Tracking the politics of immigration reform and its intersection with human and civil rights
By Nina Mohan President Biden’s proposed immigration reforms could provide a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented immigrants, but the proposed changes also offer fresh opportunity for scammers who know how to exploit the complicated and sometimes...
Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA)Also available in Spanish. With his first bill, Senator Alex Padilla also wants to honor his parents, who migrated from Chihuahua in search of the American dream. By: Jenny Manrique Five million essential workers, who have put their lives at...
Clockwise from top left: Theresa Cardinal Brown, Managing Director of Immigration andCross-border Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center; Joseph Villela, Director of Policy and Advocacy, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles; José Alonso Alonso Munoz,...
By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor Asian Americans across the U.S. reflected on their community’s vulnerability to racist attacks, after 21 year-old Robert Aaron Long killed six Asian American women at three locations in Georgia on March 16. Long, who told...
By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor On Feb. 25 evening, a man scaled the wall of the 117-year-old Higashi Honganji Buddist Temple temple in Los Angeles County’s ‘Little Tokyo’ neighborhood and set fire to two wooden lanterns at the entrance to the temple, then...