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Who Will Replace Kamala Harris? Itâs About More Than a Senate Seat
The question of who should be chosen as Californiaâs next senator is a battle between Black and Latino representation.
Unless Californiaâs governor appoints a Black woman to replace Vice president-elect Kamala Harris, the Senate will be left without any in the chamber.Credit.Kriston Jae Bethel for The New York Times
Published Dec. 19, 2020Updated March 15, 2021
LOS ANGELES â The jockeying began in the summer, right alongside the celebrations. Leading California Democrats were thrilled that Kamala Harris was named as the Democratic nominee for vice president and eager to help her and Joseph R. Biden get to the White House. That was not a question the sprawling and divided state political establishment disagreed on. But what to do about that empty Senate seat? That was far trickier.
Posturing over Kamala Harris Senate seat is getting increasingly nasty
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President-elect Joe Biden listens as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.Susan Walsh/AP
The discourse between those hoping to influence Gov. Gavin Newsom in selecting a replacement for Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the United States Senate is growing increasingly contentious.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla is widely seen as the front-runner for the seat, which is welcome news to Latino groups hoping to see the state s first Latino senator. However, African American groups are pushing Newsom to pick a Black woman, noting Harris is the only one who currently serves in the Senate. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was one of the first high-profile Black leaders to make this demand.
A Texas case challenging the legality of DACA is back in federal court
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That caution was justified:
Another effort to undo the program, this time led by the state of Texas, will go before a federal judge Tuesday in Houston.
As of June, there were about 645,000 beneficiaries of the DACA program in the country, including about 106,400 in Texas, according to federal government statistics. The program, which grants recipients a renewable, two-year work permit and a reprieve from deportation proceedings, is open to undocumented immigrants who came to the country before they turned 16 and who were 30 or younger as of June 2012. To qualify, applicants must pass a background check and be enrolled in school, have graduated or have earned a GED.
By Dianne Solis
The Dallas Morning News/TNS
DALLAS - Greisa Martínez Rosas was still a teen when she led a 2006 walkout at her Dallas high school over proposals that threatened deportation for her undocumented family. Today, at 32, from Washington, D.C., she leads the nation’s largest organization for undocumented immigrants who call themselves Dreamers.
As the head of United We Dream, she’s front and center of a defense to keep alive the 2012 initiative known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, that provides work permits and deportation reprieves. A White House exit for President Donald Trump, a DACA opponent, is only weeks away, but DACA still faces a huge challenge: On Dec. 22, a federal judge is scheduled to hold a hearing on its legality in a case brought by the State of Texas.