Dr. Álvaro Huerta

Clinton will prevail on November 8, 2016.

It was my first day of junior high school.

By viscously attacking Mexican immigrants, one of the most vulnerable groups in this country, Trump has cemented his bully credentials.

One moment I will never forget.

Trump’s fascist rhetoric, along with the GOP platform, only serves to incite more violence, domestically and internationally.

Latinas and Latinos in this country deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

My advice to ensure victory against the more dangerous candidate.

Love thy neighbor?

Rubio and Cruz have engaged in a vitriol debate over their disdain towards undocumented immigrants.

Undocumented immigrants in the United States still can’t get a break.

A 2017 open letter to President Donald Trump

It’s not true that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump only represents the extreme wing or “crazies” of the GOP. As a leader in numerous polls, Trump exemplifies the party’s true colors: xenophobic, mean-spirited and pro-1 percent. Despite how the other GOP presidential candidates or Republican leadership try to distance themselves from his vitriolic language, Trump’s boorish […]

Here is the video of a TEDxClaremontColleges talk I gave this summer. It is based on my writings about this topic. As the video’s ABOUT page says, “Throughout history, human beings, especially the global poor, have been in constant movement. Huerta says we should view this migration as a universal human right and treat honest, […]

While millions of Americans have suddenly become enlightened about the bleak plight of racial minorities in segregated inner-cities and impoverished suburbs, especially with the spate of police killings of unarmed blacks, for those of us who grew up in ghettoes and barrios, we are all too familiar with the rampant cases of police misconduct and […]

Editor’s Note: The author emailed us last week, granting us permission to publish the following piece. An original version was published here. In life, as the saying goes, nothing is certain except for death and taxes. I propose another: migration. Migration represents a universal human right. Some economists want us to believe that humans migrate, especially the […]