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Missing the Detention & Deportation Forest for the Immigration Reform Tree

Seemingly lost in much of the congratulatory messaging surrounding the “Gang of 8″ immigration reform bill passing by a bipartisan vote of 13-5 from the Senate Judiciary Committee to the Senate floor is the continue...

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What are We Signing Onto When We Sign On to Immigration Reform?

Last week the Judiciary Committee of the Senate discussed and debated amendments to S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 aka #CIR2013. The bill which came out of the bip...

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New Study Shows Growing Latino Path to College but Challenges Remain

This week the Pew Research Center released an analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau that shows an increase in Latino college enrollment among the high school graduating class of 2012, with 69 percent enrolled that fall. ...

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Immigrants, Latinas Likely Negatively Impacted by Plan B ID Requirements

When someone of any age has a headache, she doesn’t worry about carrying government issued identification to purchase over the counter pain medication, but thanks to the Department of Justice appealing a federal judge’s rul...

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Colorado DREAMers to Access In-State Tuition

Yesterday at Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado’s Governor John Hickenlooper signed into law Senate Bill 33, also known as the ASSET bill, granting undocumented high school graduates and those with General ...

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Mothers of One Police Plaza Seek Music & Lyrics for Sons Killed by NYPD

In Argentina’s Plaza de Mayo, mothers and grandmothers marched wearing white handkerchiefs with the names of their children and grandchildren “disappeared” by a military dictatorship. They became iconic for their strong w...

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Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill: Border Security, Surveillance and High Costs

The immigration reform bill proposed by the Senate’s “gang of 8″ can be read here While the bottom line for many immigration reform advocacy organizations is a pathway to citizenship for the around eleven mill...

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Immigration Bill Narrows Definition of Family, Invites “Good” Migrants for Entry

A portion of the Emma Lazarus poem, The New Colossus, engraved on a bronze plaque on the Statue of Liberty invites invites the tired, poor and huddled masses into the United States. If the bipartisan Senate team who drafted a m...

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NYPD Stop & Frisk Racial Profiling Under Legal and Community Spotlight

In New York City, the epicenter of racialized police violence against communities of color, the practice of stop and frisks is in the spotlight again with the Floyd v. the City of New York trial. The trial is named after a me...

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In the Struggle Against Gentrification in Downtown Los Angeles, LAPD Targets Activists

The struggle over housing access and against gentrification in downtown Los Angeles has been waged for a number of years with grassroots organizations made up of and representing the most underserved communities taking the lead...

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César Chávez Holiday: Lessons in Divide and Conquer Politics

he question of Latino leadership and role models is raised more and more as political power and demographic dynamics shift in the United States. Very often, our sights look back into history for figures to lift up onto pedestal...

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Are Rand Paul and Others on the Right Pro-Immigration Reform?

Yesterday in a speech before the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Washington.the Republican Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul said that he supported changes to current immigration status that would grant the undocumented acce...

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Public School Parents and Advocates Protest Violation of Kids’ Privacy

Going to school now means much more than students learning grammar, math, and geography. It’s about students learning how power works and can be used against them. From sequester cuts impacting low-income students to gun vi...

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Latino Families of Those Killed by NYPD Lose Faith in District Attorneys

n many ways, New York City has been the epicenter of the struggle over police racial profiling. According to the New York Civil Liberties Union “innocent New Yorkers have been subjected to police stops and street interrogatio...

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Connecting the Anti-Immigrant Movement to Coercive Sterilization

omen of color, especially immigrant women and their bodies have long been a battleground by racist anti-immigrant forces. They have been used as guinea pigs for medical experiments and deemed criminal for daring to migrate with...

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Missing the Detention & Deportation Forest for the Immigration Reform Tree

What are We Signing Onto When We Sign On to Immigration Reform?

New Study Shows Growing Latino Path to College but Challenges Remain

Immigrants, Latinas Likely Negatively Impacted by Plan B ID Requirements

Colorado DREAMers to Access In-State Tuition

Mothers of One Police Plaza Seek Music & Lyrics for Sons Killed by NYPD

Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill: Border Security, Surveillance and High Costs

Immigration Bill Narrows Definition of Family, Invites “Good” Migrants for Entry

NYPD Stop & Frisk Racial Profiling Under Legal and Community Spotlight

In the Struggle Against Gentrification in Downtown Los Angeles, LAPD Targets Activists

César Chávez Holiday: Lessons in Divide and Conquer Politics

Are Rand Paul and Others on the Right Pro-Immigration Reform?

Public School Parents and Advocates Protest Violation of Kids’ Privacy

Latino Families of Those Killed by NYPD Lose Faith in District Attorneys

Connecting the Anti-Immigrant Movement to Coercive Sterilization

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