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Carta Abierta al Presidente Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador y Canciller Marcelo Ebrard
Por: Profesor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, Presidente y Fundador del Centro de Estudios California-Mexico ~ Junio 25, 2020
Con todo respeto les escribo para darles un consejo: No vengan a reunirse con el nefasto y racista presidente Donald Trump por ninguna razón o justificación.
Si su visita toma a cabo, quedará en la historia como el peor error diplomático de su gestión, y como el apoyo abierto a la reelección del presidente más despreciado en el mundo por su racismo y odio contra los Mexicanos, inmigrantes y mujeres.
Les anticipo que su visita para festejar el nuevo NAFTA (T-MEC) y los 1,000 respiradores que les vendió Estados Unidos a México, ustedes quedarán en la historia como el presidente Antonio López de Santa Anna de esta época y el Canciller Luis Videgaray, quien gestionó la visita del Tweethitler-in-chief a México para reunirse durante su campaña presidencial del 2016 con el presidente Enrique Peña Nieto... Leer artículo completo
Read the open letter in English here
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AMLO's historic mistake of meeting with Trump
By: Leon Krauze ~ The Washington Post ~ June 8, 2020
A few weeks ago, in a phone conversation with President Trump, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador offered to visit the White House in early summer, when the presidential campaign in the United States will be in full swing. “I told him we could meet either in June or July to personally thank him,” López Obrador tweeted. But what at first seemed like just a diplomatic nicety after the conclusion of trade negotiations became a serious prospect last week, when diplomatic missions in Washington and Mexico City confirmed both governments are considering the possibility of a trip. “They talked about a possible meeting [in the] summer in Washington, but it all depends on the public health situation,” said Christopher Landau, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
A high-level official in Mexico’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that the visit is indeed a possibility. If health conditions do not improve, I was told, the government of Mexico would seek a virtual meeting... Read full article here
- Trump will meet with AMLO to discuss trade agreement (Bloomberg) Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he will most likely meet with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump soon to promote his new trade deal... Read More
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Donald Trump says he will try again to deport young migrants, despite Supreme Court ruling
By: David Jackson and Christal Hayes ~ USA Today ~ June 19, 2020
President Donald Trump said Friday he will again try to end legal protections for young migrants at risk of deportation a day after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his first attempt.
"We will be submitting enhanced papers shortly," Trump said in a morning tweet.
With immigration as much a political issue as a legal one, it's unlikely Trump would be able to deport young migrants anytime soon. A new executive order would undoubtedly be challenged in court, while Congress has shown little enthusiasm for dealing with the issue in the wake of the new high court ruling.
In any case, lawsuits and legislation would take months and Trump faces re-election on Nov. 3.
On Thursday, a divided Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from ending the program that allows nearly 650,000 young, undocumented immigrants to live and work in the USA without fear... Read Full Article here
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Chief Justice John Roberts to Trump: Don't take the Supreme Court for granted
By: Linda Greenhouse ~ The New York Times ~ June 19, 2020
A week of decisions contained hidden and not-so-hidden messages from the court. Suppose there had been a leak from the Supreme Court early Thursday morning: The court was about to issue its long-awaited decision in the DACA case on the fate of nearly 700,000 young immigrants known as Dreamers; the vote was 5 to 4; and the majority opinion was by Chief Justice John Roberts. But the leaker didn’t know, or wouldn’t say, which way the case came out.
Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets.
Among the Dreamers and their supporters, hearts would have been in their throats. This was the chief justice, after all, who two years ago wrote the opinion upholding President Trump’s Muslim travel ban, and who five years before that wrote the opinion dismantling the Voting Rights Act. The vote in both was 5 to 4. Why wouldn’t the conservative chief justice defer to the president’s decision to end a program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, that his predecessor had instituted by executive action without even seeking Congress’s approval? Read Full Article Here
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40 Senators call upon Mitch McConnell to schedule a vote on the American Dream and Promise Act (HR-6)
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Trump administration aims to end Dreamers Immigration Program in six months
By: Andrea Shalal and Doina Chiacu ~ amNY ~ June 22, 2018
The Trump administration is determined to end the Dreamers program that protects immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children within the next six months, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security said on Sunday.
The Trump administration views the programs as unlawful and the U.S. Supreme Court – which last week ruled against the Trump administration’s plan to end it – did not disagree, acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf told NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
“At no point in that decision did they say that the program was lawful. They simply didn’t like the rationale and the procedures that we used,” Wolf said.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Trump’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy put in place by former President Barack Obama, which protects roughly 649,000 immigrants from deportation.
The decision upheld lower court decisions that found that Trump’s 2017 move to rescind the program was unlawful but does not prevent Trump from trying again to end the program... Read full article here
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Analysis Politico: Javier Solorzano entrevista a la cineasta Lidieth Arévalo del CMSC
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Padres "soñadores" del CMSC celebran la victoria prometiendo seguir en la lucha
Por: Efe ~ 18 de Junio, 2020
Sus gritos de felicidad este jueves no se escuchan tan alto como los de sus hijos pero las madres y padres de cientos de miles de "soñadores" hoy también celebran la decisión del Tribunal Supremo de mantener el programa DACA, al saber que la posibilidad de la deportación se aleja para sus muchachos aunque ellos aún estén en la mira.
"Aún estoy temblando de la emoción", dice a Efe Rossy, una madre de cuatro jóvenes "soñadores" que viven en Arizona y que prefiere mantener su apellido en el anonimato.
