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The CMSC welcomes 2021 with hope, optimism and great expectations for positive change, as Trump’s era of hate comes to an end and the world is challenged to control the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today’s edition of El Magonista begins the 9th year of its publication and you may read all previous editions on the “Newsletters” tab of our website.
The CMSC will continue with our 3.5-years campaign to restore DACA’s Advance Parole as its top priority, and we plan to expand this summer the California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program.
While we continue to pressure USCIS to approve the current 83 Advance Parole applications for our Winter 2020 program, we realize that this is unlikely under the despicable Trump administration.
But we are confident that all 83 AP travel permits will be approved soon after President Joe Biden is sworn into office on January 20, 2021.
Thus, all participants of the Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program will have the option to travel with the CMSC during the Spring or Summer 2021 sections of the program.
The CMSC will continue to focus on California-Mexico educational and cultural exchange, as the pandemic is brought under control, and will lead to promote the regional collaboration to abate the COVID virus between the US and California with Mexico and the entire community of nations in the western hemisphere.
May you all have a safe and healthful 2021 !!!
– The CMSC Team
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COPPPAL proposes to Biden a new relationship between the US and Latin America
By: RedFinancieraMX – Jan. 4, 2021
The president of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL), Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, said that the current critical circumstances that the world and the region is experiencing, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, represents a great opportunity for the U.S. president-elect Joe Biden, in agreement with the Latin American and Caribbean governments, to begin to dialogue in symmetrical conditions on the continental problem and the generation of a route of rapprochement that allows us to agree on a minimum agenda of solution of the same, under criteria of mutual respect.
If we want to transform the face of our continent, the progressive parties grouped in COPPPAL, we believe that the way to do it is social democracy and sustainable development, for them we have to work to redefine the North-South relationship in our region, under the precepts respect, cooperation and fostering shared development. This will give us both subcontinents better conditions to face the great challenges imposed by the time... Read Full Article
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COPPPAL plantea a Biden una nueva relación EEUU-América Latina, bajo criterios de respeto mutuo
Por: RedFinancieraMX – Ene. 4, 2021
El presidente de la Conferencia Permanente de Partidos Políticos de América Latina y el Caribe (COPPPAL), Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, dijo que la actual circunstancia crítica que vive el mundo y en particular la región, agravada por la pandemia de COVID-19, representa una gran oportunidad para que el presidente electo de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, en acuerdo con los gobiernos latinoamericanos y caribeños, comencemos a dialogar en condiciones simétricas, sobre la problemática continental y la generación de una ruta de acercamiento que nos permita acordar una agenda mínima de solución de la misma, bajo criterios de respeto mutuo... Leer Más
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Alex Padilla named by Governor Newsom as successor of Kamala Harris in the US Senate
By Shawn Hubler, New York Times – Dec. 22, 2020
SACRAMENTO — Alex Padilla, California’s secretary of state, has been appointed to fill the Senate seat held by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday, capping months of intense political jockeying among Democratic factions in the state.
The son of Mexican-born immigrants who settled in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley, Mr. Padilla, 47, will be the first Latino senator from California, where Latinos are about 40 percent of the population. “I am honored and humbled by the trust placed in me by Governor Newsom, and I intend to work each and every day to honor that trust and deliver for all Californians,” Mr. Padilla said in a statement... Read Full Article
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Biden picks Latino as Secretary of Education
By EVAN HALPER, LOS ANGELES TIMES – DEC. 22, 2020
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden is poised to nominate Miguel Cardona as secretary of Education. The schools chief in Connecticut pushed to reopen campuses during the COVID-19 pandemic and emerged as a consensus choice for the federal post with the backing of teachers unions and Latino activists.
The president-elect’s choice of Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican descent, would place a third Latino in a prominent position on his Cabinet as the president-elect works to make good on his promise to have a leadership team that reflects the diversity of the country. He earlier nominated California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra, who is Mexican American, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Cuban-born Alejandro Mayorkas was picked by Biden to lead the Department of Homeland Security.... Read Full Article
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Biden Inherits a Relationship with Mexico on the Brink of Disaster
By: David Shortell, The Daily Beast – Mon, January 4, 2021
Days after the Mexican government adopted a set of crippling restrictions on foreign law enforcement operations in the country, the Trump administration is searching for a work-around and revisiting a decades-old bilateral agreement in an attempt to untie the hands of U.S. drug investigators.
