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Vice President Kamala Harris talks to the press during her visit to El Paso, Texas, and the U.S.-Mexico border on June 25. | Associated Press
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By Jean Guerrero - LA Times | Dec. 10, 2021
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President Biden is making the same mistake President Obama made in his first term: catering to xenophobes while performing compassion toward immigrants.
The strategy lays out the red carpet for Trumpism 2.0.
Either Democrats dramatically reinvent the immigration debate in defense of multiracial democracy, or they reinforce white paranoia and accelerate our descent into white nationalism. They can’t have it both ways.
Obama tried and failed. By ramping up deportations to historic levels while claiming he was focused on felons, he conflated immigration with criminality in the average mind. Nativists then used his decision not to deport Dreamers — people brought to the U.S. as children — to paint him as an open-borders president... READ MORE
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Dear Ms. Guerrero, December 10, 2021
I am what you might call an activist professor at CSU-Bakersfield, who has taught the Sociology of Immigration and participated in the modern immigration rights movement since it began in 1994.
I want to commend you for your excellent column today in the LA Times. You hit three nails in the head, so to speak, with clarity, eloquence, and great insight:
1. The Dems – whom I never stop criticizing for their infuriating timidity & treacherous duplicity – keep taking the bait of falling for the anti-immigrant narrative of the Republicans, as you point out... READ MORE
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By Marc Caputo and Sabrina Rodriguez - POLITICO | Dec. 6, 2021
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As Democrats seek to reach out to Latino voters in a more gender-neutral way, they’ve increasingly begun using the word Latinx, a term that first began to get traction among academics and activists on the left.
But that very effort could be counterproductive in courting those of Latin American descent, according to a new nationwide poll of Hispanic voters.
Only 2 percent of those polled refer to themselves as Latinx, while 68 percent call themselves “Hispanic” and 21 percent favored “Latino” or “Latina” to describe their ethnic background, according to the survey from Bendixen & Amandi International, a top Democratic firm specializing in Latino outreach.
More problematic for Democrats: 40 percent said Latinx bothers or offends them to some degree and 30 percent said they would be less likely to support a politician or organization that uses the term... READ MORE
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By Suzanne Gamboa - NBC News | Dec. 9, 2021
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The Action By The LULAC Adds To The Debate Over A Term Embraced By Younger Latinos And Those Seeking More Inclusive, Gender-Neutral Language.
Domingo García, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's oldest Latino civil rights organization, has instructed staff and board members to drop the word "Latinx" from the group's official communications.
García sent the directive out in an email Wednesday night, addressed to Sindy Benavides, the league's CEO; David Cruz, its communications director; and the LULAC board.
"Let's stop using Latinx in all official communications," García said, adding that it's "very unliked" by almost all Latinos... READ MORE
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By Nicole Prchal and Trinh Truong
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In 2012, the Obama administration created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to protect certain young undocumented immigrants from deportation. Through DACA—in which applicants receive a temporary stay of deportation and work authorization—more than 825,000 people who arrived in the United States as young children were able to access more stability in their lives. DACA has enabled recipients to pursue higher education, become homeowners, and earn higher wages. And, alongside that, with higher earnings comes more tax revenue and economic contributions that are felt in their communities and nationwide.
But these protections are not permanent: They could be stripped away at any moment. Even as the Supreme Court ruled last year that the Trump administration’s attempt to end the program was illegal, DACA is still under threat. In July, a federal judge in Texas ruled DACA itself unlawful and blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from enrolling new applicants into the program, though it stayed the decision for current DACA recipients who, for now, are able to continue to renew their protections... READ MORE
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The Monterey Bay Chapter of the UNA-USA & The Baha'i Faith Communities of Monterey County Celebrated the 2021 Human Rights Day, on December 11. Luz Vazquez-Ramos, Operations Director of the California-Mexico Studies Center, discussed her unique heritage-seeking study abroad program for DACA students that creates a path to secure their lawful residency.
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By Alberto Pradilla - Washington Post Opinion | December 7, 2021
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With the reactivation of the immigration program "Stay in Mexico", Joe Biden's US government recovers one of the cruelest anti-immigrant policies of its predecessor, Donald Trump. From Monday, December 6, asylum seekers arriving at the southern border of the United States are returned to dangerous cities on the Mexican border, where they must wait for their appointment with a judge while they are exposed to kidnappings and extortion. There is hardly any clarity about the process, but it seems that it will begin in Ciudad Juárez and then extend to Tijuana, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros... READ MORE
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by Jesus Garcia - La Opinion | Dec. 7, 2021
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Mexican migrants will break an 18-year record in sending remittances, according to a report by the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies; however, experts highlight that the purchasing power with that money was lower, because in 2020 the dollar had a higher price in Mexico compared to 2021.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mexican migrant community has achieved a significant job recovery, which has resulted in an increase in the shipment of remittances to Mexico that in 2021 will impose a record shipments, the highest recorded in 18 years.
