LONG BEACH - On February 9, 2017 the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) had the honor to welcome a group of 10 faculty and graduate students from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) who visited the CMSC headquarters and California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), as well as the Port of Long Beach and City Hall. The ...

Both fairly standard and newly terrifying. By Dara Linddara, Vox, ~  Feb 14, 2017 http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/14/14596640/immigration-ice-raids In North Carolina, a husband left his house to start a car, only to be handcuffed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. In Los Angeles, a man was arrested at the Walmart where he ...

Tools and resources to help protect and prepare youth and families in case of an immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) raid. Introduction: This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for undocumented youth and unaccompanied and ...

By Matt Pearce and Kurtis Lee, L.A. Times ~ February 14, 2017 http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ice-daca-20170214-story.html Immigration agents have detained and threatened to deport a 23-year-old immigrant in Washington state who came to the U.S. illegally as a 7-year-old and later received protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a new lawsuit says. Daniel ...

By: Azam Ahmed, Manny Fernandez and Paulina Villegas, New York Times ~ FEB. 8, 2017   President Trump’s executive order to begin the construction of a wall between the United States and Mexico has left many wondering what it will mean for them and the future. For nearly 700 miles along the ...

LONG BEACH - On Saturday February 4, 2017, the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) convened the first "re-encuentro" meeting of the Winter 2016 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program participants after their return to the United States last month. The re-encuentro gave the CMD Winter 2016 participants a chance to reconnect and reflect upon ...

DACA recipients visit Mexico and return before Trump takes office. Elizabeth Campos, Assistant News Editor, Daily 49er ~ February 5, 2017 Putting aside the fear and threats of deportation, 25 undocumented students from different colleges and California State University campuses took a trip to Mexico on Dec. 22 of last year ...

After hearing more than 16 hours of testimony, the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee voted 7-2 along party lines early Friday morning to advance a bill that would punish local government entities and college campuses that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials or enforce immigration laws. BY JULIÁN AGUILAR, The ...

By: Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 2, 2017 http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-central-american-refugees-20170131-story.html President Trump’s executive order on immigration has halted a government program that allows Central American children to seek refugee status in the United States. More than 11,000 people have applied for the program since 2014, when former President Obama launched it ...

By: Ioan Grillo ~ New York Times, FEB. 2, 2017 Leer Articulo en Español Aquí MEXICO CITY — In Mexico’s so-called drug war, cartel gunmen have often used their violent power to demand money from innocent people. It’s a heinous crime that scars communities and blights growth, and it has provoked terrorized villages to rise ...