By Joseph Tanfani ~ LA Times ~ May 7, 2018 The Trump administration on Monday will unveil a new, tougher border enforcement policy to stem the flow of illegal crossings. The crackdown, which took effect last week and will be formally announced later Monday, will mean that parents bringing children over the ...

By Sarah D. Wire ~ LA Times ~ May 9, 2018 A bipartisan group of House members led by California Rep. Jeff Denham, a Republican from Turlock, filed a petition Wednesday to force a vote on four immigration bills over the objections of GOP leadership. It's rare for a Republican ...

By Gustavo Arrellano ~ LA Times ~ May 9, 2018 Let's play word association, California edition. The topic is "49ers." What comes to mind? The gold rush, of course. A football team in San Francisco, for sure. A grizzled prospector with a burro and a pickax, probably. "Oh, My Darling, ...

By  Sudie Hofmann ~ Zinned Project ~ May 5, 2018 As the president of the United States continues to fan the flames of bigotry toward Mexicans, here comes Cinco de Mayo. It’s a holiday that has too often allowed people to indulge in racist stereotypes —- not to mention inaccurate ...

Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos, co-founder of the CSULB Chicano & Latino Studies department and a participant in the 1968 East L.A. high school walkouts, lectured on his recent article "The legacy and importance of Chicano Studies for Mexico and Mexicans" on Monday April 30, 2018 at the CSULB Anatol Conference Center. His lecture ...

By Washington Post ~ May 2, 2018 Texas and six other states are suing the Trump administration over its failure to terminate an Obama-era program that provides work permits to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. The lawsuit signals growing GOP frustration with ...

By Adolfo Flores ~ Buzzfeed ~ May 4, 2018 More than 2,000 miles and over a month from their start at the southern border of Mexico, the last group of asylum seekers from the Central American caravan turned themselves into US border authorities Friday. A total of 228 people from ...

By Jeffrey Fleishman ~ LA Times ~ April 20, 2018 I was 9 years old. My father was at war. I watched Vietnam every night on TV, wind blowing through the tall grass of a distant land, numbers of the fallen flashing on the screen, all in black and white, ...

Korea for Peaceful and Independent Reunification Rafael Enríquez Organización de Solidaridad de los Pueblos de Africa, Asia y América Latina (OSPAAAL) Offset, 1982 Havana, Cuba 615 The Korean War (1950-1953) has never officially ended, but today's historic meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-In and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ...

By Denver University News ~ April 19, 2018 On April 13, education professionals interested in study abroad and academic programs serving international constituencies gathered at the University of Denver’s fifth annual Internationalization Summit for a full day of programming. The day’s events focused on a theme of increasing relevance as ...