A new California law that requires officers in the state to record the race and gender of the people they stop and search led to findings of racial profiling at traffic stops by an LA Times investigation. Leo Hernandez was stopped twice by Los Angeles Police Department officers…
Jose Segovia Benitez spent six years serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, including one deployment to Iraq, and earned multiple awards and decorations during his time defending U.S. freedom. As we celebrate Veteran’s Day, it’s worth also noting that many veterans, despite spending years serving the U.S. military,…
Thousands of families separated. Several migrants neglected, harmed or killed while in U.S. custody. Immigrant advocates and lawyers working tirelessly to force the U.S. government to take accountability for its poor handling of a surge in migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. These are the realities that have become…
The self proclaimed “world’s only all-Latina film festival” Señorita Cinema, takes place in Houston this weekend from Nov. 1-3. The biannual festival began in 2007 and is a product of founder Stephanie Saint Sanchez’s lifelong passion for filmmaking, according to spectrumsouth.com. It all started when she was given…
An estimated 250,000 Salvadorans in danger of having to return to their home country after President Donald Trump ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) now have legal authority to remain and work in the U.S. for one more year. The Oct. 28 decision is part of the administration’s strategy…
Twenty-two people whose lives were cut short by a mass shooter at an El Paso Walmart shopping center on Aug. 3 are being memorialized at the very location where the tragedy occurred. At least two dozen other people were injured, with most of the victims of Latinx heritage…
Children continue to be separated from their families at the Mexico and U.S. border, and recent figures have the total number of these children at over 5,400. Since the Trump administration started this practice in July of 2017, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said on Thursday, October…
HIV infection rates have increased for Latinxs in recent years, causing sufficient alarm in the health community for the issue to be labeled an “invisible crisis.” While Latinxs represented almost 18% of the entire U.S. population in 2017, they accounted for 26% of the nearly 40,000 new HIV…
Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma, a native Honduran who was injured at the collapse of a Round Rock Cafe in New Orleans on Oct. 12, was detained by immigration authorities after he shared plans to sue the hotel with a television news station, his lawyers said. He is one…
A Honduran woman alleges a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer raped her for seven years, sometimes as frequently as four times a week, and threatened to deport her if she spoke out about the abuse. She claims in the Oct. 19 lawsuit that she was impregnated…
