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‘I have enough ovaries to apply the law.’ The language of gender enters the Mexican ...
By Leila Miller | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 15, 2023 | Photo by Ulises Ruiz MEXICO CITY — The two presidential front-runners grew up exposed to sharply different visions of what a woman in Mexico could aspire to be. In her impoverished home in the state of Hidalgo, Xóchitl Gálvez faced beatings ... -
Opposition bloc narrows to 3 aspiring candidates for 2024 election
By MND Staff | Mexico News Daily | AUG. 16, 2023 | Photo by Mario Jasso The Broad Front for Mexico (FAM) opposition bloc has trimmed its field of potential presidential candidates from four to three, eliminating former tourism minister Enrique de la Madrid. The organizing committee of the FAM ... -
Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum grows lead for ruling party presidential ticket in new poll
Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum grows lead for ruling party presidential ticket in new poll. By Reuters | NBC News | AUG. 16, 2023 | Photo by Jeoffrey Guillemard MEXICO CITY — Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has grown her lead to a 13-point advantage in the contest to be the ... -
1,500-year-old Teotihuacan village found in Mexico City
By Issy Ronald & Jack Guy | CNN Travel | AUG. 11, 2023 | Photo by Juan Campos Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,500-year-old Teotihuacan village in Mexico City, complete with large concentrations of ceramics and three human burials, Mexico’s National Institute of History and Anthropology has announced. Excavations between March and June unearthed several remnants ... -
Latino fans recall the importance of Fernando’s Dodgers career
By Andrea Flores & Fidel Martinez | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 12, 2023 | Photo by Jason Armond Enrico Fernando Valenzuela wasn’t named after the legendary pitcher, but he became a Dodgers fan anyway. The 55-year-old truck driver recalls how his father, a supporter since the team’s Brooklyn days, ... -
Migrants take the U.S. to court over its glitchy asylum app
The Biden administration’s glitchy new app is failing asylum seekers. Now, migrant’s rights groups are fighting back. By Erica Hellerstein | CODA | AUG. 9, 2023 It has been more than half a century since U.S. immigration laws were written to enshrine the right to apply for asylum at any ... -
Texas was warned about anti-migrant border buoys months before DOJ stepped in
Barrier installation continued despite U.S.-Mexico river agency’s demands for federal OK and proof that flooding wouldn’t get worse. By Aaron Torres & Todd J. Gillman | The Dallas Morning News | AUG. 8, 2023 | Photo by Eric Gay AUSTIN — Newly uncovered records show Texas officials ignored warnings that ... -
Fact Check-Illinois bill only allows certain non-citizens to become police officers
By Reuters Fact Check | Reuters | AUG. 4, 2023 | Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast Illinois House Bill 3751 only allows non-citizens who are eligible to work in the U.S. and are authorized to possess firearms under federal law to become police officers. Contrary to confusion on social media, ... -
Illinois will allow some non-citizens to be police. But only those authorized to work and ...
By Philip Marcelo | Associated Press | AUG. 4, 2023 | Photo by Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere CLAIM: A new law in Illinois allows any immigrant living in the country illegally to become a police officer. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The law allows certain non-citizens to apply for police officer jobs. But they must ... -
Dreamers Say GOP States Challenging DACA Lack Standing
By Rae Ann Varona | Bloomberg Law360 | AUG. 9, 2023 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients chided Republican-led states for citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, telling a Texas federal court the states overlooked facts that show they actually lack ...
