By: Lauren Rosenblatt, Los Angeles Times ~ Oct. 9, 2017 When President Trump withdrew deportation protection for people who illegally came to the United States as children, he tasked Congress with crafting an immigration plan to overhaul the system. A blueprint deal he reached with Democrats emphasized protecting the so-called Dreamers while beefing up border security to ...

By: Maurice Berger, New York Times ~ Originally published on Sep. 14, 2017 From 1967 to 1977, La Raza, the Los Angeles newspaper turned magazine, provided a vital and dynamic forum for Chicano political and cultural expression. Employing a range of disciplines, including photojournalism, graphic art, satire, poetry and political commentary, it was ...

By: AGNES CONSTANTE, NBC News ~ October 4, 2017 LOS ANGELES, California — Over the summer, José Rivas had an emotional reunion with his family in Texcoco, Mexico. He hadn't been back to his birthplace in about 20 years and had only vague memories of where he came from. Rivas ...

By: Brian Bennett and Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times ~ Oct. 5, 2017 The Trump administration began unraveling the Obama-era program shielding people brought to the United States illegally as children from deportation, though a split Congress has made no progress on writing similar protections into law as President Trump asked. The phaseout of the five-year-old Deferred Action for ...

On September 17, 2017, the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) sent the letter below to Governor Jerry Brown, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and UC President Janet Napolitano, requesting for them to petition in federal court for an injunction that would prevent the cancellation of Dreamers' applications for Advance Parole (AP) under DACA.   Notwithstanding that DACA's termination is not effective until March 5, 2018, the ...

By: Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times ~ Sept. 19, 2017 The girl clutched the goodbye card her friend Emily handed her that morning. “All thou we’ll be a few miles apart you allways be my best firend.” Luz Madrigal, 6, sat in the back seat of the car with her little ...

➡️➡️  Read our newsletter: http://conta.cc/2eUT8BR ⬅️⬅️ By: Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times ~ Sept. 7, 2017 Last month, California college student Miriam Juan stepped off a plane in Guadalajara, Mexico, and hugged her grandparents for the first time in 17 years. She had no words at first, just smiles and tears. An immigrant brought ...

The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) has successfully provided the unique opportunity to study abroad in Mexico to over 160 Dreamers since 2014, through the CMSC’s California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program. However, due to the termination of DACA, the CMSC will not be able to continue the program, aborting the applications ...

This is a moment when higher education leaders must be advocates and activists to affirm some of the most fundamental values of our national commitment to equity and justice for all people, Patricia McGuire writes. By: Patricia McGuire , Inside Higher Ed ~ September 8, 2017 Where do we go from ...

By THE NEW YORK EDITORIAL BOARD, SEPTEMBER 5, 2017 President Trump didn’t even have the guts to do the job himself. Instead, he hid in the shadows and sent his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to do the dirty work of telling the country that the administration would no longer shield from deportation ...