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Undocumented immigrants can't vote, but they're still mobilizing others
By: NATASHA PIÑON, Mashable – OCT 19, 2020
The U.S. Presidential election is less than three weeks away. Around the country, volunteers are mobilizing voters through get out the vote efforts in an election year unlike any other.
For undocumented immigrants, including those with DACA, mobilization looks a little different. The election has major stakes, but because of their immigration statuses, they won't be able to cast ballots of their own.
"My livelihood is on the line, not just what could happen in the next four years but what could happen next month," explains Elena, an undocumented college student. "Will I be allowed to stay here? Will I be allowed to continue school? What will my family do?"
Those who spoke to Mashable didn't endorse particular candidates, but noted the stark contrast between the immigration platforms of the two presidential candidates, and the impact those policies would have for DACA recipients and other undocumented immigrants. President Donald Trump, for example, made ending DACA part of his pledge as a candidate in 2016... Read Full Article
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Coronavirus causing historic decimation of the Latino community
BY Luis Noe-Bustamante, Abby Budiman and Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Research Center – Jan. 31, 2020
A global health expert said Wednesday that the coronavirus is causing "the historic decimation" of the Latino community, ravaging generations of loved ones in Hispanic families.
Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, spoke at a virtual Congressional Hispanic Caucus briefing Wednesday, when he read off descriptions of people who died on Aug. 13 in Houston alone.
“Hispanic male, Hispanic male, Hispanic male, black male, Hispanic male, black male, Hispanic male, Hispanic female, black female, black male, Hispanic, Hispanic, Hispanic, Hispanic, Hispanic, Hispanic” Hotez said, adding that many are people in their 40s, 50s and 60s... Read Full Article
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Where Latinos have have the most eligible voters in the 2020 election
BY Luis Noe-Bustamante, Abby Budiman and Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Research Center – Jan. 31, 2020
This year, Latinos are expected for the first time to be the nation’s largest racial or ethnic minority in a U.S. presidential election, with a record 32 million projected to be eligible to vote. They will account for 13.3% of all eligible voters. However, the number of Latino eligible voters is still far below the 60 million Latinos who live in the country. (Explore our interactive maps and tables to see Latino eligible voters by state and congressional district.)
Latino eligible voters – U.S. citizens ages 18 and older – could play a larger role in this year’s Democratic Party primary season. A majority (56%) live in states that will hold Democratic primaries and caucuses on or before Super Tuesday (March 3), up from 29% in 2016. Nationally, 62% of Latino registered voters identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party while 34% say the same about the Republican Party... Read Full Article
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AOC's Squad Charges Trump with Border Crimes
By LAURENCE DARMIENTO, LOS ANGELES TIMES – OCT. 16, 2020
he four first-term progressive congresswomen collectively called the Squad led a letter Friday calling for independent international investigation of “recent, ongoing, and credible allegations of egregious human rights abuses by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), its components, and its private contractors.”
“This administration has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for the lives of our immigrant neighbors, while our institutions of government have done little to hold it accountable—that must change. It’s time we had a truly independent, external, and impartial investigation into these alleged human rights abuses by DHS, and I am proud to partner with my sisters in service in leading this call,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said in a statement... Read Full Article
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Lawyers say they can't find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by Trump administration
By Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff, NBC News – October 20, 2020
WASHINGTON — Lawyers appointed by a federal judge to identify migrant families who were separated by the Trump administration say that they have yet to track down the parents of 545 children and that about two-thirds of those parents were deported to Central America without their children, according to a filing Tuesday from the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Trump administration instituted a "zero tolerance" policy in 2018 that separated migrant children and parents at the southern U.S. border. The administration later confirmed that it had actually begun separating families in 2017 along some parts of the border under a pilot program. The ACLU and other pro-bono law firms were tasked with finding the members of families separated during the pilot program... Read Full Article
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The CMSC is launching a new fundrive 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 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 $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 doubling the cost for single-room hotel accommodations, all transportation costs, 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, readers, and colleagues to help us raise $50,000 by the end of the year with donations of any amount, or to sponsor one participant at $500 each.
MAKE YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TODAY!
[ DONATE HERE ]
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ADVANCE PAROLE VOICES
Please watch the following two videos from our Advance Parole Voices video series, featuring current participants of our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program.
MARIA, a Payroll Administrator from Chicago, is one of the 85 DACA recipients participating in the Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program. She shares why traveling to Mexico would be an experience of a lifetime. She hopes to see a sister she has not seen since her childhood, wants to meet her nieces, and see her aging father. She also wants to do Ethnographic research on the motives and conditions that propelled her parents to risk their lives in search for a better future. Furthermore, she wants to learn what Mexico is doing to protect their citizens to prevent them from risking their lives. She is looking for opportunities to give back and pay-it-forward.
MANUEL, an Anesthesia Technologist from Los Angeles, came to the U.S. with his family when he was 10 years old, and 4 years, his mother and family had to go back to Mexico to take care of his dying grandfather. He has not seen his family ever since. And with this unique study abroad program, he wants to explore his heritage in Mexico, learn about important U.S.-Mexico national security issues and partnerships, but also, he hopes to reconnect with his mom before it’s too late. He urges U.S. Rep. Lucille Allard-Roybal to advocate for the approval of his Advance Parole application case as a constituent, but also for the other 84 participants.
Please share these videos and donate to our National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole.
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LATEST NEWS
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Ocaso de la 4T y hegemonía de la Era Ebrard (El Magonista)
La elección de Mario Delgado a la presidencia de Morena representa el principio del fin de la 4T y la consolidación del poder político de Marcelo Ebrard, o mejor dicho, de la Era Ebrard. De ahí que Porfirio Muñoz Ledo no haya tenido oportunidad alguna de liderar Morena. Como veremos más adelante, se trataba de una elección de Estado... Leer Más
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CSU graduation rates continue to climb, but equity gaps continue (Los Angeles Times)
Halfway through a 10-year initiative to increase the share of students who graduate, the nation’s largest public university continues to make steady progress on improving overall graduation rates but remains stymied by stubborn equity gaps and faces the threat of backsliding amid state budget cuts and the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced almost all instruction online... Read More
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Bad policies are turning colleges into COVID-19 hotbeds (Los Angeles Times)
This is just one example of how colleges have become the focal point of rising infection rates this fall. And though campus outbreaks have resulted in only a couple of deaths so far, there are signs of infections spreading through small college towns — and fears about what will happen when students return home for the holidays... Read More
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Cienfuegos: símbolo de la desconfianza de EEUU hacia México (Latino California)
Lo que más llama la atención de la captura en Los Ángeles del exsecretario de la Defensa Nacional, Salvador Cienfuegos, acusado por la DEA de narcotráfico y lavado de dinero, es que la acción se produjo de manera unilateral, sin la colaboración ni el conocimiento del gobierno mexicano, lo que pone en entredicho la supuesta buena relación que éste tiene con la Casa Blanca... Leer Más
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The CMSC is in dire need of funding support !!!
Please support the CMSC's 2020 projects, initiatives, and campaigns, including our advocacy to provide and facilitate our Winter 2020 Dreamers Study Abroad Program, Immigrants' Mental Health Services, our National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole, to Help Mexico Abate COVID-19, the Ethnic Studies for All Campaign and the Chicano Studies in Mexico initiatives.
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