UN GRITO AHOGADO DE FELICIDAD
La mexicana, de 55 años, cuenta que la voz casi se le fue cuando escuchó la decisión del Tribunal Supremo de mantener vigente el programa de Acción Diferida Para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA), que protege de la deportación a unos 650.000 jóvenes indocumentados conocidos como "soñadores", entre los que se cuentan sus hijos Nelson, de 21 años, Alain, de 27, y Nestor de 28... Leer el articulo completo aqui
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Coming soon: Dreamers Study Abroad Program
The CMSC will reestablish our Dreamers Study Abroad Program from December 2020 to January 2021, when USCIS opens applications for DACA's educational Advance Parole.
Please watch the following documentary on our Winter 2015 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad.
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Supreme Court ruling relieves DACA students and energizes activism
By: Katherine Mangan ~ The Chronicle of Higher Education ~ June 18, 2020
As the clock was ticking toward the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous decision on Thursday to block the Trump administration from immediately ending a program that has been a lifeline for undocumented students like herself, Erika Landa was struggling to concentrate on her studies, and her grades were slipping.
Landa, who graduated last month from the University of San Francisco with a master's degree in migration studies, fully expected the court to support President Trump's efforts to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
So when the bombshell hit — that the court had found that the Trump administration had been “arbitrary and capricious” in seeking to rescind the program — she was elated.
“After all of the stress and frustration and anger, worrying I might be wasting my time in college, now I feel like my life can go on in the direction I’ve planned,” said Landa. She hopes to pursue a doctorate and to help other undocumented students succeed in college. Read Full Article Here
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Dreamers afirman que sigue su lucha por una reforma migratoria integral
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AILA's Report: Impact of the Supreme Court Decision Blocking DACA recission
By: AILA ~ June 19, 2020
On June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that DHS’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedures Act. This practice alert explains the immediate impact of that decision and thoughts about the next steps as we look ahead to the 2020 election.
Background
On September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration rescinded the DACA program in a memorandum issued by then-acting Secretary Elaine Duke. Following the rescission, multiple lawsuits were filed challenging the termination, and several courts issued injunctive orders directing the government to partially maintain the DACA program. For more information on these legal challenges and a thorough discussion of DACA application processing under the court orders, see our previous practice, Filing DACA Applications in the Wake of Federal Court Rulingsand our litigation tracking page, Documents Related to DHS v. Regents of the University of California. On June 28, 2019, the Supreme Court consolidated and granted certiorari in several of these cases. It heard oral argument on November 12, 2019... Read More
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The DACA ruling and California's Dreamers
By: Joseph Hayes and Laura Hill ~ Public Policy Institute of California ~ June 19, 2020
On June 16, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration cannot immediately end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that President Obama put in place in 2012. This ruling means that the nation’s nearly 650,000 DACA recipients—young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children before 2007—can continue to work legally, continue their studies, and remain shielded from deportation.
California is home to approximately 183,000 DACA recipients—the total shifts monthly as the two-year status expires and some recipients renew it. About 105,000 recipients are currently employed. An estimated 40,000 are students at a California Community College, California State University, or University of California campus... Read Full Article
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She's a nurse with DACA protections. The Coronavirus pandemic was a call to duty
By: Kurtis Lee and Vanessa Martinez ~ Los Angeles Times ~ June 18, 2020
When the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Phoenix, it felt like a call to duty for nurse Karen Garcia.
“I’ve never felt more needed at my job than right now,” she said.
She works 12-hour shifts at Valleywise Health Medical Center tending to the gravely ill, dozens of whom she has watched die, all the while knowing that her mask, gown, gloves and face shield are no guarantee that she won’t become infected and take the virus home to her family... Read Full Article Here
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A victory for Dreamers at the Supreme Court, for now
By: Carole Levine ~ NPQ ~ June 19, 2020
In November of 2019, NPQ painted this picture of young DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) participants outside the Supreme Court building after their hearing:
The plaintiffs held hands triumphantly on the steps of the US Supreme Court after their hearing on November 12, 2019. Not just a few, but a huge number of young people standing, smiling, and listening to the cheers of the many who stood outside the Court building with signs and banners to cheer them on.
On Thursday, those young people and 700,000 others really had something to cheer about. By the narrowest of margins, and with nothing totally secure (as the administration is free to file suit again), the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could not end the DACA program and deport these young people who were brought to the US as children by undocumented parents and have known no other home for most of their lives.... Read Full Article
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Immigrant teens left out when Trump ended DACA are in limbo after Supreme Court ruling
By: Julia Preston ~ The Marshall Project ~ June 19, 2020
The justices ruled the president illegally suspended the Dreamers program. But it's unclear if Trump will let more eligible applicants in.
Young immigrants across the country were elated after the Supreme Court’s favorable ruling Thursday for DACA, the program that temporarily shields about 650,000 undocumented people from deportation. But Maria Garcia is not cheering—at least not yet.
Garcia, who is 17 and just finished high school in Tempe, Arizona, has everything needed to be eligible for DACA. She was 4 years old when her Mexican parents sent her across the border with a smuggler—“some random lady,” as she remembers it... Read Full Article
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ETHNIC STUDIES:
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California moves toward requiring CSU students to take ethnic studies to graduate (EdSource)
California State University students may soon have a new course requirement for graduation — a 3-unit class in ethnic studies, aimed at broadening students’ awareness of nonwhite racial and ethnic groups... Read More
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An open letter to Governor Gavin Newsom on Ethnic Studies (Medium)
As one of the few tenured Latina/o faculty members at the California State University (CSU) — the largest public university system in the country — I’m requesting that you sign Assembly Bill 1460... Read More
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