By Alissa Torres ~ NY Times ~ April 27, 2018 A woman opens her heart to a relationship with a young immigrant from Colombia, despite the likelihood that it can’t last. The departures by way of detention and deportation that I see on the news, wrenching scenes of love being pulled ...

By Jeffrey Fleishman ~ LA Times ~ April 20, 2018 I was 9 years old. My father was at war. I watched Vietnam every night on TV, wind blowing through the tall grass of a distant land, numbers of the fallen flashing on the screen, all in black and white, ...

There are several May Day events coming up:  

By  Frances Robles ~ NY Times ~ April 26, 2018 Nicaragua’s Sudden Uprising Deadly protests set off by unpopular changes to social security in Nicaragua show no signs of abating, even after the president gave in to demands. By DEBORAH ACOSTA on Publish DateApril 26, 2018.  Photo by Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters. Watch in ...

By Maria Sacchetti ~ Washington Post ~ April 24, 2018 A D.C. federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama-era program and — for the first time since announcing it would end — ...

By Miriam Jordan ~ NY Times ~ April 24, 2018 In the biggest setback yet for the Trump administration in its attempt to end a program that shields some undocumented young adults from deportation, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the protections must stay in place and that the government ...

Por Maria Peña ~ La Opinion ~ 25 de Abril 2018 Otros jueces habían ordenado la reactivación de DACA para renovación de permisos. Un tercer juez federal asestó este martes el golpe más duro contra la Administración del  presidente Donald Trump en el campo migratorio, al ordenarle no sólo la reactivación de ...

By Bill Cummings ~ ctpost ~ April 20, 2018 HARTFORD — For the third year in a row, the state Senate passed a bill that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain financial aid at state colleges and universities. "This is a great day in this chamber, and what we stand for ...

By Anthony L Fisher ~ Daily Beast ~ April 23, 2018 Nearly a year after police went to arrest a domestic abuser but shot a pillar of the community, no one has been held responsible. Ismael Lopez was killed by police who came to his home in the middle of ...

By Paige St. John and Joel Rubin ~ LA Times ~ April 27, 2018 Immigration officers in the United States operate under a cardinal rule: Keep your hands off Americans. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, ...