In addition to the job opportunities taken advantage of by Mexicans in the United States, the aid funds granted by the federal governments to legal migrants and some states for undocumented people have contributed to improving income and, therefore, sending resources to Mexico, highlights a report by the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies, the Forum of Remittances of Latin America and the Caribbean and Remittances... READ MORE
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By ALEJANDRA REYES-VELARDE | Dec. 9, 2021
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Leer En Español
Every morning, Sergio Ayala combed his daughters’ hair into twin braids, dropped them off at school and headed to work.
He loved his job as a field supervisor at his brother-in-law’s pest control company. But he wanted to own a business and was studying to become a barber. He hoped to start a college savings fund for his three girls and toddler son.
In January, that dream was cut short. His family believes he contracted the coronavirus while practicing his barbering skills in people’s homes. Ayala died from COVID-19 at age 37. His partner, Lizeth Sanchez, worries she won’t be able to fill his shoes.“I think, oh, God, what if I can’t afford to give them the education their dad wanted for them?” Sanchez said. “What if I can only afford education for one of them? It scares me.” READ MORE
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REPORT: COLORISM IN THE LATINO COMMUNITY
Most Latinos In The US Believe That Having A Dark Skin Color Affects Their Possibilities, According To A Study. Special interview with CMSC founder Professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos.
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By Christine Chung - New York Times | Published Dec. 12, 2021
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Vicente Fernández, the powerful tenor whose songs of love, loss and patriotism inspired by life in rural Mexico endeared him to generations of fans as “El Rey,” the king of traditional ranchera music, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
His death was announced in a post on his official Instagram account, which did not give a cause or say where he died. He had been hospitalized for months after a spinal injury he sustained in August, according to previous posts from the account.
Accompanied by his mariachi band, Mr. Fernández brought ranchera music, which emerged from the ranches of Mexico in the 19th century, to the rest of Latin America and beyond. In his signature charro outfit and intricately embroidered sombrero, a celebration of the genre’s countryside origins, he performed at some of the largest venues in the world... READ MORE
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By CNS Author | December 13, 2021 - City News Service for KTTV-Fox 11 LA
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HOLLYWOOD - A man was in custody Monday for allegedly firing at a crowd near the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where fans had gathered to remember 81-year-old performer Vicente Fernández, who died Sunday morning in Mexico.
The shots were fired from an apartment building across the street from the memorial in the 6200 block of Hollywood Boulevard and were reported around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Andrew Dineen at the Hollywood Station.
Joseph Dietrich, 35, was booked on suspicion of "shooting into an inhabited dwelling," according to the LAPD. He was being held on $500,000 bail, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reported.
Witnesses told reporters they heard four or five shots fired from an apartment building at 6201 Hollywood Blvd., east of Vine Street, Dineen said.
The witnesses also said they saw a person's arm holding a handgun from an upper story window in the apartment building across the street from the memorial. One bullet hit a glass door on that side of the street, according to multiple media reports... READ MORE
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by Marc Hershberg | Forbes
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Barry and Fran Weissler, the producers of Chicago and Waitress, are now developing a musical adaptation of the acclaimed independent film Real Women Have Curves. Sergio Trujillo, who became the first Hispanic recipient of the Tony Award for Best Choreography for his work on Ain’t Too Proud, has been tapped to direct the show.
“When I won my Tony Award in 2019,” Trujillo recalled in recent interview, “I made a personal contract with myself that I was going to be on the frontlines to ensure that stories about the Latino culture are being told.” “I [was] given a megaphone,” he said, and the opportunity to create a musical based on the movie piqued his interest.
Based on a 1987 play by Josefina Lopez with the same name, the 2002 film tells the story of a full-figured Mexican-American teenager struggling to choose between living her own life and living the life that her immigrant parents want her to live. Touching on topics like immigration, body positivity, and feminism, Real Women Have Curves has been described as “one of the most influential movies of the 2000’s.” It won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and was added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry... READ MORE
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