Politics

Latino Rebels Radio: March 16, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Racing to stall an expected surge of coronavirus cases, the White House on Monday released a series of sweeping guidelines that for the next 15 days will temporarily rewrite the norms of American society.

“Self-response to the census is critical as ever,” NALEO said in a release.

“No one’s immigration status or health should be put at risk during this national health crisis,” said Rex Chen, Director of Immigration at Legal Services NYC.

We got a lot of grief for challenging that narrative, but we knew that the Cuban Democratic vote in Florida is a bit more complex.

Biden made headlines for committing to picking a woman Vice President for the ticket should he be the nominee, but media mainly turned the blind eye to his ill-used term undocumented “alien” when referring to undocumented immigrants.

PHOENIX (AP) — In Joe Biden’s pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination, he’s run repeatedly into a wall in the West, where Bernie Sanders’ strength among Latinos propelled his campaign even as he struggled with other groups.

Latino Rebels Radio: March 15, 2020

What we really should be asking of our remaining two Democratic candidates is whether they believe billionaires have had an avid hand in shaping our systems.

Candidates might want to pay a little closer attention to the Grand Canyon State in 2020.

According to the findings, Biden has an 8-point lead over Trump in a November match-up (50-42) in Arizona and 37-point lead with Arizona Latino voters.

Advocates and officials are concerned that the steady arrival of deportees from the U.S. and Mexico to Central America could complicate the region’s ability to contain the coronavirus.

Si hasta ahí estamos bien, debo convencer que la presidencia de Bernie Sanders adelantaría de manera alguna el cambio que más nos interesa, al menos, a quienes va dirigido este ensayo: la independencia de Puerto Rico.

On Thursday, Voto Latino announced a $500,000 donation from Mike Bloomberg that will help fund its efforts to register 500,000 new voters this election cycle.

It is truly only Sanders who speaks firmly and with moral clarity about the United States’ long history of imperialism.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — When a re-energized opposition leader Juan Guaidó returned to Venezuela from a world tour that saw him meet President Donald Trump, he turned to a well-worn page in the opposition’s playbook for ousting socialist President Nicolás Maduro—he called a street protest.

“For the safety of our families, neighbors, and loved ones, immigrant and non-immigrant alike, we call on local and national leaders to immediately adopt a plan for Worker and Migrant Justice as part of the Coronavirus response,” NDLON noted on Thursday.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The southern hemisphere summer has come to a close, and Chileans say they fear —or welcome— the prospect that the turn of the season could herald a renewal of the vast protests that shook the nation late last year over the government’s failure to channel one of Latin America’s best economies into well-being for the working and middle classes.

A Telemundo poll found that 70% of Florida Latinos would not support a “socialist” candidate.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would allow the Trump administration to continue enforcing a policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings, despite lower court rulings that the policy probably is illegal.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — While acknowledging his deficit in the Democratic race, Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he’s pressing ahead with his presidential campaign at least long enough to debate Joe Biden this weekend and try to force him to answer questions about economic inequality and the country’s fraying social safety net.