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…
The Department of Housing and Urban Development knowingly missed a legal deadline to provide Puerto Rico much-needed relief funding following Hurricane Maria. The admittance by Irv Dennis, HUD chief financial officer, and David Woll, the department’s deputy assistant secretary for community planning and development, was a result of…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement moved 700 migrant women out of detention, including some who had serious medical conditions, without notifying their families or lawyers where they are. Now, in addition to the still unaccounted for children separated from their families as a result of President Donald Trump’s…
Julián Castro made history as the only Latinx vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, but he announced on Oct. 21 he will be forced to drop out of the race if he doesn’t raise $800,000 in the next 10 days. His campaign has fallen short of polling requirements…
Iconic late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) attempted to save face after its snubbing of Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro in a recent political debate sketch that included nine other top hopefuls, including Marianne Williamson who did not qualify for the last debate. The show tapped Lin-Manuel…
Long Maryland Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings, a critical figure in the call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, died from health complications on Oct. 17. Elijah represented the 7th Congressional District in Maryland and served as chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, one of the…
Janine CapĂł Crucet was invited to read her novel and lead a discussion at a predominantly white college on October 9th, and the result was more than just a heated debate. The discussion that tackled issues of white privilege and diversity, topics in her novel, bothered some students…
