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Judge rules “illegal” appointment of Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolfe invalidates new policies for DACA
By: Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post – November 15, 2020
A federal judge in New York has ruled that acting homeland security secretary Chad Wolf lacked the authority to limit the work permits of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children because his appointment to the top position in the department did not appear to be lawful.
U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis — one of the first judges to block President Trump from phasing out the work permits the government issues via the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA — said in an unusual Saturday ruling that the “plain text” of the department’s order of succession showed that Wolf’s ascension to acting secretary did not follow established law and was part of several hastily crafted administration moves designed to get people into the top DHS position outside of standard procedures. As a result, Garaufis said, Wolf’s memo in July limiting the validity of the DACA permits from two years to one year “was not an exercise of legal authority”... Read Full Article
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to advocate for the California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program
The office of Senator and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has agreed to advocate for the expedited approval of all I-131 Advance Parole applications from Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program participants.
The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) has launched a new fund drive initiative from November 1 to December 31, 2020 to solicit sponsors and grants in support of the Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program, which will allow 85 DACA recipients to travel to Mexico with DACA’s Advance Parole permit, immerse in a unique U.S.-Mexico national security study abroad program, and reconnect with their family and cultural roots.
All participants have a pending Advance Parole (I-131) application since August 31, 2020, subject to USCIS approval and the CMSC team is working diplomatically with Mexico’s government and the U.S. Homeland Security Administration to secure authorization for all 85 participants.
But we need to raise about $50,000 to cover the increased costs of the program and ensure the safety of all participants while traveling in Mexico during the pandemic. The additional costs are related to increased expenses due doubling the cost for single-room hotel accommodations and all transportation costs due to social-distancing, COVID-19 pre- and post-testing, and 24/7 medical attention and prevention protocols.
Thus, we urge our community, Dreamers’ supporters, corporate and business sponsors, community and church groups, and academic colleagues to help us raise $50,000 by the end of the year with donations of any amount, or by sponsoring at least one Dreamer participant at $500 each.
MAKE YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TODAY!
DONATE HERE
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ADVANCE PAROLE VOICES
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Please watch the following video from our Advance Parole Voices series, featuring current participants of our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program.
MARIA, a legal assistant and a United We Dream voter lead from Washington State, is one of 85 DACA recipients who have applied for an Advance Parole travel permit to participate in the CMD Winter 2020 Dreamers Study Abroad Program. She was born in Michoacán, México and wants to reconnect with her grandparents to whom she promised she would return with an education that would make them proud. She only has one grandparent left alive, and this is her only chance to meet them again.
WATCH VIDEO
Please share these videos and donate to our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program Fund Drive Initiative.
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Biden’s leadership will enhance U.S. relations with Mexico and Canada
By: Earl Anthony Wayne, The Hill ~ Nov. 12, 2020
A Biden administration can be expected to put U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada relations back into a strategic framework for solving problems and strengthening long-term cooperation. This would include pursuing a more consistent approach to Mexico and Canada, less driven by individual issues and tradeoffs, and more concerned with achieving progress across a range of key issues; stretching from trade, to public security, to economic competitiveness, to the environment.
At the highest level, there will be a change of tone and attitude, treating both neighboring countries with respect and seeking to forge agreement on a set of shared objectives bilaterally, as well as across the continent. We can expect more regular consultations among leaders and at ministerial levels. U.S. proposals for new or strengthened bilateral mechanisms to better achieve and monitor progress on cooperation and problem-solving are likely. Similarly, expect a return to concern about continent-wide problems that are key to all three nations’ future, as was previously seen in summits of the leaders from the U.S., Canada and Mexico... Read Full Article
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PRIMERA CÁTEDRA DE ESTUDIOS CHICANOS Y LA DIÁSPORA MEXICANA:
“El Impacto Histórico De La Revolución Mexicana Para El Pueblo Mexicano En Estados Unidos”
El viernes 20 de Noviembre de 2020 a partir de las 5 PM hora Pacífico (PST), el Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez, Profesor Emérito y Líder Nacional del Movimiento Chicano, impartirá la primera Cátedra del Programa de Estudios Chicanos y la Diáspora Mexicana del Centro de Estudios California-México (CMSC).
El Dr. Gutiérrez presentará sobre "El impacto Histórico de la Revolución Mexicana para el Pueblo Mexicano en Estados Unidos", profundizando en la historia e impacto económico y sociocultural de los 40 millones de Mexicanos en Estados Unidos.
LA PRESENTACIÓN SE TRANSMITIRÁ EN VIVO
Para más información, favor de contactar al Profesor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, Presidente del CMSC: +1 (562) 430-5541 o email: armando@calmexcenter.org
Please click on the button below on Friday at 5pm to watch the live presentation.
FACEBOOK EVENT
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Mexico emerging as a foreign policy challenge for Biden
BY: RAFAEL BERNAL , THE HILL – NOV. 9, 2020
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has refused to recognize the results of the U.S. presidential election, foreshadowing an early foreign policy challenge for President-elect Joe Biden.
López Obrador, also known by his initials AMLO, said Monday his government will wait for official certification of election results before congratulating a winner, despite the fact that Mexican governments have historically recognized projected election winners in the United States.
"Joe Biden lawfully and clearly won this election. Every world leader should acknowledge this fact, including the president of our most important neighbor and ally, Mexico," said former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), a 2020 Democratic presidential primary contender whose name has been floated as a potential ambassador to Mexico in the Biden administration... Read Full Article
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“In Memory of the Legendary Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones: Chicano Scholar, Activist and Poet”
By Álvaro Huerta, Ph.D., Latino Rebels ~ November 13, 2020
Image: “Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones,” oil on canvas, Salomón Huerta (2018)
Tuesday, November 11, 2020—marks one of the saddest days of my life. On this day, we—the Mexican people on both sides of la frontera and our allies—lost a legend: the one and only, Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones (JGQ).
