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Immigration reform: 'The California Package'
By Karthick Ramakrishnan, Allan Colbern http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0624-ramakrishnan-state-citizenship-20150624-story.html While the federal government stalls on immigration reform, some states have begun acting on their own. Much attention in the last decade has focused on Republican-dominated areas that have tightened enforcement. Meanwhile, more quietly, California moved in the opposite direction, encouraging integration rather than ... -
The Border Patrol shouldn't be allowed to police itself
Border Patrol agents apprehend an immigrant along the Texas-Mexico border near McAllen in 2014. (Los Angeles Times) By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD Opinion Editorials Crime S. Customs and Border Protection The Border Patrol is a federal police force, and its use of force should be viewed through a similar prism ... -
Orphaned in Mexico, siblings triumph in graduating from SoCal universities
Sophy Amel Peralta and her brother Allen Amel Peralta, left, graduated Saturday from Cal State L.A. and UC Irvine because of help the received from Brian Fonteyn. The siblings plan to work for a year before pursuing master's degrees in social work and medicine. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) ... -
Against the odds, chemistry grad finds a path out of poverty
By Nicole Freeling, UC Newsroom ~ Thursday, June 11, 2015 http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/against-odds-chemistry-grad-finds-path-out-poverty By the time he was 6, Rene Amel Peralta was already working full time in construction and odds jobs in Mexico, just trying to survive. By 13, he and his sister had been abandoned by their only parent and ... -
Fifth Circuit Refuses to Stay the Injunction Barring Implementation of President Obama's Expanded Deferred Action ...
Published on 06-01-2015 11:51 AM 0 Comments Breaking News: Fifth Circuit Refuses to Stay the Injunction Barring Implementation of President Obama's Expanded Deferred Action Program by Kevin R. Johnson The CrImmigration blog has posted the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision in Texas v. United States denying the Obama administration's request for a stay of the district ... -
L.A. County's kinder, gentler, totally immoral deportation scheme
A. County ends its partnership with ICE for deporting inmates, replaces it with equally heartless one By TED RALL, l.a. times ~ may 18, 2015 On Tuesday the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to end an obnoxious, counterproductive program in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's ... -
El mundo tiene que saber lo que vivimos los jóvenes migrantes
Por Ariadne Juárez, Dexodo ~ Lunes, 27 Abril 2015 MÉXICO.- La vida de Lidieth Arévalo quedó marcada a los nueve años por el secuestro en su país natal, El Salvador. Un grupo de delincuentes se la llevó junto con su hermano y aunque la familia logró pagar por su libertad ... -
En la mira de los gringos, por los derechos humanos
82 miembros del Congreso de Estados Unidos le enviaron una carta, ayer, al secretario de Estado, John Kerry, para llamar su atención sobre el deterioro de los derechos humanos en México. La oficina en Washington para Asuntos de América Latina (WOLA) nos envió un correo en el que da cuenta ... -
Calif. Hispanic Students Among Most Segregated in U.S.
Brenda Gazzar, Daily News ~ May 23, 2014 California Hispanic students are among the most segregated in the country. May 23--More than half of Latino students in California attend "intensely segregated" K-12 schools, or those that have a white population of 10 percent or less, according to a new report ... -
Protect Our Families, Save the Children Campaign / Campaña Protección a Nuestras Familias y los ...
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Persons: Angela Sanbrano (323) 371-7305 ~ Red Mx Armando Vázquez-Ramos (562) 430-5541~ California-México Studies Center Nativo Lopez (714) 423-4800 – Hermandad Mexicana LAUSD BOARD OF EDUCATION UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES RESOLUTION TO CALL ON OBAMA TO SUSPEND DEPORTATIONS Los Angeles, CA – The Los Angeles ...