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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 would not run for a sixth term after representing the vast District 3 since 2002. Rafael Rios Rios cam...

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 properly influencing the way people think? George Orwell in his book, 1984, called it “newspeak,�...

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, suggesting a scheme similar to the Bracero Program, under which millions of Mexicans worked legall...