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Two bills would offer a path to citizenship for DREAMers, farmworkers, and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status.

Two bills would offer a path to citizenship for DREAMers, farmworkers, and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status.

St. Helena attorney and Napa Valley College Trustee Rafael Rios III and Yountville Mayor John Dunbar are the fifth and sixth people to announce they are running for Diane Dillon’s seat on the Napa County Board of Supervisors. Rios and Dunbar join a growing field of contenders also made up of St. Helena City Councilmember Anna Chouteau, Napa County Planning Commissioner Anne Cottrell, grapegrower Cio Perez, and Napa Valley College Trustee Ines DeLuna. Dillon announced in January that she wo...

New terminology The bill would replace the term “alien” in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) with the term “noncitizen.” ADVERTISEMENT According to UC Davis professor Kevin Johnson, the use of the term “alien” helps to reinforce and strengthen nativist sentiment toward new immigrant groups, which in turn influences responses to immigration and human rights issues.  He may be right, but should Congress be changing the terms in the INA to ensure that our immigration laws are...

AMLO to propose US legalize migratory flows from Mexico, Central America The proposal would represent a major shift in US immigration policy Published on Saturday, February 27, 2021 256shares President López Obrador said Saturday that he will ask his United States counterpart to legalize migratory flows of Mexican and Central American workers into the U.S. Speaking at an event in Zacatecas, López Obrador said he will make the proposal at a virtual meeting with President Joe Biden on Monday...

No water. No heat. No electricity. Those were the conditions millions of Texans were thrown into when a snowstorm barreled through the state last week. But for tens of thousands of people living along the border with Mexico, losing these services didn’t just mean struggling through a few cold nights. Their lives were already so precarious that the freezing temperatures made even survival a challenge. For Nohemí, who lives in a community of informal settlements known as a colonia in South Tex...

Artpaces Main Space exhibition features new work by José Villalobos José Villalobos, de los otros, 2021. Photo by Beth Devillier. SAN ANTONIO, TX .-Artpace is presenting de los otros, the first exhibition of 2021 in the Main Space gallery, featuring José Villaloboss work. While Artpace is closed for appointments, the exhibition is visible from N. Main Ave. Jose Villaloboss artwork utilizes objects connected to his Norteño culture to challenge toxic masculinity and the marginalization of q...

Posted By Bryan Rindfuss on Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 8:30 AM click to enlarge Bryan Rindfuss A reimagined barrack for braceros anchors José Villalobos’ new Artpace exhibition “De los Otros.” Protesting “the toxicity of machismo” has become a common thread in ...

iframe src "https://embed.hpm.io/389633/389644" style "height: 115px; width: 100%;" /iframe X A new podcast called Chicano Squad tells the true story of an all-Latino homicide squad in Houston that began in the late 1970s that — with little training — was asked to solve some of the citys most violent crimes. Host Cristela Alonzo, an actor and comedian who grew up in Texas, spoke to Houston Matters host Craig Cohen about the project and the stories it tells. The interview below has b...

This bilingual comic book series gives Latino children a superhero of their own FacebookTwitterEmail 2of3 "El Peso Hero" is slated to be turned into a film with production starting this fall.Hector RodriguezShow MoreShow Less 3of3 In the face of a pandemic rises a superhero unlike any youve seen. He goes by the name of Ignacio Rivera, aka "El Peso Hero," and brings to life the stories of thousands of Latino immigrants forgotten or ignored by society. Created by Texas educator Hector Rodriguez, ...