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Cosecha noted that the protesters included families of undocumented immigrants currently detained by ICE.

An estimated 100 immigrant rights activists gathered at Freedom Plaza on Wednesday.

More than a dozen candidates have entered the presidential race, making a runoff election on April 11 virtually certain.

Wanting to be independent (as an individual, nation, or country) is the most natural thing in the world. But is it economically or politically viable?

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A dozen state police officers have been arrested for allegedly killing 19 people, including Guatemalan migrants, whose bodies were found shot and burned near the U.S. border late in January, Mexican authorities announced Tuesday.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico is slated to receive more than $6 billion in federal funds to help prepare the U.S. territory for future hurricanes and other disasters, officials said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a second wave of splashy announcements to undo his predecessor’s immigration policies, President Joe Biden showed where he sees perils and limitations.

It’s time to see these caravans through a more compassionate lens.

Host Hector Alamo chats with Aaron E. Sánchez, a history professor at Dallas College and author of the new book, ‘Homeland: Ethnic Mexican Belonging Since 1900’

Omar Apollo takes us back to his early days of making music on borrowed equipment and tells us about how he explored everything —from funk to corridos— to make his debut album Apolonio.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday announced steps to address harm to thousands of families that were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, expanding efforts to quickly undo relentless changes to immigration policy over the last four years.

HOUSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has deported hundreds of immigrants in its early days despite his campaign pledge to stop removing most people in the U.S. illegally at the beginning of his term.

“I did not request for the cancellation of the event,” Luis Fortuño said.

Statehood won. We must proceed from that fact. To insinuate the contrary or support other votes for options consistently rejected by Puerto Ricans is to disgrace democracy.

VILLETA, Colombia (AP) — A social media death threat aimed at an 11-year-old environmental activist has roused outrage in Colombia, a nation where attacks on social leaders are common and threats are taken seriously.

MEXICO CITY — For close to four months, members of the Indigenous Otomí community in Mexico City have occupied  government offices amid the effects of worsening public health and economic crises that have exacerbated their decades-long neglect by local and federal authorities.

“The woman, only identified as Rosa to protect her identity, was arrested on Wednesday for two outstanding citations from 2015 after a traffic stop by the El Paso police,” the KTSM report said.

I offer the following as a historian and political analyst and not seeking to promote whatever solution to the Puerto Rican status issue.

Any attack on ethnic studies, racial diversity training, and other types of education that clearly centers Black people and other people of color should be of interest to the Latinx community.

Advocates for reform have long argued that punitive policies have not reduced the flow of drugs across the country. In fact, they have strengthened illicit drug markets.

I’ve seen a lot of me in the Mexican people around me.