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Urge USCIS to Expedite Processing of DACA Applications Over 100 Days Old
Petition Started by Rosa Bautista | Change.org | Jan. 17, 2024 | Photo By Juan A. Lozamo Why this Petition Matters: I am one of the many individuals who have been adversely affected by the slow processing of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications. My job terminated me because ... -
Testimonial - Carla Villagomez
Past Participants Praise of the CMSC's Independent Dreamer Study Abroad Program Courtesy of Carla Villagomez - Alumni | JAN. 21, 2024 | Photo Courtesy of Carla Villagomez Dear Profe, I hope you are doing well. This is Carla Villagomez from the DSAP Winter 2023-2024 program. I hope you recall our interaction ... -
Supreme Court rules for Biden administration in Texas border dispute
By David G. Savage | Los Angeles Times | JAN. 22, 2024 | Photo By Robert Gauthier The Supreme Court ruled for the Biden administration in a 5-4 vote Monday and said Border Patrol agents may cut barbed wire installed by Texas authorities that prevents the agents from patrolling areas ... -
USCIS DACA renewal delays put livelihoods at risk for recipients as agency prioritizes migrants
By Michelle Gallardo | ABC News | JAN. 16, 2023 | Photo By Robyn Beck There are nearly 600,000 beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program nationwide. For the last 11 years they have been allowed to work, go to school and drive. But their DACA permit ... -
US Senate confirms first Latina to conservative-majority 5th Circuit
By Nate Raymond | Reuters | DEC. 4, 2023 | Photo By Cheriss May The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed the first Latina judge to serve on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, giving Democratic President Joe Biden his second appointee on a court whose conservative majority has often ... -
What to know about the Colorado Supreme Court's Trump ruling, and what happens next
By Caitlen Yilek | CBS News | DEC. 20, 2023 | Photo By Kevin Mohatt Washington — An unprecedented ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that bans former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 ballot is unlikely to be the final word on the matter. The court put its ruling on hold until Jan. ... -
Many Latino Californians aren’t voting. Can U.S. Senate candidates motivate them?
By Yue Stella Yu | Cal Matters | NOV. 16, 2023 | Photo By Zaydee Sanchez For six generations since emigrating from Mexico to America, Clarissa Renteria’s family never voted. If any campaign mailers arrived during election season, Renteria’s parents — who both worked as warehouse workers in Woodlake, an ... -
USC Libraries acquires archives of historic Latino journalist association
By Alejandra Molina | Los Angeles Times | NOV. 29, 2023 | Photo illustration by Diana Ramirez / De Los; Photos by CCNMA Decades’ worth of archives of CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California — known as theoldest Latino journalist association in the United States — have been acquired by the ... -
Child prodigy Adhara Maite Pérez Sánchez has a higher IQ than Albert Einstein
The 11-year-old girl is currently getting her master’s degree in Mexico City By Shirley Gomez | HOLA! USA | MAY 16, 2023 | Photo Courtesy of Getty Images Adhara Maite Pérez Sánchez is a Mexican child prodigy who has been found to have a higher intelligence quotient than the renowned physicist Albert ... -
What is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day? What to know about 1941 attack that sent US ...
By Emily DeLetter | USA Today | DEC. 4, 2023 | Photo Courtesy of US Navy Archives Thursday Dec. 7 marks National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, and is the 82nd anniversary since the attack in Hawaii that began the U.S.'s involvement in World War II. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese military ...