English (en español al final de la página): Buzzfeed: Latinos Are Expected To Vote In Droves But Major Liberal Efforts To Register Them Aren’t Off The Ground By Adrian Carrasquillo Reuters: Trump Says U.S. Should Mull More Racial Profiling After Orlando Shooting Reuters: U.S. Latino Voter Group to Get...
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Millions of families across the US will come together to celebrate Father’s Day this upcoming weekend. But for many immigrant families, the day will instead serve as one of sadness. Sunday will be Pastor Max Villatoro’s second Father’s Day away from his four kids. He was deported to Honduras last...
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Marco Rubio is reportedly very close to flip-flopping on his decision to not run for re-election to the US Senate. His reasoning is the recent tragedy in Orlando, which has left the LGBT and Latino communities in Florida and around the nation devastated. “I’ve been deeply impacted by it,”...
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The upcoming GOP Convention faces even more turmoil as more companies announce they “are opting to drop or scale back their sponsorship” of the event this year. From Bloomberg: Among those to signal in recent days that they won’t sponsor the convention this year are Wells Fargo & Co.,...
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English (en español al final de la página): Think Progress: Donald Trump’s Reputation With Latinos Spells Disaster For The GOP In November By Alice Ollstein Reuters: Trump in Washington for Deposition in Lawsuit Against Celebrity Chef Associated Press: Anti-Trump groups among those receiving convention permits Associated Press: Julian Castro...
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Univision news program “Primer Impacto” talked to one of the mothers of the victims from the Orlando tragedy, and the interview is absolutely heartbreaking. Doña Aurelia Martínez is the mother of Juan Chávez Martínez, one of at least three undocumented immigrants who were at Pulse the night of the...
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English (en español al final de la página): My San Antonio: Latinos aren’t just a bundle of statistics By Esther Cepeda Medium (Op-ed): Four Years Later, The Fight For Deferred Action Remains As important As Ever By Juan Escalante New York Times: Hillary Clinton Mocks Donald Trump’s National Security...
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Luis Vielma, 22, worked as an attendant at Universal Orlando’s “Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey” ride. Jean Carlos Nieves Rodriguez, 27, had just purchased his first home a little over a month ago. Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22, was a student at the University of Central Florida and had...
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English (en español al final de la página): New York Times: Blaming Muslims After Attack, Donald Trump Tosses Pluralism Aside By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns New York Times: Donald Trump Responds to Orlando Attack by Exploiting Fear, Not Easing It By Patrick Healy and Thomas Kaplan Politico: Ryan...
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We are heartbroken by the senseless deaths of 49 Americans in Orlando this past weekend. This despicable act of hate has hit the Latinx community particularly hard. Zoe Colon of the Hispanic Federation estimates that about 90% of the victims were Hispanic. We also know that at least three...
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