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By Marianne Levine, Sarah Ferris and Laura Barron-Lopez | POLITICO
MAY 1, 2022 | Photo by John Moore
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There’s now “zero” chance for a comprehensive bill this Congress, one key senator said. But the party has some smaller ideas to fall back on.
The Democratic Party is consumed by border politics right now — just not the kind it wanted to tackle when it claimed Congress and the White House. And the prospects of comprehensive immigration reform this year?
“Zero,” said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a lead sponsor of President Joe Biden’s signature immigration bill.
The current intraparty schism over the Biden administration’s decision to end a pandemic-era deportation policy is dominating legislative debate on the Hill and reverberating in the nation’s toughest battleground races. It’s also a painful reminder that the Democratic dream of comprehensive immigration reform is all but dead for the foreseeable future, with ultra-slim majorities and a GOP that views broader reform as a nonstarter without addressing a rise in border crossings.
Less than a year ago, the Democratic Party was focused on using its narrow window of complete control in Washington to push through legislation on a pathway to legal status for certain undocumented immigrants, a goal some still hold out hope for. Biden even showcased his commitment to immigration reform by making it the first proposal his new White House sent to the Hill.
But the current deportation muddle has distracted the Capitol — and left some immigration advocates lamenting that the interruption to fixing a broken system will have repercussions for Democrats in the midterms.
“It’s a red herring. It’s not even an issue of immigration, but all the energy is being put there,” said Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), who’s fervently pushed for reform and even threatened to tank Biden’s party-line domestic policy package if it didn’t address immigration.
If Democrats deliver nothing on the issue after two years of controlling both the White House and Congress, Correa said, he fears for their fate... READ MORE
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DEMOCRATS' SELF-INFLICTED PARALYSIS ON IMMIGRATION REFORM - A MAY DAY CALL TO ACTION!
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By Gonzalo Santos, May Day, 2022
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Long forecast here, the Dems are showing, once again, lacking the will, fortitude (cojones), and determination to deliver on their campaign promises to immigrant-dense ethnic communities like Latinos and Asian Americans. This is not an isolated blotch on their otherwise effectiveness: the same is true for promises made - and not delivered - to the labor, climate change, women, and the Black Lives Matter movements. The time of reckoning this November is fast approaching.
The Dems lack a counter-narrative to the cynical exploitation, egregious callousness, and deliberate misrepresentation of all immigration issues, especially border matters. Their solution is to duck and hide from the issue –which will not go away either on the ground or in Washington.
This is how the road for the recapture of power by the Trumpist GOP is been paved by the mushy liberal Dems. The left as a whole - in Congress and outside - is practically M.I.A.
The chaos grows, the Gordian Knot of migration in North America gets tighter and more entangles. The contradictions for regional integration intensify. And the region as a whole will fall behind in the world, incapable of solving its social problems and economic demands, fragmented by asymmetrical relations, a bankrupt development model, and political polarization... READ MORE
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By Yvonne Condes | KCET | MAY 3, 2022 | Photo courtesy of LA Pubic Library
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In the spring of 1970, Dr. David Hayes-Bautista didn't know much about Cinco de Mayo other than the day commemorated the Mexican Battle of Puebla against the French. To him and his fellow UC Berkeley classmates he had gathered with to celebrate, Cinco de Mayo symbolized a David vs. Goliath myth about a small army overtaking its mighty invader. He assumed the holiday originated in Mexico, but it wasn't until decades later after combing through Spanish language newspapers that Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture (CESLAC) director, discovered the true origins of one of the United States' biggest party holidays.
Cinco de Mayo has long been a cringe-worthy event of cultural appropriation. Sometimes called "Drinko de Mayo" where non-Mexican people can be found donning a sombrero and speaking with a Spanish accent while downing a margarita, the date is often confused with Mexican Independence Day. Many Latinos know that the holiday is about the 1862 Battle and that it's not celebrated in Mexico, but it's widely believed to have been created by Anglos in the late 20th century. In reality, celebrating Cinco de Mayo started right here in California by Mexican Americans 160 years ago... READ MORE
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Story and Photo by Jorge Luis Macias | La Opinion | MAY 2, 2022
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Thousands of immigrants march on May 1 in LA to call for immigration reform from President Biden and the U.S. Congress
May 1 was a holiday for immigrants and essential workers in Los Angeles; both continued their fight against racism, against those who oppose the legalization of undocumented people in the United States and are against union democracy for all.
A large contingent of at least 10,000 participants attended at the historic corner of Broadway Street and Olympic Boulevard, where they defied warm temperatures and marched together to Gran Park, in front of the Los Angeles mayor's office.
"We call on President [Joe Biden] to declare a general pardon for all undocumented workers, a first step in clearing the way to citizenship and legalization," asked Miguel López, a member of the Chicano Moratorium Committee of 1970.
A general pardon of the president is a power that only Biden controls and that would guarantee the rights of undocumented immigrants to... READ MORE
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By Courtney Subramanian | Los Angeles Times | APR. 30, 2022 |
Photo by Associated Press
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Pressure is mounting over White House plan to end Title 42 expulsion authority.
WASHINGTON — President Biden held talks Friday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a looming deadline to lift COVID-related restrictions at the U.S. southern border magnified concerns over the administration’s immigration policies and an increase in illegal border crossings.
The conversation — which lasted 52 minutes and touched on cooperation over migration, energy, security and economic growth — comes at the end of a tough week for the White House.
The administration faces mounting criticism over its plans to end so-called Title 42 authority, a public health order that allows border agents to expel asylum-seekers to Mexico. The policy was enacted during the Trump administration to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The Biden administration says the use of Title 42 was never intended to be permanent, and the policy is being eased along with other pandemic-related restrictions... READ MORE
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By Gardenia Mendoza | La Opinion | MAY 2, 2022 | Photo by Reforma Agency
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The Electoral Reform proposal, sent by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to Congress, opens the door for more Mexican migrants to vote from outside the country.
MEXICO.- An Electoral Reform is being cooked in this country. And to the debate on the disappearance of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the elimination of multi-member legislators, two requests from Mexicans abroad are added:
The right of migrants to vote for other representatives, not only for the President of the Republic, some governors and deputies as well as the opportunity for them to be candidates even if they do not live in national territory.
"The political rights of migrants are recognized by the Court, but we need that recognition to be reflected in the laws, that it is not required to go up to the Court to fight what is their right," warned Senator José Narro Céspedes, one of the congressmen who currently echo... READ MORE | LEER EN ESPANOL
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By Carolina A. Miranda | Los Angeles Times | MAY 3, 2022 | Photo from Galeria de Arte Mexicano
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DENVER — Though he may be renowned for lobbing vulgar insults, the barb that Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva directed at Supervisor Hilda Solis in July 2020 left even longtime observers stunned. Solís had made comments critical of systemic racism by police toward people of color. “Are you trying,” Villanueva said in a Facebook post addressing Solis in one of his regular online broadcasts, “to earn the title of a La Malinche?”
The comment left many people — including me — ice cold, since to deploy Malinche’s name as an insult is to parrot a gross misogynist trope.
Malinche, the Indigenous girl who served as interpreter to Hernán Cortés in the early days of the Spanish invasion of Mexico — and who was, for all intents and purposes, enslaved by him — has long been deployed as a symbol of betrayal in Mexico. Indeed, she’s been cited as the figure on whom responsibility for the fall of the Aztec empire is often heaped. Never mind that colonization occurred as part of a confluence of factors that included conflict between warring city-states and the unchecked spread of European diseases. Centuries out, Malinche carries the blame... READ MORE
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