By: Rogelio Sáenz, Latino Rebels – April 15, 2021 More than 100,000 U.S. Latinos have now lost their lives to COVID-19. This past week we went over this lamentable threshold. It took about ten months for 50,000 Latinos to die from the pandemic, but it only took four months to add another ...

By: DOYLE MCMANUS, LOS ANGELES TIMES – APRIL 11, 2021 After a year of angry battles over lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccinations, a new front has opened in the coronavirus culture war: vaccine “passports.” If you travel overseas this summer, European countries will demand a document proving you’ve been vaccinated ...

By FRANCISCO LARA-GARCÍA, LOS ANGELES TIMES – APRIL 5, 2021  The thousands of migrants trying to enter the United States at the southern border have sparked a fresh wave of political debate over who should be let into the country and how minors and others seeking asylum should be treated. Republicans ...

By: LARRY GORDON, EdSource – March 29, 2021 A second-year student at Long Beach City College, Emilio Mann is part of an experiment that aims to ease and improve the way he and classmates transfer to a public university and ultimately earn a bachelor’s degree. So far, things are working ...

By SARAH D. WIRE, LOS ANGELES TIMES – MARCH 24, 2021 WASHINGTON — Twenty-seven years after Alex Padilla hit the streets with hundreds of thousands of California Latinos to protest the anti-immigrant Proposition 187, he finds himself in a position to help deliver the change he has long sought. All he ...

Read the full newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/b8d44ef63e80/victory-for-mayra-garibo-and-our-summer-2021california-mexico-dreamers-study-abroad-program –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– After 3 years of advocacy, victory at last for Mayra Garibo's Advance Parole story! After more than 3 years of strenuous advocacy and emotional hardship, today we celebrate Mayra Garibo's victory in acquiring a DACA Advance Parole travel permit, which will allow her to reconnect ...

BY: ZACHARY WARMBRODT, POLITICO – MARCH 23, 2021 Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday defended the Biden administration's decision to not expel children arriving in the U.S. amid a migrant surge along the southern border, arguing "that's not who we are." In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," ...

By: Nicholas Fandos, New York Times – March 18, 2021 The Democratic-led House voted on Thursday to create a path to citizenship for an estimated four million undocumented immigrants, reopening a politically charged debate over the nation’s broken immigration system just as President Biden confronts a growing surge of migrants ...

By Oriana Gonzalez, Axios – March 18, 2021 The House on Thursday voted 228-197 to pass the American Dream and Promise Act as part of Democrats' first effort at immigration reform under the Biden administration. Why it matters: Nine Republicans joined Democrats to support the bill that creates a pathway ...

By NINA AGRAWAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES – MARCH 18, 2021 Ending years-long and often divisive debate over ethnic studies coursework in California’s K-12 schools, the State Board of Education on Thursday unanimously approved a model curriculum to guide how the histories, struggles and contributions of Asian, Black, Latino and Native Americans ...