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In Memoriam: Profe. Armando Vázquez-Ramos, ¡Presente! - English Version
By Gonzalo Santo, Exclusively for "El Magonista" | Aug. 15, 2024 | Photo Collage Courtesy of El Mago Staff Armando Vázquez-Ramos was born in Mexico City on August 10th, 1949. He passed away at his home in Long Beach, California on August 4th, 2024, six days short of his 75th. ... -
DACA cumple 12 años de éxitos sin lograr protecciones migratorias permanentes para los Dreamers
El sábado se cumple el duodécimo aniversario del programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA) Por María Ortiz | La Opinion | Junio 15, 2024 | Foto Cortesia de Jose Luis Magana Doce años después de que la administración del presidente Barack Obama creara la política ... -
Appreciation Letter from a Self-Deported Dreamer
Good morning professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, This is Jacqueline Flores Gonzalez. We talked last week, and you helped me to re-enter the U.S. after my father entered Mexico by mistake. I’m sorry it’s taken a while before I emailed, since I jumped back into work immediately and my students direly needed ... -
The Bifurcated History of May Day in North America
By Professor Gonzalo Santos | May 1, 2024 | Photo Courtesy of Professor Gonzalo Santos Seven years ago, in 2017, about a thousand folks marched & rallied in downtown Bakersfield on May Day, as far as I know the first - and only - time folks in this town proudly ... -
Without Expanded DACA Protections, Undocumented Students Are Being Left Behind
Around 80 percent of the nearly 120,000 undocumented students who graduated high school in 2023 don’t qualify for DACA. By Lajward Zahra | The Nation | Apr. 24, 2024 | Photo Courtesy of Nathan Posner At age 15, Luis came to the United States from Veracruz, Mexico. Today, he’s a ... -
Testimonial - Esmeralda Arias
Past Participants Praise of the CMSC's Independent Dreamer Study Abroad Program Courtesy of Esmeralda Arias - Alumni | DEC. 24, 2023 | Photo Courtesy of Esmeralda Arias Dear Profe Armando and the entire Cal-Mex Team, First and foremost, I commend all of you for the community organizing and advocacy work you ... -
The Cost of Inaction on Immigration
By The New York Times Editorial Board | OCT. 7, 2023 | Illustration by Rebecca Chew It is difficult to find an issue that more exemplifies the dysfunction of American government today than immigration. In the past year, more than a million people have entered the United States through the ... -
What’s the current status of DACA? Here’s what you need to know
By Karen Garcia | Los Angeles Times | SEP. 21, 2023 | Photo by Patrick Hruby Despite more than a decade of political and legal attacks, nearly 600,000 people are still receiving the benefits of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, renewing their DACA designations in two-year increments. The ... -
Denial Of DACA Right To Stay Claim To Be Appealed
By Andy J. Semotiuk | Forbes | SEP. 22, 2023 | Photo by Mandel Ngan Not long ago, a federal judge once again declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program illegal. Despite this ruling, Judge Andrew Hanen of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas ... -
'FLOATERS': OUR REFLECTION IN THE RIO GRANDE
Migrant children are drowning at the border. Their deaths are met with indifference. Rescue workers call these bodies “floaters.” By Debbie Nathan | The Intercept | SEP. 2, 2023 | Photo by Suzanne Cordeiro THE MEDIA WAS filled this summer with news of migrants blocked and wounded by orange buoys and ...
