El Magonista | May 16, 2024 | Vol. 12, No. 13

Over 100,000 young immigrants without health insurance will now be able to buy affordable health care through the plan, the administration estimates

More than 100,000 young immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will soon become eligible to receive federal health care coverage for the first time since DACA was implemented over a decade ago.

The Biden administration will announce a new federal rule Friday allowing DACA recipients to enroll in a qualified health plan through the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace or become eligible for coverage through a basic health program.

An estimated 580,000 young adults who lack legal immigration status and have lived in the U.S. since they were children are currently working or studying without fear of deportation under DACA. An overwhelming majority of DACA recipients were born in Mexico and other Latin American countries.

Even though the program has helped them access better-paying jobs and educational opportunities since it was first implemented in 2012, DACA beneficiaries had been barred from accessing federally funded health insurance despite contributing billions in federal taxes, pouring funds into the nation’s federal health insurance system for years. Read More

Karina Ruiz ya se encuentra en el umbral de la historia. Será la primera migrante mexicana en ser senadora de la República.

Es “soñadora”, (dreamer*), originaria de Tlanepantla, Estado de México, de raíces oaxaqueñas, de 39 años, de los cuales 24 ha vivido en Phoenix, Arizona, tiene tres hijos y tres nietos, es licenciada en bioquímica y luchadora social.

Postulada por Morena, acentúa:

“En el Senado no hay quien comprenda las vivencias y experiencias de los migrantes. Se necesita legislar con la visión de los migrantes”.

Ella fue presentada, junto con la media docena de migrantes que llegarán al Poder Legislativo mexicano como candidatos plurinominales. Cinco irán a la Cámara de Diputados y ella tendrá escaño en la Cámara Alta. Les dieron la bienvenida el presidente de Morena, Mario Delgado, y el ex Canciller Marcelo Ebrard, coordinador de los futuros legisladores.

Menuda, con soltura verbal, en diálogo con La Educación, Ruiz, conocedora del modo de vida americano, revela que irá a Washington a dialogar con legisladores de Estados Unidos para hablar “de igual a igual” para ver la manera de resolver problemas de los “dreamers” y de los más de once millones de mexicanos radicados en esa nación a fin de buscar un camino para legalizar su situación migratoria. Read More

La dirigencia de Morena anunció que en la próxima legislatura presentará en el Senado una iniciativa para tener un solo ordenamiento jurídico que proteja a los mexicanos en el exterior, sobre todo en Estados Unidos.

Se trata de incluir todos los derechos de los connacionales en el exterior, los instrumentos para protegerlos, cualquiera que sea el resultado de la elección en ese país, dijo Marcelo Ebrard, abanderado a la cámara alta y coordinador de la relación con las organizaciones en el exterior de la campaña presidencial.

En conferencia de prensa conjunta con los candidatos migrantes de Morena al Congreso, Ebrard anticipó que la propuesta irá acompañada de una partida en el presupuesto de 2025, así como de un plan de acción.

Esto es, dijo, qué hace cada quién, porque no sólo es una tarea de Relaciones Exteriores; casi todas las instancias tienen obligaciones respecto a los mexicanos en el exterior, como el INE, el Registro Civil, que depende de los 32 estados; por ejemplo en materia de operación del T-MEC en el campo laboral, qué pasa con los más de 11 millones sin derechos reconocidos. Read More

After years of moving around Long Beach, the local nonprofit Centro CHA seems poised to finally get a permanent home for its workforce development center — thanks to help from city officials.

The City Council this week approved providing state grant money directly to Centro CHA to cover costs to purchase a building for their operations.

Centro CHA is dedicated improving and advancing the Latino community in Long Beach, as well as anyone who seeks their services. Centro CHA has also played an integral role in improving social and economic development, according to the nonprofit’s website.

The city and Centro CHA began a partnership to create a workforce development center in 2019, entering into a lease, with a buy option, for a city-owned property at 1858 Atlantic Avenue.

The city and nonprofit worked to get state funding that could help support the center’s development. But throughout the years, planning and projected construction costs exceeded the budget — and the funding gap exceeded Centro CHA’s and the city’s ability to cover the rest of the costs, according to a staff report. todos los que ya anunciaron que quieren ser gobernador, aún sobre el propio fiscal de California. Read More

Before Chavez Ravine became the sun-dappled baseball field of the Los Angeles Dodgers,it was a different field of dreams for the homeowners who made a community there.

In the hills north of downtown Los Angeles, mostly lower-income Mexican Americans as well as a number of other non-white and immigrant families bought homes in the neighborhoods of La Loma, Bishop and Palo Verde. Barred by racial covenants and other discriminatory practices from living and buying elsewhere in the city, they turned the 315 acres of Chavez Ravine into a thriving, close-knit enclave with stores, churches and a school.

To L.A. city officials, the neighborhoods looked poor and blighted. (It would have helped if the city had provided better services.) Los Angeles Housing Authority official Frank Wilkinson came up with the idea to turn the area into a shimmering new public housing project that would be called Elysian Park Heights. In 1950, to make way for this vision, the city began a fraught, decade-long process to get people out of their homes by offering what were considered below-market cash offers or by taking properties through eminent-domain proceedings. Read More

Al asumir la coordinación del Programa Universitario de Derechos Humanos de la UNAM, Alfredo Sánchez Castañeda estimó que el tópico de las garantías inalienables es sensible en México, razón por la cual aplicará su experiencia y conocimiento en su nueva responsabilidad.

En el evento donde el coordinador de Humanidades de la UNAM, Miguel Armando López Leyva, le dio posesión del cargo, el nuevo funcionario comentó que entre los aportes al conocimiento que ha tenido hasta el momento el PUDH, está el desarrollo de los indicadores que evalúan la situación de los derechos humanos en nuestro país; los estudios sobre la relación entre las empresas y los derechos humanos; además del establecimiento de la Clínica Jurídica.

En la Sala del Consejo Técnico de la Coordinación de Humanidades, Armando López Leyva destacó que el nuevo coordinador tiene conocimiento y sensibilidad universitaria, y sabrá conducir adecuadamente el Programa e imprimirle un nuevo derrotero. Read More

A crime was committed by at least one former employee of the L.A. County Federation of Labor in connection with the recording of a racist conversation that rocked City Hall, according to L.A. County prosecutors.

But the prosecutors declined to file felony charges, and it will now be up to City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto’s office whether to charge the employees with misdemeanors, according to a memo made public late Friday.

In the memo, which explains their decision, prosecutors said Santos Leon and Karla Vasquez lived at a residence tied to an internet service provider address that was in turn linked to an email account associated with social media posts that highlighted the audio, according to the memo.

Leon and Vasquez are married and worked at the labor federation.

The covert recording captured racist and derogatory remarks during a 2021 conversation at the labor federation’s offices between City Council President Nury Martinez, Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León, and labor federation boss Ron Hererra. Read More