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Villaraigosa Reiterates Support for Families During San Diego Address By Mario A. Cortez With few days to go until the primary elections, gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa once again expressed support for immigrant and refugee families living in the United States during a campaign stop at San Diego’s Border Field State Park this Wednesday. Specifically, Villaraigosa pointed his rhetoric toward “marking a different path” from the presidential administration by welcoming those who are looking to reach what the candidate called the “California Dream.” “We’ll stand up for...

Artist Matty Owens, 22, creates justice-themed artwork at the Dorchester Art Project in Fields Corner. (Courtesy Sam Correa) On a corner in Egleston Square which I pass almost every day once stood an artistic statement: a mural that doubled as an epitaph and a vision board. The wall was adorned with subaltern messages that resonate to an audience today: "I have a dream." "Stop the violence." "I'll do what I can to survive." One local news station described it as a "social blackboard" and a "cry for happiness," the messages having been painted by local Puerto Rican street youth who called them...

Is there a quota for harassment? Author Carlos Iván Molina Aguilar, Olman said he has been detained more than 20 times. Olman Paz, a Honduran national that migrated to Tijuana two years ago with hopes to reach the American Dream, has been harassed, beaten, and threatened with deportation by the police, despite them having no jurisdiction to do it. This type of practice became common under the administration of the former mayor of Tijuana, Juan Manuel Gastelum. The dental bridge Olman said that since his arrival in Playas de Tijuana he has been detained more than 20 times by the police. The l...

Dangers of the desert become more and more evident heat sun and no access to water may. crossing the mountains a risky undertaking 15 volunteers of the so-called border angels try to make it safer by dropping water in the desert traces tell them they're on the right track this is a heavily traveled area and bad. because the border patrol presence has been stepped up in other areas more people are feeling funneled into this more dangerous ravine and region and coming through here and there are discarding things out there go along. along the way empty water containers show that their efforts are...

Halfway across the world in california the situation is not so different the border angels as they call themselves are caring for refugees in the desert and standing up to trump's anti migrant hyperbole. with every step they take the dangers of the desert become more and more evident keith sun and no access to water my. crossing the mountains a risky undertaking 15 volunteers of the so-called border angels try to make it safer like dropping water in the desert traces tell them they're on the right track this is a heavily traveled area and bad. because the border patrol presence has been steppe...