One of the most intense races in Arizona this midterm election concerns public education: Republican Tom Horne, the architect of a state law used to ban Tucson Unified’s Mexican American Studies classes a decade ago, is back on the ballot hoping to get reelected as state school superintendent. He’s challenging incumbent Kathy Hoffman. Horne, who […]
Author: Fernanda Echavarri
“This Is Not Our First Rodeo”: Key Border Cities Say They’re Ready for the End of Title 42
Republicans—and more than a few Democrats—have been lashing out at the Biden administration for planning to lift a Trump-era border closure policy known as Title 42. Critics from both parties have said a post-Title 42 border would be a “catastrophe” and that the administration shouldn’t end the policy until it is “completely ready” to execute […]
May Day Marches Highlight Essential Immigrant Labor and Rising Frustration With Biden
On International Worker’s Day, often referred to as May Day, immigrant rights organizations, labor rights groups, and their allies marched in about a dozen major cities throughout the United States to highlight how essential immigrant labor is to the country and to call for better worker protections. In Washington, DC, workers, families, and community leaders […]
DHS Secretary Says US Is Prepared for Migrant Influx When Trump’s Pandemic Policy Ends
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on CNN on Sunday that the US is prepared to handle an increase of migrants and asylum seekers at the border once a pandemic closure policy is lifted later this month. Mayorkas said DHS has been planning since September for the end of Title 42, a Trump-era […]
Pelosi Vows Unwavering Support for Ukraine in Unannounced Meeting With Zelensky
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday led a congressional delegation in an unannounced visit to Kyiv to meet with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Democratic Party leader, the highest-ranking US lawmaker to visit Ukraine’s capital since Russia’s invasion, said in a statement that the meeting sends “an unmistakable and resounding message to the entire world: […]
Biden Expected to End Covid Border Policy Aimed at Keeping Out Refugees
President Biden and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expected to put an end to a Trump-era policy that has kept the border closed to asylum seekers since the beginning of the pandemic. The Biden administration plans to stop using the public health law by May 23, according to a draft of the […]
Cory Booker Says SCOTUS Needs to “Use This Thomas Affair” to Change Its Ethics Rules
Reactions to a series of text messages from GOP activist and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife Ginni Thomas to former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows about overturning the 2020 election are still pouring from both sides of the aisle. Today, Sen. Cory Booker (D.-N.J.) weighed in and called for a change to […]
TFW a TV Host Tells a White Woman That as a “Hispanic” She Should Speak for “Hispanic Voters”
If you’re looking for an awkward facepalm emoji moment on cable news, I’ve got one for you. And it will make my fellow Latinos cringe even more. In many ways, we’ve seen versions of this before. On Sunday Fox and Friends Weekend co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy spoke to three Republican, female, congressional candidates in order to […]
Many People Have Thoughts About Biden’s Off-Script Putin Remarks
It was no surprise that Biden’s scripted speech on Saturday from Warsaw, Poland, about the Russian invasion of Ukraine would make international headlines. But what has dominated the conversation is his apparently unscripted remark at the end about Vladimir Putin. “For God’s sake,” the president said, “this man cannot remain in power.” The Sunday morning […]
Democratic Senators Also Don’t Get Why Biden Is Still Using a Cruel Trump-Era Border Policy
More than a year has passed since President Biden decided to continue enforcing a Trump-era border closure policy that claimed the pandemic was reason to turn migrants and asylum seekers back without proper screenings. Title 42, as the policy is known, is now very much a Biden policy—and like other high-ranking Democrats and immigrant rights […]