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Congress must act to provide legal status for Dreamers and TPS holders
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD – MARCH 9, 2021
If there’s any issue on which most Democrats and Republicans can find common ground, it’s the notion that so-called Dreamers hold a unique position in our immigration battles, and that the government must create a path to legal status for them. What form that reprieve would take and how to get there, of course, are ripe for discussion, debate and compromise. But given the overwhelming support for the ends, there should be a way to find the means.
The Dreamers are noncitizens who have lived in the U.S. without permission after arriving as children, and who bear little if any responsibility for their illegal status. Because many have been raised and educated as Americans, it would be cruel, and self-defeating, to not let them pursue legal status and citizenship. President Obama sought to extend some protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but that is only a temporary reprieve and one that still faces legal challenges... Read Full Article
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The CMSC selects 140 Dreamers for Summer 2021 Mexico Study Abroad Program
After a grueling two months of interviews and selection from over 300 applicants, the CMSC's Summer 2021 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program has accepted 140 participants from 90 U.S. colleges and universities and representing 27 states that reflect a vast diversity of places of origin. The summer participants will travel in alternating intervals during July and August in 3 groups of 50 Dreamers per group, including CMSC program staff.
The composition of this cohort is mostly from Mexican origin, but it also includes participants from the Dominican Republic, South Korea, Guatemala, Ecuador and El Salvador.
Data by the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC).
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The Economic Contributions of Undocumented Immigrants by Country of Origin
By: New American Economy – March 8, 2021
No country looms larger in the debate around undocumented immigration in the United States than Mexico. This is for good reason. Until as recently as 2017, the majority of undocumented immigrants in the United States were born in Mexico. And while migration trends to the United States have changed, immigrants from Mexico still continue to make up a significant share of the undocumented population in the United States.
Analyzing data from the 2019 American Community Survey, 1-Year Sample, we find that there were more than 4.2 million immigrants from Mexico who lack legal status in 2019. Together, they make up more than 40.8 percent of the 10.3 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Looking at the other four most common countries of origin for undocumented immigrants, we find that their numbers are considerably smaller in comparison, including: El Salvador (621,000 undocumented immigrants), India (587,000), Guatemala (561,000), and Honduras (416,000)... Read Full Article
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Life, death and grief in Los Angeles
By Meridith Kohut and Fernanda Santos, New York Times – March 2, 2021
Photographs by Meridith Kohut
With more than 10 million residents, Los Angeles County is the most-populous county in the United States. It is a world of extremes, with multimillion-dollar mansions at one end and cramped apartments housing multiple generations of the same family at the other. As the coronavirus once again tightened its grip around the region late last fall, it struck with stark precision the county’s poorest and neediest residents: older Black people in South Los Angeles, Pacific Islanders in Inglewood, Latinos toiling in obscurity in essential jobs throughout the city. In the Boyle Heights neighborhood, east of downtown Los Angeles, where half of all residents live in poverty, the number of coronavirus infections in a 14-day period last month was six times as high as it was in Bel Air, one of Los Angeles’s wealthiest neighborhoods... Read Full Article
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Number of Migrant Children Detained at Border Has Tripled in Two Weeks
By: Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times – March 8, 2021
The number of unaccompanied migrant children detained along the southern border has tripled in the last two weeks to more than 3,250, filling facilities akin to jails as the Biden administration struggles to find room for them in shelters, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
More than 1,360 of the children have been detained beyond the 72 hours permitted by law before a child must be transferred to a shelter, according to one of the documents, dated March 8. The figures highlight the growing pressure on President Biden to address the increased number of people trying to cross the border in the belief that he will be more welcoming to them than former President Donald J. Trump was.... Read Full Article
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The False Dilemma of Post-Vaccination Risk
By: JAMES HAMBLIN, The Atlantic – FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Every day, more than 1 million American deltoids are being loaded with a vaccine. The ensuing immune response has proved to be extremely effective—essentially perfect—at preventing severe cases of COVID-19. And now, with yet another highly effective vaccine on the verge of approval, that pace should further accelerate in the weeks to come.
This is creating a legion of people who no longer need to fear getting sick, and are desperate to return to “normal” life. Yet the messaging on whether they might still carry and spread the disease—and thus whether it’s really safe for them to resume their unmasked, un-distanced lives—has been oblique. Anthony Fauci said last week on CNN that “it is conceivable, maybe likely,” that vaccinated people can get infected with the coronavirus and then spread it to someone else, and that more will be known about this likelihood “in some time, as we do some follow-up studies.” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky had been no more definitive on Meet the Press a few days before, where she told the host, “We don’t have a lot of data yet to inform exactly the question that you’re asking.”... Read Full Article
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Fully vaccinated people can have small gatherings indoors with other vaccinated people but should continue to wear masks in public, the C.D.C.
By: Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times - March 8, 2021
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday issued long-awaited advice to Americans fully vaccinated against Covid-19, freeing them to take some liberties that the unvaccinated should not, including gathering indoors in small groups without precautions while still adhering to masking and distancing in public spaces.
The agency offered good news to grandparents who have refrained from seeing children and grandchildren for the past year, saying that vaccinated people may visit indoors with unvaccinated people from a single household so long as no one among the unvaccinated is at risk for severe disease if infected with the coronavirus... Read Full Article
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