Thousands of musicians are standing in solidarity with immigrants and vowing not to work with Amazon. Their campaign “No Music for ICE” rallies against Amazon because of the company’s contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that keeps the government agency running. The boycott is part of…
Puerto Rico was rattled by a 6.4 -magnitude earthquake Tuesday morning. The shake caused infrastructural damage to the US territory, and one death on the southwestern coast of the island including Guánica, Guayanilla, and Ponce. This quake was the largest in a string of several over the past…
Illinois is heading into a new decade following the progressive trend mapped out by California, Colorado and eight other states in legalizing marijuana, but immigration advocates are warning the state’s estimated 487,000 non-citizens to avoid the substance at all costs. Since marijuana is currently classified as a federally-controlled…
Julián Castro, the only Latino candidate in the Democratic primary, dropped out of the presidential race on Thursday, a decision which has prompted more conversations around the diversity of the Democratic party and the impact the candidate made in the year since announcing his campaign. Supporters, including presidential…
A Sarasota political candidate accused of telling young Hispanic boys to “cut grass” has decided to continue his political campaign into 2020 despite facing public backlash. Within a one week span of the viral media scrutiny over the Sarasota incident, video footage of another racist incident in Texas…
A new report shows that a professor who happens to be white can earn twice as much as Latino professors, a finding that is not limited to just one campus. “Some individual is paid twice as much as Emilio or me, and they teach one course and we…
Undocumented immigrants on New York State roadways can breathe a sigh of relief as the empire state’s Green Light Law officially went into effect on Monday, Dec. 16. The law allows undocumented persons to obtain driver licenses at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), while…
The House of Representatives is addressing the agricultural industry’s labor crisis by voting in favor of a bill that would grant legal status to thousands of undocumented farmworkers. On Dec. 11, a bipartisan House vote of 260-165 propelled this bill to the Senate for further deliberation. The bill…
Puerto Rico has suffered most from climate change in the past decade. At the beginning of December, an environmental think-tank, GermanWatch published its annual Climate Change Risk Index, which poses the question “who suffers most from extreme weather events?” After consulting close to 400 climate experts, this Risk…
After years of aggressive immigration enforcement directed by the Trump administration, Congressman Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL) has introduced a bill aimed at decriminalizing border crossings. The “New Way Forward Act”, co-sponsored by Congress members Ayanna Pressley, Jamila Prayapal, Raúl Grijalva and Karen Bass focuses on tackling immigration reform…