Immigration

  • Why did Biden spend just one minute on immigration reform?

    During his second State of the Union Address, the highest rostrum in the Republic, President Joe Biden spent just over a minute on the issue of immigration reform. Speaking to the nation, the president called on both parties to make migration a bipartisan issue again. But in the end,...
  • Will the North American Leadership Summit Result in Substantive Immigration Policy Change?

    President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Jan. 10 to discuss the U.S.-Mexico-Canada relationship. The meeting focused heavily on immigration. In this interview, Ariel Ruiz Soto, policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute discusses the summit, and significant policy changes...
  • Elections and immigration: Senate talks get complicated

    More than eight months before the November elections, which put in dispute the 435 seats in the House of Representatives, a third of the Senate, dozens of governorships and thousands of popularly elected positions, migration is emerging as the defining issue of the electoral process. It is true that...
  • Newsom recibe un gran San Valentín de grupos de migración y salud

    El gobernador Gavin Newsom recibió un San Valentín de seis pies de alto el lunes, agradeciéndole por incluir el acceso a Medi-Cal para personas indocumentadas en su última propuesta de presupuesto. Los defensores trajeron una tarjeta gigante en forma de corazón al Capitolio, cubierta con cartas de docenas de...
  • Newsom Gets Giant Valentine from Immigration, Health Groups

    Gov. Gavin Newsom got a six-foot-tall Valentine Monday, thanking him for putting Medi-Cal access for undocumented people into his latest budget proposal. Advocates brought a giant heart-shaped card to the Capitol, covered in letters from dozens of Californians. Beatriz Hernandez, Central Valley organizing fellow with the California Immigrant Policy Center,...
  • A NEW IMMIGRATION DECEPTION

    Osmán is a “dreamer” who has patiently waited for the opening of the road that will take him from his state of uncertainty to the certainty of immigration legalization. But he has not waited with his arms crossed: he obtained a degree with great effort and sacrifice, and is...
  • UNA NUEVA DECEPCIÓN MIGRATORIA

    Osmán es un “dreamer” que ha esperado con paciencia el estreno de la carretera que lo lleve de su estado de incertidumbre al de la certeza de la legalización migratoria.  Pero no ha esperado con los brazos cruzados: Obtuvo con mucho esfuerzo y sacrificio una licenciatura, y actualmente se...
  • TRUMP’S PERVERSE HERITAGE

    Donald Trump didn’t only leave Joe Biden the aftermath of his racist and xenophobic political strategy that resulted in an increase in white supremacist groups and hate crimes against the most vulnerable minorities. The current president also inherited the Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as the “Stay in Mexico”...
  • LA HERENCIA PERVERSA DE TRUMP

    Donald Trump no sólo le dejó a Joe Biden las secuelas de su estrategia política racista y xenofóbica que se traducido en un incremento de los grupos supremacistas y en los crímenes de odio contra las minorías más vulnerables. También le heredó los Protocolos de Protección del Migrante, mejor...
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