Guest Contributor

In 2017, 903 Latino workers were killed on the job, an increase from 879 Latino worker deaths in 2016.

“To allow this retaliatory conduct to proceed would broadly chill protected speech, among not only activists subject to final orders of deportation but also those citizens and other residents who would fear retaliation against others,” the decision states.

Latino voter turnout increased by 13 percentage points from Election 2014, with more than 40 percent of the Latino citizen voting-age population casting ballots in 2018.

This is not a time to turn away from the protection of human rights, but a time to redouble our support for the people at the US-Mexico border who are in desperate need of care.

The lack of access to participation in high quality early education means that not all Latinx children enter school ready to learn.

“The name change is one of many nationwide initiatives and represents a call to action under the newly elected National MECha Board.”

We must prepare now for two of the most significant acts of civic engagement—the 2020 Elections and the Census.

In the latest release, El Peso Hero joins a group of refugees as they go through the registration process at a detention facility located near the border at Carrizo Springs, Texas.

“As I would inform families of the future that awaited them, I felt embarrassed of my country,” Amín E. Fernández writes.

“This celebration of Keleher’s work only displays the way in which members of elite institutions like the Yale School of Management can be so blind to the reality and context of life in Puerto Rico.”

We can’t stop fighting until we have protections and permanent legislative solutions for all who need them.

The complaint, sent to officials within the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, calls for an immediate end to the caging of immigrants in outdoor holding areas.

We expect vigorous public debate, the free exercise of free speech from all ranges of opinion, but illegal means of seeking censorship will be responded by the legal exercise of our defense.

The ongoing and increasing number of hunger strikes at facilities across the country indicate the urgent need to release people from ICE custody.

We, the undersigned students of Penn Law, oppose Professor David Skeel’s selection as the recipient of the Beacon Award for his service on Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board.

No parent should have to worry about their children’s education being under-resourced because they want to be part of a diverse community.

While Trump’s razor wire, rhetoric, and “national emergency” are an unwelcome and menacing display of fear and deception, U.S.-Mexico border communities will always be linked and continue to provide socorro for one another.

A group of organizations belonging to the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and Puerto Rican communities called upon the United States Congress to save UPR from the crisis that has been caused by austerity measures imposed by the Fiscal Oversight and Management Board (FOMB).

I heard something I did not expect to hear from a patient as part of my bedside care.

Donald Trump Jr.’s words were insulting not only to those who teach our children, but those who care for them following disasters, whether those disasters are natural or manmade.

“You are in an English-speaking country,” the assistant manager says. “We need the check in English.”