Angeles Times | FEB. 27, 2023 | Photo by Guillermo Arias+ President Biden should call off construction crews gathering at the southernmost edge of California’s coastline to erect a border wall that epitomizes Trump’s dystopian vision. The planned double-layered, 30-foot-tall steel wall would create another ... -
Why is Biden recycling failed strategies to slow immigration?
By Jean Guerrero | Los Angeles Times | FEB. 20, 2023 | Photo by Mandel Ngan As Americans become increasingly anxious about immigration, Vice President Kamala Harris is searching for answers in all of the wrong places. The solutions to the causes of migration aren’t in Central America — certainly not in ... -
‘THE MOST PERSECUTED AND NEGLECTED PEOPLE ARE THE ONES CHANGING HISTORY’
Story and photo by Andrea Guevara | Kern Sol News | FEB. 27, 2023 Dr. Gonzalo Santos is a professor emeritus of sociology, faculty advisor of California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) United Now for Immigrant Rights, and lifelong activist. Originally from Mexico. Santos came to the United States in 1970 ... -
El Magonista | Vol. 11, No. 6 | February 23, 2023
*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser "El Magonista" | Vol. 11, No. 6 | February 23, 2023 So what's the solution? A Presidential Pardon for the Dreamers. For the past 13 months, we here at the CMSC have been advocating for the current U.S. President, Democrat Joseph R. Biden, to ... -
Green Card Seekers’ Kids Get Protections in New Biden Policy
Young people at risk of losing status while green card is pending as USCIS freezes age earlier in application process. By Andrew Kreighbaum | Bloomberg Law | FEB. 15, 2023 | Photo by Jewel Samad A policy update by US Citizenship and Immigration Services will add protections for children of ...
