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Opinion: Searching for a way forward on immigration
Opinion by Jaime Dupree | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | FEB. 23, 2023 | Photo by Susan Walsh for AP Not since 1986 has Congress solved the puzzle of bipartisan legislative action on immigration reform — and the past two weeks only reinforced the difficulty both parties will have in making any ... -
Amid Major U.S. Labor Market Needs, the Biden Administration Could Facilitate the Migration of Needed ...
By Michelle Mittlestadt | Migration Policy Institute | FEB. 23, 2023 | Photo by Manuel Balce-Ceneta WASHINGTON — With the United States recording more than 10 million job openings each month since mid-2021 and the unemployment rate hitting a 54-year low in January, the U.S. economy is hungry for more ... -
A Trump-like border wall is about to be built — unless Biden stops it
By Jean Guerrero | Los Angeles Times | FEB. 27, 2023 | Photo by Guillermo Arias+ President Biden should call off construction crews gathering at the southernmost edge of California’s coastline to erect a border wall that epitomizes Trump’s dystopian vision. The planned double-layered, 30-foot-tall steel wall would create another ... -
Why is Biden recycling failed strategies to slow immigration?
By Jean Guerrero | Los Angeles Times | FEB. 20, 2023 | Photo by Mandel Ngan As Americans become increasingly anxious about immigration, Vice President Kamala Harris is searching for answers in all of the wrong places. The solutions to the causes of migration aren’t in Central America — certainly not in ... -
‘THE MOST PERSECUTED AND NEGLECTED PEOPLE ARE THE ONES CHANGING HISTORY’
Story and photo by Andrea Guevara | Kern Sol News | FEB. 27, 2023 Dr. Gonzalo Santos is a professor emeritus of sociology, faculty advisor of California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) United Now for Immigrant Rights, and lifelong activist. Originally from Mexico. Santos came to the United States in 1970 ... -
El Magonista | Vol. 11, No. 6 | February 23, 2023
*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser "El Magonista" | Vol. 11, No. 6 | February 23, 2023 So what's the solution? A Presidential Pardon for the Dreamers. For the past 13 months, we here at the CMSC have been advocating for the current U.S. President, Democrat Joseph R. Biden, to ... -
The Latin Grammy Awards go Hispanic
The Latin Grammys are moving to Spain. People had thoughts. By Fidel Martinez | Los Angeles Times | FEB. 23, 2023 | Photo by Martina Ibanez-Baldor Every week, I’m briefly paralyzed by the panic that I won’t have anything to write about for the newsletter. Despite my obvious lack of ... -
Green Card Seekers’ Kids Get Protections in New Biden Policy
Young people at risk of losing status while green card is pending as USCIS freezes age earlier in application process. By Andrew Kreighbaum | Bloomberg Law | FEB. 15, 2023 | Photo by Jewel Samad A policy update by US Citizenship and Immigration Services will add protections for children of ... -
77 Detained Immigrants Launch Hunger Strike at Two Central Valley Facilities
Protesting against Unpaid Labor and Inhumane Conditions, strikers demand immediate release and the closure of both ICE facilities. Contact: Edwin Carmona-Cruz | CCI-Justice | FEB. 17, 2023 | Photo by Kristin Murphy 2023.02.17, Press Release Hunger Strike at MV and GSA BAKERSFIELD AND MCFARLAND, CALIF. – Today, 77 individuals detained ... -
Dreamers want answers as future of immigrants remains unclear
By Nick Ciletti | ABC-15 Phoenix | FEB. 20, 2023 | Photo by Jose Luis Magana PHOENIX — When it comes to immigration, Title 42 is grabbing all the headlines, but there is another topic affecting hundreds of thousands of people that Congress has yet to act on, and that ...
