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This City Is 78% Latino, and the Face of a New California
Santa Ana, in Orange County, has an all Latino City Council and stands in the vanguard of a California where Latinos have more influence in everyday life... [Image: A mural ... -
How Republicans Lost Their Best Shot at the Hispanic Vote
Three years ago, the G.O.P.-led House was close to reaching a compromise on immigration — one that might have neutralized the issue for the 2016 election. This is the inside ... -
CLASS OF 2016 SPOTLIGHT: SANDRA LOPEZ
Long Beach, May 16,2016 http://web.csulb.edu/newsroom/class-of-2016-spotlight-sandra-lopez Sandra Lopez would like to be President of the United States someday, but as an undocumented immigrant born in Guadalajara, Mexico, she knows that’s impossible—at ... -
What Hillary Clinton Can Do To Show that Immigrant Families Matter
Peter Schey pschey@centerforhumanrights.org, ~ May 1, 2016 http://centerforhumanrights.org/PDFs/5-1-16_How_Hillary_Clinton_Can_Show_Immigrant_Families_Matter.pdf Bill Clinton dealt a major setback to rational immigration policy in 1996 when he signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility ... -
Who was Marco Antonio Firebaugh and why we should honor him?
By Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos and Mayra Castro Almost ten years since the lamented passing of Marco Antonio Firebaugh at the age of 39, he is being timely remembered by ... -
How Mexican immigrants ended 'separate but equal' in California
By Philippa Strum, L.A. Times ~ March 2, 2016 http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0302-strum-mendez-case-20160302-story.html In the coverage of the 2016 election cycle, you'll hear this time and again: Latinos — immigrants and their families ... -
Obama Builds upon his Legacy: Deporting Women and Children to Death
By: Charles Davis, TeleSur ~ January 13, 2016 http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Obama-Builds-a-Legacy-Deporting-Women-and-Children-to-Death-20160113-0011.html In his last address to Congress, the U.S. president barely mentioned immigration, showing he’s now content to enforce the status quo. ... -
Against the odds, chemistry grad finds a path out of poverty
By Nicole Freeling, UC Newsroom ~ Thursday, June 11, 2015 http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/against-odds-chemistry-grad-finds-path-out-poverty By the time he was 6, Rene Amel Peralta was already working full time in construction and odds jobs ... -
Bill authorizing schools to teach about 'Braceros' signed into law
From The Sacramento Bee Legislation authorizing California's junior high and high schools to teach students about the Bracero guest worker program from decades past was signed into law today by ...