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Immigration Policy impact
Lerner College researcher examines employment data connected to DACA. By Andrew Sharp | Univ. of Delaware | MAR. 23, 2023 | Illustration by Julie Morin If you want to quickly start an intense debate, a decent way to do it is by bringing up immigration policy. There’s no shortage of ... -
With Congress stuck, some immigrant advocates go local
Advocates have pushed for bills that would give undocumented immigrants access to some services. By Suzanne Monyak | Roll Call | MAR. 23, 2023 | Photo by David L. Ryan With Congress at an impasse on major federal immigration legislation, some advocates have turned to local legislatures to promote and ... -
The post-DACA generation tries to go to college
The Chronicle wrote about the group of students that had to navigate the college-application process without immigrant protection in some Southern states. By Renata Kaminski | Al Dia | MAR. 24, 2023 | Photo by Getty Images An estimated 11 million people living in the United States are undocumented — ... -
Dreams Derailed
More than a decade ago, three states banned Undocumented students from public colleges. For the post-DACA generation, the toll has been steeper. By Marcela Rodrigues | The Chronicle of Higher Education | MAR. 22, 2023 | Photo by Sean Rayford During his junior year in high school, Steven was asked ... -
Biden immigration plan could force asylum officers to break law, union warns
By Hamed Aleaziz | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 27, 2023 | Photo by John Moore President Biden’s plan to limit some migrants’ access to asylum could force federal asylum officers to break U.S. law, the union that represents asylum officers argued Monday in a formal filing opposing the proposal. ... -
Top Democrats warn Biden: Don’t restart family detentions
By Courtney Subramanian & Hamed Aleaziz | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 26, 2023 | Photo by Carolyn Cole WASHINGTON — Top Democrats are warning President Biden against restarting the controversial practice of detaining migrant families who cross the U.S. southern border without authorization. “I urge you to learn from the mistakes ... -
At least 38 migrants killed in a fire at a detention center in Mexico
By Kate Linthicum, Patrick J. McDonnell & Gabriela Minjares | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 28, 2023 | Photo by AP CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The surveillance video is short, but brutal. Taken from inside a migrant detention center in northern Mexico, it shows flames spreading quickly inside a locked cell, and ... -
How a Mexican forty-niner turned into the legend of Zorro
By Sheryl Losser | Mexico News Daily | MAR. 20, 2023 | Photo of painting in Public Domain The story of Joaquín Murrieta — the legendary Mexican Robin Hood who inspired the story of El Zorro — has endured and evolved over almost 200 years. To the American authorities in ... -
Democracy or monarchy? 19th-century Mexico struggled for identity
By Leigh Thelmadatter | Mexico Daily News | MAR. 18, 2023 | Mural by Jose Clemente-Orozco Benito Juárez is the only individual to have a federal holiday in Mexico. But he is not the father of his country like George Washington, so why? Juárez’s time was a few decades post-Independence, during ... -
L.A.’s only Indigenous school helps return land to California’s Native population
By Melissa Gomez | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 21, 2023 | Photo by Genaro Molina When Jamie Rocha and her family first visited the swath of undeveloped land in the Monterey Hills late last year, the grass was dead, the ground muddy. But on a recent Thursday, after drenching ...
