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Amada Armenia in Los Angeles Times: “Thousands of Border Patrol agents and officers to soon begin wearing cameras”

“It’ll be very easy for agents to claim that they forgot to turn on their cameras,” said Amada Armenta, a UCLA assistant professor of urban planning who specializes in immigration enforcement, adding that it will be hard for migrants and others to counter officers who asserted they mistakenly forgot to turn on the cameras.

Patricia Gandara in LA School Report: “‘A rising tide that lifts all boats’: Having more immigrant peers can boost scores for U.S.-born students, new study finds”

The positive effects found in the working paper don’t surprise Patricia Gandara, a specialist in immigrant students who works as a professor of education at UCLA. English language learners, who sometimes but not always overlap with those who are foreign-born, often outperform English-only students once they reclassify as fluent speakers, research shows.

Efrén Pérez in Los Angeles Times: “Marking El Paso anniversary, Biden reaches out to Latino leaders”

The recognition on Tuesday of the El Paso slayings emphasized how the mass shooting was a “punch in the gut for many Latinos,” said Efrén Pérez, a political science and psychology professor at UCLA, because it occurred in a place where a large community of Latinos are woven into the fabric of the city and…

Chon Noriega in ARTFIX Daily: “DIVERSEartLA Returns to the LA Art Show”

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center is bringing a special project curated by Chon Noriega titled Immersive Distancing by LA-based artists Carmen Argote and Zeynep Abes, which will examine recent media art produced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in McKnight’s Senior Living: “Engaging the LEP patient population with virtual care”

According to a report issued by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and the UCLA Health Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, “culture, needs, and population demographics must be taken into account” when designing and implementing telehealth.

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