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Social Justice, zNew Headline

New Pew poll shows only one federal agency in which most Americans have lost confidence

Oct 1, 2019, 2:40 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The Trump administration has been doing its darnedest to shake public confidence in federal institutions since Trump took office. For example, just today when the lowest manufacturing numbers since 2009 were released, Trump again blamed and…

Environment, Environment, zNew Headline

Latinos, on either side of border, battle “not so innocent” America over environment

Feb 7, 2017, 3:04 PM 0

LatinaLista — When Donald Trump pushed back against Fox News Bill O’Reilly’s characterization of Vladimir Putin “as a killer,” by saying that our country “is not so innocent,” he ignited a barrage of criticism from both sides of the…

Immigration, Politics, zNew Headline

GOP finds a way to get immigrants to self-deport without them even realizing it

Feb 2, 2017, 6:02 PM 0

LatinaLista — In the past, the one solution the GOP offered for thinning out the nation’s undocumented population, without uttering the “d” word (deportation), was to say undocumented immigrants would “self-deport.” When Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee for…