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“The most devastating effect will undoubtedly be the increasing of migrant deaths as they get pushed further and further into dangerous deserts and isolated mountain areas,” says Chris Zepeda-Millán, a University of California, Los Angeles professor who co-authored Walls, Cages, and Family Separation: Race and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era. “That’s literally our stated policy.”
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David Hayes-Bautista, a UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute expert, attributes the shortfall of Latino physicians to Proposition 209, which substantially cut the number of Latino U.C. medical school graduates. During the pandemic, as Spanish-speaking Latino patients have been sickened at high rates, they have also sometimes struggled to find physicians who can communicate with…
“Poll after poll is showing that the Latino voter cares a lot about health, the economy and most importantly COVID-19,” said Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, director of research at the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA.
In this podcast, produced by the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, Sonja Diaz, the Executive Director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, speaks about the Latino vote in 2020. “One of the ways to engage in politics is through the ballot. It’s really important for people in California, who may…
Young voters’ signatures may also change drastically from what they had chosen in high school when they first got their license and registered to vote through the Department of Motor Vehicles, said Sonni Waknin, managing law fellow at the UCLA Voting Rights Project.
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