By Eoin Higgins A group of doctors seeking to vaccinate migrants detained by President Donald Trump’s Customs and Border Patrol were denied at the gates of the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station in San Ysidro, San Diego Monday. “Refusing to vaccinate is inhumane,” tweeted Immigrant Families Together director Julie Schwietert Collazo. “The agency is willingly […] Read more
Magdalena Sepúlveda Will 2020 be as explosive as the year that is coming to an end? This is the anxiety that embraces governments around the world, still destabilized by massive and unexpected popular uprisings. In Chile, where I come from, but also in Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, France, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt, among others, we […] Read more
Paul Haidle & Shannon Alford The New México prison population stands near 7,500 inmates. Nearly all these individuals will be released and will face many challenges as they rejoin their communities, one of which will be finding a job. Unfortunately, this task is made much more difficult by nonsensical state laws. This is why our […] Read more
Sherry Brennan You may have heard about the Trump administration’s latest attack on very poor Americans: a punitive new restriction that will cut SNAP benefits for 688,000 people. SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, is our country’s most popular and effective nutrition assistance program. Growing up, my family got food stamps — and oh, […] Read more
By Chanel Ward Dr. Ramón Del Castillo, former Chair of the Chicana/o Studies Department at Metropolitan State University (MSU) of Denver, Colorado, and current professor in his last term, was celebrated as he is set to retire this month. Current and former students, faculty, friends and family showed up to wish the man that […] Read more
This year’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace is open until December 15, 2019. If you are uninsured or underinsured, Hispanic Unity of Florida (HUF) and its partners can help you compare plan options, shop for an affordable plan, and enroll to ensure you’re covered in 2020. Free, in-person bilingual (English / Spanish) enrollment assistance is […] Read more
Ramón del Castillo, PhD Border children should not be treated like animals — held as hostages in cages, nor should they be hunted down like prey, killed, stuffed and hung up on walls like trophies. The children who have been falsely imprisoned will carry the damage caused to them for years to come. Literal […] Read more
Maribel Hastings One of the most common attacks that anti-immigrant people wield against immigrants, naturalized citizens or not, is that they do not adapt to this country and are not sufficiently “loyal” to this nation because they maintain their customs or their language. But if immigrants have demonstrated anything throughout history, it is that […] Read more
by Pilar Marrero Among the lawyers representing almost 800,000 DACA recipients in front of the Supreme Court was Ted Olson, a veteran who has argued in front of the high court so many times that even the janitorial staff and the elevator operator greeted him by name that day. Accompanying Olsen was Dreamer Luis […] Read more
Where Lies the Hope of Migrant Children?
David Torres To say that the childhood that today’s immigrant children have had here has been a disastrous experience in the last two or three years is, literally, an understatement. In every case, the category of analysis should be to what level of trauma they have arrived, taking into account both the shadows of […] Read more