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Dreams Derailed
More than a decade ago, three states banned Undocumented students from public colleges. For the post-DACA generation, the toll has been steeper. By Marcela Rodrigues | The Chronicle of Higher Education | MAR. 22, 2023 | Photo by Sean Rayford During his junior year in high school, Steven was asked ... -
We Should Give Up the Fantasy of Solving the Border Crisis
Opinion by Dara Lind | The New York Times | MAR. 14, 2023 | Photo by Ivan Pierre Aguirre How did President Biden go from denouncing the immigration policies of his predecessor to following in his footsteps by proposing a regulation that would make the vast majority of current asylum ... -
Newsom rescinds California’s COVID-19 state of emergency, marking an end to the pandemic era
By Taryn Luna | Los Angeles Times | FEB. 28, 2023 | Photo by Genaro Molina SACRAMENTO — California’s COVID-19 state of emergency officially ends Tuesday, bringing a symbolic close to one of the most challenging chapters of state history and of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political career. The Democratic governor declared the state ... -
Mexican protesters see electoral overhaul as a threat to democracy
By Leila Miller & Cecilia Sanchez | Los Angeles Times | FEB. 26, 2023 | Photo by Fernando Llano MEXICO CITY — Juan Manuel Martinez remembers the days when he would vote in Mexico’s elections with no confidence that they were being run fairly. For decades, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as ... -
Mexico is the United States’ second largest trade partner; bilateral trade has increased in 2022
Mexico is running a surplus in trade with the U.S., but a deficit overall. Mexico Daily News | SEP. 9, 2022 | Photo by Fernando Macias Romo Mexico was the United States’ second largest trade partner in the first seven months of the year with two-way trade worth almost US ... -
55% of America's Top Startups Were Founded by Immigrants. Why Won't Congress Let in More?
Without a tenable visa pathway, immigrant entrepreneurs will look to greener pastures—and the American economy will be worse for it. By Fiona Harrigan | Reason.com | JUL. 28, 2022 | Illustration by Lex Villena Immigrants are 80 percent more likely than native-born Americans to found a firm, according to a study released ... -
Most Billion-Dollar Startups In The U.S. Founded By Immigrants
By Stuart Anderson | Forbes | JUL. 26, 2022 | Photo by Guillermo Rauch courtesy of Vercel Tomas Gorny grew up in Poland under communism. But after moving to the U.S. and taking odd jobs like washing dishes and saving money from small ventures, he cofounded the tech company IPOWER ... -
AMLO asks Joe Biden to "regularize now" the situation of migrants and offers him his ...
President Joe Biden assures that the relationship with his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador is "strong and productive" despite the headlines that appear in the media. By Cesar Reyes | La Opinion | JUL. 12, 2022 | Photo by Nicholas Kamm for AFP/Getty The president of the United States, Joe ... -
After snubbing Biden at summit, Mexico’s president pokes him at the White House
By Tracy Wilkinson & Eli Stokols | Los Angeles Times | JUL. 12, 2022 | Photo by Susan Walsh for AP WASHINGTON — A month after he boycotted a major regional summit in Los Angeles and snubbed the Biden administration, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came to Washington on Tuesday for wide-ranging talks ... -
The Los Angeles Declaration Could Represent a Big Step for Real Migration Cooperation across the ...
By Andrew Selee | Migration Policy Institute | JUNE 2022 | Photo by Freddie Everett The Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection signed by leaders from countries across the Western Hemisphere at the conclusion of this week’s Summit of the Americas commits their governments to expand legal migration pathways, ...
