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The Supreme Court delivers a victory for due process for deportees
By The Times Editorial Board ~ LA Times ~ April 18, 2018 The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in a case from California that if a law is deemed to be so vague that it is impossible for the government to use it to impose a prison sentence, then it is ... -
Border Patrol Agent Charged with Murder After Woman, child Found Dead Near Rio Grande
By Sarah Sarder & Tom Steele ~ Dallas News ~ April 14, 2018 A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been arrested after the bodies of a woman and a 1-year-old child were found near a rural park in South Texas. The bodies of 27-year-old Grizelda Hernandez and her son Dominick Alexander Hernandez ... -
Gorsuch casts key Supreme Court vote to spare California immigrant from deportation
By David G. Savage ~ LA Times ~ April 17, 2018 With Justice Neil M. Gorsuch casting the deciding vote, the Supreme Court on Tuesday spared a California immigrant from deportation because his conviction for home burglary was not the kind of "aggravated felony" that would require removing him from ... -
How Trump Moved the Mexican Border North
By Emily Goglak ~ Politico ~ April 13, 2018 My mom’s story is like a fairy tale,” the boy said before he fell asleep on the living room sofa. His mother calls him her little angel. They live together in an unpainted shack at the back of a dirt cul-de-sac ... -
In southern Texas, patching the border wall with $49 million in gates
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske ~ LA Times ~ April 18, 2018 A decade ago, Juan Cavazos watched as government authorities built a border wall on two acres of his land in the Rio Grande Valley. To smugglers, they created a barrier. To Cavazos, they created a problem. The Rio Grande winds ... -
Coachella makes millions, but the festival’s impoverished Mexican neighbors see very little of it
By Gustavo Arellano ~ LA Times ~ April 18, 2018 I went to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2003, and that was enough. The reunion of Iggy Pop and the Stooges was awesome, of course, and Café Tacuba played like rock en español gods. Otherwise, my memories of the ... -
Cal Poly Suspends All Greek Life After Second Racist Incident
By Grace Bird ~ Inside Higher Ed ~ April 20, 2018 California Polytechnic State University’s president announced in a letter Tuesday it would suspend all Greek life on campus after two fraternities committed racially insensitive acts in the past two months. The first incident occurred this month, when Cal Poly’s Lambda Chi ... -
Migrant caravan's next steps may be an even tougher journey
By Leyla Santiago ~ CNN ~ April 20,2018 (CNN)They stowed away on trains, slept in shelters and marched in protests as they trekked across Mexico. Soon hundreds of migrants from Central America will find out whether it was worth it. Members of the caravan have just started reaching the border, ... -
National immigrant Resilience Day- April 26th
By United We Dream ~ April 20, 2018 We’re calling on institutions -- K-12, universities, community colleges and community centers -- and students to sign up to join National Immigrant Resilience Day (NIRD) on April 26, 2018! On this day, institutions will celebrate undocumented students and proudly proclaim their commitment ... -
Inside the Making of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’s’ DACA-Themed Episode (EXCLUSIVE)
By Danielle Turchiano ~ Variety ~ April 12, 2018 SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Beautiful Dreamer,” the 19th episode of the 14th season of “Grey’s Anatomy.” “Grey’s Anatomy” has revealed that Sam Bello (Jeanine Mason), a surgical intern working at Grey Sloan Memorial, is an undocumented ...
