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Del Rio News Herald: Trump stereotypes Mexican cuisine By David Torres Daily Kos: Why Clinton should quit courting GOP voters and go all in on Latinos and immigration By Kerry Eleveld Fox News: White House planning large-scale raids targeting undocumented migrants By Elizabeth Llorente Associated Press: Rebuking Trump, Obama... Continue »

Crossposted from Medium. A couple of years ago I dedicated a short essay for my mother in celebration of Mother’s Day. At the time I found myself without money — and the thought that I could not even afford to mail a card to my mother pained me. This essay was... Continue »

As families around the country prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend, a new music video from the bilingual folk-rock group Elena & Los Fulanos reminds us that many immigrant mothers will be spending this holiday apart from their loved ones.  The video for the group’s song “Amor Migrante,” features Maryland resident and CASA... Continue »

English (en español al final de la página): Plunderbund (Opinion, Ohio): Kasich Loses Again: Hoosier State Gov Pence Breaks For Cruz by John Michael Spinelli Associated Press: Arrests in Seattle as May Day marchers take to streets By Chris Grygiel and Christopher Weber Associated Press: May Day marchers take... Continue »

Lundy Khoy faced deportation due to the 1996 immigration laws. Read more about her from the Immigrant Justice Network. There are two types of anniversaries: joyous ones commemorating forward progress, and devastating ones reminding us how much time has passed since an evil act. 2016 is a devastating anniversary... Continue »

New Pieces from Jamelle Bouie and Gabe Ortíz Underscore Dangers of Normalizing Trump Candidacy As the chances of a Trump nomination seem increasingly likely, many in the GOP establishment have admittedly “warmed” to the idea of Trump as the party’s standard bearer.  Jamelle Bouie at Slate offers a stark reminder to the American... Continue »

Greenhouse: Conservative Justices Should “Understand Immigration Law for What it Is, Not What They Would Prefer it To Be” Longtime New York Times Supreme Court reporter and legal analyst Linda Greenhouse has written a must-read new analysis of the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the U.S. v Texas case. In a piece that... Continue »

English (en español al final de la página): Medium (Op-ed): After Supreme Court, What’s Next for Pro-Immigrant Movement By Lynn Tramonte The Hill: Latino voter registration spikes By Rafael Bernal Washington Post: Clinton, Kasich — not Cruz — endorsed by nation’s largest Hispanic business group By Ed O’Keefe Bloomberg:... Continue »

In the latest of his must-read analyses on U.S. v Texas, David Leopold, an immigration attorney and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association,  examines how a 4-4 split decision at the Supreme Court could potentially undo the nationwide injunction against DAPA and DACA+. While Leopold remains convinced that the Republicans’... Continue »

Crossposted from David Leopold’s post on Medium. There has been a lot of speculation about what will happen if the Supreme Court is deadlocked in United States v. Texas, the dispute over DAPA and DACA+, President Obama’s immigration executive actions. The bottom line, as I’ve noted before, is that a 4–4... Continue »