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27

Jun

By MetroLatinoUSA

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Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights Plans Regional Meeting

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – Today marks one year since the U.S. Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill to try to fix our nation’s broken immigration system. The bill has still not even been debated in the U.S. House of Representatives. “If Congress won’t act, then President Obama must,” said Edgar…

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26

Jun

By MetroLatinoUSA

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Administration Falls Short on Humane Response for Unaccompanied Minors Traveling to the U.S.

(June 25, 2014, Los Angeles) – CARECEN Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington DC call for a coordinated humanitarian response to the thousands of unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S. border. CARECEN will work 1) to ensure that these children have adequate legal representation and support services, 2) to advocate…

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26

Jun

By MetroLatinoUSA

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Nation’s Mayors Support Minimizing Barriers to Naturalization and 
Increasing Number of U.S. Citizens

Together with appointment of Leon Rodriguez as Director of USCIS, US Conference of Mayors passes resolution calling for proactive
USCIS and Department of Homeland Security policy changes   This week, the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution that urges the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)…

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25

Jun

By MetroLatinoUSA

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Hypothetical Answer

By Isaac Cohen* Officials prefer not to answer questions based on what may happen, or as the saying goes they do not like to answer “hypothetical questions.” Last week, at the press conference held at the conclusion of the meeting of the Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve, Chairwoman Janet Yellen…

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23

Jun

By MetroLatinoUSA

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New Research Reveals Langley Park Children and Families Face Severe Barriers to Achievement

LANGLEY PARK, Maryland.— The Urban Institute, Prince George’s County Public Schools, and CASA de Maryland today released From Cradle to Career: The Multiple Challenges Facing Immigrant Families in Langley Park Promise Neighborhood, an examination of the dire challenges facing families in the region’s densest immigrant neighborhood. The report, the result of…

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21

Jun

By MetroLatinoUSA

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Migrant Children and Families Fleeing Crime, Joblessness

By Rubén Zamora In recent months we have seen the rise of unaccompanied children on the border between the United States and Mexico. Many of these are from the northern triangle of Central America, formed by El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The phenomenon is complex and has many reasons: the…

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21

Jun

By MetroLatinoUSA

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Supreme Court Ousts President Of Supreme Electoral Tribunal

In a shocking blow to El Salvador’s democratic institutions evidently aimed at undermining the governing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, the Constitutional Chamber of the country’s Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional the election of Eugenio Chicas as President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the nation’s electoral authority,…

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17

Jun

By MetroLatinoUSA

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Slowdown in Emerging Markets

By Isaac Cohen* Last week, the International Monetary Fund released a staff discussion note on the growth prospects for emerging market economies. The report’s main conclusion is that after the last decade of strong growth performance, since 2010-11, emerging economies are experiencing a slowdown. The report estimates the slowdown is…

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17

Jun

By MetroLatinoUSA

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DACA Students’ Right to Medi-Cal Routinely Rejected

  By Viji Sundaram Itzel Martinez, a 20-year-old DACA student living in Oxnard, Calif., desperately wants health insurance because she knows what it means to be without it. A kitchen accident she suffered last year that resulted in a trip to the emergency room to stitch up her split lip…

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15

Jun

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Report Details Recent Voter Discrimination Targeting Latinos

WASHINGTON, DC—Two weeks before the one-year anniversary of the infamous Shelby County v Holder Supreme Court decision, which dealt a severe blow to every American's voting rights by incapacitating a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA), MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), the National Association…

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