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Barbara Leen shares her work with business coalitions to advocate for immigration policy solutions.

(The Center Square) – The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security released a report detailing what it says are the failures of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

(The Center Square) – The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security released a report detailing what it says are the failures of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

(The Center Square) – The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security released a report detailing what it says are the failures of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Immigration advocates are trying to raise awareness and encourage people who are undocumented to explore alternative programs that could help them if DACA ends, while state leaders are considering strategies to ensure they can continue to work in Colorado, regardless of what happens federally.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThirty-seven-year-old Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has made his strident opposition to affirmative action a main part of his campaign pitch. (His other major policy pillar is fighting “wokeness.”)Since announcing his presidential run in February, Ramaswamy has railed against what he refers to as “preferences”—race, gender, legacy status, etc.—in college admissions and in hiri...

Racism and discrimination act as stressors to increase mental health vulnerability, according to experts, especially for BIPOC individuals; Black, Indigenous and People of Color. July is BIPOC Mental Health Month and highlights mental health challenges including discrimination, oppression and inequality, which can contribute to collective and individual trauma. Victor Romero-Hernandez, advocacy and policy associate for Equality New Mexico, believes a long-awaited decision about the future of D...

He’s called race-based college admissions “a cancer,” but a Soros family fellowship for children of immigrants helped him accrue wealth as a grad student.

And State Superindent Tony Thurmond got ejected from a school board meeting.

A small group of protesters gathered Monday outside the Hyatt Regency hotel downtown, where the city’s Office for Emergency Management and Communications was hosting the 18th annual National Homeland Security Conference, to demand that the agency improve its emergency response plan in caring for the thousands of recently arrived migrants in Chicago. “We come to the steps of the OEMC ...