We lost one of the greatest intellectuals not only in the Americas, but also the world. The fact that JGQ was born a Mexican in el sur (Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico) and died a proud Mexican/Chicano in el norte (Los Angeles, California) in a time when the Mexican continues to be otherized, marginalized and pejoratized serves as a grim reminder of this great loss for la raza... Read Full Article
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In commemoration of Dr. Joe White’s Legacy:
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Please watch Dr. Joseph L. White Legacy Inaugural Lecture on Nov. 25, 2019 (video above). And also watch his last speech at EOP 50th Anniversary celebrated at CSULB on Nov. 9, 2016.
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The significance of the Latino vote in 2020 and a domestic assessment of the U.S. elections
By Prof. Gonzalo Santos, Exclusive Op-Ed for El Magonista – Nov. 13, 2020
In this commentary, I will not assess the 2020 U.S. elections in terms of the impact it will have internationally but focus on the domestic impact. I begin with the role of Latinos in the elections. Recently, the L.A. Times published an article on why Latinos in the Rio Grande Valley disproportionally voted for Trump (here), giving the false impression that such outcome characterized a national Latino trend. The L.A. Times is emblematic of the national press’s sudden discovery of, and puzzlement over, the diverse Latino electorate.
Against an avalanche of flawed and alarmist articles, the fact remains that in 2020 most Latinos of Mexican-origin, Central Americans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans - who together added up to over 83% of Latinos in 2018 - did not vote for Trump, by a large margin; from the lowest pro-Trump vote rate of 23% among Mexican-origin, to 26% among Puerto Ricans, and 29% among Central Americans. The Cubans (and probably the Venezuelans and Nicaraguans) indeed went for Trump 52% but they represent a small – if overly reported – portion of the Latino electorate... Read Full Article
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AMLO califica el trabajo de mexicanos en Estados Unidos como “un acto de heroísmo”
Por: César Reyes , La Opinión – 09 de Noviembre 2020
El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador hizo un reconocimiento a los migrantes mexicanos que se ganan la vida trabajando en los Estados Unidos.
“Extraordinaria, es mucho lo que le están dando al País los migrantes, en una circunstancia muy triste porque tuvieron que abandonar el País por falta de oportunidades y ahora, después de no tener en su país condiciones para progresar, salir adelante, ahora que pueden tener trabajo en Estados Unidos y ahorrar, están mandando apoyos a sus familiares, es un acto de heroísmo“, señaló el presidente en su conferencia mañanera.
López Obrador consideró que el mejor reconocimiento que se le puede hacer a los connacionales, más que esculturas y monumentos, es mejorar cada vez más la atención y protección que se les brinda a través de la red consular... Read Full Article
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Los movimientos de inmigrantes: motor del cambio social en Estados Unidos
Por Andrés Fábregas Puig, Chiapas Paralelo, 15 de noviembre, 2020
En varios artículos de opinión publicados en la prensa norteamericana, se dice que el “trumpismo llegó para quedarse”, refiriéndose a las convicciones explicitadas de Donald Trump: racismo, supremacía blanca, actitud imperialista, desprecio hacia las minorías de inmigrantes, fascismo rampante, en una palabra. Varios de esos artículos contienen la afirmación de que le costará mucho al pueblo norteamericano deshacerse de semejantes convicciones, apreciadas como “valores culturales” del “american way of life” (el modo americano de vivir). Sin embargo, una mirada, así sea breve, a la historia de los Estados Unidos, nos lleva a concluir que el llamado “trumpismo” está vigente, no desde la llegada de Donald Trump al poder, sino en los orígenes mismos de ese país. Sin explorar más los orígenes de los Estados Unidos, situémonos en el momento en que llegan a las costas hoy norteamericanas, los llamados “peregrinos”.... Leer Artículo Completo
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LATEST NEWS
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Economies, Jobs, and International Migration in the Age of COVID-19 (Migration Policy Institute)
The COVID-19 pandemic’s immediate costs, measured in lives lost and damaged, have been appalling and continue to rise. In addition, its effects on individuals’ livelihoods and economies around... Read More
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Federal judge rules acting DHS Secretary illegally appointed (NBC News)
A federal judge in New York City on Saturday said Chad Wolf has not been acting lawfully as the chief of Homeland Security and that, as such, his suspension of protections for a class of migrants brought to the United States illegally as children... Read More
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Biden plans sweeping reversal of Trump’s immigration policies (CBS News)
While the COVID-19 public health crisis and its impact on the U.S. economy will preoccupy President-elect Joe Biden during his first weeks in office, the incoming Democratic administration is also expected to quickly start dismantling President Trump's immigration agenda... Read More
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Federal judge says new DACA rules are invalid (CNN)
Chad Wolf was not legally serving as acting Homeland Security secretary when he signed rules limiting applications and renewals for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and those rules are now invalid, a federal judge ruled Saturday... Read More
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The Mayas built the first water filtration system in the Americas (Science Magazine)
The Maya city of Tikal is famous for its soaring palaces and temples. But something far more humble kept Tikal functioning: its water filtration system, the earliest known of its kind. Researchers recently discovered a volcanic mineral that captures microbes and heavy metals in one of Tikal’s largest reservoirs. Because the material is not found nearby, the finding suggests the presence of a deliberate filter... Read More
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