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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 — ... -
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 ... -
El Magonista | Vol. 11, no. 10 | March 23, 2023
*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser "El Magonista" | Vol. 11, No. 10 | March 23, 2023 NOW OPEN: Winter 2024 Dreamers Study Abroad Application PLEASE READ ALL PROGRAM INFORMATION AND FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs) BEFORE APPLYING! SPACES ARE EXTREMELY LIMITED FOR THIS NEW PROGRAM AND WE WILL CLOSE THE APPLICATION ... -
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 ... -
From red bastion to blue bulwark: What political shift in Colorado and West means for ...
By Mark Barabak | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 21, 2023 | Photo by Ed Andrieski DENVER — Kevin Priola was a Republican before he could even vote. Inspired by Ronald Reagan, he preregistered with the GOP at age 17. He joined the College Republicans at the University of Colorado in Boulder ... -
IMMIGRATION POLICY DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY
For 20 years, the Department of Homeland Security has made life a nightmare for millions — but Dreamers like me have seen that there’s another way. By Alliyah Lusuegro | Foreign Policy in Focus | MAR. 20, 2023 | Photo from ShutterShock The Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, turned ... -
He helped LAUSD’s most ‘invisible’ workers go on strike, but Max Arias isn’t done
By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 22, 2023 | Photo by Christina House Southern California’s latest storm didn’t dampen the spirits of over 300 workers who gathered in front of a school bus yard in Van Nuys before dawn on Tuesday, the first day of a planned ...
