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Expulsa EEUU 500 mil ‘Dreamers’ a Mexico
Por Eileen Truax, El Universal ~ Agosto 23, 2015 http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/periodismo-de-investigacion/2015/08/23/expulsa-eu-500-mil-dreamers-mexico La garita de San Ysidro es el cruce fronterizo más transitado del mundo. El punto que conecta Tijuana y San Diego recibe cada año a más de 30 millones de personas que van de México hacia Estados Unidos. También es ... -
Immigrants become activists during Dream Summer
By KATE LINTHICUM, l.a. times ~ august 22, 2015 http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-dream-summer-20150823-story.html Growing up in wealthy Marin County, Yaqueline Rodas didn't know many people like herself: a young immigrant from Guatemala in the country without legal status. She knew even fewer political activists. So it was with amazement and a little anxiety that ... -
N.Y. Times Judge Increases Pressure on U.S. to Release Migrant Families
By JULIA PRESTON, N.Y. Times ~ August 22, 2015 A federal judge in California has given the Obama administration two months to change its detention practices to ensure the rapid release of children and their parents caught crossing the border illegally. In a harshly critical opinion last month, the judge, Dolly M. ... -
Federal Court Orders Release of Vast Majority of Detained Immigrant Children: accuses the Government of ...
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law 256 South Occidental Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90057 Telephone: (213) 388-8693 Facsimile: (213) 386-9484 www.centerforhumanrights.org August 21, 2015 For immediate release Federal Court Orders Release of Vast Majority of Detained Immigrant Children: accuses the Government of "fear-mongering." Los Angeles. ... -
'Anchor baby' is a slur against Mexicans- Trump should knock it off
By Robin Abcarian, L.A. Times ~ August 21, 2015 http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-anchor-baby-is-a-slur-20150821-column.html The phrase “anchor babies” is offensive. It is meant to be offensive because it is a slur. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Uttered by Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and other Republican White House wannabes, “anchor babies,” quite simply, is another way of ... -
Poco realista, costoso y peligroso plan de Trump sobre inmigración
Las propuestas migratorias del precandidato están entre las más radicales presentadas en la historia reciente Deportación masiva de ciudadanos hijos de indocumentados recuerda a la realizada durante la Gran Depresión Por:Pilar Marrero, La Opinion ¡ Agosto 17, 2015 http://www.laopinion.com/poco-realista-costoso-y-peligroso-plan-de-trump-sobre-inmigracion&source=RSSLoMasVisto Peligroso, poco realista, costoso y sin sentido, son algunos de ... -
Jose Antonio Vargas-- I'm not an 'alien'
By JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS, l.a. times op-ed ~ august 13, 2015 http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0814-vargas-illegal-alien-20150813-story.html "RESIDENT ALIEN." Those two words, in all caps, adorn the plastic-covered green card that my grandfather, a naturalized U.S. citizen, handed me shortly after I arrived in the United States from the Philippines. I was 12. I don't remember ... -
Locking up children won't solve immigration system's problem
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD, august 13, 2015 The surge of mothers crossing the Mexican border last summer with their children, but without permission, sorely tested the federal government's immigration detention system. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials then exacerbated the problem by detaining hundreds of them as an example to others ... -
California gives immigrants here illegally unprecedented rights, benefits, protections
By MELANIE MASON, l.a times ~ august 11, 2015 It started with in-state tuition. Then came driver's licenses, new rules designed to limit deportations and state-funded healthcare for children. And on Monday, in a gesture heavy with symbolism, came a new law to erase the word "alien" from California's labor code. ... -
Immigration crackdown splits GOP
A rift has opened up in the party around the question of mandatory minimums. By Seung Min Kim, POLITICO ~ August 11, 2015 http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/immigration-gop-rift-mandatory-minimum-senate-cruz-121231.html#ixzz3iWcvO510 Ted Cruz and other Senate Republicans are pushing an aggressive immigration crackdown, proposing tougher penalties against foreigners who repeatedly try to enter the United States illegally. ...