The law, which was rushed through the Mexican legislature last month amid the fallout over the arrest of the country’s former defense chief on U.S. drug trafficking charges, has generated intense concern at the Justice Department, where investigations into Mexico’s powerful drug cartels have been imperiled by new requirements for agents to share intelligence with the country’s government... Read Full Article
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69% of undocumented immigrant workers have jobs ‘essential’ to fight COVID
By Julia Ainsley, NBC News – Dec. 16, 2020
WASHINGTON — More than two-thirds of undocumented immigrant workers have frontline jobs considered "essential" to the U.S. fight against Covid-19, according to a new study released Wednesday by pro-immigration reform group FWD.US.
Sixty-nine percent of undocumented immigrant workers have jobs deemed essential by the Department of Homeland Security, according to the study, which is based on the 2019 American Community Survey by the Census Bureau. The study also estimated that nearly one in five essential workers is an immigrant... Read Full Article
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Support our California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program
The CMSC continues to advocate for the Advance Parole approvals of all 83 DACA recipients participating in our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program, which was originally planned to take place from December 15, 2020 to January 19, 2021. However, given that only 1 application has been approved so far, we have to postpone the program until the Spring or Summer of this year. This gives us an opportunity to fundraise and ensure the safety and successful experience of all participants.
The CMSC launched a new fund drive initiative to solicit sponsors and grants in support of our current California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program.
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 to 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
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ADVANCE PAROLE VOICES
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Please watch the following videos from our Advance Parole Voices series, featuring current participants of our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program.
Please share these videos and donate to our Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program Fund Drive Initiative.
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LATEST NEWS
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Immigrant Essential Workers are Crucial to America’s COVID-19 Recovery (FWD.us)
New estimates from FWD.us show that immigrants represent a substantial, and thus critical, part of America’s essential COVID-19 workforce combating the pandemic. Numbering nearly 23 million people, these medical, agricultural, food service, and other immigrant essential workers make up nearly 1 in 5 individuals in the total U.S. essential workforce.... Read More
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Reversing Trump’s immigration policies will take time for Biden to reverse (The Texas Tribune)
Several members of President-elect Joe Biden's transition team said the incoming administration would “need time” to undo “damage” to the U.S. immigration system and border enforcement policies that have severely limited the ability of asylum seekers to qualify for humanitarian protection... Read More
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‘Latinx’ hasn’t even caught on among Latinos. It never will (Washington Post)
The term “Latinx,” modifying “Latino” and “Latina” to describe people in a gender-inclusive way, has become commonplace — in some quarters. Opponents of transphobia and sexism leaven their social media posts, academic papers and workplace Slack chats with the term. Liberal politicians use it...Read More
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CSU Chancellor White retires after 8 years at the helm of the largest university
Timothy White, the chancellor of the California State University system, broke with most of his peers in May by announcing that the sprawling 23-campus system would be planning to hold most courses online in the fall... Read More
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Congress approves historic bill to create a national Latino museum (NBC News)
Congress approved legislation to start the process of creating a national Latino museum as part of a $900 billion must-pass Covid-19 relief spending bill that President Donald Trump is likely to sign... Read More
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SCOTUS ends Trump’s plan to exclude immigrants from the US Census
The Supreme Court on Friday put off a decision on President Trump’s plan to narrow the census count by excluding residents living in the country illegally.The justices by a 6-3 vote said it was “premature” to rule on the issue because it was unclear how or whether the Census Bureau would furnish data on residents who were not in “lawful status...” Read More
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Why the United States Needs To Plan for the Coronavirus in the Americas
(Center for American Progress)
The coronavirus pandemic is challenging the capabilities and resources of governments around the world, and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are no exception. The region’s widespread poverty, weak health infrastructure, and fragile economies mean its residents could suffer greatly if political leaders do not act swiftly to mitigate the crisis... Read More
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Usuluteca destaca como impulsora de la literatura salvadoreña en EEUU (ElSalvador)
Tras migrar a California, Estados Unidos, cuando tenía 13 años, la salvadoreña Karina Zelaya logró cursar estudios universitarios mediante becas. Hoy, convertida en profesora asistente del Departamento de Lengua y Literatura de la Mississippi State University, EE. UU., y ya ganadora de varios reconocimientos, se esfuerza por que la cultura y producción literaria de sus compatriotas se conozca en el exterior... Leer Más
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‘Amores perros’ 20 years later (Los Angeles Times)
Given the choice, Alejandro González Iñárritu would have picked music over film as his preferred outlet of artistic expression. This truth, though surprising coming from one of the world’s most acclaimed directors, explains in part his storytelling sensibilities and his exhaustive attentiveness to technical and narrative minutiae — a trait many of his longtime colleagues praise for the results it yields on screen... Read More
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CSU signs historic pact with Mexico’s government (Border Report)
San Diego State University has agreed to set up a foundation for an upcoming partnership between the university and the government of Mexico. The school, which was founded in 1897, already has professors, individual colleges, and departments that work in Mexico... Read More
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