By Robert Barba LatinaLista If you’re a DREAMer, you face a difficult financial situation. In February 2018, the Supreme Court declined to hear the Trump Administration’s appeal challenging the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program — better known as…
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Guest Voz: I’m an Undocumented Taxpayer. Here’s How My Taxes Are Used Against My Values.
By Layidua Salazar Rewire.News Tax Day is here and with it comes the reminder of my status in the United States as an undocumented taxpayer—meaning someone who doesn’t have a legal pathway to citizenship, despite having temporary protection from…
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Cincinnati cartoonist tackles immigration issue of mixed-status families with powerful series
LatinaLista — Undocumented immigrants have always lived “in the shadows” of society. Yet, it depends on who is in the Oval Office as to how far their retreat into those shadows. As a result, there are many citizens who…
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Poor People’s Campaign Gears Up for Mother’s Day Launch
By Sarah Anderson Inequality.org “I am not speaking about the poor. I am not speaking for the poor. I am the poor.” Claudia De la Cruz was speaking at an April 10 press briefing in Washington, D.C. on behalf…
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Trump administration turning back the clock on many US policies but immigration marches to different timekeeper
By Marisa Treviño ncluido In the 14 months since Donald Trump was sworn into office, a fear has been steadily growing across the country that this administration is marching the country back to a period in our history that…
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What Law Enforcement, Advocates Need to Know About Protecting Young Immigrants
By Nate Balis Juvenile Justice Information & Exchange It’s fair to say that most of us working in the youth justice field do so because we’re committed to brighter futures for all kids, especially the ones facing the longest…
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Guest Voz: How To Fix the Large and Growing Latinx Teacher-Student Gap
By Sarah Shapiro and Lisette Partelow ncluido In September 2017, President Donald Trump put 20,000 teachers at risk of deportation when he terminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program—the Obama-era initiative that grants temporary protection to unauthorized immigrants who were brought into…
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Debunking 3 myths behind ‘chain migration’ and ‘low-skilled’ immigrants
By Raquel Aldana The Conversation President Donald Trump has embraced the rhetoric of “chain migration” to spread the message that the United States is legally letting in too many of the wrong kind of immigrant. That term, however,…
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Spanish use is steady or dropping in US despite high Latino immigration
By Phillip M. Carter The Conversation Hidden just beneath the surface of the ongoing heated debate about immigration in the United States lurks an often unspoken concern: language. Specifically, whether immigration from Spanish-speaking countries threatens the English language’s dominance….
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Guest Voz: How the shutdown and DACA could drive 2018 turnout for Democrat
By Dante Chinni ncluido Washington is struggling, again, with a government shutdown. But this time a nonbudget issue is driving much of the debate: the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program, or DACA. Congressional Democrats are demanding that…
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North Carolina Group Keeps Dreamers’ College Goals Alive
By Victoria Edwards Juvenile Justice Information Exchange SANFORD, North Carolina — As a high school sophomore and DACA recipient, the connections Danny Rodas made through his mentorship program were invaluable to helping him understand the challenges he would face…
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Guest Voz: More companies should follow the example of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
By Edward Rincón ncluido It was indeed news shattering: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos just announced a contribution of $33 million to 1,000 DACA program students to pay for a four-year college education. As you may know, DACA (Deferred Action…
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This Youth Worker in DACA Fears for His Future As He Helps Students in Similar Situation
By Stell Simonton Justice Information & Exchange As an undocumented student, David Blancas had to push hard to shape his future. He couldn’t drive without fear of being stopped. He couldn’t get on a plane without worrying about…
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New digital publication focuses on the migrant experience the world over
LatinaLista — Borders are so last century. And so begins the introduction to a new digital publication dedicated to migrants. Beyond Borders is an online publication created by the Swedish global tech company Rebtel. With a company core belief…
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Latino elites are paying the California dream forward
By Jody Agius Vallejo The Conversation American Latino economic elites have incomes and wealth in the top five percent of earners. Some own multi-million-dollar companies or work as corporate executives. Latino politicians – like Kevin De León, who is…
By Nick Roll Inside Higher Ed Princeton University and Microsoft have joined together to file a lawsuit against President Trump’s rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. A DACA-protected student at Princeton, Maria De La Cruz Perales…
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Study: 1 in 4 Latino Kids Have an Undocumented Immigrant Parent
By Eric Moreno Salud America Nearly 94% of the 18 million Latino kids living in the United States today were born here. Their moms and dads are a different story. About half of Latino kids have at least one…
By Sharita Gruberg ncluido Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration will end protection from deportation for approximately 800,000 young immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This program provided temporary protection…
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GOP attempts to SUCCEED with new version of DREAM Act
LatinaLista — It’s called the Solution for Undocumented Children through Careers, Employment, Education, and Defending our Nation Act, SUCCEED, for short and the congressional members who drafted this latest version of the 2010 DREAM Act, hope it does exactly…
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Trump’s decision to end DACA shatters moral compass of the country
By Luis V. Gutierrez ncluido Ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program was a serious mistake that will harm the United States and will spark a national political crisis. Approximately 800,000 young immigrants who qualify for DACA have…
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The country’s moral compass hinges on Trump’s decision about the future of DACA
Marisa Treviño ncluido Tuesday, September 5, 2017, is a day that about 800,000 undocumented youth are nervously awaiting. On that day, Trump will decide what to do about a program that has been a literal lifeline, to a normal…
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Immigrant detention looks a lot like prison, say lawyers
By George Diepenbrock Futurity Detention centers that hold immigrant women and their families function like jails and prisons, report researchers. The findings challenge federal officials’ description of the centers as “alternative to detention.” Women held with their children in…
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Latino orgs launch #NoJoePardon ahead of possible Trump pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
LatinaLista — After a nationwide, bipartisan consensus that last week was not President Donald J. Trump’s finest moments as Commander-in-Chief, Trump is on his way to Arizona today to asauge his bruised ego with a rally of his most…
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Costs & Controversies: Two TX-Mexico border projects demand tough questions
US Ambassador (Ret.) Antonio Garza ncluido It looks to be construction season in South Texas. Along this stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border, 31 miles of wall may soon be going up and companies are wading through the final…
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To Boycott or not to Boycott Texas — that is the question
By Antonio Gonzalez ncluido Texas’ SB4 the “show me your papers” bill was signed into law on May 7 by Republican Gov. Abbott. On Sept 1, 2017 SB4 will take effect outlawing local “Sanctuary Cities” policies embraced by places…