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Immigrant Youth File Historic Video Amicus Brief Ahead of Supreme Court DACA Hearing

“As part of the Home Is Here campaign, the series captures the journeys, struggles, and successes of United We Dream members from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and elsewhere who now live in Florida, Oregon, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Illinois,Maryland, California, and across the nation,” a UWD release noted.

  • Oct 7, 2019
  • 9:48 AM

Ana María Archila, One Year After Confronting Jeff Flake

Latino Rebels Radio: October 6, 2019

  • Oct 6, 2019
  • 9:50 PM

SAG-AFTRA Calls on USHCC to Rescind ‘Business Man of the Year Award’ to SBS CEO Raúl Alarcón

The open letter lists the numerous complaints filed against the company over the past three years.

  • Oct 4, 2019
  • 6:01 PM

Texas-Sized Opportunities, Part 3B (OPINION)

Optimism helps, but the Democrats’ partisan fortunes ultimately depend upon the party’s ability to register a large number of the unregistered Latino voters across Texas.

  • Oct 4, 2019
  • 3:40 PM

Latino USA Presents: Weed The People

In the era of legalized marijuana, the city of Oakland is trying to even out the playing field for weed entrepreneurs of color.

  • Oct 4, 2019
  • 2:45 PM

Haiti Opposition Summons New Protests Against President

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Opposition leaders in Haiti urged the international community to withdraw their support for President Jovenel Moïse as protesters marched to the United Nations’ headquarters on Friday in a push to demand the ouster of the embattled leader.

  • Oct 4, 2019
  • 2:18 PM

South America’s Second-Largest Forest Is Also Burning and ‘Environmentally Friendly’ Charcoal Is Subsidizing Its Destruction

If the Gran Chaco forest continues to be leveled at the current rates, it will recede before most people even knew it existed.

  • Oct 4, 2019
  • 1:10 PM

Ecuador Declares State of Emergency Amid Protests Against Rising Fuel Costs

Under a state of emergency, several rights, including peaceful assembly and freedom of movement, will be temporarily suspended.

  • Oct 4, 2019
  • 12:09 PM

Vermont Dairy Workers Call on Hannaford Supermarkets to Join Migrant Rights Program

In recent months, Migrant Justice contacted Hannaford about the campaign, but has received no response.

  • Oct 4, 2019
  • 10:56 AM

Dark Days for Peru’s Political Dynasty After Congress Closes

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Inside a colonial-era mansion that has seen better days, leaders of Peru’s Fuerza Popular movement gathered for an urgent meeting Thursday, scrambling for ways to save their party’s once-dominant place in politics.

  • Oct 4, 2019
  • 9:09 AM

Ecuador President Declares State of Emergency Over Strike

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s president declared a state of emergency Thursday to confront rowdy street protests and a nationwide transport strike over his decision to end government fuel subsidies and relax labor protections.

  • Oct 3, 2019
  • 7:09 PM

All Women’s Mariachi Band Flor de Toloache Performs for Live From Latino USA (VIDEO)

The two singles are part of their latest bilingual album ‘Indestructible,’ which was just nominated for this year’s Latin Grammys.

  • Oct 3, 2019
  • 4:01 PM

Catholic Bishops Consider Married Priests, Face Opposition

SANTA ROSA, Brazil (AP) — At dusk in this small indigenous village, Antelmo Pereira calls Catholics to prayer, changes into a white robe and leads a religious service that is the closest thing the faithful in this remote part of the Amazon can get to a proper Mass.

  • Oct 3, 2019
  • 2:35 PM

Trump Administration to Include Detained Migrants’ DNA in Criminal Database

Immigrant and privacy advocates believe the new rule raises privacy concerns that could result in more discrimination against migrants.

  • Oct 3, 2019
  • 2:00 PM

Deadly Protests Squeeze Haitians in Shrinking Economy

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Marcel Cineus scanned the crowd for hints of a potential customer as people bustled past his wooden stall filled with hundreds of textbooks in the hills of Port-au-Prince.

  • Oct 3, 2019
  • 11:50 AM

Forgiveness, Anger After Ex-Dallas Cop Sentenced to 10 years

DALLAS (AP) — A white Dallas police officer who said she mistook a neighbor’s apartment for her own and fatally shot him in his living room was sentenced to a decade in prison in a stunning courtroom scene that included the dead man’s brother and the black judge embracing the sobbing officer.

  • Oct 3, 2019
  • 9:39 AM

Trump Admin Shifting to Privatize Migrant Child Detention

SAN BENITO, Texas (AP) — On a recent day in a remodeled brick church in the Rio Grande Valley, a caregiver tried to soothe a toddler, offering him a sippy cup. The adult knew next to nothing about the little 3-year-old whose few baby words appeared to be Portuguese. Shelter staff had tried desperately to find his family, calling the Brazilian consulate and searching Facebook.

  • Oct 3, 2019
  • 9:13 AM

Ethnic Studies Is Still Under Attack: White Identity Politics in Control of the LA Times Opinion Pages?

We can call this state of affairs, both present and historic, white identity politics.

  • Oct 3, 2019
  • 8:23 AM

Prosecutor: ‘El Chapo’ Gave $1M to Honduras Leader’s Brother

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors alleged Wednesday that convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán personally gave $1 million in bribes to the brother of Honduras’ president to pass on to the Central American leader.

  • Oct 2, 2019
  • 7:54 PM

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