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Decision 2020

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute’s Research Director, Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas, appeared on Telemundo to discuss the Latino vote and the last presidential debate. “Poll after poll shows that the issues most important to Latino voters are COVID-19, which will be discussed, but also unemployment and how to generate jobs with better pay… and immigration….

Read More | October 23, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Decision 2020

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute’s Research Director, Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas, appeared on Telemundo to discuss the Latino vote and the last presidential debate. “Tonight, we expect that the candidates will not talk about immigration policy, but one important thing we must remember is that immigration policy is important to the Latino community. In many…

Read More | October 23, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

The final Presidential debate

Sonja Diaz, the Executive Director of UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, appeared as a political analyst on the final presidential debate. “Last night there were actual topics from the pandemic to immigration that were discussed… President Trump still made a lot of ambiguity as to what his plan on the COVID-19 pandemic is actually…

Read More | October 23, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

Why is progress so slow for Latinos in Hollywood?

Chon Noriega, director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, said decades of attempts at media reform and market-based arguments haven’t yielded significant gains for Latinos in film and TV. “The approach to media reform over the last 50-some years has always been either the carrot or the stick. Initially, it was the stick —…

Read More | October 23, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Immigrant Rights

Prop 187: The Rise of the Latino Vote

“Prop 187: The Rise of the Latino Vote,” a new documentary that traces the history of this demographic shift to an anti-immigration bill in the state more than 25 years ago, depicts UCLA LPPI’s support with the event on Latino voter mobilization and Prop. 187 held this year, We Are CA, Somos CA.

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