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These ‘political orphans’ deserve help

Cecilia Menjivar of UCLA says, “It amounts to a social death in many ways” on the precarious immigration status of many TPS recipients.

These California Latinos didn’t grow up speaking Spanish. Here’s why

“The vast majority of California’s bilingual programs were gutted. That whole generation had minimal, fig-leaf bilingual education,” said Otto Santa Ana, a professor emeritus of Chicano/a studies at UCLA.

Latino Newscast: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Would Help Economic Recovery + Labor Law Protects You Against Retaliation for Immigration Status, California Commissioner Says.

LPPI’s Research Director, Rodrigo Domínguez Villegas shares the results of a recent LPPI study that provides figures on how the legalization of the 11 million undocumented immigrants could help the economic recovery of the country.

COVID-19: Latinos in San Luis Obispo County are Twice as Likely to get COVID as Others

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, discusses why Latinos in San Luis Obispo County are twice as likely to get COVID as other ethnic groups. “Latinos have the highest labor force participation of any group and large, big supportive families, but crammed into very small households,”…

COVID-19: Mortality Among Latinos Higher Than Non-Hispanic Whites

KVEA-TV (March 29, Telemundo affiliate, Los Angeles) interviewed Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, about the pandemic’s impact on Latino Californians, and the risks posed during the upcoming spring break. “After a year in lockdown, the temptation to party during spring break can be very hard to resist,”…

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