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Dr. Barreto in KOLD News 13: “Do voting laws protect or restrict access? House echoes state debate”

Matt Barreto, a political science professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said his studies have shown that white voters were statistically more likely to have the ID required for voting than any other racial or ethnic group in the country.

Dr. Domínguez-Villegas in the Fern: “Fear of reprisal kept immigrants from accessing federal aid in pandemic”

“There’s a general feeling among immigrants that, regardless of who’s in office, using public benefits will get them or their family members placed at a disadvantage for regularization,” said Rodrigo Domínguez-Villegas, one of the authors of the UCLA report. While Biden’s reversal of the expanded rule is a “good step,” alleviating fears will require “federal…

Voting Right’s Project in Telemundo: “Lawsuit Claims Voter Suppression Towards Latino in Eastern WA”

In 2020, the state of Washington denied the right to vote to more than four thousand Latinos. Furthermore, the League of United Latin American Citizens, Latino Community Fund of Washington, and UCLA’s Voting Rights Project have filed a lawsuit against Benton, Chelan, and Yakima counties for discriminatory practices against the mail-in-ballots of Latino voters and…

Dr. Vargas Bustamante in The Sacramento Bee: “California Latinos are behind in COVID-19 vaccinations. Here’s what is holding them back”

Arturo Vargas Bustamante, said a Trump administration policy that dissuaded immigrants from seeking certain public benefits, like Medicaid, almost might have discouraged Latinos from seeking out COVID-19 vaccines. “Immigrant communities, they just realize that someone like Trump, if not Trump, can come back … and reimpose this type of public charge exclusion,” he said.

Dr. Noriega in The Los Angeles Times: “Newsletter: Essential Arts: Epic memo to the Whitney on exclusion of Chicano art from American story”

Since 2002, Chon Noriega has led UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, an academic hub that was launched in the late 1960s, and that has been key to archiving Chicano historical documents, producing original scholarship and publications, and commissioning oral histories of important artists, activists and political figures. After 19 years, he is stepping down from…

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